The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-02-04
REFERENDUM BILL.
Prohibition Measure To Third Read
ins, 80 to Il.

Whelming vote Of 80 20 Il passed 10
third reading the Statewide prOhibi-
tion referendum proposition. The
opponents of the measure ranged
around thirty votes. at high water
mark, but on the final passage OF the
bill showed a smaller vote. On sug-
gestions that the time for the cleo
ton be deferred and on recognizing
county expressions there were twen-
ty-nine votes cast, but at all times
there was not a shadow OF doubt as
to what the house would do with the
Statewide bill. If there was to be
an effective fight it was all along ap-
preciated that it would be on the SEN
ate side. where the county entity
counts for more than on the house
and the one senator from county
has n.eQuivalent vote to that of a
county with half dozen members in
the houses.
Those who opposed the referen-
dunn, however. made good, clean
fight, no filibuster, but just plain ar
gument that was without avail. The
fight for the referendum bill started
at about 1890 o'clock and by dinner
time the measure had been ordered
to it's third reading, with four roll
calls intervening.
First i'm a Generation.
This is the first time in a genera
ton that any such important liquor
legislation has been passed without
some sort of legislative delay or more
or less acrimonious fight. There
were quite a number of really fine
speeches made pro and con on the
bill. Mr.. McMahan, of Columbia; Mr.
Searson, of Barnwell; Mr.. Noise, OF
Sumter; Mr.. Fromberg, of Charles
ton; Mr.. Muldrow, OF Florence; Mr..
Momeier, of Charleston; Mr.. King,
of Georgetown: Mr.. Harris. of Green
vile: Mr.. Beckett, of Beaufort, all
Joined in fighting the bill either in
phases or as whole, but were help
less as we'll as hopeless in this par
ticular fight, so strong was the cur
rent in favor of the passage of the
referendum idea.
Arguing in favor of the election
and for Statewide prohibition were
such forces as Mr.. Lilies and Mr.. Fri
day, of Orangeburg; Mr.. Warren, of
Hampton; Mr.. Smith, Of Colleton,
and Mr.. Mccullough, Of Greenville,
who speaks seldom, but forcefully.
Some of those who opposed the bill
did so on certain features. Mr.. Har-
ris wanted coca-cola treated as liquor.
Mr.. Beckett and Mr.. Noise made
their chief fight along the line of
county individuality and home rule
for the several counties and to have
the county vote effective as against
the Statewide sweep.
This was about the only important
matter acted upon today. The "ad-
ministration' tax commission meas
ure was presented during the morn
ing.
Vote for Referendum.
The final question was whether the
bill should be ordered to its third
reading and the Statewide prohibi-
ton referendum was given the second
reading by the overwhelming vote OF
80 to II. the record being as follows:
Yeas-Messrs Arnold. Atkinson,
Austin, Bales, Baker, Beckett, Ber-
ry, Blue, Bolt, Bowie, J. W. Boyd,
R. D. Boyd. Bradford. Brown, Burns,
Carey, Carter. Chapman, Charles,
Cherry. Crum, Dantzler, Dennis,
Dew, Dick, burst, Etheridge, FAINT,
Fickling, Folk, Friday, Fripp. Cog
gans, ]. J. NJ. Graham, S. A. Graham,
Graydon, Hammond, Harper, w. W.
Harris, Hawkins, Hubbard, Hutchin-
son, Hutto,, Jackson, Johnstone, La
Grone, Lane, Lee, LeGrand, Leslie,
]. T. Lilies, Lotion, Lynch, McCul-
Tough, McInnes, McKeown, McLaurin,
Malpass, A. NJ Martin, J. VI. Martin,
Means, Mills, Noise, Mower, Num-,
Odom, Oxner, Pegues, Query, Ram
seur, Reid, Rivers, Robinson, L. NJ.
Rogers, w. S. Rogers, Jr., Rush, Rus
sci, Sanders, Sellers, Shirley, Shuler,
Smith, Strom, Sturkie. Sumner, Toole
Traylor, Warn, Wagnon, Wallace
Warren, West. White, Williams. Win
= gard, Wolfe. Workman, Wright, Zim-
norman SO.
Nays-Speaker Hoyt, Barr, Brig
ham, Cothran, Fromberg, H. H. Har-
ris, Huffman, King, Leland. McMa-
han, Melf. Momeier, Morrison, Null
drow, Senseney, Walker.-Total II.
Text of Bill.
Here is the full text of the prohl'
bition referendum bill, as passed by