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\i' ** .'.y v V ' 1 'Jv . * . ?THE UNION TIMEk UNION, S. C. THE RAILROADS WILL FlUUT. United States Courts Called on to Interfere In the Matter of Fertilizer Rates. It now begins to look as if the issue between the railroads and tho State railroad commission over the new fertilizer rate will have to be fongbt out in the court, with both sides pushing cases therein. Tho legal battle over tho matter promises to be of widespread interest. Already tho bondholders of the Manchester and Augusta road havo declared war on the late by going before Judge Simonton and obtaining a restraining order pending a hearing on the motion for au injunction against the commission's enforcement of the rate. The commissioners say, however. that no miners have been served upon them in this ease and if it bus been begun they know nothing of it. The eoiumission has received information that none of the railroads have put the new rate into effect as required S>y the official circular. The rate was promulgated soiuo time ago. It is stated that nearly all the railroads have put the new rate into effect as required by tho official circular- The rate wus promulgated some timo ago. It is stated that nearly all the railroads have refused to give the new rate wh*#i demand was made upon thciu to do so. A great many complaints from points all over tho State Lave been sent int>> tho commission. f Tho commission has no other way of enforcing its decisions than through the courts, aud the matter has keen ptit into tho bauds of the attorney general, who will doubtless make some move iu tho matter very shortly. Tho statute law covering tho refusal of a railroad to comply with tho decisions of the State railroad commission requires thut a State court shall issuo a writ of mandamus, aud that tho , railroad shall be liable to a tiue of ?M,uuu ior oacii ana every instance ot rcfiiNiil to obey it. Attorney General Barber ami his assistants wero both present when the railroad men entered their protests and made their*arguments ngaiust the reduction of the rate before the commission and a stenographic record oi what was said was kept for the commission. THE TAX SITI'ATIOX. Wbnt the Comptroller <ieuer.il Haste Say 011 the Subject. Comptroller General Norton wat asked by a reporter for the Columbin State how ho figured out the probubil ity of the State tax levy being 10 mills for the coming liscul year, and thereupon ho gave tlio following stutcineul of the situation : "The levy for 1 891-'95 is P mills, This money is now in the State treas ury or in process of collection. TLu - ? last fiscal year closed -jii Octob* i 01 1895. Tho collections from the I mill levy for 1891-'95 w ill bo appro printed by the incoming general assembly to tho expenses, under tho oh Constitution, of 1895-"9G, but tindei the new Constitution 189(5. "The revenues, therefore, from tin year 1894-'95 go to meet the appropriu tions of 1890. "This fiscal year must of necessity have two months of 1895, and 12 o 1896, making I I months. It" I > mill: lire necessary to pay the expenses o: the State government for 111 months, what number of mills at the same rati* will it take to meet the expenses of 11 mouths V There is one-sixth of a yen! in the extra two months; then 4'. mills plus 1-C of 4 1-2 equals 5.4 mills. II is certain that 4 1-2 mills, with the phosphate royalty diverted to tin; sink' ing fund anil the dispensary prolits tc the school fund, will raise not above $702,000, an insufficient amount for the expenses of the State. This will forco a deficiency of fully 1.0 mills, which would have to bo levied by the incoming general assembly for the fiscal year 1 HO7. This will give 1 1-2 pins 1-0 for two months?.Our 5.1 milh plus the deficiency, 1.0 mills, making a total for State purposes for ls07 ol 7 mills: and the 0 mills constitutional lor education, makes 10 mills. To this must then be added a/, county expenses, which cannot average less than 0 1-2 mills, judging from the past. Uy the graduated tax on incouiet and a graduated license on occupation! and business the levy directly on th< ad valorem valuations can be redan; below 1 1-2 mills fur 1SD7." OltAMIK tJt'AICKY IX I?|< IvI.NS To Kurnisli Stone Itulliist fort lie Soutli era from Atlanta to Danville. An important enterprise is being do Vt'loped four miles west <?f Masley. :m mediately on the line of the Si otln ri Jlailwny, which promises to asstum proportion* that will make it it greiil In nctit. to tin* people in 111tit vi unity. About four \\ofkrt ago Ht-vnrly Uroth or*. of Virginia, comineueed putting in a plant to open up a granite <ju:trr;> which will give employment to tun hundred or no.re hands. They lmvt now up tun two-story iriinn building, tho first floor of which in ust 1 for u store r< 0:11 and tie second i-t' r'. ;<u sleeping api;i tir.i-nts for the \\t ikim :i. A kitchen. M.icl.siaitli shopitn l poA.l- i lioiici) art. also ;j? and oilier 1. : < "will l?o limit a- oon n* 111 in I m r ecu In obtained. A heavy trestle \. ik. ?? which 1.11 i.e.no use crusher w ;! it placed, 1- 1;! 1 ne :ring eompb to n. Tho lieveihs h.t.c n contra ". r term of Vt ill's Willi t he Soil tie 1'ot 1 "way to furnish b.dhet for the : .. H from Atlant 1 t > 1 >un\ lie. 'I'll ' [I in .an s , . M trying to . o C; tip 1 ' ' ran'. 1 i jontC't t'l". ' II to . . uj.urt. THE NEW CONSTITUTION i THK LAW THB PEOPLE MUST NOW L1VK UNDER. ? ^ Tlio Full Text of South Carolina's Organic Law as Adopted. - - ARTICLE VII. COtTNTIEK AND COUNTY GOVERNMENT. See. 1. Tbo general assembly may establish new counties in the following manner: Whenever one-third of the qualified electors within the area of each section of an old county proposed I to be cut off to form a new county I shall petition tho governor for the ! creation of a new county, setting forth the boundaries and showing eomplii mice with tho requirements of this nr tide, the governor shall order an ? lection, within a reasonable time thereI after, by the qualified electors within i the proposed area, in which election they shall vote "Yes" or "No" upon the question of creating said new county ; and at the same election the I question ol" a name and a county seat ! for such county shall be submitted to I the electors. j Sec. 2. If two-tliirds tf thequalilied < electors voting at such election shall vote "Yes* upon such questions, then the general assembly at the next s< s! siou shall establish such new county: Provided. No section of the county j proposed to lie dismembered shall be j thus cut oil' without consent by a twoJ thirds vote of those voting in such, see* | turn; end no county shall be formed 1 without complying with all the condii tioys imposed in this article. Au elee: tieu upon the question of forming the j same proposed new county shall not ! be held ofteuer than oueo in four j years. See. 3. No new county hereafter formed shall contain less than oue one hundred and twenty-fourth part of the whole number of inhabitants of the State, nor shall it have less assessed i taxable property than $1,500,001) as shown by the last tax returns, nor j shnll it contain less area than lot) ; j square miles. See. 4. No old county shall be reduced to less area than 500 square miles, to less assessed taxable property than S?,000,01)0, nor to a smaller population than 15,000 inhabitants. , , Sec. 5. lu the formation of new I counties uo oM county shall be cut , within eight miles of its courthouse [ bail.lino. ' See. 0. All new com.ties lie rej after formed shall bear a just apportionment ol' the valid imlebtuess of the ^ old county or comities from which they havo been formed. See. 7. The general assembly shall have the power to alter county lines at anytime: Provided, That before any mug county line is altered tin ! question shall be lirst submitted to tin 1 qualified electors of the territory pro | posed to be taken from one county ami j 1 given to another, ami shall have re.. ; eeived two-thirds of the votes east Provided, further, That the change shall not reduce the county from which | the territory is taken below the limits i prescribed iu sections 0, -1 and 5 ol . | this article: Provided, That the propj i er proportion of the existing county ! indebtedness of the section so trans, ' ferred shall be assumed by the county to which the territory is transferred. See. H. No county seat shall he rej moved except by a vote of two-third* . of the qualified electors of said county , voting in an election held for that pur; , pose, but such election shall not bo | | hehl in any county oftener than once I in five years. See. ft. Each county shall constitute | one election district, and shall he a ; body politic and corporate. Sec. 10. 'The treucrnl assemble ninv provide for the consolidation of twi ?>r more existing counties if a majority . of the qualified electors of such conn ties voting at an election held for thai purpose shall vote separately therefor, . ; but such election shall not be held t , oftener than once in four years in tin I ; same counties. Sec. 11. Kuch of the several townI i ships of this State, with names and , , boundaries as now established by law, , j shall constitute a body politic and corporate, but this shall not prevent the gem-rnl assembly from organizingotin i , townships or changing the houminrie.I i of those already established: and th> 'general assembly may provide sucl: system ?>f town i.ip g<>\i-rnim nt as il shall think propi r in ar v and all tlx counties, ami may make special provisi ion for municipal g -vcrument and foi the pi' toetloii of ehartercd rights and 1 ]>o\\i TS < ( llillllli ij a.ltil-S. i S. r. 1_'. I * fit: I < !.;.11^.-.1 1 y the " !: t-rai iif-i Mil'Jy. a. niloui tJ hv this C ' >ii. .--tit; t: ?fi tin .i.-lafii s >1 t!.? mv Mil cusiitii*' .-hail ri-muin as i:o\v ratal" 'inho i. ' xcr}?t that t '"" luMinilnrif s of th" cn.iMy ?-i iMy< i i shall ::u I< ::r?i s :<-!i < l.tmyi s as- ur niuili- js?-ssury i?y tin- ' r* .utinii i'! a iirw county from a port: ?ii i?! Ililp-i !' hi, t ? lie known us Salmla. 1 !. la :u ii s < : w Iiich art --i-t forth a Constitutional ordinance, i hi h 1! i 11 i ; ii : - 11 in sal -1 oiali nil lire t. r : of . - M-ut alutll l.i I.. !'l 'ii.hr tin' c?.u-.?itntioii mid lav, i ii'. v -I f< i Ami tin* o?-in-riil as-i'.i.hl\ h'.il provi for the lin ;.t < : i i i rty in the county Sah.i'.a ! i' !. 'ul y nr I? ?./?!?I?iI.q Jniiunrv 1st, . nti i i r tint cullcc 1 ti??:i of Miiil laxcH when n- oil, Si ii !. >"i l.i rul a-si l.ihly may . :d ntij : ...- ' . tiif tnriottM coiim 1 ti- I * 11 1 !.'| c V. :1s. mid |[.t( : 1 i unty i]vii'u, may mi-' " ami pi - i < I i . i ' u i t ait - i 1 th i ' . i-.iit-t * .n iii\ I . Sec. 14. Hereafter do county lines shall bo so established as to pass through uuy incorporated city or town of this State. ARTICLE VIII. MTTNICITAL CORPOHATION8 AND l'o" TQ8 UEOl'LATIOXs. Section 1. The penctal assembly shall provide by general laws for the organization and classification of municipal corporatiooH. Tho po\\?rs of cuch class shall be defined so iliut m> such corporations shall have at y pow era or be subject to auy rest, ictiona other than all corporations of the same class. Cities and towns now existing under special charters may re-organize under the general laws of tho State, and when so re-organized their special ichnrters shall cease and determine. Sec. 2. No city or town shall be ori ganized without the consent of the majority of tho electors residing and entitled by law to vote within the district proposed to be incorporated ; such consent to be ascertained in the manner and undor such regulations as may be prescribed by law. Sec. :>. The general assembly shall restrict the powers of cities and towns to levy taxes and assessments, to borrow money and to contract debts, and no tax or assessment shall be levied or debt contra, ted except in pursuance of law, for public purposes specified by law. Sec. 1. No law shall bo passed by the general assembly granting the right to construct and operate n street or other railway, telegraph, telephone or electric plant, or to erect water or gas works for public use or to lay mains for any purpose, without first obtaining the consent of the local authorities I in control of the streets or public j places proposed to be occupied for any i such or like purposes. See. o. Cities and towns may aej ipiirc, by construction or purchase, I and may operate water works systems ; and plants for furnishing lights, and may furnish water and lights to individuals, lirins and private corporations for reasonable compensation: Provided, that no such construction or purj chase shall be made except upon a milj jority vote of the electors in said cities i or towns who are qualified to vote on I the bonded indebtedness of said cities [ i or towns. Sec. (>. The corporate authorities , | of c?ties and towns in this Stute shall j be vested with power to assess and j I collect taxes for corporate purposes, , j said taxes to bo uniform in respect to 1 I persons and property within tin juris. | diction of tin- body composing the I 1.11.1 . J i I : same. mm ii>i mi! properly except sucu us is exempt bylaw, within the limits of I cities iiml towns shall lie taxed for the [ 1 puymeut. ot debts contracted under nui tbority of law. License or privileged tuxes imposed shall be graduated so ! us to secure a just imposition of such ( | tax upon the classes subject thereto. Sec. 7. No city or town in this Stale shall hereafter incur uuy bonded debt, I which, including existing bonded indebtedness, shall exceed S per centum of the assessed value of the taxable property therein, and no such debt shall bo eroded w ithout submitting the question as to the creation thereof to the qualified electors of such citv or town, us provided in this Constitution ! for such special elections; and unless a ' ! majority of such electors \otiuer on the t ' question shall be m tavor ot creating , ' such further bonded debt, none shall [ ! be created: Provided, that this Miction . | shall not be construed to prevent the ; issuing of certificates of indebtedness j in anticipation of the collection of j taxes for amounts actually contained or to be contained in the taxes for the year when such certificates are issued , and payable out of such taxes: And i provided, further, that such cities and towns shall on the issuing of such , bonds create a sinking fund for the re( demptiou thereof at maturity. Nothing herein contained shall prevent the , issuing of bonds to an amount sullicieiit to refund botulcd indebtedness existing at the time of the adoption of this Constitution. ( See. 8. Citiesand towns niny exempt p from taxation, by general or special ordinance, except for school purposes, manufactories established within their limits for tivo successive years from the | time of the establishment of sucliman, ufactories: Provided, that such ordinance shall be tirst ratified by a ma jority of such qualified electors of such I city or town as shall vote at ui> election held for that purpose. 1 See. t>. No armed police force or ; representatives of a detective agency . ' shall ever bo brought into tlu^ Statu k for tho suppression <>t dmni -tie vjo! letiee: nor any other armed or unarmed I body of men be brought in for that J ' purpose, pt upon the application ' of ihe g? m-rnl ns.-i tubly or o! the ex| ecntive of this State ah" n the g- neral assembly is ?; .t m session, as proi 1 viileit j u t lie ('??n.-tit at ion < ! t lie I ni ted States. 1 'he : < ner.d assembly shall pruvi to proper penalties fur tin.- enforcement of the pri visions of *his flection. S. !<>. It shall 1" the duty of the ' gem ral 11.--1 :nblv t > create boards of , health wherever they may bo necessary. giving to tie in power ami authority to make - neh regulations us shall , protect tin h a!t!i oi the community St'<\ 11. IIt the vcrriSO <1 t!:* Jii>liee jxihiT the netiil ukfc.? !:.l / 11 have tii#* rijjht to |>r !.il.it tin- limiiu1'ncl :irc* ui.?l Milt; niel l'.-tiiil ol itlft>l)oiic ii<j!i r- or l?t veriiee-t within tin: State. I I.?: /> !.> ral n--.enthly may license jters.'ns or ' >r|i.-iutions to iimntifietnrc 1 a;. I -1 iI a: I r? t:iil nle holie l..;;or< <-r tu vi iit^i". v it!i: t Ji.r Slate tllt'lff Mielt r t!? hi. In iri'titii.s n i it ih :.: ? ] rojt r; or t! ? rat avemlilv may ]>roli11 .t tin* i:nr tfiiot:11 ami m!i' ami ri , titil ol itlet holie li.Mitii ami In t r.t;.;t)S within lit > 1 : . : *i?I v:f.} t >r,/e , I nn?t frnpowtr thu State, count} unci i. ia u a tin, a! ojlii't i , nil t>r ? it her, unit r j I 1 ! unlht.i ity in. 1 in tin* inn of tlin i *~>t?tt , to iniv in in j n. .: 1. t Hint rt t til within the State Inj'.'.crti nail ItNera^ea in (such packages nod quantities, uuder suck rules and lobulations, hh it deemsexpedient; Provided, that no license shall be grunted to sell alcoholic beverages in less quaiititiea than onehalf pint, or to sell them hot ween sundown ami sunrise, or to sell them to be druuk on the pre mines: Ami provided, further, that the general tiBseuibly shall not delegate to any municipal corporation tlio power to issue licenses to sell the same. Sec. 12. All prize-fighting is prohibited in this State, and the general assembly shall provide by proper laws for the prevention and punishment of the same. ARTICLE IX. CORI'OBATIONS. Section 1. Tho term corporation as used in this article includes all associations and joint stock companies having powers and privileges not possessed by individuals or partnerships and ex! eludes municipal corporations. Sec. 2. No charter of incorporation ' shall be granted, changed or amended by special law, except in the ease of i such charitable, educational, penal or reformatory corporations as may be under the control of the State, or may be provided for in this Constitution but the general assembly shall provide bv eeneral laws for elmiioinir or amend- I mg existing charters, and for the organization of all corporations liere: after to be created, and any such law j so passed, as well aw all charters now | existing or hereafter created, shall be subject to future repeal or alteration, provided, that the general assembly may by a two-thirds votcol each house on a concurrent resolution allow a bill for a special charter to bo introduced, and when ho introduced may pass the same hh other bills. Sec. .'1. All railroad, express, canal and other corporations engaged in transportation lor hire ami all telegraph and other corporations engaged in the business of transmitting intelligence for hire are common carriers in their respective lines of business, and are subject to liability and taxation as i such. It shall be unlawful for any such corporation to make any contract I relieving it of its common law liability or limiting the same, in reference to the carriage of passengers. See. 4. Every corporation organized or doing business iu this State, other than religious, educational or benevo- i lent associations,shall have and maintain ! at least one agent iu this Stato upon | whom process may bo served, and at j least one public office for the transae- ! tion of its business. Provided, This [ section shall not apply to mercantile ! corporations: Provided, That nothing contained in this section shall be coui strued to prohibit the general assem| bly from providing for the service of process on any agent of a corporation so as to bind such eoporation. See. 5. No discrimination in charges or facilities for transportation of the same classes of freight or passeugcis, or for the transmission of intelligence within this State, or coming from or going to any other State, shall j be made by any railroad or other i transportation or transmission compa ; ny between places or persons. Persons and property transported j by any railroad or any other trauspor. tation or transmission company or eor; porntiou, shall bo delivered at any ; station, landing or port at charges not | exceeding the charges for the transI portation of persons ami property of | the same class, in the same direction, ' to any more distant station, lauding i or port. Excursion and commutation I tickets may be issued at special rates. , This section shall not prevent the rail| road commission from making such j competive rates us shall, in their judgi meut, be just and equitable between the railroads and the public, at all junctional and competive points or at points where water competition controls the trnfhc or at points where the . competition of points located in other States may make necessary the prej scribing of different rates for the proj fection of the commerce of this State. Sec. G. Any railroad or other transI portation corporation, and any telegraph or other transmitting corporation, organized under the laws of this State, shall have the right to connect j its roads or lines, at theStu'.^ line, with j those in other States, and shall have 1 !,.? I ... ? I '"ir-cc viusnunj j other railroad, street railway, transportation road or transmitting line, ; and shall each receive and transport the freight, passt ::vTs, car> 'londrdor empty) and me sages d> \? red to it l".y another without delay or discrimination. See. 7. No railroad, or other trans; portation company, and no telegraph : or other transmitting corporation, or ! the lessees, purchasers or managers of . auy such corporation, shall consolidate I the stock, property or franchises of ' such corporation with, or lease or puv! chase the works or franchises of, or in any way control, any other railroad <>r 1 other transportation, telegraph or other j transmitting company owning or havi ing under its control a parallel <>r eomI peting lint ; and the ipiestion win tin r railroads or other transportation, tele' graph or other transmitting companies are parallel or competing lines shall, i when denmmh <1 by the party complainant, be decided bv a jury as in other civil ca ises. s 'I'm ^..i .... .. i.'.. -1 n : not ^rant to any foreign corporation ; t?r association u license to build. 0111 rnte or lease any railroad in tin- State; . but in all cases win to :v i iirou<l is to j be lmilt or operated, < r is now in ii;^ , operated. in Ihis State, tin11 t!i" a:'1 hull In1 partly in this Stan1 tl j [,.? : i I in another State, or in otht r S.t1. ?, j the owners or j.roj-efo: th r<of hull lirst bccomo incorpornt <1 under ti. laws of tiiis St.ite: in : shall anv P r ei^li corporation ?.r a-k<c>n ! ie < or operate any railroad in \: ; S!?it? , < pureha t lie same or any int r? t !' in. ('oi:-' Siilatioii ? !'an% milrom 1 lin and corporations in tiiis State with others shall he allowed only where the j consolidated company shall become a domestic corporation of this State. No general or special law shall ever bo passed for the benefit of any foreign eorporatiou operating a railroad under ; an existing license of this Stute or uu! der any existing lease, and no grant of ! any right or privilege and no exentpI tiou from any burden shall be inado to any such foreign corporation, except upon the condition that the owners or stockholders thereof shall first organize a corporation in this State' under the luws thereof, and shall thereafter operate and manage the same and tho business thereof under said domestic charter. &ec. y. I lie general assembly shall have no power to grant any speciul ebarter for bankiug purposes, but corporations or associations may bo formed for Bucb purposes under general laws, with each privileges, powera and limitations, not inconsistent with tliia Constitution, as it may deem proper. Tlio general assembly shall provide by law for the thorough examination and inspection of all bunking and fiscal corporations of this Htute. Sec. 10. Stock or bonds shall not I be issued by any corporation save for labor done, or mouey or property actually received or subscribed; aud all fictitious increase of stock or indebtedness shall bo void. Sec. 11. The general assembly shall I provide by law for the election of directors, trustees or managers of all corporations so that each stockholder shall be allowed to cast, in person or by proxy, as many votes as the number of shares be owns multiplied by the number of directors, trustees or managers to be elected, tho same to be east for any one candidate or to be distributed among two or more candidates. See. 12. Corporations shall not engnge in any business except that specifically authorized by their eliarters or necessarily incident thereto. See. 13. The general assembty shall enact laws to prevent all trusts, combinations, contracts and agreements against the public welfare; nnd to prevent abuses, unjust discriminationsand extortion in all charges of transporting and transmitting companies; and shall puss laws for the supervision and regulation of such companies by commission or otherwise, and shall provide adequate penalties, to the extent, if necessary for that purpose, of forfeiture of their franchises. Sec. 14. A commission is hereby es- ' tablished to be known as "the railroad j commission," which shall be composed of not less than three members, whoso ; j powers over all transporting and trans- ! mitling corporations, and duties, man- j uer of election and term of ollice shall i he regulated by law; and until other- j | wise provided by law the said commis- , sioners shall have the same powers and [ jurisdiction, perform the same duties j and receive the same compensation as now conferred, prescribed and allowed by law to the existing railroad commis- j sioners; provided, that the members j thereof shall be elected at the expira- J tiou of the terms of the present railroad commissioners, who are hereby continued in ollice for the terms for which they were elected. Sec. 15. Every employee of any railroad corporation shall have the same rights and remedies for any injury suffered bv him from the acts or omissions of said corporation or its cxployees, as are allowed l>y law to other persons not employees, when the injury results from the negligence of a superior agent or ollicer, or of a person having a right to control or direct the services of a party injured, and also when the injury results from the negligence of a fellow servant, engaged in another department of labor from that of the party injured^ or of a fellow servant on another train of care, or one engaged ahout a different piece of work. Knowledge by any employee injured of the defective or unsafe character or condition of any machinery, ways or appliances snail be no defence to an action for injury caused thereby, except to conductors or engineers in charge of dangerous or unsafe ears or engines voluntarily operated by them. When death ensues from any injury to employees, the legal or personal representatives of the person injured shall have the same right and remedies as are allowed by law to such representatives of other persons. Any contract or agreement, expressed or implied, made by any employee to waive tin- benefit of this section hall be null and void; and | this s< etion shall not be construed to deprive any cmployeeof a corporation, or his legal or personal reprt-entativo, of any remedy or right that he | now 1ms by the law of the land. The I general assembly may extend the rem | edies herein provided for to any other class ur employees. Sec. 10. All cxiating charters or grunt* of corporate franchise under which organizations liuvu not in good i faith taken place at the adoption of j this < (institution shall ho subnet to i tLit provisions of this article, i Sec. 17. The general assembly si.nil j in w r r? in it the f.irfeitnreof the fraui ohisc of any corporation now charj tcrcd, nor alter nor amend the charter j thereof, jn.r pnss any general or speeini law for the benefit of such i'orp .ration, except opon the. condition | that fetich corporation shall thereafter hold its charter and franchise subject to the provisions of this ('(institution, and the acceptance l>y any corporation of any provision of any such laws or ; the taking of any benefit or advantage ' from tin same shall bo conclusively ' ft ! i it:i agreement by such corporation to hold its ci'arb r and franchise under 1!.< provisions of thia article. S- e. The ite< khoiders of nil ins. .,? t < rporatioiiH shall be indi vidii.u'\ ballet i!:< creditors thereof only !o (. r\ c., i f 1 lie : ; Iiouilt l'eiuai (ling h t! coi'i i,1 i u upon tlie slock i owned b;, tf .i : 'ro'ideil That stockhold tt in bunks or banking institu* ' ti -is shall 1 t liable to d< posi' >r therein in a sum equal in amount tc their stock over and above the face value of the same. - Sec. 19. Nothing prohibited in this article shall be permitted to be done by auy corporation or company, persons or person, either for its or their own benefit or otherwiso, by its or thoii holding or controlling in its or theii own name or otherwise, or in the nameof any other person or persons, or other corporation or company whatsoever, a majority of the capital stock, or ot bonds having voting power, of any railroad or transportation company, or corporation created by or existing under the laws of this State, or doing business within this State. Sec. 20. No right of way shall be appropriated to the uso of any corporation until full compensation therefor shall bo first made to the owner, or secured by a deposit of money, irrespective of any benefit from auy improvement proposed by such corporation, which compensation shall bo ascertained by a jury of 12 men in a court ol rocord, as shall be prescribed by law. See. 21. The general assembly shall' enforce the provisions of this article by approprite legislation. [CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.] CKN. M. CTHUTLKR. He Will Hereafter Hostile in Washington t'lty. '"It. iVI. Ij.," writiug from Washington has this to suy, which will be of interest to South Carolinians: Ex-Senator M. C. Butler, like many other men who have had experience in Congress, has become infatuated with Washington, and is just now receiving the congratulations of his friends in consequence of his appointment as a special attorney to represent the Cramps' ship-building establishment in this city. (leu. Butler for mauy years was a member of the Seuuto committee on naval alVairs and he has had a wide experience in connection with the ship-building industry, so that his selection to represent tho Cramps is regarded as a practical business proposition from every point of view. It is understood that ho is to receive a compensation equal to that of a United States Senator, and what is moro desirable to him, ho will he able to retaiu his residence in Washington. It is said that since his defeat for re-eloction to the Senate by Senator Tillman he has retired from active politics, and will henceforth devote his best energies to his law practice aud the interests of the Cramps. Since Geu. Butler retired from the Senate it was reported that he would engage in private business with Senator Don Cameron, his] boon companion and perpetual "nair'M when ft member of the Senute. Thei engagement with the Cramps disposes of that report, but it does not in any: manner interrupt the cordial relations, existing between the Senator from. Pennsylvania and his South Carolina < hum. Tragedy at a Dunce. Garvin Allen, a young man in the employ of .T. O. Bench a grocer of Augusta, (in., met his death in a mysterious manner at a dunce four miles beyond Hamburg, in South Carolina. The facts in the case are meager. Allen and James P. Gaddis, graduates of the Georgetown Law school, of Washington city, and recent arrivals in the city, upon invitation of Bob Wilson, got in a haek and went to the dance, at tho place mentioned. Allen was shot to death during the progress of the dance, by whom is not known. His body was carried to Augusta by Gaddis and the hack driver, both of whom were drunk, and told incoherent stories. Wilson is supposed to be tho murderer, but has escaped. A Clilckitniaugu .Monument. Tho General Assembly will be asked to innke iiu appropriation for the erection of a suitable monument to tho Confederate dead from this State oil the battlefield of Chicauiauga. It is estimated from tho bids that have been received that tho style of granite monument that in desired will cost about $10,000, and that amount will probably bo asked fo.r from the State. There is also to be an application for an appropriation for the publication of tho Confederate rolls and it is of tho most vital importance from a historical standpoint that this be done I at once. TIIK MOHtiAN SYNDICATK. I i Will Probably <iot tlie K at I re $1(K),OIKI,<)<><> Ihinds. A -uli-.Til'ing iicmlii r ! th" .i. Pierpont Morgan syndicate gives the following statem? nts: The syndioai*- < \t "ets t-> secure the entire 5100,000.000 four per rent, hotels wlueli are In; sold l>y tho Treasury on February 5th. Mr. Morguh will hid for the entire issao and i-XpeetH to he awarded the entire -f 10",(100.<i(M). lie will take all <>r none. TP. reason for Mr. Morgan's eoMtlileie'o of entiresueee-s t is that in* will wake an offer so advantageous that no other proposition ? an stand in his way. This offer is to pur !:a tin- entire ?100.000.000. paying prim ipal and premium in gold, and in addition l am - long an amount in gold eipial to one-third of the issue, or :i.n.in e.vhange l >r greenhaeks. I '! Ii?i piY'Titm.'iit K"l'l r'-i-rv will 'In:--not uiiy hroiiftht up to tli?* I liir.it ; ! :> will Iriv i ji larao .-iirpliiy for i'.s protorItif >11. 'i It" pri< < \vlii>'li tin* i-viola-ato will offor i-> not i-\:ii'tly known hy anyone iio.-itlo Mr. Morgan. It will In* ?11i?I? r;?' 1 y mmo than tli" 1(1!1 _ pai*I la-t I I'rnary. Tils low p ftii i it id was paii I (" ail.-" of t!in piovision in trontrip't compi'lHinr tin- - vnili'Mto to | r- i th" Trcnxiry r< -i-rvc. No y . (; coiiir:i"l wiil I ?? ma lo t'i-. time. Therefore a i higher prioo will I I. 'J in* Mfcare h hej ii- v I to I'f 10S. i I'lli- .-yn?Ii-*Jt? i - now an. ilatii.o ynhl I from every available air Members o( | tp -ynli'-ato will I"* lit iiherty to make iuJ dlvliltml bids Ik'hIiIcs ih" nyniliraln hid, Tl in is tlio 'ate of Hairs, The position v ill j r-ii-alily iioltl onto IVi-roary ."ah withI out any I'tiiinitn of iniporliuit (retails, Tim ! I * r i lots! a Ml S Cf ti , tllM Treasury havo j no a i an tit. private or pnlili*, iihtlio ! .:i!i at -. In-- ! no.. It what am ' Mr. Mor'.at'-ii.t niiions j;>; | knew it when the puhli* all w.is i? sio'il.