[Newspaper] Publication: Edgefield Advertiser Edgefield, SC, United States |
Special Columbia Correspondence. COLUMBIA, Saturday, Nov. 29th 1856. Mr. Editor : The Legislature of South Carolina has worked through nearly a week of its present session: and I herewith transmit for the benefit of your numerous readers as compendious a statement as possible of their actings and doings up to this morning. On Monday (in the Senate) little more was done than receiving, and hearing read, the brief but excellent Message of GOV. ADAMS, of which two thousand copies were ordered to be printed. In the House (on the same day) the Message was also the principal feature of interest. Members gave notice of various bills to be introduced on succeeding days; but as few of these are likely to become Act-ualities, I will not bother you with their mention here. The Report of the Comptroller General was this day received and referred as usual. Among the notices of bills, there was one providing for an additional Law Judge; also, another for the establishment of a separate Court of Appeals, a proposition which has many friends. On Tuesday, the President of the Senate announced the Standing Committees of that body; and afterwards, presentments of grand juries, reports of Free School Commissioners, notices of new Bills &c., &c., went on after the customary hum-drum manner. So the Governor’s Message as related to the Slave Trade was referred to a special Committee, consisting of Messrs. MAEYCK, CHESTNUT and TOWNSEND. — In the House, the Speaker also named the standing Committees. Your members were assigned places as follows: Mr. Z. W. CARWILE, to the Committee on Privileges and Elections, and the Committee on Acts; Mr. ROBERT MERIWETHER, to that on Roads, Bridges and Ferries; Mr. WM. GREGG, to Internal Improvements and to District Officers and Offices; Mr. J. BLAKWELL, to Public Buildings and to Vacant Offices; Mr. M. C. M. HAMMOND, to Federal Relations and to the Millitary [sic] Military; and Mr. ABRAM JONES, to Agriculture and to Colored Population. Matters of course, and void of interest, occupied the hour after the announcement of the Committees. And then came up the Slave Trade part of the Message. Mr. BRYAN wished it referred to a Special Committee. Mr. MCRADY thought that it was a matter for the Committee of the Whole. Maj. PERRY inclined to the Committee on Federal Relations. Mr. YEADON advocated its reference to the Committee on Colored Population, assigning as a reason that it did not deserve a higher place. Mr. READ repelled the fling at the respectability of his Committee, and Mr. Y. apologised, Mr. Y. further remarked that he "he meant no disrespect to the Governor by what he had said, but that he wished to treat his proposition with as little respect as was compatible with parliamentary usage;" the tame and temper of all which was very far from meeting a response among his fellow-members. — At length, Mr. MCGOWAN of Abbeville and Mr. RICHARDSON of Charleston having spoken in support of Mr. BRYAN'S original proposition, the matter was agreed to be referred to a Special Committee. This Committee, as afterwards appointed, consists of Messrs. E. B. BRYAN, S. G. EARLE, W. S. MULLINS, F. D. RICHARDSON, G. P. ELLIOTT, M. C. M. HAMMOND and J. I. MIDDLETON. Then again came notices of bills, petitions, accounts &c., Mr. YEADON offered resolutions in regard to a Separate Court of Appeals. Mr. HAMMOND (of your delegation) gave notice of a Bill to incorporate the Southern Porcelain Manufacturing Company. Mr. MIDDLETON announced the forth-coming of the Bill to increase the pay of members. And Mr. Yeadon capped the climax of the hour by the notification of a Bill "to alter and amend the Law in various particulars." |
Keywords: | Southern Porcelain Manufacturing Company |
Researcher notes: | |
Supplemental information: | |
Researcher: | Bob Stahr |
Date completed: | March 4, 2023 by: Bob Stahr; |