The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1909-03-02
COMPROMISE AGREED
TO BY THE HOUSE
SENATE AMENDMENT ADOPT
ED BY VOTE 45 TO fl.
Several Prohibitionists P4otes
Against Any Withdrawal From
Original Idea.
The State.

The State.
By a vote of As to Al, the house
yesterday adopted the senate amend
ments to the prohibition bill introduce
ed by Senators Christensen and Will
\ iams and referring the whole matter
to a vote Of the various wet counties.
This was not done, however, until Re-
preventative Richards made a vlgor-
Gus protest and urged that no COM
promise be made. This amendment
was in the nature Of compromise, he
said, and the prohibitonists were
fighting for a principle and not for a
compromise. There was not much de-
bate on tthe amendment and the vote
was taken within 20 minutes after
the senate sent over the copy. Many
Of the members we're out Of the house
and there were about 80 not voting, in
addition to the pairs.
The lineup on the vote presented
an interesting situation. The local
optibnists were divided on the ques-
ton, as were the prohibitionists. Some
of the local optionists wanted to fight
the entire matter out and if possible
send it to free conference, with the
hope that it would be killed there.
Mr.. Richards, one of the leaders in
the fight for prohibition, found his
own forces divided, Mr.. Kibler, who
had voted with him, urging the pas
sage of the amendment. So the vote
was not what might be called a "fac-
tional test." There was nQs doubt
early in the morning session but that
the amendment would be passed, but
the smallness Of the majority was
somewhat Of a surprise.
After the passage of the resolution,
Mr.. Hall had resolution introduced.
which was that the house felt them
selves in nowiSe bound to not work
for prohibition at the next session. The
resolution was not considered, how
ever, as it was brought up after Mr.
Hall left the city during the after
noon session. The vote on the motion
of Mr.. Richards to refuse to concur
in the senate amendment, which was
defeated, was as follows:
The Vote.
Yeas-Amick, NJ. J. Ashley, Bodie,
Bowman, W. D. Bryant, Carey, Clary,
Co5grove, Doar, E. c. Edwards, Isaac
Edwards, Foster, Fultz, Garrls, Gas
que, ". J. Gibson, Horger, Hughes,
Hydrick, McColl, Mann, Mars, Mob
lev, Niver. Patterson, Paulling, Rich
ards, O. L. Sanders, Sawyer, Scarbor-
ough, B. A. Shuler, Singleton, c. A.
Smith, Spears, J. D. Sullivan, P. p.
Sullivan, Suydam, Wade, Wiggins.
Williams, O. D. A. Wilson, W. B.
Wilson.
Nays-Speaker Whaley, J. W. Ash
lev, Bowers, Brice, Brown, Carter,
Celey. Daniel, Duvall, Fraser, Ora
ham, Greer, Griffin, Hall, Harmon, j..
R. Harrison. W. c. Harrison, Hines,
Hollis, Jackson. Kible., Lawson, Lea
que, McEachern, Moseley, Nesbit,
Nicholson. Nunner:., Ridgell, G. NJ.
Riley, Robertson, Roessler, c. T. Sim
! kins, X. p. Smith, Stubs, Tobias,
Wander Horst. Vaughn, Wells, What
ley, Wingo. Wyche.
= When the amendment was brought
.:er Mr.. Richards at once moved nom
concurrence.
Mr.. kiblcr wanted the amendment
adopted He had supported the pro-
hibition bill and considered the fight
had been Won in part. A compromise
was better than nothing and it was 4
step in the right direction.
MIR. Richards Position. -.
Mr.. Richards then explained his po-
sition. It was no individual fight.
but matter Of principle. After 10
DAYS of continued work the house had
put itself on record as favoring State
wide :;vohibf: ;nn. 1t would be a shame
to ~e1ede from this position. He
thought the State newspaper, the
| leS :?inc exponent Of local option, had
|correctlv stated the idea when it said
editoriallv that compromise meant
l}hat nothing would be done on the IL
osor q3cstion if this compromise was
kadonted. 1t was known to the news
<paper that this would be proposed