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PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1891. NO 14 TALMA 1 AT ANN ARBOR. AN ELOQUENT SERMON PREACHED BY THE BROOKLYN DIVINE. A Magnificcust Discourse on ther Tempta tions to Whilk h Young Men Aro Sub Jecttd-1a Ex1iortntion to Hold Fast to the U1ble't Tritthm. ANN Ai(Roic, Mich., Je.. 13.-Our citizens in larme nu.nbers have availed theinelves of the olportunity of hear ing Dr. Talma,e, who is visiting the city by imvitation oLthe students of the university. Ila text was Vroverbs i, 17, "Surely, in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.'' Early in the orming I went out with a lowler to catch wild pigeons. We hastened tIhjrough the mountain gorge and into thw forest. We spread out the net, and cover( ip the edges of it as well as we could. We arranged the call bird, its feet faist and its wino flipping, in invitation to all fowls of heaven to settle (own thecre. We retired into a booth of branches and leaves and waited. After awhile, lookingu out of the door of the booth, ve s i tlock of birds in the sky. They came neurer and nearer, aid after avbhile were about to swoop ino the net, when -udeuly they darted away. Ap-n we waited. After a while we saw anicr flock of birds. They came nearcr ti nearer until just at the m11om1ent, W h,i I zey were alout to swoop they darted tw_iy. The towl-or was very much disap pointcd as wel; as myself. We said to each other. "%I hat is the matter?" and %Why werE not these birds caught?" We went c ald .xamined the not and by a flutte- :,f a branch of a tree part of the net had , e c-nispicuously exposed, and i hehi comiii-g very near had seen the*r peril nd darted away. When I -saw ihat, I n ;iid to the old lowler. -That reminds te of l'i1age of Scripture: 'Ntely in v%ini i the cnt spread in the sight of an b1rd.' "' Now the net in my text stadld fr temptation. The call hini of sin tempts men on fromt p)oint to point and from branch t) branch until they are about to drop into the net. I I'a inan finds out in time that it i the teoptation of the devil, or that evil nivi ar- at temptim to caoture his soul for tin' 3 oit for eternity, the man steps back. lie says, "I am not to be caught in t at way; I see what you are about; surely in vain Is the net spread in the sigh of ainy bird."' I There arc two classes of temptations -the superficial and the subterraneous -those above ground, those under ground. It a man could see sin as it is, lie would io more embrace it than lie would eil,,ace a leper. Sin is a daugh ter of heli, - et she is garlaned and robed and trinketed. IIer voice is a warble. IIer cheek is the setting sun. Her fore head is an aur ra. She says to men: "Come, walk tis path with me. It Is thyied ailJ primrosed, and the air is be witched wilh the odors of tihe hangiog aardens of heaven. The rivers are riv ers of wine, and ali you have to do is to drink them up in chalices that sparkle .igi diaio; id and amethI) st and chryso p. sus. See! It is all bloom and ro seate cloud and heaven." Oh, my friends, if for one moment the choiring of all these concerted voices of sin (ould be hushed, we should see the orchestra of the pit with hot breath blow ing through fery flute, and the skeleton arms on drums of thunder and darkness beating the chorus, "The end thereof is death." It, is not the empty vessel, but the latden melrchantilmanl that is the tempta tion of the ph-ate. And a young man empty of' head, empt,y of heart, empty of lf-you want no Young Men's Christian Association to keep him safe; lie i:, safe. iIe will not gamble unless it is with 1(mebodfy else's stakes. HIe wvill not break tile Sabbath unless some. body els pays3 theC hlorse hire, IIe will not drink uniless somei one else trett him. iIe will hang around the bar hour after hour waiting for sonie gonerous young man to comle in. Th'fe generous young moan comes ini and accosta him andl says, "WXell, will you have a drin1k with me toda)? " The imani, as thiouili it were a slnthlen tiniig for him, says, "Well-well. ii yioui inisit >n it, I will I wIll." Too men t(o go to perdition unless somebody else pays is expienses! For such younig men(1 we wil i not, fight,. We would no miore conitend for themi than Tarhtary and Lt,hiopia would fight as te who shouldhit ve the great Sahara tIes ert; but for thuie young meni who are deteined to di 0) soetiing for time and( 3 for eternity; -Ib them:n we will light, and1( we now dedarr everlasting war against all the influienc:s that, assail them, and( we atsk nu cood meni anid phiilanthrop~jists to wheeI t't lie, and all the armies of heaveni to hear (fown uploni the too, and we praty Aimiklhty G~od that wit,h the thunderbolta .01o his~ w rath lie will strike dow.~n and( coni-iume a! theec influenices thtaeat tempan0 lg to (destroy thie v<,uag mentfr whom Chiuslt died. The first class of tempitatins that as sauilts a soung man is led on by the skeptic, le will not admit thiat he Is ati inlidetl or atheist. Oh, no! lie is ia "free thiinker;'" he is one of' your ' lib eral'' meni; lie is free and easy hin relig ion. Oh, how liberatlihe is; lie'is so "Ib eral"' that lie wvill give away his Bii. bie; lie is so '"iberal'' that lie will give away the throne of eternal justi c; lie is so 'liberal"' that he would be willing te give God out of the universe; lie is so "hiberal'' that, hie wouldi give up his own soul and the souls of all his friends. Now what miore couldh 3 on ask in the way of liberalit3? TIhe vict,im of this skvl tic has1 probabily just come from tile counitry. TJhrough the intervention o1 friends lie hae been placed in a sho0p. On Saturday thia skeptic says to him, "Well, what are you going to do tomor row?" iIe says, "1 am going to church." "Is it, possible?" says the skeptic. "Well, I used to do those things; I wa Ibrought up, I suppose, as you w cre, in a religious family, and I believed all those thing-i but I got over it,: thie fact Is, since I came to town I have read a great deal, and I have found that, there are a great many things in the Bible that are ridiculous. NOW, for instance, all that about the serpent being cursed to crawl in the Garden of .den because it had tempte.1 our first parents. why, you see how absurd it Is; you can tell from the very organization of the ser pent that it had to crawl, It crawled be fore it was cursed just as well as it crawled afterward; you can tell fron its organization that it crawled. Then all that story about the whale swallowing Jonah, or Jonah swallowing the whale, wilch was ii? It don't make any dif ference, the thing is absurd ;t is ridicu lous to suppose that a man could have gone down through the jaws of a sea monster and yet kept .is li.e; why, his respiration would have been hindered; he would have been digested; the gas tric juice would have dissolved the 11 brine and coagulated albumen. and Jonah would have been changed from prophet into chyle. Then all that story about the miraculous conception-why, it is perfectly disgraceful. Oh, sir! I be lieve in the light of nature. This is the Ninetecuth century. Progress, sir; pro gress. I don't blame you, but after you have been in town as long as I have you will think just as I do." Thousands of young men are going down under that process day by day, [and there is only here and there a young mon who can endure this artillery of scorn. They are giving up their Bibles. The light of nature! They have the light of nature in China; they have It in Ilndostan; they have it in Ceylon. Flowers there, stars there, waters there, wimds there, but no civilization, no homes, no happiness. Lancets to cut and juggernauts to fall under and hooks to swing on, but no hapminess I tell you, my young brother, we have to take a religion of some kind. We have to choose between four or five. Shall it be the Koran of the Molhamme (Ian, or the Shaster of the Illndoo, or the Zendavesta of the Persian, or the Conlucius writings of the Chinese, or the l[oly Scriptures? Take what you will; God helping me, I will take the Bible. Light for all darkness; rock for all foun dation; balm for all wounds. A glory that lifts its pillares of fire over the wil derness march. Do not give up your Bibles. Ask them what infidelity has ever done to lift the fourteen hundred millions of the race out of Barbarism. Ask them when infidelity ever instituted a sanitary commission, and before you leave their society once and forever tell them that they have insultel the memory of your Christian father, and spit upon the death bed of your mother and with swine's snout rooted up the grave ot'your sister, who died believing in the Lord Jesus. I these people ecofr at you as though religion and the Bible were fit only for weakminded people, you just tell them you are not ashamed to be in the coi pany of Burke the stateman, aud Ra phael the painter, and,Thorwaldsen the sculptor, and Mozart the musician, an( Blackstone the lawyer, and Bacon the philosopher, and Harvey the physician, and John Milton the poe'.. Young man, hold on to your Bible. It is the best book you ever owned. It will tell you how to bargain, how to act, how to live, how to die, how to dress. how to walk. Glorious Bible! Whether on parchment or paper, in octavo or duo decimo, on the center table of the drawing room or in the counting room of the banker. Glorious Biblet Light to our feet and lamp to our path. Hold on to it! The second class of insidious tempta tiens that comes upon our young men is led on by the dishonest employer. Every commercial establishment is a school. In nine cases out of ten the principles of the employer become the principles of the employee. I ask the older merchants to bear me out in these statements. If, when y ou were just startmng in life--in commercial life-you were told that hon esty was not marketable; that, th~ough you might sell all the goods in tihe sho01) you must not sell your conscience; that, while you were to exercise all industry andl tact, you were not to sell your con s--ence; if you were taught that gains gotten by sin were combustie, and at the moment of ignition would be blown on by the breath of God until all thie splendid estate wouldl vanmsh into white ashes scat,tered in the whirlwind, then that instruction has been to you a precau tion and a help ever since. There are hundreds of commercial establishments in our i!reat cities which aire educating a class of young men who will bo the honor of the land, andi there are other establishmntsq which tire edu cating young men to lbe nothing but, sharpers. What, chance is there for a young mnan who was taught in an esta blishmen, that it is right to lie, it it is smart, and that a French label is all that is necessary to make a thing French, and that you c ught alway3 to be honest when it pas anti that It is worng to steal unless you do it well? Sup)pose, now, a young man just start,ing in life enters a place o1 t,bat kind where there are ten young men, all dlrilledi ir' the infamous p)ractices of the establishment, iIe is reatdy to be taug~ht. The young man has no theory of' commercial e.thies. WVhere is lhe to get, his theory? lie will ieet the theory from his employers. One day lhe pushes his wvit a little beyond what the est,ablish ment demiinds of him, aind lhe fleeces a customer until the clerk is on the verge of l'eing seized by the law. What is done in the establishment? Ile is not arraignetd. The head of' the establlsh ment says to him, "Now, be careful; be careful, young man, you might lie cauchit; hut really ti:at was splendidly done; you will get along in the wvorld, I warrant you." Then that, youog man goes up unt,il he becomes head clerk. lie has found there Is a p)remium~ on in iquity. One morning the employer comes to the establishment, Hie goes into his counting reom andi throws up his hands and shouts, "WVhy, the safe has been robbed!" What is the mnatter? Noth ing not,hing; only the clerk who has been practicing a uood while on customers is practicing a little on the employer. No new primciple introduced Into that esta blishment. It is a poor rule that will not work both ways. You must never steal unless you can dv it well, Hie did it well. I am not talking aL abstrac tion; I am talking a terrible ard acrush ing fact. I stamd beforayun mm.a sm ing who are under this pressure. I say, come out of it. "Oh!" you say, "I munt; I have my widowed mother to support, and if a man loses a situation now he can't get another one." I say, come out of it. Go home to your mother an say to her, "Mother, I can't stay in that shop and be upright; what shall I do?" and if she is worthy of you sie will say, "Come out of it, my son-we will just throw ourselves on him who hath prom hubed to be the God of that widow and the l'atherless; he will take care of us." And I tell you no young man ever per manently sufilered by such a course of conduct. A man said to his employer. "I can't wash the wagon on Sunday morning; I tm willing to wash it on Satnrday after noon, but, sir, you will please excuse me, I can't wash the wagon on Sunday morning." Ilis employer said, 'You must wash it; my carriage comes in every Saturday night, and you have got to wash it on Sun-lay morning." 1I can't do it," the man said. They parted. The Lord looked after him-grandly looked after him. Ile is worth today a hundred told more than his employer ever was or ever will be, and lie savod his soul. Young men, it is safe to (1o right. Thete are young men in this house today who, under this storn of temptation, are striking deeper and deep er their roots and spreading out, broader heirbranches. They are Daniels in Ba bylon, they are Josephs in the EgYptlan court, they are Pauls amid the wild beasts of Ephesus. I preach to eicour age them. Lazyl hold of God and be faithful. There is a mistake we make about young men. We put them in two clas ses; the one class is moral, lhe other i; dissolute. The moral are safe. The dissolute cannot be reclaimed. .1 deny both propositions. The moral are not safe unless they have laid hold ol God, and the :dissolute may be reclaimed. I suppose there are self rioliteous men in this house who feel no uced of God. and will not seek after him, and they will o out in the world. an(d they will be Iempt ed, and they will be flung down by mis fortune, and they will go down, siown, down, until some night you V. ill see them going home hooting, ravi-ug, shut ing blasphemy-going home to their mother going home t. their -ister, going home to the young companion to whnm, only a little while ago, in the presence of a brilliant assemblage, flashig lights and orange blossoms, and censers swing ing in the air they promised ridelity and purity, and kindness perpetual. As that man rtaches the door, she will open it, not with an outcry, but she will stagger back from the door as lie comes in, and in her look there will be the prophecy of woes that are com ing, want that will shiver in need of lire, hunger that will cry in vain for bread, ci uelties that will not leave the heart when they have crushed it, but pinch it again and stab it again, until some night she will open the door of the place where her companion was ruined, and she will fling out her arm from under her ragged shawl and say, with almost omnipotent eloquence: "Give me back my husband! Give me back my protector! Give me back my all! Him of the kind heart and gentle words and the manly brow-give him back to me!" And then the wretches, obese and filthy, will push back their matted locks and they will say: "Put her out! Put her out!" Oh! self right eous man, without God you are in peril. Seek after him to-day. Amid the ten thousands temptations of life there is no safety for a man without God. hut I may be addressing somec who have gone astray, and so 1 assault that other proposititin that the dissolute cannot be reclaimed. Perhaps you have only gone a little astray. WVhile I speak are you troubled ? Is there a voice within you saying: "What di d you do that for'? Why did you go there ? What did you mean by that?" Is there a memory in your soul that makes you tremble? God only knows all our hearts. Yea, if you have gone so far as to commit iniquities and1( have gone through the whole catalogue', I invite you back this hour. The L4ord waits for you. "Rejoice! O young man in thy youth, and let thy heart cer thee in the days of thy youthi; but knowv thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment." Come home, young man, to your father's God. Conic home, young maii, to your mother's GodI. Oh! I wirs that a.ll the batteries of the Gospel could to-day be unlumberedl against all those influences which arc taking downi so many of our young men. I woulId iike to blow a truimpet of warning, and re cruiit until this whole audience would march out on a crusade against the evils of society. But let mone of us be dishea rtened. Oh, Chiristiani workers, my heart is high with hope. TIhue (lark horizon is blooming Into the morning of wvhich p rop)hets spoke, and of which p)oets have d reamed, and of which painters have sketched. TIhe world's bridal hour advances. TIhe monutains will kiss the morning racilant and effiulgent, and all the waves of the sea wvill be come the crystal keys of a great organ, on which the lingers of everlasting joy shall play the grand march of a world redeemed. .Insteod of the thorn there shall come up the fir tree, and inste'ad of the briar there shall come up the myrtle tree, and the mnountains arid the hills shalt br eak forth lato singing, and all the trees of the wo)od shall clap their hands! Murderedi in Their Cottage. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., D)ec. 12.-A New Smyrna special to the Times Union says: Miss. A. II. Bruce, Mrs. L. 1). llarch antd her little son and Mas ter Frank l'ackwood were found mnur dleredl late this afternoon in the cott age recently leased by them for the, winter six miles below this town on the Fast coast of Florida. The throats of all four were cut from ear to ear and they had been dead apparently from 18 to 30 hours. There is no clue to the murderer. As several tramps have been seen in this neighborhood lately suspicion na turally rests on them. A posse of nearly fIfty men has betrn organized and It started to-night on horseback and afoot for the scene ot the tragedy. The vic tims had recently come from tihe North to spend the wint.er here amid were not known generally. No further partIcu lars are procurable to-night as the Pack wood cottage is nearly seven miles from a telegraph onime. A RtOW IN TlE HOUSE. AN ANGRY DISCUSSION BETWEEN HASKELL, EVANS AND OTHERS. II hO 3k4W Cotunty 1ull the Calue of the Icow-What 1ams Sail and How the Menibri Vote d--The ill Killed and Then Iteconoldored. COLUMBIA, S. C., Dec. 17.-The bill to provide a new system of county gov ernments, the full text of which you published a few weeks ago, come up in the House Tuesday as a special order. After four cr five sections of the bill had been read Mr. IIaskell moved to strike out the enacting clause. Senator Beasley, of the conference committee, thought it would ne better to wait to hear what the conference committee had done. The President doubted if any action -ouka be taken on a bill not on the P'resident's desk, Senator Wilson referred to Joint Rule 4, and argued that under it the amendments from the 1 louse,constitu ting the message of the House to the Senate, could be considered. Senator Smythe proposed to remove all doubts withi a motion that the Sen ate re<quire the conference to return to the Senate the bill and all amendments, Senator Evars suggested that the conferees be allowed to report in duo form. The Presidernt replied brielly to Sen ator Wilson, explaining his ruling and its propriety, and then proceeded to put Senator Smythe's motion. Senator Evans moved to adjourn and upon the President declaring the mo tion lost demauded a division. The Senate by a vote of 18 to 7 refused to adjourn. Senator Evans then moved as a sub stitute for Senator Smythe's mnotion that the S&eunate conferees be required to report the results of the conference. IIe again demanded a division and was again defeated. Senator Smythe's motion was then adopted and Senator Beasley handed up the bill and amendments, which were . ead by the clerk. Senato 1vans moved to continue the debate mntil to-morrow. Lost-18 to 11. Jiust here Senator Bighain arose. Two or three hours betore, while Senator Bigham was innocently perambulating the lobby with an enrolled bill in his arms, the famous- fish patrol-amend ment had come up in the monotonous course of business and been ruthlessly assassinated under the very eari of its paren'. Senator Dozier having offered a motion for non-concurrence, whicli went through by default. Being in formed of this, Senator Bigham had been on pins, and in the midst of the flibiustering on the free pass bill arose with the untimely sutgestion that the vote of non-concurrence in the fish patrol bill be reconsidered. A roar of laughter greeted this unexpected in terpolation of extraneous, ancient and fish-like matter. Senator Bigham was informed of the fact and sat down. Senator Woodward then spoke oi the free pass bill. lie said a Senator who had voted for the bill had told him he would support it no further, as it was a slap in the face of the Adninistra tion. Nobody had the right to say the bill was a slap in anybody's face; but he wanted to know if the time had come when Senators of South Carolina were to be controlled in their action on the iloor by the fear of slapping some body's face; when anybody was to be tre-tted as a Czar and have his feelings and wishes deferred to by the represen tatives of the people in the conduct of public business and the execution of their sworn dluty. Senator Strait, a member of tile con ference committee, made a peppery speech in reply. Ife said he stood on record as against f ree passes. iIe had always refused them. But he believed tihe matt er should be left to the people. It was for them, not for tile Senate, to say who should or should not receive free passes. Thlat was a matter for ev~ery man to dlecide for hlimself. Only a few years ago, as~ thle Senator from Fairfield had said, an anti-free pass bill had bleen parsedl thlrough the Senate and pigeon holed in soee of the IIouse commit tees, hIe supposed by some of tile menCf wilo Issued free passes from the Sp)eaker's desk and wanted to continue domng so. There were men, he said, who gave out ftree passes with their ownl hands, iIe wvanted to see them explosed. Some of the very men wvho were now urgiing and filibustering and trying to get this bill through hlad voted agin lst it whuen it was up in Past years. .tinothler (lemenlt was ini power now; t hat exliaimred thleir (hrange of thouugh. lie thought hirmself that the Gov eriior hua' hM-u unwtise in accepting the passes, hbut tile (lovernor was ready to go before the people and1( answer, lie believed and thle people bhev(-d that menCi in the Legislatuire hlad been bamn boozled andl deba;uched by suchm means, "The Id ovemient." hIad puirged mrost of these out andl woihIl pu11rge yet fuirthier. One or t wo plices for bamboozling and udebauchiing remained in this city. Alen were carriedl to thle wine clubs anid other- places, m:-d when they had been dIrenlched thery were ini condit ion tn p)romuise anything, and after they re covered they found thel(mselves bound, Senator Smythe said( lIe did nlot know wvho theu Senator olluded to. iIe and his colleague, two of tile Senators who were in the Senaite when tihe bill allu:hed to was offered before, had voted for it. Senator IHuist said he had been coin ing to Columbia from Charleston twelve years anid haid never accepted or givenl a tree pass, and had voted for Senator Woodward's bill when It was offered before. Senator D)ozier as one of the old Senlators, declared that he hlad never accep)tedl or used a free pass and( had votedl for Senator Woodward's bill he fore. IIle proce?eded wit h some remark a which seemedl very meek, but carried sOmel p)epper. lie spoke of the war of the Reform element against the danx gerous cust.om of free passes, of Gov ernor Tillman's denuncIation of it, andi of the hue and cry' raised wvhen the newspapers announiced that the Gbov ernor himself used the passes. iIe thought the sentimient of the people on t.he subject had been fiully expressed. Senlator T1immierman moved ta ad Journ. Lost on call of yeas and nays--12 to 9I. A vote was then taken on Senator Wood war d's resoinltIn to concur in the House anmenidments to the free pass lbhd, and the resolution was agreed to as follaws. Yeas-Senators Abbott Bell, ilig ham, Buist, DeSchamp, I)oz;er, Jen kins, Keitt, Almason, McDaniel, Moody 'eake, Sanders, Sloan, Smith, It. M. Smith, J., S tiythe, Stokes, Verdier Williams, Wilson and Woodward-2. Nays-Senators Bamberg, Beasley Evans, Ferguson, Glenn, iempil Strait and Timinerman-8. In justice to absent Senators it uay be said that there was a general belie that nothing would )e done after the ratilication of bills and the springing of Senator Woodward's resolution wa: a complete surprise. The usual reconsideration clinch wa: put on and the Senate adjourned unti 11 o'clock to-morrow, with Senato: Bigham on the floor making a point o order because the body was declarec adjourned just as he was moving th( fish patrol into position, OTIIER PROOWtIIN(iS OF TIE SENATE Lieutenant Governor Gary again 'pre sided to-day, hJs throat being again ii satisfactory working condition. The resolutions of the Ilethodis Conference regarding the opening o the World's Fair on Sunday and thi running of Sunday trains were roat and referred to the committee on Fed eral relations. The judiciary committee reporte( favorably on bills to amend SectioT 1.326, Gen. Stat.; to authorize the keepe of Elmwood Cemetery to arrest tt*s pIssers without warrant; to reguat the number and pay of trial justices ii Oconee; to authorize the commissioner of Beaufort to advertise for and pa: claims against old Ileautfort and to ap ply the surplus, if any, of the fund it their hands, to fix the compensation o trial justices in Lancaster Courit: whein acting as coroners; to amend t hi Act relating to trial justices in Yorl and Spartanburg counties; also on joui resolution to provide for the payiun of the sherill' of Georgetown County. The same committee report(d in Livorably Mr. Child's bill "to regul it( the sale of liquors," (the proltibil i01 bill,) and bills to fix the day for pay ment of notes, etc., maturing on .,n day or legal holidays; granting the ;s of oyster beds in Cape Romain .o private company; to amend the :ic forbidding the stle of liquors at .Jois Ville, Union County. All went on th Calendar. An unfavorable report f rom the s.; m committee on the bill to amend the Ac regulating the sale of pistol cartridge by adding rifle cartridges and br ts knuckles was acted on immedialeli and the bill was killed. The finance committee reporte( favorably on bills to provide for use o the Downer fund in the State treasi ry to anthorize the State treasurer to ii vst the proceeds of certain securit it' of the Clemson estate in State s,eeu rities. Mr. Ernest Gary said that he though when the gentleman fron Rielti m rose to speak he had some objection t the bill. To his surprise lie had take the opportunity, but to discuss th Chief Executive. If there had bee whippers in here and they had whippe him (Mr. Iaskell) our of power, it w a grand day for South Carolina. have served with him in the lous when lie had .ower that was surpash ing. What brought whippers in ? -N fact contributed more than the powe w%hich he exercised. It was a prom day when he was whipped out of thi domain in which lie exercised so nic power. I hurl back his insinuation: with contempt. I could not sit fluiet. and allow him to regard mei a whipped. The people have by popula vote taken the county commissioner out of the Constitution, and there is necessity for some such legislation a this bill. The system works well i Georgia. Why will it not work equill well in South Carolina ? Mr. Evans rose to a qjuestion of prit ilege. "I wish," he said, "to reply t the false insinuations of the gentlemna fromn Richiand." Speaker Jones: "The pending luen tion is to strike out the enacting claue of the bill." Mr. Evans: "I did not call him t ordler and stated I would reply and hi made no objection. if ever a man i served contempt as a whip, it is tI: g entleman from Rtichland. I desire t Ilong back into the teeth of this miai who comes like an ass in a lion's skin. Alr. ilaskell: "1 will not call the geu tfeman to order, but approbious t'p thets must cease." i. Evans: "I am resp)onusible it anything I sa1y." AMr. Il askell: "i'ih aw" I was figh ing for my state bef ore you were bomn Mir. Evans: "Oh! yes, you were fighi' ing like a good fellow. Like a wa whi3se head has been crushed tries t use itsi stinmr, so the gentleman frm lIichliand acts. For ten years theS a4t sull'ered, but at last she rose aim whipped out all such from her halls c legislation, which should have beeni ai cre'd. Are we to subuuit to such: .'y thets? lie attempts to reflect oni th character of the Chief Executive bt cause he has interfered with a corpora tionu in which he had money in vesi '4, Mlr. II askell : "That stat eent,m is at soluteily false. I have not a dollar ai vested in any corporatit>n in this Stati and( never have had any nmoney iin"i ed in phosphates." Mir. Evans: "Phosphate legislat for like that adopted by the Gienerai .\b semly last winter, has been demar'' ei by every Attorny General since 187<." Mr. liaskell: "That is not true."' Mlr. Evans: "Did( not A ttoney Gcn erai Conner recqimmeund it? Tlhe genu tiemnan is getting uip th is discussiom simply for the newspaners, but thme Jn'o pie of South Carolina a.-e 'mot goveret by what thme newspapers write, but by1 f ree and honest ballot. The genmtlemari from Richland has not mnentionied anru ob)jectlonst to the bill." Mr. IIaskehl: "I mentioned a f'ew ob j"ctions, but perhaps they do not count It would doubie county ex pense1s." Mr. Evanms: "You did not show it." Mr. Hlaskell: "I gave it as nmy opin ion and the opinion of some shrew( financIers, who have studledl the sub j'uct. Perhaps It is anm objection I hai (lots not ap)peal to the young roant Tihe reports say hent presented 'Adin istration bills,' anti he pushed thent am far as lisa light weight would allow Tihe youngster attempts to talk aboul the lash, but when he gets cool he wil recognize the fact that, that is all bun combo; that no one would attempt that with me. I (10 not like to speak of mi3 own services, which have been givev without reward, asked or received from th State. When a boy I went it the army and served ats best I might Ills personal flings I will treat witI the contempt they deserve. Ills state ment that I had money invested in phosphate corporation isatnea" Mr. Evans: "I did not state you had. I I said I imagined it." n Mr. llaskell: "I never owned a cent of stock in any phosshate corporation. The gentleman in his cooler monents will withdraw his attempted insults, and I will then withdraw my con tempt." Mr. Evans: "I'll withdraw nothing." t The next passa$u was amid much ex- S citement, and could not be heard plain- k) ly. It seems that Mr. Evans insinuated 4 that a newspaper stenographer hadi been in the hall during one of Mr. Has-' kell's speeches and was taking it down. t" Mr. Evans insinuated that Mr. Haskell had brought him there to report his speech, and had told him to omit cer- a tamn portions. n Mr. Haskell, in tones like ice and with a steely look in his eyes, askei l Mr. Evans what he meant to insinu- i ate. o Mr E vans explained his utterances as best he might. Mr laskell then stated that the ai r stenographer was in his employ, as he W wrote somewhat poorly owing (with a I peculiar smile) to a slght accident. le had given the stenographer some pri- T vate directions when he spoke to hin and had said nothing to him about any work lie was doing lor a paper. AMr Norton next advanced to the de fence of the Governor. Ile said that asi chairman of the committee on mines, and mining lie wished to refute the in-; sinuation that the phosphate cominis-( gion bill wias prepared in the Govern- a or's ollice. Mr Iaskell: "I did not say in the Goverior's oflice, but, down stairs." t When Mr Norton returned to the charge Mr laskell impetuously asked if it was not true that Governor Till man had himself testified that he pre pared t he bill. Mr. Norton: "He only prepared the first part." Mr liaskell: "The testimony before the phosphate invest igating committee I - is that he prepared the bill and that - the amendments wero prepared by I Messrs -miith and Aldrich, tht attor- t L neys of the Farmers' and Carohima tianuf*acturing companies." S Mir Norton dropped this subject. and 3 asked if it was not true that the treas irer of tichland County had been t S$1,400 or 51,7(K) behind when he came a to settle with the Comptroller General, s and was it not true that thousands of d dollars had been turned into the treas ury from discovered frauds. Mr .Jones att.empted to call the speak- t ers to order, but Mr Haskell said that c f in justico to lichland's treasurer, who was as honest a man as ever lived, lie - would say that if Mr Norton meant to say that the treasurer was a defaulter the assertion was untrue. Speaker Jones said the pending (ies tion was a motion to strike out. the en I acting clause. Mr Finley said he so understood it a and would confine his remarks to the e question. lIe opposid the bill because a it, would increase county taxes various I ly from Ii, to 5 mills in the various i s counties. 'Theln, too, it would be im- I I possible to get good men in the various i e townships to serve on the board with- ( out pay. The State was not ready for j e the measire. It shouild not be pushed i r now, but should be submitted to a con- t I stitutional convention. B Mr Glove opposed the bill, though I he admitted some of its provisions 3 were good. Mr Evans moved to table the motion s to strike out the enacting clause. Car- a r ried by a vote of 52 to 81.t The further consideration cf the bill ( a was then postponed until Wednesday, I s when it was again taken up. i a A good (eal of discussion occurred I when the section relating to the towli ship road commissoner came up. The L)bili provided that these commissioners o should lee apploinited by the Governor; a that on refusal to serve they shoulId t forfeit $~>0. TIhe only p)rivilege priovid r ed for them was that they should be ex e *iinpt from road and jury duty. T1his wats amended so that the forfeit o was miadle S25. e Mr IIlarden moved that they be givenm ,. $2 per day for their services. e Mr Evans contended that it should E o remain as it was; that the idiea was that ' if no compensation was given, gooud d "men would consent to serve. .The member from Aiken was sharp- i .ly plied with <questions as to whether F lie wouild serve as road comn mission er r r w'ithouit, pay, andi( on his sayinig lie v wvoumld forleit $50 first, there was a genm . ral laugh, and it was evidlent that Mr l' Evans had broken thme backbonme of his ,~ .ar'guimellt. p Mr Wilson moved to amend so that a o echcl comuminssioner dlraw $2 per (lay for 9 a inot muor' than ten days in ther year. e Mr Ev aasn mioved to table this. llis C ~motion wasu lost amil he imo ved to ? f amiemi b y imiakimrg it $1 per day. .Mr I )ean spoke ini favor of Mr. W il- I .. son's aimenmienm)rt and his forcible aui i Spracticable'I remarks evidently had . reat defec. This amenidment Pie-. Mr Connor moved to amend( the bond of the cunifty3 sumpervisarui by imaking it . 2U0(M Iinmsteaid of $4,(MH). lHe supplorl.edI his miiotion 0v('ry strongly, buit accep)tedi . a amueldment, by Wilsoni to make it Mr E'vans inioved1 to t ahble. This wvasd .carried. v I Th'le bill provided that $1.50 could be & paid b,y personls liable to road dut y as a o comm)uitationi tax, in lieu of road duty. I . A mot.,iin was inadI to change this p oN r Kir kland saidl he wished in behalf h ofhis coiunty to eniter a p)rotest agaiinst this, the mnost vicious system lie coui think of. Tlhe plan in the bill for work- t1 ing the roads was based on a radically S wrong system . The coiintv suuervisor, h like the little ooss that lie will be, will P have power to assign any man in the t county to a contractor for road duty 1 and thne contractor couldl put him along i sl(ie of a convict as provided in the bill. si lIe entered his personal protest. This at was an attempt to compel, against a C constitutional provision, men to pay a per cap)ita tax. It was a roundabout r way to evade thme constitution. Mr Fowler said lie had never expeot ed to see a bodhy calling itself "Reform" i work so hard to grind the poor laborer. Trhis wouldl be an unjust tax in direct contradiction to the constitution. Mr S A Graham moved to indeflnite ly postpone the bill. This was carriedr by a vote of 46 to 44 as follows: Yeas--Attaway, Barkley, Bissell, Bowen, t Brennen Brown, Carpenter, Connor, dI Crum, lean Eady Elder, FleyIC, Folk, ti Fowler, Fox, 8., A. Graham, Harrison, h Hart Harvey, Jiaskell Hazard, Hughes, h Kirkland, Mears, 6cMIilan, Miley. Mooney, Moses, P'atton, IRavenel Row- . land, Rutledge Russel, Uarratt, ElImons, lii Sullivan, Tumner. Ulmer, VnnonIOtz. gi an-46. Nays-Speaker Joiies, Alderinan, Bloat oozer, lowden, Breazeale, Browning uist. Cox, Du Bose, likes, DuPre. Earle, vans, T. A. Graham, Gregory, Gunter, , iarden, llutto, Jefferies, Kinard, :cCall, Mc,%cFaddin, Melityro, D W'Mc aurij, McWhilo, Nlo-eley, Norton, Pat rson, Riley. lobieltso, Scott, Snanklin, ackhouse, 'aylor, Tid, Towues, Tray r, Watts, IVoife, 'Woodward, Yeldell A MOTION TO AJoUntN. Matters betgan to get interesting about istime. Mr. Evans jumped to his feet i(t began to speak, saying this was a pe illar way to do. Mr. Ilughes interrupted ith a motion to elinch the vote just taken, id Mr. Evans ioved to adjourn, amid uch laughter. Tihe motlioi to ad jourin was put, and dur g its prog:ess tilere was nuch bustling 'ound. h'e Vote w: the exact opposite the former vote, being i to .1-1, in favor adi journil:g. On Tursday tho vote by whi(h the bill as kille(d the a(ly ifire was reconsidered ld the bill Ire't,re(l to tho calendar. SOUTH CAROLINA )UCKERS. WO Sparlaiiunr.:.<Z o e InveNt .''l 1,000 ini '' t*re'tn G;oods.'' .J n v C-T, N. .. Dec. 16. [ichaec (' l- i~'t . isont Perrut.h, tl Fri-.1'll :I! . 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