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!. porate the Mecklenburg Iron and Steel Company.
Referred. - -
:: The House then adjourned until tomorrow morn
ing o'clock. -
SENATE.

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- SENATE. -. -
.s.....,,... WEDNESDAY, May %, 1884.
A message was received from the House propo-
sing to adjourn Monday next A. n. Concur.
red in. J. .e.s-..
= - REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES. =
Mr. Leitch, q report from the judiciary commit
tee that bill in relation to certain exemptions in
payment Of taxes do pass. es,-sr =. ~.
Mr.. Wright from the same, resolution concern..
ing the salaries Of Circuit Judges. 4.
Mr.. Faison from finance committee, bill sus.
pending payment of taxes in Haywood, Macon,
. Jackson, Cherokee and Clay, with an amendment
recommending that the amendment be not adopted
This bill was afterwards taken up and laid on the
table after being amended so as to include Beaufort
county. s.e...-... .atc..- ~ = -,
Mr.. Sharpe, bill from the judiciary committee,
to prevent distilIaton Of grain, with amendments,
recommend their adoption. -.
Mr.. Warren reported bill from the same COM
mittee to punish persons fleeing to the enemy, with
recommendation that it do not pass +.
INTRODUCTION or BILLS, DC.
Mr.. Lassiter, q bill in relation to payment IF
taxes. Referred -.,t. - a..
: Mr.. Smith, a bill to amend the charter of the
Lockville mining and manufacturing company
Referred. --.-
Mr.. Wright a bill to amend an act in relation to
salaries and fees. Referred.
Mr.. Patrick, . bill to exempt the Mayor and Com
missioners of the town Of Kinston from conscrip-
ton. Referred ... .. .5-..,
Mr.. Blount resolution authorizing the Govern
to employ commissioner to collect and publish
certain information concerning North Carolina
troops. Laid over.
A bill to amend the Western plankroad eompa-
ny was taken up, on its second reading with SUBJ
stitute which was adopted, and the bill SO amend
ed naSSed itS second readinp~
The hour set apart for the consideration of the
majority and minority reports of the committee on
habeas corpus having arrived, the Speaker announ-
ced the question to be whether the Senate would
adopt the minority report as . substitute for the
majority report Of said committee.
Mr.. Hall said that in the present condition of the
country he deemed it the duty of this Legislature
to legslate not upon visionary and Hypothetical
dangers, but to act in such manner that our cause
would be strengthened, our soldiers clad and fed,
! and universal harmony be promoted. Was it the
| duty of this General Assembly to pass these reso
lutiOns now? He thought not, because they were
distractng in their tendency and not calculated to
strengthen our cause
He said that he reposed the utmost confidence in
our ultimate success, first, because We were right
second. because of our great and nearly developed
resources, and third because the teachings of his
tory confirmed him in his opinions He SAID that he
desired to vindcate that much abused class, the
original secessionists, those who deemed the elec-
ton VI Abraham Lincoln sufficient cause for disu-
Mon. That they had been right from the begin
ing, and had their counsels been needed the South
would have presented one unbroken 'front.' and the
North would therefore have been deferred from the
| prosecution of the present wicked and bloody war
That the unity and harmony which once did exist
in North Carolina at the outset of this struggle, ex.
listed now no more; but that he and the party with
which he acted were not responsible for it
Viewing our ultimate success certain, he hailed
PRECEDENT Davis as the Moses that should lead this
nation from captivity worse than Egyptian bon
dage, and he drew encouragement from the strug.
giles IF Greece, Netherlands and our own Colonies
in the cause of independence all of which were
successful But although these were encouraging
facts, we must nevertheless be true to ourselves
Heregarded the majority resolutions of Mr. W arren
as offensive in their nature; that they contained in
substance charge that our representatives in Con-
gress who voted for the suspension Of the writ were
either knaves orfoos-because the resolutions chara
ed them with frequent infractions of Constitu.
ton which they had sworn to support How could
that be- since all our Courts thus far had decided
the constutionality Of the enactments of Congress,
in favor Of that bodyl
He said that Gov. Vance admits great disafection to
exist in this State, and should We then as Senators
place ourselves in antagonisp to the Confederate
government Besides We are not the umpires to
oeSiuo tuo SolStltutiOIailty VI the law, out L0OSe
questions should be referred to the judiciary who
were soon to assemble in this City.
He said that the opponents Of the suspension Of
the writ he'd that ii it was constitutional it was al
least impolitic. How do they know the facts upon
which Congress passed? The President had justsent
another message to the Congress asking continua
ton of the suspension. How do we then know
what the necessity might be here! 1t is certain
anyhow that the necessity for the suspension still
exists He said that he would go step further
He believed that the personal privileges Of the cti
zens as conferred in other sections of the Constitu
ton, such as that no arrest shall be made withou
warrant on oath, meant to apply to times of peac,
only. That the government has an inherent RICH
to protect itself in times of peril This the Consti
tuition admits in comforting the right Of suspension
by negative pregnant At such times of peril tn
government has the right to the property and lif
of every citizen, and that then cases of individua
oppression must be made subservient TO the publi
good. The Executive should then be empowere'
to act promptly. .....-
He alluded TO the powers conferred upon Genera
Washington during the revolutionary war, and b,
said that while the Continental Congress had ther
declared him dictator, and clothed him with ever
power. there had been no abuse of them.
He said that our laws and ideas of personal lber
ty came from the Magma Marta Of England
If it is right to suspend the writ in England il
times Of danger, it is right here and it has bee
again and again suspended in Great Britain an
arrests authorized by order Of tho Executive.
it was argued that the law was unconstitutional il
that provision in the law providing against evasion
OF the military service, he did not believe it. Blu
even If that clause were unconstitutional it did NO
render the law unconstitutional or deny the powe
7 Of Congress to enact the suspension.
> Mr. Hall was laboring under severe hoarseness
Mr. Warren in reply expressed his embarrassment
t in debating subject so thoroughly sited by tn
ablest statesmen in the land. The Senator fror
: New Hanover had also dwelt in his remarks upo
the causes that led to the present war, but as b
could not see how such topics were german to th
question, he therefore dismissed them and propose
only to discuss the resolutions themselves first as
their constitntionalty, second as to their uecess
ty. As to the latter be would say but little for tn
reasons given to Congress BY the President for III