The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-20
LEG1sLAT1vE PRocEED1Nes.
Correspondence Of the Western Democrat.
RALEIGH. JAN'Y 10th. 1857.

correspondence 81 Lhe tTcSIcfH AcHtOcFdt.
RALEIGH. JAN'Y 10th. 1857.
Mr. EDITOR: The Senate yesterday and
to-day was employed in "fxing up" the
Revenue Bill. It passed its second reading
this morning, A voting for to against it.
No material change has as yet and it is
presumed will not be made to the bill as
introduced by the committee On Finance,
except the striking out the tax on Turpen-
tine distileries, and the Hath section which
proposed to make all persons pay heavier
tax that sold less quantity of spirituous IL
quors, &c, than one gallon, intended evil
IDENTIFY as a lick at jug taeerns, and what
are sometimes called rotary groceries, in
other words a grocery on wheels. The
rules being suspended the bill was being
read the third time when the hour Of ad-
journment arrived. 1t was then, on mo-
ton, made the special order for Monday,
8 o'clock. The special order for Monday
- o'clock, is the amendment to the Wes-
tern Rail Road Charter, at which time the
Senate will 60 into the committee of the
whole to enable the Speaker to address the
Senate.
The war upon sections has not ceased
vet 1t was to be hoped that after the
great bleeding and commercial destroying
proposition the Greensbororough and
Danville Railroad had been silenced, with
scarcely enough friends to give it decent
burial, that there mi ght be some peace to
that class of individuals in other sections,
that are seeking to better their own condi-
ton with their own means-this, however,
has not been vouchsafed to them from the
course indicated in the Senate in regard to
the Cheraw and Coal Field Road, which
passed its third and last reading by vote
of "a for to only 10 against it. From some
unknown and extraordinary out side infu-
ence, it is alledged, it was the next day re-
considered; every effort being made by its
! friends to prevent its reconsideration. In
the House the vote ON the Wilmington,
Charlotte and Rutherford Rail Road bill,
YOU will observe, was tie, which the Speak
er decided in favor of the bill.
The Fayetteville and Coal Fields Rail
road was killed this morning by vote Of
So for, to 81 against it. Mr. Shepherd has
discharged his duty to his constituents in
an earnest, able and eloquent manner. In
him they have everything to approve and
nothing to censure, if fidelity and an earn
est desire for their prosperity be the stand
ard by which he is to be judged.
The great question of the session, if we
are to judge from the demonstration in the
House on yesterday, is likely to be the
Reeves expunging resolution.
1t is impossible, in the nature of things,
| for the two Houses to adjourn on the Goth,
the time agreed on. The particular time of
adjournment cannot easily be guessed at
No appropriations can pass this session.
the knife will be applied unfortunately.
herewith send you copy of the resolu-
ton concerning the Mexican Preamble"
which is as follows:
Whereas the General Assembly of the
State of North Carolina, at the session of
| lS46-'47, in a resolution entitlhd "a Resell
ution providing for the equipping ard pay
| ing expenses OF the Volunteers to Whining
| ton and Charlotte ratified the 18th Jan,
| IS47, passed preamble thereto known as
| the Mexican Preamble" And whereas
the said preamble was the result of bitter
party prejudice, and does not reflect the
sentiment of the people Of n orth Carolina,
and is a stain upon the fair reputation of the
! good old North State, tie it therefore
Resolved, That the words ''By the action
of the Executive and the subsequent sane
ton of Congress-" i'll the preamble, be ex-
plunged by the principal Clerk of the House
of Commons, ill the presence of the House,
ON the day after this Resolution shall
! have been assented to by the Senate-by
drawing black lines around the Objectionable
words i'll said preamble. so that it will read,
| ''Whereas the Republic is involved i'll a
| foreign war;" etc.
| &c.