Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard., 1853-01-05
REMARKIs OF MIR. wAsHINeroN,
OF Craven,


Delivered ~ The Senate Of North Carolina, o.
i the bilL IN relation to the Rdteigh and Casio
i Railroad.
The bill in relation to the Raleigh and Castor
Railroad being under consideration,
Mr. Withers moved to amend that section O
the said bill which provides that individual stock
holders should have four Directors and tho State
but three as to give the State an equal numbe
of Directors. 49, u
Mr.. Cannady said he hoped the amendmen
would not prevail individuals had subscribed un
der the impression that the private stockholders
were to have the control of the Road and it was
right they should have it.
Mr.. Person said he would inquire of the Sena
tor from Granville if priva5e individuals did moi
subscribe for stock upon that express understand
ing9
Mr.. Cannady said he thought they had.
! MIR. Washington said he should like to know il
he right in understanding the Senator from
Granville to say that there was an express stpua-
ton that private stockholders were to have four
and the State only three Directors If so it was
exceedingly strange when the State owns half of the
| stock.
| Mr.. Cannady said he would not pretend to say
there was any express agreement stipulation to
that effect, but he thought it was tacitly under
stood.
Mr.. Joyner said he thought it had not only been
SO uhueIstood, Dut CnaC dlsLlnSulSned gentleman
in the other end of the Capitol, (Gen. Saunders
had so expressly declared to the public when So
Letting subscriptions. Besides he, Mr.. j., would
state that it was provided in the bill of the last
session, but those sections had been left out of the
printed bill and he thought the Senator from Cra-
ven, who was here at the time, must and did know
these facts
Mr.. Washington said that so far as the fact of
several sections OF the bill of tho last session being
h. III IL i
very often both here and elsewhere, and vet no
friend of the present bill had pretended to intro
duce any evidence whatever before the Senate of
that fact. Why had they not shown the bill, as
passed, in contrast with that printed? 1t could
he presumed, be easily done. 1t was perfectly
certain that the law, as printed and published, is
sufficient or it is not sufficient If it is sufficient
why apply for any further legislation If it is not
sufficient and further legislation is necessary the
General Assembly had right to put the bill in
shape to suit them. Then rs to the inducements
which it was said had been held out by the distin-
guished gentleman alluded to, (Gen. Saunders he
MIR. W., satisfied that gentleman would have
made no promise or suggestion which he was not
to make, and there was no sort of evi-
dence before the Senate that he had held out any
such inducements promises; on the contrary,
while he, Mr.. W., had held no conversation with
that gentleman on the subject he would und ertake
w.
that the gentleman alluded to had no objection to
the State being represented in the Board as pro-
posed in the amendment of the Senator from Cas- |
well.
The Senator from Halifax had, however, alluded |
70 the personal knowledge of the Senator from |
Craven, on the subject Of the passage of the bill to
the Raleigh and Castor Road He, |
Mr. W., was glad he had done so, for it afforded |
lim an opportunity of stating what he was anx-
ShOulI ba IIo
hat the Raleigh and CASTOR Road would not have
'een re-organized upon its present basis if it had
lot been for his, Mr. WIS, vote and he remem-
ered another thing equally well, and it was that
ven with his vote the whole matter would have
llcd if it had not been for the fact that his friend
rom Carteret refused to vote in order that the S
}easure might be adopted. And he, Mr.. W., re- 6
3embered further, that while the Senator from S
Ialifax and the Senator from Warren-then, as
ow, the Speaker of the Senate-wcre exceedingly s
nxiou5 for the passage of the bill in almost any
lape, and while the Speaker rejoiced at that time
have it in his power, by the vote of the Sena- a
n from Craven, and the refusal the part of the
enator from Carteret to vote at ALL to secure the t.
assage by his casting vote yet when at the pres tt
1t session, his, Mr.. WIS friend from Cartcret Dr.
rendell and himself had asked for transfer of
States portion of the stock in said Company to OF
liid up kindred work in their section of the c!
ate, not only had the Senator from Halifax come II
rward and used all the influence which he could Iii
ert to defeat that measure, but when motion
rs made to reconsider the vote by which that
oaSure (very dear to his friend from Garteret Dr. NJ
rendell and himsclf0 had been lost, the pres- tit
ne officer of the Senate had seen fit to intefpose in
ID when that motion was likely to prevail, exercis PI
his high prerogative Of voting to make tie of
tie, in order to defeat it. Such conduct might is
all right and proper but if it was, he, Mr.. W., hi
uId not, for the life of him, understand upon Sc
nat principle it could be so. He felt it to be an to
of tyrrany not onl ly oppressive but intoIerabIe
Mr.. Joyner said the Senator from Craven had II
worried and provoked since the defeat OF Gg Ig
Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad bill, that Pl
could see nothing but what he conceived to be frc
wrongs i'll that matter. That Senator had for fu
tten, it seems, the true history of the Raleigh ho
d CASTOR bill. 1t was not on the passage of the mi
!, but concurring in an amendment of the iu
ouse of Commons that the facts stated by that IN III
nator had occurred. 1t was true that the Sena- vi,
from Craven and the Senator from Carteret had he
en- mainly instrumental in procuring the adoption on
the amendments by the Senate, an amendment wi
,ich he Mr.. j. had opposed but without which ne
, though not strictly in order he would take ~; ay
,asion to reply to some remarks made by that Dis
nator few days ago in relation to his, Mr. Us ge
te to transfer stock from the Wilmington and by
leigh Road to the New-Berne and Goldsboro'
ad he found, upon investigation, that while the
nator from Craven correct far as he went
had not told the whole story. The history of By
, transaction was this the Senator from Craven Y