The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-02-06
GIVEN 4 CHANCE.
County Dispensary Bill Gives
Way to Prohibition Bill.
Row IT CAME ABOUT.

State Dispenssry Advocates Prefer Pro
hibition to County Dispsnsaries and
Vote With Some True Blue Pro-
hibiiioRists to Put Whole
State on Water Wagon.
The friends OF the State Dlspenssry
In the House OF representatives put
some OF the Prohibitionists IN . hcle
last week. at the opening Of tbs
session Mr.. Nash, Of sparssnburg, in
troduced . prohibition bill pure and
simple, but when it came up In the
form OF an amendment to she County
Dispensary bill he voted squarels
against bis own bill, bscsuse the dis
penssry people went over IN q booy
and supported 1t. O.her Prohibition
lists also voted ssainst prohibition
when they saw thst there was some
chance OF it being passed by the
House. It seems thas the State dis.
penssry folks preferred straight pro.
hibision to the county dispenssry bill
which had been introduced in the
House week or more Sgo, and when
the time came goted Tor the prohibi.
ttop bill.
The position OF the dispe1sSry peo-
pie was revealed when at the morning
session Of the House on Tuesday Of
last week the Cothrsn, Carey County
Dispensary bill came mp for considers
tion. Mr.. Richards moved to strike
out the snacting words OF the bill.
which was voted down easily. Then
Mr.. D. Z. Smith offered bis prohihi-
tion bill as - amendment to the title
OF the Cothran. Carey County Dlspen-
ssry bill. Il came suddenly and the
mem bers had little time to debste 1t
and on an sye and nay vote decided
not to table the amendment. The
vote wss ss fellows:
The following members voted to Kill
MI. Smiths p,ohibi amendment
70 the Carey Cothran County Dlspen.
sary bill: Speaker Whsley and Aesscs.
Beattio, A. G. Brics, Bryan, Carey,
Carrtsan, Clarv, CHnkscsles, Cos.
grove, Coshrsn. Courtney. Croft, Cox,
J. q. Dodd, Bowling, Fraser, Frost,
Cause, Hsn, EsrbV, Earmsos Hsrri-
son, Johnstone, Kellahsn, Kezshsw,
Lawson, Legsrs, Macarthur, McMss
ser, Mann, Marshall, Miller, Nss3,
Nichols, Nicholson, Patterson, Raves,
Richardson, Rucksr, Saye, Scsrbor.
ough, Sellers, Shipp, z. P. Smtth,
Thomas. Todd, Vsnoerhorst, Won
Kolnitz, Wallace, White, Youmans
Total 81.
The following members voted for
Er. Smiths Prohibition amendment
to the Carey. Cothran County Disren-
saIy bill: Messrs. Arnold, Aull, Aver,
Bailey, Bsllensine, Banks, Bethune.
Boyd. z. S. Brtce, Brantley, Csnnon
Carson, Carwile, DeIhsn, D VoIe,
Dick, Dingle, Dixon, Dosr, J. B.
Dodd, Douglass, Epps, Epsing, Gar,
ris, Gary. J. P. Gibson, Glasscock,
Goodwin, Gyles, Hs.ris, Hinton,
Hughes, Hydrick, Jones, Kirven,
Lane, Lester, Lsitner, Little, hcColl,
McKeown, Miley, Morrell, Niver,
Parker, Richards, Robinson, Sawyer,
Scruggs, Sharpe, Slaughter, D. L.
Smith, J. E. Smith, Spivey, Ssi'lwell.
stubbs, Tasum, Tonpkins. Virgins,
Wimberly, Wingsrd, Woods, Wyche.
Yaldell. Total 81.
Those not voting were Cutler, W.
J. Gibson, Eemphill, Gresr. Nesbitt,
Norton, Werner, Wade, Walker. In
all.
Mr.. Smiths amendment was read
after the vote wss announced. It pro-
poses to sbolsh the Ststs dispensary,
turning the stock over to comnois-
sion to be sold at once, pay al ahe
debts and turn over the remainder to
tee State school fund. The reading
was listened to with closest attan.
tion. The vote was like the busting
Of q bombshen IL the ranks OF the
county dispensary advocates. 1t show.
cd very plainly that the State dlspen.
gary advocates would force prohibition
Oh the State rather have county dis
ponEaries.
Atte. the bill wss read Mr.. Smith
exclaimed his anendmsnt. he offered
1t because he thought it the best So
luton. Ee had personally solved the
problem two and halt years sgo.
BE thought the people wsntsc prohi-
bition. he wanted to 60 on record IS
doing South Carolina one service DO.
fore he died. He urged the support
Of the members Of the house for the
measure and promised that they
would never regret shis set tor their
State.
When the House adjourned op
Tuesday night the several disoensary
bills were pending, and the House
had refused to lay on the table an
amendment to the county otspansary
bill declaring for prohibition.
Aftes , debste c. nearly three hours
and one OF the most exciting contests
in recent yesrs, the House Wednesday
tabled the amendment for prohibition
introduced by MI. D. L Smith, passed
to 8 third reading the Csrey- Cothrsn
bill and killed the Richards bill, thus
completely routing the dispensarJ
forces and making the supporters OF
that institution lose heart com pletely
There were times In the fight when
the vote was close.
The vote was first taken on the mo.
sion TO adopt the Smith amendment
AS soon rs it's defest was sunouncec
the clincher was put OF by motion O!
Mr. Rucker.
The q lestfon then reverted to sh'
original bill. Mr., Aver hs6 an amend
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