The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-02-25
PASS REFORM BILL
AFTER KILLING SENATE BILL The
HOUSE PASSES ITS own
MAY help The PRIMARY

Provides Supervisor of Registration
in Each County to Be Chosen b!
| County Convention.-Rolls to b
/ Kept in Duplicate.
Leading what appeared to be the
forlornest of hopes, the members oi
the House who are in favor of safe
guarding primary elections against
fraud succeeded Wednesday morn
ing in pushing the Miley primary
election reform bill to third reading
by vote Of 81 to SO.
The Miley bill provides practically
the same means Of regulating the
primary elections as the Senate bill
did, which the House killed Tuesday
night, by vote of 54 to 81. Both
measures say that voters in the pri-
mary elections must be registered in
duplicate books. Advocates of pri-
mary reform have stressed the i'm
portance Of this provision all through
the hard fight they have made to get
the House to take some action which
would eliminate repeating" and
other forms of illegal and fraudulent
voting in the primary elections.
The Miley bill, like the Senate bill,
provides that the county executive
committees shall review the books Of
primary registration before the elec-
tion and strike off all names which
should not appear thereon. The
Miley bill, though, makes the reform
of the primary more Of party mat
ter than the dead Senate bill did.
The chief difference between the
bill which the House passed Wednes-
day morning and the one it killed
Tuesday night is that the bill which
went through provides for one super
visor Of primary registration in each
county to be elected by the county
conventions, whereas the bill which
was killed said that the registration
for primary elections should be left
in the hands Of the secretaries OF
the various clubs.
The fact that the House passed the
Miley bill to third reading though it
killed the Senate bill Tuesday night
is explained by the presence Of men,
bers who were in favor Of primary
reform who were absent Tuesday
night and by the fact that Mr.. Miley
himself voted against the passage of
the Senate bill. Mr. Rittenberg of
Charleston, another advocate of pri-
mary reform who did not find the
Senate primary reform bill to his
taste, voted for the Miley bill, after
the House agreed to the amendment
providing that the special primary
election laws for Charleston county,
which are much more stringent than
anything proposed for the rest of
the State by the most ardent advocate
of reform, should not be repealed by
Lle passage VI Iue JILL.
In view Of the action taken by the
House Wednesday morning, there IS
now the ghost of a chance that the
present general assembly may after
all enact some legislation to safe
guard the primary system.
This chance hinges solely on the
immediate agreement Of the advo-
Yates Of primary reform in the Senate
to substitute the Miley bill for the
measure now pending in the Senate.
II this IS done without delay, it is
possible that a primary election re-
form act may go to the governor be-
fore the session ends and allow him
to put into execution his threat 10
veto any such measure.
The members Of the House who
voted in favor of passing the Miley
primary reform bill to third reading
were the following:
Ayes-Atkinson, Barnwell, Belser,
Bethea, Bolt, Bowers, Boyd. Brice.
Burgess, Charles, Dantzler, DeLough-
ter, Dick, Evans, Friday, Goodwin,
Greer, Haynsworth, Hiott, Hunter,
Hutchinson, Hutson, Johnston. hib-
Ter, Kirk. Lee, Lilies. Lumpkin. Nc
Cravey, Mcdonald, Mcqueen. NAL
pass, Massey, Means, Miley. Mitchell,
Mower, Nicholson, Odom, Pate
Pegues, Pyatt, Ready, Riddle, Riley.
Rittenberg, Robinson, L. NJ. Rogers,
Sanders, w. NJ. Scott, Stevenson,
Shirley, Sturkie, Tindal. Stanley,
Wander Horst. Zeigler-57.
The members Of the house who
voted against the passage of the
Miley bill to third reading were the
following:
Nays-speaker Smith, Addy, J. ".
Ashley, NJ. J. Ashley, Baskin, Black
we'll, Browning, Busbee, Clement,
Creech, Daniel, Epps, Fortner,
Gasque, Halle. Hardin, H. F. Harrel-
son, n. C. Harrelson, Harper, Har-
vey, Ho!ley, Irby, James, Jones, kel-
lehan, Kelly, Kennedy, Kirby, Ly-
brand, Melf, Miller, Mixson. Moore,
Moseley, Murray, Nelson, Robertson,
W. S. Rogers Jr.. Sapp, W. ". Scott