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•\ r r f VOL XIX. BARNWELL S. G. THURSDAY,. NOVEMBER 21, 1895. - THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM. Three Mills for the Public Schools. oIk THE POLL TAX DOLLAR. Tillman nod Evans- Opposed Each Other—The Report of the Commit tee on Education Goes Through. THfcsSCHOOL, DISTRICTS.* Senator Tillman said he wanted to • viu mt? uiatrcr ui uttswi many members were willing to vote a Vood levy, if they knew how it was to Be distributed, and on his motion the debate was adjourned. He offered a substitute as follows. Section 5. The General Assembly shall provide for a liberal system of free public schools for children between the ages of ti and 21 years, not mentally disabled, and for the division of the counties into suitable school districts, as compact in form as practicable, hav ing regard to natural boundaries as large creeks, etc r and not^io exceed forty-nine nor be less tbau nine square miles in area: Provided, that in cities of ten thousand inhabitants and over this limit sh all not apply : Provided, further, that if any school district laid out under this section shall embrace cities or towns already organized into special school districts in which graded schoo buildings have been erected by the issuance of bonds, or hy special taxation or by donation, ail the terri- tory included in said school district shall bear its just proportion of any tax that may be levied to liquidate such bonds or mpport the public schools therein: Provided, further, that noth* ing in this article contained shall be construed as a repeal of the laws under which the several school districts of the State are organized. Congressman Wilson said this amend ment would never do. In bis county the people were satisfied with the pres ent arrangement of the districts. Chil dren would be confused and sent to new schools. Tne Legislature ought to be allowed to manage this question. What will suit one county will not suit anoth er. This sudden change will involve a chacge and an expenditure that is not wanted. We want to be let alone and let us manage our affairs in our own way. These words, “ as practica ble,” cannot save us. The provision is mandatory, and it will take a very great excuse to save us. it would cost his county not less than $10,000 to carry out this provision. What he advocated was to protect the country districts. Senator Tillman said it looked as 'if Mr. Wilson oould not loox beyond . Spartanburg in considering a public question. Mr. Wilson: “My friend U alone and, although a surveyor, does not know the public wants.” Senator Tillman : “What we want is to keep the people from frittering away our school fund. We must start oiR with reasonable school districts and tfot leave children in* no man’s land.’ We have to begin right and the only way is to have the schools as near tha centre ot the township as possible. Why should vou not have them square? Leave it to the Legislature and it will do nothing. You want to leave it to the Legislature whenever you get in a hole. We are compelled here now to lay the foundations. Unless we do this we will not have the hearty support that this article should receive when adopted. Senator Tillman was deeply in earnest in advocacy of his district provision.” Mr. Clayton wanted to know what about the graded schools. Mr. Tillman: “If your schools are not run as you want then God knows you have enough poor men in Florence to take them by the collar and get men in office who will run your schools as you want them.” Mr. Cooper : “ What are you going fo do with a district that has no white child in it and sparsely settled with negroes ?” Senator Tillman: “Give it to the negroes if they are there, and if they are not there, to, the alligators.” (Laughter.) . ~ Mr. Parrott, of Darlington, thou ;ht the poeple could take care themselves. ^ In his district, which was poor, there were three schools. Mr.~Parl6r, of Colleton, was opposed to the amendment. If we were forced to lay off districts as provided for we would not find a single white in some districts. The Legislature has acted wisely and this can be left to tint body. As soon as we are we will create a school district and put a white and colored school in it. Mr. Johnson, of Spartanburg, fa vored small districts, as the children would not have to go so far to attend school. He thought it better to amend by saying “in as compact a form as possible.” 4 Mr. Otts, of Union, said the plan was for the future. What was wanted was the location of schools in the future. No one expects schools., to be moved right now. Mr. Howell, of Colleton, thought the present statute law now in force ample and sufficient. In his county the ma- jority of the school districts are town ships. Under the present law smaller districts can be organized when they are wanted. Senator Tillman : “ If you want to be egenbpted why not say so. We want this for the whole State.” Mr. Howell: “ The statute books give every county all the rights we have under the statutes and all coun ties can get school districts when they want it.” Senator Tillman : “ We want to start over anew. We want to brush aside all the farce and nonsense we got from the Republicans. We want a new order of things. You simply make your people go ahead and dp . something.” Mr. Howell: 11 They are doing all they can. Thev are not asleep and are •.spending all they can. Our people are aroused to the needs of education aad are building school houses and g schools.” Johnstone, of Newberry: “Our school districts have been recently re- surveyed and the average ih at least four miles square. Three miles would suit bispeopie better.” The convention had agreed to take a vote on Senator Tillman’s proposition at twenty-five minutes of I o’clock. When that hour arrived Mr. Barton, of Greenville, wanted to thake a speech, but President Evans announced that the hour for voting had arrived and that the convention bad fixed the hour and be could only carry out its man dates. This made Mr. Barton a little vexed and bp.said that some members could speak w;heu they wanted and others were cut off. President Evans was only enforcing the rule. The con vention gave Mr. Barton two minutes time, and he then said that in his districts there were eight schools in an area of forty-nine square miles and there would not be as many under the proposed amendment. Senator TUtman explained that the suggestion of Mr. Johnstone having been accepted made the matter per fectly easy, and the people of Green ville .could have as many schools as they wanted, and he was glad they hud them. The yeas and nays < had been called for. Mr. Cooper suggested that it was uot altogether right to amend amend ments without letting the convention consider thejm and after 4he vote had been called for, as was done at the sug gestion of Mr. Johnstone. President Evans said that had objec tion been made at the time he cer tainly would not have entertained any amendment, but he thought it was done by unanimous consent to save time. Mr. Parler, of Colleton, wanted to. say a few words. Permissiob was asked, but it was refused by a vote ’cf Jo to 58. So the vote was finally called, and resulted in the carrying of the 5th section as amended by Senator Tillman by a vote of 76'to 52. Yeas—Austin, Barker, Bowmas, Biadhsm, Breazeale, Bryan, Buist, Ctntey, Clayton, Connor, Cunningham, Dent. Derbam, Douglass, Dudley, J. G. Evans. W. D. Evans, Field, Fraser, Gage, Garry, J. P. Glenn, Graham. Gray, Gunter, Harrison, D. S. Hender- -on, Henry, T. E. Johnson, George Johnstone, Wilie Jones, E. J. Kennedy, Klugh, Lown an, McCalla, MeCaslan. McCown, McDermotte, McGowan, Mc- Kagen, McMahan, MoMakin, M<j- White, Mitchell. W. J, Montgemery, Moore. Mower, NasK Nathans, Nichol son, Oliver, Otts, Patterson, Patton, Prince, I. R. Iteed, Uosborough, Rus sell, Scarborough, . Shuler, Sloan. Smalls, A. J. Smith, W. C. Smith, Smoak, Stokos, Stribling, Talbert. B. R. Tillman, Timmerman, Von Kolniiz, Waters, Wells, Wharton, A. H. White, Woodward. Nays—Alexander, Anderson, Ashe, Atkinson, Harton, Bates, Bowen, J. S. Brice, W. T. Brice, Bum, Carver, Cooper, DeHay, Dennis, Doyle, Efird, Estridgs, Farrow, Fitch, Floyd, Gar ris, Gilland, J. L. Glenn, Hamel, Har rison. Hay, Haynsworth, Hemphill, Howell. Hutson. Jervey, I. B. Jones, Lee, Matthews, Murray, Parler, Par rott, Ragsdale, J. H. Read, Redfearn, Rogers, Rowland, Sheppard, R. F. Smith, Sulllvab, Taylor, G. D. rill- man, Watson, S. E. White, Stanyarne Wilson, W. B. Wilson. A PLEA FOR PRIMARY EDUCATION. Senator Watson took the floor and spoke very earnestly as follows: Mr.' Presiden tana Gentlemen of the convention: Several things have happened in the last few days that have made me feel like we were .50 years behiud where we are. My friend rapportin Mr. Jok saki something about an ideal system Under this two-mill tax we get $1.50 to run the common schools, and that includes the poll tax.. Add another mill and we will get 92. And that is an ideal system at the end of the nine teenth century. An ideal system to run the schools of this country. Mr. President, pardon me, but. I have stayed awake several nighU thinking about this matter, and the tears running down my face. And why shouldn’t they, sir? I had gone back to the flghts around Richmond. I remembered when 12 o’clock at night, after a terrible battle, I have gone around carrying a cup of water to a dying soldier and received a message to his wife as. he commended her and his children to the care of his friends at hotutflu the State, and I have lived test e those children working in the fields with negroes as ignorant as their fathers were a thousand years ago, with no friends, no protectors. What did these men fight for? Liberty! What induced them to tight but liberty. And in all tne history of this State, sir, those men who have never feared to bare their breasts to the enemy have had no recognition in all these 200 years. They have been allowed to go their way in darkness and you propose that l tbey continue to do it. and tbeo you pass a suffrage bill and say they must learn or they can not vote. And yet We talk about an ideal system with $2. Dr. Tornwell said that there can come no sweeter satLfactiou than that whicbicomes from the consciousness of being a father to the fatherless. Who is to take care of the poor peo ple unless you do it? They can barely earn a bare suhsistance. The labor- lug man gets $10 a month. He can barely feed and clothe his family, and yet you say you will not helpjiim'. Can It be, gentlemen ? Can it be*that there is a single man in this conven tion who will he fuse to give the pit tance of $3 to' educate the masses of our people; the children and- the grandchildren of the soldidr* of this country. Can yod deny them this small amount? Gentlemen, I came to this convention for the single purpose to E load for these people. 1 have no igher ambition than to help to be a father to the fatherless and 1 would want no prouder epitah than that here lies the protector and the friend of pHmary schools. It was natural that, our fathers should care nothing for th^ poor people. The slave owner was rich and proud and the poor man was only poor buckraj'-ihey cared nothing about his labpniJtBey did what was natural to do, adhering to the prejudices of their fathers to the divine right .of kings they , must have higher instruction—a college. Whilst they educated a few grand men like Harper and O’Neal and scores of others, and yet they were comparatively few, the great body of the people grew up in ignorance. Slavery naturally made a wide gap—a great gulf between the higher and lower orders of that society. Lord Maeauley said “ That is the happiest society In- which the supreme power resides In the whole ly of a well ti is an ideal and perhaps an unattain able oonditiqn, but he only is a states man who tries to approach this Ideal. Political philosophers all agree that It is the duty of the State to foster primary education. No other power can do it. Such was the opinion of Stuart and Adam Smith and Say and many others. It has been truthfully •aid that power without intelligence was a blind monster. The father of our country said “ promote then, as an object of primary importance, in structions for the general diffusion of knowledge.” Thomas Jefferson said It is far safer to have the whole peo- in a high state of science and the many in ignorance.” Governor North rop said “ The State has duties as well as rights, and one of these is the securing of a good common school edu cation to the children of all classes. It is the duty and right of the State to defend itself by humanizing and con verging education against what would otherwise become a degraded and dan gerous class in society. Better than fleets and forts for security and pros perity is universal education, which is tie safeguard of our institutions. Universal suffrage without universal education means universal anarchy.” Governor Winthrop in his Yorktown address expressed these views : ‘•Free governments must stand or fall with common Schools. These alone can supply the Arm foundation.” Dr. J. L. M. Curry said : “Behind the bal lots shonld stand intelligence.” Such writers on the English Constitution as Montesquieu and Blackstone, in writ ing on snffrage concur that those should be excluded from voting whose education is such that they cannot be presumed to have A will of their own or what is equivalent, an independent and intelligent will.” Dr. Eliot of Harvard says : “ vVe deceive ourselves dangerously when we think that edu cation whether primary or university can guarantee Republican institutions. Education can do no such thing. The Republican people should indeed be educated and intelligent, bht it by no mean follows that and educated and intelligent people will be Republican. Let us cling fast to the genuine Amer ican method in the matter of educa tion. The essential features of tha^ system are local taxes for universal elementary education voted by the .citizens themselves; local elective hoards to spend the money raised by taxation and to control the schools and for the higher grades of in struction permanent endowments ad ministered by Incorporated bodies of trusteess. He then read a .number of extracts from Dr. Thornwell bearing on the same subject. He then said we pay less for primary education than any State in these United States. Hust mentioned in the beginning that Edgefield has $1.40 to educate a man a year. Our people are an agricultural people ; only a few of us live in cities. Contrast the charac ter of the educational conditions with those of the North. Three years ago Maine raised 39 bushels ot corn to the acre ; South Carolina, with her fertile soil makna aeven orjBight bushels. It makes this difference : South Carolina has made more corn on an acre than any State in the Union. It means that Maine has an intelligent and self-reli- just e^lng out an existence that they may give their children an education. We muat put these schools in reach of the country people. We mustoot let all these intelligent people go to the cities. . r Mr. Parrott—Don’t you think the ThUft country members are Tn favor of this three-mill tax ? Mr. Watson—I hope they are. Mr. Patterson—Prom my personal observation the members from the towns aad cities are heartily in favor of it, and if the country people will only support it we will put it through. Mr. Watson—I have only one more word to say. The governor said : “ But out no lights.’.’ I want to say, “ Kindle lights on every hilltop and In every valley In South Carolina that every body may see them.” FINAL DEBATE ON SUFFRAGE. NO DIVISION OF MANAGERS. ant active citizenship—every man tak ing charge of his opportunities. It is painfully otherwise today over this country. It is painful to ride along our roads and notice the depression of the value p^lands in this country. I know farms in our county where the real return from cotton is 25 per cent, less than it was 10 years ago. It is because the lands are in the hands of densely ignorant people who are ruin ing the soil and there can be no ptas- perity in our country until we have a wide-awake citizenship among our farmers. At one time iptelllgenud directed labol* in this eouutry. The laborer was a machine These densely ignorant men are cultivating and mak ing our lahds poorer day by day. 1 want to impress it upon you thatthe hope of higher education is the pri mary school. Contrast the Southern system for one minute if you please, with the Northern system. Over 1U0 years ago it was in England that the governor of Virginia was asked what he was doing for primary schools ; he replied that they had none and no newspapers and hoped they wouldn’t have any for 200 years.- The govotnor of Connecticut says: “We are de voting one-fourth of thd whole income -from the province for the maidteuance oLVhe primary schools.” And tUen you are not willing to give that $3 per capita to educate the people. -Tueir high school system is hotter than our colleges. They get together and de termine how much it will take to run thepublic schools and then' they vote it. Talk-about not giving 3 mills. Sup pose a man has $500 worth of property, it only increases his taxes 50 cents. A man with a family of five children pays 50 cents and $1 poll tax and gets .schooling for a year. Say that ft is a tax on factories and railroads. The rich ought to help educate the poor. He ,pays no more than the poor man for’ he.has more to protect. Wo have got no skilled laborers. We have to go tothe-North fdr our" h’oes, our plowe and shoes and hats and everything. Then we go to Kentucky or somewhere else for our whiskey, and we are bound to be poor as long as we have no skilled laborers. Emigrants are not going to come here when you tell them that you have no common schools to ? Hve them. Would a man come here rom a country where he can send children tea free school and put them in the field with negroes. No sensible man would ever come to a State that caonot offer something in the way of education ; to a country where a large part of the whole popu lation cannot read and write. Another danger that I would im press upon you, and especially upon the country people, and that Is the danger of the Intelligent and wide-awake far mers leaving their plantations and go ing to the towns to educate their chil dren. They are doing it today—abandon ing their farms to the negroes and Hcnator Tillman Makes a., Strong Effort to Have Political Parties Represented on Election Boards— The Convention Voted Against Him. The contitutional convention was engaged all the morning in a lively debate on the dispensary law. the con tention being over Mr. Patton's prop osition to prevent the issuing of in junctions of a crime. The dispensai y law permits a judge upon affidavits, to put'a man under a perpetual injunc tion not to shll liquor. The matter was most exhaustively argued through out, all •• heavy weights ” of the con vention taking a hand. Mr. George D. Tillman scathingly recounted the deeds done under this provision of the dispensary law. Senator Tillman de fended the dis()ensary law in his most pronounced style. The advocates of Mr. Pattpn’s measure argued for the preservation of the established princi ple of the right of trial by the jury for crime. The measure was finally killed by a vote of 37 to 9o. At the night session the suffrage ar ticle was called up for a third reading, and the most remarkable session since the convention met then ^ensued. After several inSignificat amendments had been made, Senator Tillman offered this amendment of section 1 : “Each of the two political parties casting the highest number of votes at the preceding election shall have re presentation on the board of managers of election at each polling precinct and on the board of county canvassers in each county.” As soon as he put in this amedment he called the previous question on the whole article. This was the measure that had been stricken out before after a big fight. Senator Tillman made a speech which was the most earnest one he has yet made in the convention, to all appearances, in the lavor of the bi partisan board. His opponents said it was a remarkable speech and. it creat ed a profound sensation, but it didn’t accomplish its purpose for all that. He said: ^ Nw Mr. President: Ido not desire to make a speech. I merely mean to make a statement. The convention will remember that the article as re ported by the committee had this iden tical provision in a different place. The other evening on the motion, I be lieve, of the gentleman from Marlboro and with only one speech from the -committee the section out. The committee met yesterday afternoon and after the careful con sideration only with South Carolina, but in connection with the matter from a national standpoint, decided that this convention cannot afford to put itself on record; the article having been brought in here with this provis ion in it that it will not help it there and the committee are unanimous in this that it should be an integral part of the constitution. But it is not only in deference to public opinion but for our own self-respect cmd protection that we arise to put it back there. Such a provision is in .almost qyery constitution of the Unitad States North of Mason and Dixon's line. Every man whp has been reading the Northern press must realize that we are being watched from one end of this country to the other. We are al ready twitted with proposing to per petuate trickey and fraud and to strike down full American voters by our mechaniuations and machinery. We have only avowed our purpose to do certain things, but we cannot ooenly avow the purpose We ask you not to stultify this body, not to put it on record that we pro pose to perpetuate the conditions that uayo existed in the past and we think you ougot to give us some considera tion. You invite attack from Con gress. from the Supreme Court of the Uuitod States aud from all the enemies of South Carolina aud all the enemies of the South end all the -friends of the negroes. But here is another con- siilet-atiom We.havc been laboring so long*under the incubus of negro domi nation that in our efforts here to rectify our coust.tutiou and throw safeguards around our suffrage and elections, wo have been oblivious to the fact that we are making a constitution that is unalterable and we would leave it to the Bauds of, any. party in South Carolina^that tnight in the future get possession of tire machinery to cheat white men, our equals and our fellow citizens. I believe it is almost inevi table, seeing that men are horn 'dif ferent, that they look at thinge throu&h different spectacles that we will have divisions among the whites in this State as there is everywhere else where there are free men and that in future we will have it, white man against white man, and the question is are we going to put it in the power of -one set of white men to see that their votes are pat in the proper boxes and are counted. We are here to-dsy with 30,000 odd on one side and 50,000 on the other and nothing but the patriotism, of one side has kept it from appealing to those corrupt votes and overthrowing us. God forbid that we should so far divide as to bring on this vote as a balance of power, but if we should divide, we should not put it in the power of the party in office to say “ we have all the commisaioners and managers; you may put your votes in hut we will count them.” Don’t let us who are not in power forget that the wheels of political fortune are always turning; that polliios are the most uncertain ground that a man can walk on. see the changes in the North. Only three years ago the Democratic party swept the country with an over- whelming majority aad now it is covered with defeat and disgrace^ We Reformers should put this clause here for our own protection, for .the day msy come when our OWt VOW way be jeopardized if we do not provide for a representation on the board of super visors and managers. Mr. W. D. Evans said he wished to take the same position that he took, upon a previous occasion aad he did it to be consistent. He is free from hypo- orisy. It looks to him like this com mittee should be consistent also. Why don’t they say that the Governor shall appoint three discreet persons ? Why don’t they say the managers should be divided between the two political parties in the last election ? Mr. Tillman said there was but one poll ties! party then. Mr. Evans continued : “ What’s the use of dodging this question? The white people are going to^carry the election and what’s the use of throw ing harriers in the way ? Why not leave it to the Legislature? Be had no fear about them doing right. He hoped the convention would not go back on their action because ,of news- pacer eriticism. Is it possible that any man toinks anybody is the.spokes- man of this body? He hoped the amendmefit'WOUlff tXi~ stricken 'oUT.' Mr. Floyd said ho had intended not to say a word, hut when he saw ihe great leader of the Reform movemenf with all his prestige behilid him, when 1 see him undertaking here at the scarce of the pre*a of the Morth iffbae ducing anything that refers to politi cal parties I must stand on my feet to protest against it. It is unheard of that any constitution should recogniz any political party, hut we are here t* give them all justice and right and when we have done that we have ac complished all we came here to do If the vote of the people to-day was taken 75 per cent, of them would be opposed to that suffrage plan. He hoped that members would rise above criticism of press or party and recognize on Repub lican principles and do justice to all. That is what we are here for ami no more. Mr. Brad ham said he believed the coramiUee|wa* right. We can afford to give representation to the other party. Shall we allow them to register and refuse to give the representioo on the board of managers? He believed we could give them representation and fair elections. He believed that the white people would divide, but they would demand fair elecllops. He wished they were so divided now that it would require a close count to deter mine who nad been eleoled to every office in the State. He wanted to see every registered voter come forward and cast his ballot without fear or trouble. Mr. Buist said he was surprised to see the matter injected again. To mention political party is unwise and unheard of In any constitution. Mr. Haynsworth said we are about to take a stop that will secure white supremacy for years. We are about to turn down a vote that hung like a incubus about us. When that is the case, why is it we can’t pass this meas ure? Don’t let us neglect to do what is right in the eyes of the civilized world. Let us not build around our selves a veritable Chinese wall of prej udice. We can’t afford to do it. We opinion. meet the condemnation of the civil ized world. Mr. Moore asked whether there was such a provision in the Mississippi constitution ? Several members at the same time answered that there was not. Mr. Haynsworth held that we can’t afford not to count votes cast in the ballot box. Mr. Buist contended it was provided that no ballot should be counted in secret. Mr. Haynsworth asked why then was it that anyone could object to this amendmont ? Mr. McCalla said that Mr. Hayns worth intimates that if there are three Democratic managers they will cheat, steal and rob (rom the other party. He and his people are not steeped in fraud, ho said. Every election he has been a manager of has been conducted fairly aud squarely. Those who cry out most for fair elections ary. those who generally ajre steeped deepest !a fraud. We are uot here to admit to the world that we can’t have fair elec tions unless both* parties have repre sentation. Mr. Garris asserted that the co n- mit,tee had nothing but the highest purposes in offeiing this amendmen.t. They don't propose to be hypocritical. He held that having a Republican wh > could certify to the fairness of eh c tions it would go a great way in assist ing our Democratic Congressmen in the contests now being made agaics them. < ■ ’» Mr. McGowan thought therdjajiS more fear about’ this thTng than wa 1 necessary. la the first- plaice, tuis State is going to be carried by the white people, and in the second place the Governor appoints the commission ers. Justus certain that this consti tution goes into the court, the fact that this proposition had been voted down twice would act like a double-barrelled shot-gun. It would bo suicidal. It would do us ten times more good than harm to put it in. Mr. Sheppard said he had been loyal to the Democratic party ever since he could appreciate the differences be tween parties. He had always voted the Democratic ticket, and as a Demo crat, he thought it the duty of the con vention to pass the amenument. As a citizen of_the State it was our duty, he said, to our consliuents to adopt this measure. We can not afford to adopt principles that do not receive the ap proval of the country at large. The eyes of the whole country are upon this convention, and it we do not lay down principles so broad, and gener ous as to meet the approval of the na tional public, we will fall far short of our duty. We want to put in a pro vision that in the future our elections shall meet the moral approval of the people throughout the country. All the people in this country will justify us in upholding our supremacy if we do it in accordance with law. We must recognise that the United States Courts will enforce the principles of the constitution. We can not fly in the face of Congress. Mr. Howell netd that the effect of this proposition WuUiU bo to revive the Republican party. It looks like child’s plsjy to satisfy this party by saying yoa^han have rapreeentetiou. U that party orany dtlier party ¥as a ticket they have tuo right to have witnesses there to see that there is a proper count. We are not willing tutrust the Djhiocratic party. 11 the white peo ple do divide, aud we meun to be nonesfe* there is a way to »eltie our difficulties. Senator Tillman said he uouid make allowance fur heat and passion and charges of hypocrisy that have been thrown in the teeth of the committee for some people can only see one thing and they see the bugaboo of a one ne gro manager. What is the condition of Charleston ? There is a desperate •truggle to control the municipal gov- ortmreuts.—‘Four years ago There ago mere was so much distrust, so much feeling, that they codldp’t get fair -play, I had to lake the factions by the throat and say. to them there must be fair elections. What do we see to-dav ? They even refused to go into the democratic pri mary." Mr. Rogers sympathized with the committee and under ordinary cir cumstances would like to sec the pro vision grafted permanently in our law. But we must remember the peculiar- conditions in Sout ( h Carolina, If it is not meant to' give negroes representa tion what in heaven's name it it? You are making a bed by this very thing to make while peopie devlde. You must think Northern people are foots if they Jon t see through this sham. We were ■»ebt here to disfranchise the negro if po-sible, yet the gentlemen are argu- ug that he ought to be entitled to re- prtsculation in Die management of elections. , Mr. Wm. . Henderson closed against the committee amendment. We have tome here he said for white suprema cy. yet at the same time we dooge the issue We hate to talk these things, but we might as well talk out. (Laugh ter.) I hate to see our old leader now afraid of a mouse. He has led the people right but he’s getting mighty tame now. (Laughter.) I mean no reflection on him, but he made a mis take in trying to get this in. I have the greatest confidence in him but he bas made a mistake this time. The aye and nay vote was then taken and resulted in the rejection of the amendment by a vote of 74 to 51 as fallows : Yeas—Anderson, Barke-, Bates. Bel linger, Berry, Brad ham, T. W. Brice, Bryan, Cantey, Dudley, Farrow, Fraser, Gage, Garris, J. L. Glenn, Harris, Haynsworth, D. 8. Hcndorson, Henry, Hutson. George Johnstone, J. W. Ken nedy, Klugh, Lee, McGowan, Miller, Mitchell, Mower, Oliver, Otts, Pat terson, Patton, Peake, Prince, Rags dale, J. H. Read, U R. Reed, Rowland, Sheppard, Sloan, R. F. Smith, Htrib- ling, Sullivan, B. R. Tillman, G. D. Tillman, Timmerman, VonKolnitz, Wells, A. H. White, S. B. White, Wijfg. Nays—Gov. dno. Gary Evans, Presi dent; Alexander, Ashe, Atkinaon, Austin, Barry, Barton, Bobo, Bowen, Bowman, Breazeale, Buist, Burn, Con nor, Cunningham, DeHay, Dennis, Derbam, Efird, Estridge, W. D. Evans, Field, Fitch, Floyd, Gamble, Gary, Gooding, Graham, Gray single fold standard baa ou approval of the majority of of this country, he assart., was no advantage In hariaf silver aaa money, he, said, unless it stood upoo Ha own feet. He stated he did pot Intend to say that a man who favored the single gold standard was not a Democrat, hat he did mean to say thatthe vaat major ity of the Democratic party had always been in favor of the bimetallic stand ard. Mr. Crisp exhibited a small pieoe of silver bullion which he explained oould not be used as money in any way. *' It could not be used with which to purchase commodities, but if there was a law allowing it to be taken to a mint and coined then everybody would want it. He agreed that the value of a sli ver dollar should be a dollar. The way to establish the commercial value oi silver was to restore it by legists- * tton to a money standard, to renabili- bv 1 tate It. Coin it at the ratio of 10 to 1: that would re-establish its commercial value. -(Great applause.) He illustrated by showing that when the Senate passed a free coinage Mil several years ago, the bullion value of silver rose 23 cehats an ounce in ten davs in the London market. You need not be apprehensive of any flood of silver, he announced. There wak no country in the .world that would ship tie silver her* to ex change it for gold. We had gained gold under the operation of the Bland- Allison law and under the Sherman law. He believed that the United Stated was sufficiently powerful to establish a ratio between gold and stiver. Gold he held was too valuable. He claimed gold had appreciated and argued his claim by comparing Its purchasing power in commodities now and before thdMemonetization of silver. “ Our people should he the pioneer* In restoring a money metal which ha* been used for all time, but recently stricken down. The stamp upon a •li ver dpllardoos not make it more valua ble in another country, but the right of the -diver to be so stamped Increase* its bullion value” Inspeaklug of the value of cotton, he said, that though the cotton crop appreciated SO per cent, in the decade before the war, the price increased 40 per cent. Though the crop increased up to 1873, the price also increased, but after 1873 the price of cotton depreciated because of the appreciating value of gold. He read from the November report of the Treasury to show that th«re wm $75,000,000 less money in circulation now than one year ago. Ail thing*, being equnl the priee of oommoditia* is regu lasted b^ the amount of Gunter, Hamel. Hnrrison, Hay, Hbemphill. Wm. 4 to consider -other people’s Henderson, Houser, Howell, T. E. If we don’t do this we will Johnson. I. B Jones, Wilie Jonee.Keitt, E. J. Kennedy, Lowman, McCalla, MeCaslan, McCown, McDermotto, Mc- Kagen, McMahan, McMakin, Mc- White, Matthews, Moure, Murray, Parrott, Perritte, .Rogers, Roso- borough, Russell, Shuler, Singletary, Sligh, Smalls, W. C. Smith, Smoak, Stackhouse, Stokes, Talbert, Taylor, Waters, Watson, Wharton, Winkler, Wo.Kiward. SPEAKER 0RI8P OH SILVER- HE DECLARES FOR AliS. BOTH MET- He Wants America to Lead In Fi nance as In Independence—A Single Standard Means Low Prices and Hard Times. Ex-Speaker Crisp has made a speech before a joint session of the Senate and House of the Georgia legislature. He has been invited go .Oidress the legislature on tjic p.>l Heal issues of the day >ut confli cd nimsolf almost exclusiv* y to tl * -silver question, hutically for the free ol I and ttlver at the id^grguing that the tir her seventy mil- i sufficiently powerful letaHism the world 1 1 v I \v. bl coming <• it em coinage o J) >th pre ent *t Un ; ed S at ho. )( s .p :o stob si ove . Hi-t^sp e< grca-.e8t ni by statin t stood he Democra gnvernm ii 1 w tusi t at ( spoke e pAr at. trgned against par leglslativa bodUa it times to Inftuto in the world. He argued per money because l might be tempted at the currency. In (peaking of the flnel result of the fight for free silver he said that he re membered when forty Democrats had stood up in Congress and voted against tariff reform. By their aid the Ba- publ loans had ■tricken out the enacting clause of the Morrison bill. But the Democratic party had been persistent , in the fight and had finally woa. They had not gotten ail thay wanted, but the ttrlff Taws now were Infinitely su perior to the law* of a few yean ago. Under the preeent financial system tne wages of labor had gone down. The Republican experiment of a single gold standard had not worked to the benefit of the peqjMe of business. Let M re turn to the bimetallism of the Demo cratic fathers, look around yon aad you will find in our poverty a monu ment of the singlu gold standard. rhrspeaklng of the next Democratic national convention he said Georgia should define her position on .this fi nancial question. One of the q oeetioas to be decided was the retirement of the $500,000,000 of paper money. Jf the single gold standard Is to be per- C tuated that money must be retired- the Democratic convention he be lieved that the views of those people who elect a President should oictate the platfdrm. He vigorously opposed the bond policy of the administration. He be lieved the Treaapry should hare paid out silver when the gold run wm made s received with the sm. Mr. Crisp began c-w'-se It was uhder- is a Democrat. The / was born with the 1. rtandj for., certain principle^ local #» If-g'overnment, economy in public r flairs, equal rights to all at)d spee'al privlle^s to none, fo- a low tariff, “and in my judg- m o,t,’,'+d said, ••it has always stood foj' blf-ot'-.llHm, and upon that subject I intend Lj rpeak. Anything short of tboequality orf the two metals at the mint i' not bimetallism. Mr. Crisp then went into the history of the coinage law*. In 1873, he said, when silver was demonetized, the bfil- lion value of the silver dollai was three cents more than the bultlbh v&luespf a gold dollar. The law of '73 was passed without the full knowledge of the peo ple or their representatives. He quoted from Thurman, Allison, of Iowa, Garfield. Blaine, Beck* and others to show that the full character of the bill was not known, that it wm not known at the time that the bill de monetized silver. He followed this with an announcement that from that day to this the majority of the Demo cratic party had been working , to re- habiliate silver. The single gold standard was a Republican measure. He analysed every wote op the silver question taken in Congress since 1873 and showed that a majority of Demo crats had voted every time for the free coinage of silver, except in 1893 when the proposition to repeal the £hennao law wm up aad at that time it wm be cause they expected to have an oppor tunity to vote subsequently for such a measure. And even tbea ‘ but two Democratic* majorUr- The gol upon it. That would have stopped the raid. England dictated the gold policy. The United States had the power to change it now—to establish bimetallism throughout the world. If the Ualtod States would go forward In financial legislation as it had gone forward ia its fight for liberty one hundred year* S o, it would render to mankind at *ge a greater blessing than was rendered when we taught them that a people ojuld govern themselves. —The annual report of the Thom- well Orphanage, Clinton, 8. C., shows that the Institution is now twenty years old and has grown to large di mensions in that time. Starting with a single building and no endowment, it has now a large tract of land, many substantial buildings, a large techni cal school and & seminary building with chapel attached, a library and n landsome new infirmary. There ar^ in the.orphanage 130 okphans, of whom 71 are from Suuth Carolina, 18 from Georgia and 'S8 from other States, in cluding Michigan, Tcxm, ArkansM and Missouri. There are five male instructors and teachers including the president, with six matrons and eight lady teachers and instructors in prac tical work.- The endowment fund now amounts to $10,000, while the receipts for the support fund for <he yeUr end ing October 1, 1895, were $11,722.03, somewhat less than the reoeipto for 1894. The actual expenses amount to $1,000 a month, yet tne salaries of six teen officers only foot up $2,100.50 for the year. ' Reduced Rates to the ▼entlon. Baptist Goa- The Port Royal A Western Caro lina Railway will offer reduced rata* for the Baptist State Convention to be held at Greenville. Tickets to he sold November 2oth to 28th inclusive, good to return on any train until December 5th. Ask for Uckets via Augusta and the Port Royal A Western CaroUaa Railway This route will land you in Greenville early in the before the arrival of any othe permitting you to be comfortai tered early la the even lag., c