The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1905-01-18
THE LEGISLATURE.

immigration department by in
PRODUCING a bill to repeal the
Act which created it. "Citizen
Josh" will have some backing in
his effort, from Clarendon, unless
some Of our Representatives
have had the scales knocked
from their eyes. 1t will be re-
memoered, in the last primary
how some of the candidates for
the Legislature were very much
wrought up on the subject of the
riff raft from Ireland, Europe:
and Italy" and how they fairly
reared up, snorted and screeched
against the contamination with
the s:scum of the earth" These
gentlemen pictured dire results
should South Carolina admit
within her borders a lot of thrifty
Immigrants. Why, says one Of
these statesmen, IF these people
come here, in a few years they
will own the lands and our chill
dren will be forced to work for
them, they will marry here, and
in course of time they will be as
much a part of this country as
we are. s:Oh! think of it, with
index finger extended, and face
crimsoned with passion, the
statesmen exclaimed with much
emphasis on the ::Oh think of it,
do you want foreigners to come
and~occupy the lands once owned
by our proud ancestry AS
this statesman continued paint
ing his word picture of the
humiliation which would follow
the admission of sturdy man
hood and thrift, the defendants
of the settlers Of Deep Creek and
Junky Yard bethought them
selves of the blue blood that
coursed in their veins, and en-
dorsed the protest Of the man
whose sole object in life, is to
keep this country free from thrift
progress and prosperity, unless
the same may come through the
prayers for ''me and my wife,
my son John, his wife, US four
and no more Ashley's bill to
retard PROCESS, may strike the
average citizen as being of little
consequence, but if the General
Assembly is made up of men who
discussed the question of immi-
grafton like the Representatives
of Clarendon the department Of
agriculture and immigration is
doomed.
Mr.. DesChamps has introduced
a bill to provide for establishing
in the counties, experimental
agricultural stations. This is the
same bill which he introduced at
the last session and brought on
the opposition from the Clemson
authorities. The fact of Mr..
DesChamps re-introducing it, is
an indication that he has found
friends for the bill.
Mr.. Bradham has a bill to pro-
vide for the drawing of jurors in
the Circuit Court for Clarendon
County for this year. Evidently
this bill is introduced to remedy
somebody's neglect of duty in
the matter of drawing juries.
Under the law, the Auditor,
Treasurer, and Clerk of Court
are the Jury Commission,
whose duty it is to fill the box
in the month of December Of
each year. Clerk of Court Tim
mons was sick, and of course,
unable to discharge this duty,
but the Treasurer and Auditor
We're here. and did not do it,
thus leaving the Court business
for Clarendon County stopped,
and it is to correct this condition
that Captain Bradham's bill
seeks to remedy. VIII it do it.?
We do not think so, because the
Constitution forbids the enact
ment of special legislation, and
a law tingClarendon county's
jury alone would: in our opinion,
be special legislation. The Con-
stltution does permit however,
the correcting of a defect in the
law by special act, but such is
not the case in this matter. The
law is not defective, the defect
lies with the memory Of the
officers charged with executing
the law It is our opinion, by
not filing the box according to
law, no jury can be legally drawn
in Clarendon County for the year
1905, by the passage of bill
to provide for drawing jurors for
Clarendon County. But if our
Representative will permit a
suggestion, he can give US the
relief he seeks, by an amend
ment to the whole jury law, Civ
ing the jury commissioners all
over the State the power to fill
the box during the months of
December and January, secure
consent for the right-of-way for
his bill, push it through in a
hurry, get it ratified, and ap-
proved by the Governor, and
then send a certified copy of the
law to the jury commissioners:
if prompt action is taken the
course we suggest will get a
legal act III time for the com
missioners to FL the box for a
legal jury in Clarendon for this