GRAVEL AND PLANK ROADS.
Mr. Steele, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, returned Mr. Orr's bill [S. 104] on the subject of the repeal of the gravel and plank road acts, with a recommendation that it be indefinitely postponed.
Mr. Orr said there was no law on the statute books that produces more ill feeling among his neighbors than the gravel road law. He moved to amend the report by recommending that this bill lie on the table.
Mr. Gregg concurred in the opinion that no worse law was on the statute book; but this bill proposes to legalize a part of the wrongs already perpetrated under the odious law, and for this latter reason he favored concurrence in the report of the committee. He did not think this a proper time to discuss the merits or demerits of the gravel road law.
Mr. Steele explained that his committee make such a report upon no bill that should become a law on the statute books. A concurrence in such a report effectually disposes of a bill, and so the Senate is not further troubled with it.
Mr. Slater understood that a recent decision of the Supreme Court renders such a bill as this unnecessary, and therefore he favored the report of the committee.
Mr. Glessner did not like this bill. The gravel road law in many parts of the State, the people can not get along without. The motion to amend the committee's report was rejected by yeas 16, nays 31, and the report of the committee concurred in.
