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PROHIBITION
Its First Fight In the House
Thursday
VERY CLOSE VOTE

The House Agrees to Take up Pro-
hibition Measure Out Of its Reg
ular Order and Will Talk on the
Subject, But the Vote is Not Cen
sidered Important.
Columbia, Feb. 5.-After an aye
and nay vote the house yesterday
decided to order bill No. IS, known
as the prohibition bill, an adjourn
ed debate bill, for II o'clock today.
The State says the vote is really
not a test of the streigth of the
phohibitionists, according to the To-
cal option people in the house, as
there were a number who will vote
against the bill that were willing
for it to come up and be disposed
Of before the debates were started
on the appropriation and supply
bills.
Mr.. Richards, who made the mo-
ton for the bill, urged the house to
consider the measure either one way
or another at once. The bill is in
troduced by Messrs. Richards, M. l..
Smith, C. A. Smith and j. P. Carey.
Mr.. Rucker raised the point that
the night before the house had re-
fused to take up the bill for a special
order and the dlincher had been
put on the refusal. Mr.. Smith, act
ing as speaker in the absence of
Mr.. Whaley, ruled that the motion
of Mr.. Richards was in order as the
motion the night before was for the
purpose Of making the bill a special
order. The present motion of Mr..
Richards was to make the bill an
adjourned debate bill.
Mr.. Rucker held that to make the
bill either special order or an ad-
journed debate bill two motions
were necessary. First to take up the
bill out of its regular order. That
motion had been defeated the day
before. Should the house agree tc
take up the bill out of it's regular
order, then it could be made a spec.
ial order, withdrawn or any other
action taken on it that the author
might desire, should the house con-
sent.
Mr.. Smith, however, ruled that the
house could not bind itself for the
entire session on any motion not
to take up a bill out Of Its regular
order. The motion to make the
bill a special order had been clinch-
ed, but the motion of Mr.. Richards
was to make it an adjourned de-
bate bill.
The Vote.
Mr.. Dixon moved to lay the mo-
tio1 of Mr.. Richards to make the
bill adjourned debate on the table.
The ayes and nays were called for
and the vote was as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Melvin J. Ashley,
Aver, Berg, Browning, F. M. Bryan,
Bunch, Carwile, Cocker, Cosgrove,
Cothran, Dick, Dixon, Doar, Duvall,
E. C. Edwards Isaac Edwards, Fultz,
Garris, Gasque, Glasscock, Graham,
Greer, Griffin, J. R. Harrison, Hol-
lis, Hughes, Hydrick, McColl, Nc
Mahan, Mars, Niver, Patterson, Paul
ling, Rucker, o. l.. Sanders, Sawyer,
Seibels, Simkins, Singleton, K. P.
Smith, Stanley, Tobias, Wander
Horst, Vaughan, Wade, Wells, Wig
rins. Williams, O.. D. A. Wilson, w.
r. Wilson, Jr., Wright-55.
Nays-Messrs. Amick, Joshua W.
Ashley, Bodie, Bowers, Bowman,
Boyd, Brice, Brown, w. D. Bryan.
Cantrell, Carrigan, Carter, Celey,
Clary, Daniel, Dingle, Foster, Fraser,
J. T. Gibson, w. ]. Gibson, Green,
Hall, Hamer, Harmon, Wade C. Har-
rison, Hines, Horger, Kibler, Lawson,
Lee McEachern, McKeown, Mann,
Mauldin, Mobley, Mosley, Nesbitt,
Nicholson, Nunnery, Richards,
Ridgell. G.. NJ. Riley, w. l.. Riley,
Robertson, Roessler, D. C. Sanders,
Scarborough, B. A. Shuler, c. T.
Shuler, Chas. A. Smith, M. l.. Smith,
Spears, Stubs, Jared D. Sullivan,
p. P. Sullivan, Suydam, Utsey, Way,
Whatley, Wingo, Wyche-61.
The clincher was then put on and
by a division vote of SO to so the
house agreed to make the measure
an adjourned debate bill for II
o'clock tomorrow.