Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-08-21
Stevenson's Record.
political Advertisement.

What about the separate coach
bin?" Mr.. Finley has been asking
While 1t has no bearing on the ques-
ton Of fitness for Congress, let's an
swer. Mr. Stevenson voted against the
Caughman bill, passed in 1898, see p.
III, Statutes 1898, and in favor of the
committee bill offered by the House
committee as a substitute. Why? Be-
cause the Caughman bill only required
partitions in first class coaches when
YOU had to pay 31c. mile and put
white people in one end of the coach
and colored people in the other end,
leaving them still in the same coach
where rowdy negroes merely had to
push open a frail door to be in the
white coach. Then it made whites and
negroes who bought second class tick
cts ride together in one coach, dis
tinctly leaving the poor man not able
to buy a high priced ticket to ride
with negroes. The committee bill was
substituted for it (see Acts 1900, page
45D and it is the law today, where all
pay the same fare and each race has
a coach to itself. This was the prop
osition favored by Mr.. Stevenson and
it finally prevailed.
How about Mr.. Finley? In 1890.
Mr.. Blease introduced a separate
coach bill. which was killed on a roll
call, and Mr.. Finley, one of the lead
ers of the House. neither spoke nor
voted for it. (Journal 1890, page
376). In 1892 Mr.. Finley says he be-
came a leading member of the State
Senate and continued as such through
1886. In 1894 the House passed a
separate coach bill and ii came to the
Senate and was killed on December
10, 1894. (Journal, p. 36D without
even a roll call or a word being said
i'm it's favor. What was Leader Fin
ley" doing? Again. in 1896, after con-
stitutional objections had been swept
away, there came a bill from the
House to the Senate. 1t was reported
unfavorably, but was sent back to the
committee for a fuller report; was
again reported unfavorably and was
killed, without roll call on Feb. 25,
1886. (Journal, p. 337) and no word
was spoken in it's behalf by anybody
What was Leader" Finley doing that
he did not open his mouth or demand
q roll call on the bill or endeavor in
any way to save it? Mr. Finley has
never endeavored to have Congress
prohibit the crowding of white and
colored people together in sleeping
cars and this can only be done in in
terstate transportation by Congress.
Mr.. Stevenson helped to pass the
law requiring railroads to pull mileage
on the trains, and they have it to do
in South Carolina, but on all interstate
trips they do not have it to do, and
the result is the nuisance of having to
carry several kinds of mileage, COM
planned of by Mr.. Finley, which can
only be relieved by Act of Congress;
and yet this doughty Congressman
who has been there 16 years and COM
duced bill to make the railroads pull
interstate mileage on the trains.
Mr.. Finley also asks why two-cent
fare was not passed by the Legisla-
ture. The House did pass it, but 1t
was filibustered to death in the Sen
ate by Senator w. H. Sharpe, Senator
Applet and Senator Clifton. But Mr.
Stevenson did not vote for it, because
both North Carolina and Virginia had
tried it and both had lost expensive
lawsuits in the courts, and beside the
Supreme Court of the United States
had Just held that such rates must ul-
timately be controlled by the Inter-
state Commerce Commission-cited in
his speeches by Mr.. Finley-and it
would be folly to get South Carolina
into lawsVe for nothing and in de-
cision lately rendered, that Commits
sion has said that passenger rates on
Eastern roads were too low and should
be raised rather than raise freight
rates.
(a) Now, Mr.. Finley has discrimi-
mated against the South in voting to
put the Panama Canal Exposition at
San Francisco. instead of at New Or
leans Why spend all the mohey in
the North and make our people go
1000 miles to see it?
CD BY voting for free tolls for
merce of the North and East, already
rich, to the Pacific coast. in ships, free
of tolls, while the South's cotton and
cotton goods passing through the ca
nal go to foreign ports and are there
fore. in ships paying tolls, and our i'm
ports of nitrate of soda and Peruvian
guano with which to make cotton,
comes from foreign ports in ships pay
ing tolls.
(c) In sitting down and allowing
800, 900 900 to be spent on irriga-
ton projects in the West and North
west in the last ten years and not get
ting a cent for the roads of the South.
of that one Hundred Millions, only
about three millions was spent in the
South. and all but $72. 200 of that was
spent in Texas. Is the South and the
Fifth District getting square deal?
We don't need irrigation, but we do
need roads and when they spend a
hundred millions to irrigate the West,
why not give us at least thirty mil
lions 10000. .000) for roads? Thirty
three millions of the population of the
United States live in the South and
twenty-five millions of them live in the
country Every man who lives in the
country will be directly benefited by
good roads, while only Il very small
number are benefited by irrigation
projects.
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