Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-12-14
HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The House was called to order at 10 O'Clock A. II.
The Journal of yesterday was read aud approved.
Mr.. Brown. Of Mecklenburg presented the state.
ment Of the Bank Of Charlotte, which was referred
to the committee On finance.
Leaves of sbseLee were granted Messrs, Baxter,
Russ and johnson.
BILLS INTRODUCED
Mr.. Sharpe, bill to make the robbery Of dwell
ing houses capital offence.
Mr.. Hanes bill to incorporate VIM. R Davie
Lodge NJ. 81, Of Free and Accepted Assons, in the
town of Lexington.
Mr. Murphy, . bill to provide more effsctually for
retaining swamp Lands.
An engr,ssed bill from the Senate, to amend an
act entitled ian act TO amend the Charter Of the
Shelby Brord River Company"
The unfinished business of yesterday, viz q bill
to extend the time for peecting titles to lands here
tOfore entered, was taken up .-r.5s .-t
Mr.. Horton, of Watauga, urged its passage, and
ond reading. -.
The following. bills passed their third read.
ing: z% ~ s~.
A bill for the relief of Powell, Lowe Company |;
bill in relation to alimony; bill to repeal On act
to prev. ut distinctions in the Big Swamp by means
of fish TAPS bill to incorporate the Confederate
Joint Stock Publishing Company bill to author
in the naval service; bin for the relief Of Hugh
Gurthr,e, late sheriff of Orange County . bill to
Incorporate the Lnville Steel and Iron Company !;
= bill to incorporate the Craabery Iron Works.
BILLS ON THIRD READING. -
"A bill for the support of the N c. Institution for
the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, was referred, on
notion. of Mr.. AcAden, to the committee on Raance
A bill for the relief Of William Stewart Of BERTHE
county, was referred TO the committee on the JUDI
ciary. ..,> -; :, -,.. -.
A resolution in relation to the Revenue Laws
passed its second reading
T., At l o'clock A. NJ. the House resumed the con.
sderaton Of the resolutions in relation to tho suspen.
sion of the privilege Of the writ of Aa6eas oerpus
Mr. Carter sad he should feel guilty Of some As
surance, were he to essay to address the House At
all fully as to the legal aspect presented BY these
resolutions The legal points involved had been
discussed ever since the second suspension of the
writ by toe Confederate Congress- The first sus-
pension was a ftgraat and open violation Of the
j. Constitution but owing to the intense military en-.
thusasm which pervaed the country, il had excited
no alarm. But another and still another suspension
followed. Congress deegating to the President pow.
ers 1t. did not possess These measures enumerated
no less than thirteen specific offences for which the
suspension should be authorized, and then for the
FIRST time alarm and anxiety were awakened The
Legislature and Governor Of Georgia and the Leg
lsature and Governor of North Carolina entered
their solemn protest against these violations of the
Constitution as endangerng the rights Of the peo-
Pile Now, . fourth suspension Of the writ was
threatened, and warned by the experience Of three
former attempts, Congress, he said might possibly
succeed law though even to this he
for one, was unalteraby opposed These rssolu-
tons presented matter for practical legislation The
action OF the Leg stature in May last rendered nee
essary by the condition Of affairs, was only in form
Of protest. Thirty days after the adjournment Of
Congress- that suspension ceased but moo the sus-
pension OF the writ opened up questions Of the era:
vest import ia the midst Of revolution.
1t might be SAID that our experience under pre-
vioua suspensions WAS not of character to excite
alarm hut neither North Carolips nor any other
State could permit At this time safeguard after safe.
guard to be encroached upon. The lash Congress
had materially modified the eonseript laws. The
whole body of the people between the ages Of sew:
enteen and City had been swept into the army
What an imme use power did these laws place in
the hands Of enc man. In time Of peace the dele
CATION of such power would more than suffice to
ahnihate the Constitution. A refasal to try the
question whether citizens owed military service was
subversge If personal liberty. and put it in the