The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 22, 1906, Image 9
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Raysor-Manning Dispensary Bill
Passed the Senate But
DIED IN THE HOUSE.
i
The Lower House Declared for the
Rucker Bill, but it Got Killed In
the Senate, and So the Session
Has Ended Without Dispensary
Legislation.
itj 1 The Senate and House it seems
ould not agree on any dispensary Icrjlation,
and so the session has ended
rltta the dispensary right where it
?as when the Legislature tlrst met in
panuary. xno Senate Wednesday
norning read, for the second time,
frbe Raysor-Manning bill, and on
jjFbursday passed it and sent it to the
3-0083 for concurrence, which the
I mouse refused. The bill was sent to
t the House uot to be voted on, but as
f W'Ated above for conaurrence, as the
t bill was rearlly a house measure. This
itatus was obtained by atlixing to the
t title of the Morgan bill which has ali
iady passed the house, the body of
1$ he Raysor-Manning bill, whioh orlg>
Dated in the senate, and had never
ijf >een sent across the State house.
Shortly after the senate was called
toorder on Wednesday morning Senator
Blease of Newberry annuunced
bat he would not continue to hold
he llcor, as he had been advised that
be dispensary bills were not in any
anger of becoming law and he thought
,he issue would ba in the campaign,
iter all, during the Hummer. Senator
fiflrd, who made an unsuccessful mciion
shortly before to limit all speecb>8
during the remainder of thesesslou
to 15 minutes, offered two minor
imendments to the Raysor-Manning
till. These were adopted but amend
i n a? *** 1 ...
Iueiius uy oeuator ivaysor to eliminate
he board of control from the bill
vere rejected. The bill was then given
ind aye and nay vote as follows:
Ayes?Senators Bates, Blvens,
Black, C. L. Blease, E. S. Blease, Carpenter,
Davis, Dennis, Douglas, Eirle,
tEtird, Hardin, Hay, Holiday, W. E.
'Johnson, W. J. Johnson, Manning,
IcGowan, McLeod, Molver, Peurlfoy.
!1 iaysor, Staekhouse, Walker, Warren,
.Veils, Williams?58.
Nays?Senators Brice, Brown,
*ooks, Butler, Carlisle, Hood, Hough,
iudson, Mauldln, Talbert, von K>
pltz?12.
A number of senators stated their
positions. Senator Hardin was in f&'or
of local option, but now that the
iorgan bill had been killed, he heaved
the Itaysor-Mannlng would reave
the present conditions, which
a could not consent to continuing as
icy are. Senators Mclver, Bates and
olidry shared this view. Senator
pugh" thought the bill worse than
'esent conditions, while Senators
albert, and Brooks, were against the
Bpensary and lis being patched up.
m&tor Mauldln did not think the
.11 would help conditions but Sena
.or Black thought It would.
A large number of senators, lncludng
dispensary advocates, declared
hemsehes against beer dispensaries
md hotel privileges. The next bill
aken up was Senator Mauidin's to
abolish these forms of the dispensary
(law. A direct vote wa^ taken on the
bill's passage and every senator in the
chamber voted for it except Senators
,J. L. Blease, Dennis, Douglass,
lay, Hudson, W. K. Johnson,
Marshall, von Kolnhz, Walker,
Warren and Williams?12. Senator
(Carpenter did not vote, as he was out
I of the chamber at the time.
The senator was of a mind to get
< through with all dispensary business
possible, and Senator Warren's bill
to have a general State eleotion and
abide by the results for 5 years was
killed by a vote of 31 to 9 Senator
Blease withdrew his bill, which was
to rest the opening of dispensaries
| upon the decision of the mayor and
county supervisor and board of directors.
. The Mauldin bill and the RaysorWanning
bill was read the third time,
JUU 9CUII IU Uil?J HV?UBO WUCJH tUCy UOl/Il
led. Senator Mauldln's bill originatd
In the senate but the other measure,
as said, was a bouse, bill,
t j The last bill on the senate calendar
bat touched on the dispensary came
ip at the night session. This bill,
oy Senator Mauldin, was designed to
; prohibit manufacture of whiskey In
dry counties and to have the delegaj!
Uod ltvy a special tax sufficient for
f that county, Instead of having a genIeral
tax as under the Brice bill, the
enforcement of law being done by the
sheriffs and their deputies Instead of
the constabulary. The bill is along
the lines of Gov. Bey ward's recommendation
In his message.
The senate refused to kill the bill
by a vote of 22 to 14. Senator MaulIdln
spoke for bis bill and Senators
Blease and Walker against it, tut it
was Anally disposed ot by debate be
lng postopned. As this left no chance
Jor it lo pass at this session, Senator
tjhsuldin withdrew it from the calendar.
This coded dispensary legislation
In the e r > for the session.
T1I1S HUCKKK HILL.
On WeoiHStav in the House Mr.
Rueker calhd up his straight county
on pei.f-aiy bill. He old tnls, he ex
plain* d, because the senate had killed
. the Mcigan till and he warned to give
I the senate the chance of holding the
bag. Let the Benate have the burden
Of keeping that bouquet on the Congaree
river. He would never see the
dispensary in Anderson if the State
dispensary was ai lowed to live. He
wauted the senate again and a#alu
held responsible for the dispensary on
the Congaree.
Mr. L-iney thought this a pure
waste of time and wauted the bill killed.
The Ruoker bill simply provides
for the abolition of the State dispensary
and the option between prhlbltlon
and oounty dispensaries.
Unaer this bill counties that have
voted out th*> disspensary have kthe
ohanoe of another election in May,
1906.
Tne house, by a vote of 47 to 45
refused to indefinitely postpone the
bill.
Mr. Richards then moved to continue
the bill. Then *he house declined
to oontim i the bill on another yea
and nay vote, which stood*
Aye, to kill tne Hacker bill; nay,
for the bill:
Yea?Smith,speaker; Ardrey, Boyd,
Brant, Brantley, Bruce, Olifton, Culler,
D sOuamps, Doar, Dukes, Eptlng,
Ktherldge, E. J. Faust, Ford,
Gause Graham, Gray, Gre?n, D. L.
Green, W. McD , Gyles, Harrellson,
Harrison, Hlgglns, Hutto, lrby, Kq<nan,
Klrven, Lanoy, Lester, Little,
McCants, McCull, McFaddin, Massey,
Mauidln, T. J. Nanoe, Parker, Pittman,
Pollock, Hawlison, Richards,
Riley, Stoll, Turner, Walker, J. M.,
Watson. J. B., Webb, Whatley, Yeldell?50*
Nay?Arnold, Ashley, Ballentine,
Bass, B'amguard, Br&dham. Brlce,
Browning, Coloock, CLthran, Dabbs,
Divis, E^rhardt, Etheredge, L. B ,
Ftshburne, Frost, Gasque, Gibson, J
P Gibson, W. J., II&ll, Ilamel, Hamlin,
Harlev, Ilemphill, Ileyward,
Kershaw, Lawson, Lofton, Lcmax,
McMoster, Mauldin,L., Miller, Morgan,
Morrison, Nash, Nesbltt, Nioholson,
OUs, Patterson, Poston,
Reaves, Rucker, Sanders, Saye, Sellers,
Sinkler, Strong, Toole, Trlbble,
YanderHorst, Walker, M. W., Wha
ley, wiinoerly?53
Pairs?Pyatt and Foster; Herbert,
D. O., and Green.
The Rucker bill was then sent to
the Senate, wqere It met the fate of
the Morgan bill. So ended dispensary
legislation for the sea don. The
question will have to be decided by
the people this summer.
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION.
The Htato Senate Votes It Thirty
Thousand Dollars.
In the Senate on Wednesday evening
the Jamestown exposition bill was
called up. Senator Brown spoke for
the bill, saying the relations between
South Carolina and Virginia mad*
this a peculiar call. It would be an
affront to Virginia to decline to respond
and a disgrace not to appropriate
em ugh to make a creditable display.
Senator Purlfoy had nosympa
thy with the cry of poor mouth and
wanted his great State creditably represented,
ccmmenth g that South
Carolina was not r? piesented at St.
Louis In 1004 lie made a spirited
plea for the bill.
Senator Bates said that though opposed
to ? xpendltures when not necessary,
this was onetime wh*n he did
consider it worth while. Senator Carpenter,
too, sp ke for the bill and cit
ed the advantage of exploiting the
State. A vote was tbeu taken and
the bill read a second time by a vote
of 30 to 8. Senators E. S Blease,
Earle, Etird, Hood, W. E Johnson,
W. J. Johnson, R&ysor, Talbert voting
aga nst It.
Senator Brown then spoke for the
change from the $10 000 stipulation
of the house to $30,000 as originally
appropriated undt.r the bill. Senator
Hood spoke against it and Senator C.
L. Blease for It. It was adopted,
Senators Blaok, E. S. Blease, Eirle,
Hood, W. E. Johnson, W. J. Johnson,
McGowan, McL od, Raygor, Talbert,
Warren, Weils voting against It. The
bill was then read the second time
and passed.
During the discussion Chief David
Harris of the Catawba Indians came
int^ the chamber and was asked by
President Sloan to,occupy a chair on
the stand. It was rather a remarkable
incident that the chief of one of
the few tribes of full blooded Iudians
that still remain In this oouatry should
hfl nrt?fl?nt. t.n aoa a ?
~r v r.WUv?u ?v uuu ia uuanc gTUWlig IU
participate In a celebration to commemorate
the landing of the first
white men in the land whloh his
fathers or.oe owned from the Pacific
to the Atlantic.
A (Jonvlot*h Iiuok.
The winner of the $25,000 prize for
correctly naming the attendance at
the St. Louis exposition in 1904 was
Frank Campbell, a convict in the
Nebraska state penitentiary who
still has about one year to serve.
Campbell was convicted of embezzlement.
He will receive only $12,500
of the prize, as he fearing difficulty
in securing the money white he wa^
imprisoned agreed to pay a lawyer
half of the prize in oase < f success in
securing it. Campbell's attorney had
8 .-(inference with him at the peultantiary
in regard to the disposition of
the money which will be received in
a few days. The convict will be un
able to use the money until his sentence
expiies.
Lfttht Hhfp li()?t.
Tho Unlit d Siatjs revenue cutter,
Semito ?*, sr.d the steamer Oompt<n
went in Wllmirgton, N. C., WeoneA
day Light from a fruitless search all
day for the Frying Pan Sho.ls light
ship which was torn adrift from he*
mooring In Monday night's storm.
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LACHED TO FURY.
Hawthorne Pictures Senator
Tillman Discussing the
RAILROAD RATE BILL
In the Senate, and Describes the Wonderful
Transformation from Lodge
and]the Isles of the Blest to
the Storms and the Buccaneers.
Julian n&wthomo draws on amusing
picture of Senator Tlllmau addressing
the Uuited States Senate
l*><t week on the railroad rate bill.
With the scholarly Senator from Massachuseets,
says Hawthorne, we had
been sailing long and smoothly on
Summer saas. lie seemed to bo enacting
the parts both of Youth at
the Prow and of Pleasure at the
Helm.
The rise and lapse of his mellitluous
a< cents, as he read his speech,
and. at stated iutervals, lifted the
leaf from the pile of law books on his
left and laid it gently and accurately
on the slowly augmenting pile on his
right, seemed like the softly swelling
and subsiding waves of the blue
ocean over whloh we voyaged.
The Senatorial audience sat entranced,
with eyes half closed in
dream comfortableness. The galleries,
graced with muoh that was feminine
and beautiful, sailed on serenely
with tht rest of us.
Mr. Knox, keeping his eyes resolute
ly ajar beneath his level and slightly
gathered brows, gave his most oourte
ous attention. Other great railroad
repreBental ives ? Foraker, Aldridge,
Elkins, Gallinger?attempted not to
oonce&l the plentltude of their satisfaotlou
In the argument of the spokesman
of the White House.
The desks of the opposition were
less well filled, but several of their oc
oupants confessed to the spell of the
orator. Mr. Tillman read pamphlets,
hut he was to speak after Massacuu
setts had finished.
Tne Isle of the Blest seemed near.
All was well alow and aloft.
The nation, under the aegis ( f tte
Executive, was safe. The rate bill
was an important measure, but Mr.
Lodge had given the subject of railway
rates his earnest attention during
several months, and he knew, he
might venture toubeliebe something
aoout it. He had even gone so far as
to unload his modest holdings of railway
stock before beginning his examination,
lest any shadow of self-interest
might creep into his point of
view. He was explicit, after all this
study, in announcing that personal
rebates were really and truly wrong,
and must be stopped. But ah! gen
tlimen, what a mighty and prosper
ous nation was ours; and ah! a^ain,
hi n *v> " ~ M *
TTuoku a. liiiKniy eiKiuuuioi oenencence
were our railroads!
Railroads are the property m t of a
few haughty millionaires, but of mil
lions of irusting and deserving stockholders,
for wiiose benefit they are
conducted. To injure railroads, then,
is to aim a blow at the common peo
pie.
"Is any here so base that does not
love the common people? If any,
speak, for him have I off nd! And,
do not railways d pend upon the pros
perlty of the oountry for their living?
How, then, can they bi suspected of
working against its interests.
"it is preposterous," ezolaimed the
Senator, almost raising his voice,
"that they should be suspected of be
lug shortsightedly avaricious."
Aud so, at last, he laid down the
last leaf upon the four square pile
and turned to receive the congratulations
of Messrs. Aldrioh, Foraker
and the rest of oho men against whose
Inter* sts the II* pburn bill is understood
to be almtd.
It was beautiful; it was like the
lotus eater*; and we were just falling
into the sweetest slumber when all at
once an awful tning happened.
In the Senate Mr. Tillman is almost
the only event that ever does
nappeu. Up he came from the darksome
hold of our Snip of State, savage
and threatening, a freebooter,
armed and tieroe-eyeu; a buccaneer,
with a knife between his teeth and a
pjstol in either hand.
The Summer seas parsed away like
a dream. Toe isles of the Blest sank
oeueath the bor.zm. The olouda
blackened the sky and the storm
wind shrieked in the silken cordage
of the rigging.
Tillman had ripped the entire bot
torn out of our craft, and we were
sinking.
Toe ?eab rose In fury; we were
plunged headlong Into them, swimmil
gly suddenly for our lives. There
was no peace, no prosperity, no economic
beneficence of natural laws.
Sharks bit cIT our legs, swordttsh lm
paled us?water swallowed us whole.
The nation was once more sirug
gling In the grasp of tne octopus.
They weie starving, they were
wroi ged, they weie victims of an out
rageuus and destructive t> rauuy.
And what a hideous farce it ah
wa>!
Here wan our President, who had
tins meai-ure f ir the rtlief of the pecple
so closely at heart, on whohe c
talis we were admonished blindly lo
hang, in wno&c courage and wiodoui
_ r\
we were invited to trust, wbo feared
no foea?least of all railroads?here
he was with his hill, and whom had
he oalled Into oounael with him to
manufacture it?
He had called in?shouted the buccaneer,
stalking forth upon the deck
and menacing the Rcpublloans with
uplifted arms?two men who more
than any others were devoted body
and soul to railway* 1 He had ealled
in Mr. Root and Mr. Knot: he had
oontlded the drafting of the measure
to their wisdom; to their tender mercies
had he entrusted the salvation of
the people.
Truly, Mr. President, this is a funny
world! Infinite is the ridiculousness
of human nature 1 These are the i
advisers whom cur brave and independ
ent Kxecut've summons to aid him in
dtfoiirjing the m&s-es against the rapacity
of the classet! Hut Mr. Til man
would feel a little safer in tasting
the meat?lest It have poison iu
It?bai It not been submitted to the
cookery of suoh oooks.
Something ev'dantly had to be done;
and Mr. Knox, clambering upon a 1
piece of wreckage, was beard to deolare,
in a bold, hardy voice, that
pever, either directly or indirectly,
he acted as counsel for the Penusyl- 1
vanla Railway.
"Well, I'm glad to hear you say
It 1" roared Tillman. "I'm glad there's
a man I can respeot as not having
been bought by a cjrporatlou before
coming to tbe Senate to frame a bill
against it. But I don't think it will
be denied that Mr. Root has boeu
very olose to railway lnte> ests.
"And I say it Is false to say that
the railways alwtys desire the prosperity
of eaoh region. 1 see too much
evidence that all this pretended z;al
for tbe people Is apparent but not
real. 1 see two hundred thousand
miles of railways in this country, and
they are under only live different
ownerships, and those owners are so
bound together and Interrelated that
you can't tell them apart.
"I am a plain, blunt man, and 1
say they are robbing the people.
"Here's the Pennsylvania has such
faith in the innocuous character of
these thunderlDgs from the White
House that they advertise in a New
I York newspaper a direct proof that
they are acting in restraint of trade 1
They say, like the late eminent iinaucler,
"Tue public be damned!' They
are striving tooth and nail to get the
President to put in a proviso tnat the
courts may be appealed to and the
decision of the commission be suspended
till the appeal is decided.
They wont let him tly the coop if
they kno v it I"
At this point Foraker got his head
above water. "Should there not be
a proper provision for appealing?" lie
inquired.
"What is a proper provision?" retorted
the freebooter.
"A Just one," was the r* j ilndei?"
"And does not this bill oecure justice?"
"I say it's a farctl" roared Tillman,
"and 1 ask you are you satisfied
with it yourself?"
UI don't have to be," replied Mr.
Foraker, sidestepping qilckly.
"Then I ask you wither you are
going to vote for it?" his antagonist
persisted.
"I am not," the forlorn-hope champion
was obliged to confess; and South
Carolina held the deck alone and triumphant.
But vain is it to attempt to report
such a man. A combined vitascope
and phonograph would fall iu the
ft fr irti. In Id tuck mo, ha *u?t' ?
_ ~ .y nv Uia; uo SUIO flu
long as he holds his seat the public
will have a chance of knowing what
Is going on?what is and what is not
done by our Government.
lie talk9 right out in meeting; he
has no reserves, n > subterfuges or
ambiguities. The galleries are en
o .anted with him, the Senators both
ecj >y and abominate him. He is the
great, rude, natural force asking ques
lions and shouting out the awkard
est facts. And, in his own way, in
in his action and his aspect, he is the
true orator, the tribune of the pro- i
letarit. If aught in the State of ,
Drtnmarb- >10 ^ ~ ? - -1 u
? ?w uu iUVVDU 119 mil lCVCttl 1 U, |
and under his manipulation it will
lose naught of its aroma. i
Want It II ?ok.
Recommendations ihat legal pro- ,
ceedings be instituted to recover
campaign contributions made by the
New York Life Insurance company
were submitted to the trustees of 1
that company by the special investigating
committee headed by Thomas
P. Powler at New York on Wednesday,
;
The report states that there is no 1
record on the books of the company to
show that campaign contributions
were given, but tbat imformatlon was 1
obtained from the testimony of Presl- 1
dent MoUall and Vice President
George W Perkins, on the stand be
fere the Armstrong oommittee. The
following recommendation is then
"Your committee therefore recommends
that special counsel be retained
forwlth to Institute such legal
proceedings as may b j neo ssary to re
cover the sums so contributed from
such ( dicers and trustees of the com
pany as in the judgment of counsel are
liable therefor "
The campaign contributions referred
to were made for R public m
campaign purposes and aggregated
9148,*702 divided as follows: 950,000.
In 1896, 50,000 In 1900 and 948,.
702 In 1904
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Mr. Tillman's resolution dtrectlng
the committee on Immigration to
make an Investigation < f the Chinese
b >ycot.t of American goods was adopt*
| ed Wednesday by the {Senate.
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fpaiim of sin.
f^%J yWKCONFKSHKH IN AliKTn
IKll TO A PIIIKHJT.
The Farmer* Xidiapptr Give* Hi*,
lory tf the Miserable Life He
Spent After Hi* Crime.
A dlspasoh from Omaha, Neb., say*
Pat Crowe'* last ohanoe to esoape
from the penitentiary for kidnapping
Eddie Cud&hy and robbing his father
of $25,000 in gold, lias failed. His
confession to the crime as written to
Father Murphy, of the Catholic church
at Vail, Iowa, was Friday morning
read to the Jury before whloh he is
now belog tried.
During the reading of the letter
which it is believed will send him to
prison for a term of years. Crowe
sat with bowed head, never once looking
up, his hands twitching nervously.
His old smtlo had disappeared
aud there are drawn lines around his
eyes and mouth. He whispered to his
brother, who sits with him, and each
wore a look of care.
There was au air of surprised ex
citcment in the room, whloh was
crowded an hour before court oolvened,
when Judge 3utton look his
seat. It was known that the decision
in regard to the letter, which, It is
believed, would practically settle the
case, would be handed down and the
letter read In open court If admitted.
Judgo Sutton admitted the. letter,
saying In his ruling. *
"There Is nothing In the comtnun cation
whloh could not have been
o rorvtn/l I*?? ? ? a. 1 * *
Kinuuou uy any pcrfiuu UlDOr IU&U ft
priest. He does not ask for ftny Hpir
ltual relief whatever. The Hole reason
for writing this letter was to se
cure relief from secular law, not from
the Hplritual law. lie authorized a
disclosure of this letter to both Mr.
and Mrs. Cudahy, thus allowing it is
not a spiritual communication. The
letter wan to seouie earthly, not spliitual
relief."
CONFESSION TO PRIEST.
The letter winch was men read to
the jury, in part as followr:
'Omaha, April 22. 1904.
"Rev Father Murphy, Vail, la.:
"Dear Friend?1 wrote you a letter
from Chicago a few months ago, and
your answer was very encouraging to
me, as 1 have for several years
thought c f reforming and starting life
anew. For the past llfteen years my
sulToring has been intense. My children
are dead and my wife is a seivant
for others' I am ?u t utcast and
a disgrace to Urn mother that gave
me birth, and to add to my suffering
1 have wronged a man that has been a
friend to me.
"I am guilty of the Cudahy aflair.
I am to blame for the whole crime.
After it was over I regretted my bit
and I offered to return 121,00 to Mr.
Cudahy, but he refused to taae it and
oheu I went to South Africa, where 1
j >lned the rebel army and was badly
wounded, being shot twice. Then i
returned to America and have repeat
edly tried to make peace with the
man I wronged. Now I am going to
give myself up and take whatever
comes, and If Mr. Cudahy wou.d show
me mercy 1 woull come out all right
and could start life anew.
'Cudahy is a rimirkably good man
and 1 naye known nlm man> years and
must say that he Is generous and forgiving,
and it would be hard Had a
oetter man. But he feels he owes It
as his duty to tue public to prosecute
me. I could stand trial and beat tiie
ca-e, but that would not relieveof the
burdori that is crushing out the last
ray of happiness in my wasted life. 1
would rather plead guilty and have
the sentence suspended, giving me a
chance to start life anew My plead
ing guilty would harm no o ie nut mjsell,
and if I c mid induce- Mr Cudahy
to show me mercy, it would stimulate
the harsh judgment that is prattle
id In courts with a feeling of mercv
that God intended should be shown
to sinners.
' I wish you would write to Mr.
Cudahy and Mrs. Cbdahy and pray
for mercy. Remember this: And
Mr. Cudahy knows, as do hundreds of
i>t.hArn In t.hlw rlt.u I
- W ? W. M - ? VMSU J ?li??V X 1CU WUD
hungry and I myself was pour and
that 1 uhuwed mercy to the rich and
mighty when they were In my pow
er, and that if I oared to surround
rayse f with stolen gold I could have
ten millions Inside of thirty days. But
1 have found no happiness In evil, and
am going to return fr> the teachings
of my ouildhood. If I must suffer 1
will not repine. Write to Mr. and
Mrs Cud&hy and ask them to show ne
some meroy. This is all, and I win
say gooc-by. "Pat Cbowk."
Wedded on Death l> a.
At Wilmington, N. C , with his
life ebbing away, Dr It'caard J. Price
and Mlas Euzabetb Wiggins were
married Wedne>.day morning. Dr.
Price was unable to raise bis bead and
the responses were ottered in a low
voice. He was a surgeon in the
United S att* army in the Pnliipaines
dad rarks as tirst lieulenaut. While
In the Pollppioes he contracted tubercul'kfis,
aud returned to this country.
For a Iodk time he was at Fort
Bayaru, New M xico, but receutly
returned to ids nome In Wilmington.
Dr. Pries and the youn# woman he
married had been er.K&gfd for several
years. His death Is expected at any
moment.
tintti Killed.
Simoon WIM vr ard J >hn Hatchett
parti e s in ti e sawmill business, were
k'lled by the explosion of a steatu
boiler in Crawfoid county, Georgia or.
Wednesday.
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BILL KILLED.
The State Senate Rejects the
Morgan Measure.
HOW MEM BEDS VOTED.
The Bill Abolishing the StateiDispensary
and Hstablishing in Its Stead County
Dispensaries Failed to Pass
by a Vote of Fifteen to
Twenty.
After considerable discussion In the
State Senate the Morgan Bill, which
abolishes the State dispensary and establishes
county dispensaries was killed
In the Senate uu Tuesday by a decisive
vote. The bill was discussed pro
aud con thoroughly by tbe Senators.
The bill bad been passed by the llouse
as will be seen by reference to page
six, where we report the llouse proceedings.
It was 11 o'clock when Senator
IIlease closed. In the meantime, tho
parties of both sides had b;en iu oonfereuce
and it was decided to tako a
vote. Senator Eutrane Hleaso. mariA ?
motion to table Senator Brlce's motion
to Will the Baysor-MAiming bill.
Senator liiice's motion was the initial
move in the whole tight.
When the ayo aiul nay v >te was
taken, there was perfect silence, although
the seuate chamber was llteralle
thronged with visitors on the
tloor and in the galleries. T lero were
cliairs in every available place. "
vote resulted as follows on Senw,
Blease's motion (those voting ''ay(a o
wlmlng the Utysor-Manning bill to
survive):
Ayes?Senators black, Blake, E. S.
Blease, Carpenter, Davis, Dennis,
Douglass, Barle, Etird, Hay, W. E.
Johnson, W. J. Johnson, Manning,
McGjwan, McL^od, Purlfoy, Stacicnou.se,
Warreu, Wells, Williams?20.
. Nays?Senators Bates, C. L. Blease,
Brlot, B ooks, Brown, Butler, Carlisle,
Curlstei.scn, Hardin, Ilollld&y,
Hougn, Marshall, Mauidin, Mciver,
von Kolnltz?15.
Senator Kayoor (ayr) was paired
with Senator Hood (uay), Sjn*tor
Walker (aye) was paired with Seuator
Hudson (uay) and Senator Biveus (aye)
with Senator Talbert (nay).
Senator Etird then moved "to strike
out all the enacting words" of the
Morgan bill and amend by in ertlng
the Uaybor-Manning biii? whion, by
the way, is now the "puritication
oiil the committee substitute for t 1
original measure. This m Jttou wi
accepted by a viva voce vote, no till
busterlng being done by the autl-dls
peusary party which accepted defeat
gallantly and without bitterness.
Just as Senator Elird wai moving to
have two amendments to the bill
adopted, Senator mease appeared in
the chamber, having be :u out for a
short time, aud moved t>klll tue bill
by "striking out toe enacting
words."
This had the effeot of holding up
the itaysor Manning bill, and it is safe
>"/i uu u tKof --.ill v -i*
uw ou/ uiHku incio win do uo aispensary
legislation this session as the Ljgislalure
will adj jurn Saturday.
BIKflNXAL BBdSIOaS
Voted l).?wo In Tlio House l?y ThirtyFour
Motnhers.
The biennial sessions matter oame
up In the House on Wednesday. Ool.
D. O. Herbert wanted the resolution
submitting the question to the people
passed. Mr. Richards ^agreed, with
Col. Herbert. He said he thought
every barrier had been removed and
he wanted the resolution passed in
Justice to the people
Tne house killed the biennial J sessions
resolution by a vote of 78 to 34.
This finally disposed of ail biennial
session legislation. Last year the
hcuse referred the matter, after the
favorable vote of the people, to a sub*
committee to prepare all necessary
resolutions looking to proper legislation
to secure biennial sessions.
under the.se resolutions the matter
wan to go bef jre the people again.
The resolutiDns aim ply proposed
resolutions for the people to vote on
Olennlal sessions. Tue senate passed
the resolutions some time ago and the
vote of 78 to 34 killed all resolutions
looking to biennial session legislation
next summer. All suoh proposed resolutions
looking to constitutional amend
moots need 83 votes. The main
resolution received 78 votes and on a
previous ballot 79 and these two votes
settled the issue.
The 34 members who voted against
the resolution looking to a vote on biennial
hoss.ous were: Messrs. Arnold,
Brant, Bruce, Clifton, Dabba, DesCtiamps,
Edwards, Ep.ing, Kjheredgo
Etheredge, Eraser, Mol>. Frost,
Gau.e, W. J. Gibson, D. L. Green,
MoD. Green, Haskell, H .mpuill, Hlggins,
llutio, liby, Little, Lomax,
Lyon, Mcb'addtu, MoMastcr, Pittman,
R&wliuscu, Reaves, Sanders, Sellers,
Walser, Walker, Whaiey, Whatlev ?
These tblrtj-four killed the possibility
of bleuoial tk'S.dons of tbe neutral
bssecobly wiiliva the r e it twj or
ihrto yeara.
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