Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-08-07
ON CALENDAR.

Bill to make Bank bills set off, passed
its second reading.
Bill to repeal an ordinance appointing
Commissioners to investigate the accounts
and affairs of the Albemarle and Chesa-
peake Canal Company passed it second
reading.
Bill requiring replevy bonds in attach
ment cases, referred to the committee on
the Judiciary.
Bill defining the boundaries of land
granted by the State, referred to the COM
mittee on the Judiciary.
Resolution authorizing the Treasurer to
furnish statement of the expenses incur
red by the late Constitutional Convention,
and to itemize said statement
Mr.. Moore of Carteret, moved to lay it
on the table, which was rejected.
Mr.. Etheridge moved it be referred to
the committee on Finance. Lost.
Mr.. Cook moved to include the expen-
ses of the Convention of 1886. Agreed
to.
Mr.. Rich moved to amend by including
"what disposition has been made of the
Common School Fund" Agreed to.
Mr.. Forkner moved the further consid-
Grafton of the matter be postponed until
the next session of the General Assembly.
Withdrawn.
Mr.. Eaves moved to adjourn. Not
agreed to.
Mr.. Jones, of Wake, was in favor of vo-
ting the whole thing down, and moved the
whole matter be postponed until the I'd
Tuesday in November. Lost.
Mr.. Etheridge moved to amend by in
structiDg the Treasurer to furnish q state
ment of what disposition has been made
of the 800, 900, since the adjournment of
the late Convention up to the time of the
instalment of the present Treasurer.
(What 100000 ?)-Agreed to.
The question recurring on the adoption
of the resolution as amended, it was passed
by unanimous vote.
Some time was consumed in discussing
the above resolution and the various
amendments.
Mr.. Love urged the adoption of his res
olution, that the people might know what
was done with their money. He objected
to it's being encumbered with so many
amendments, evidently intended to stife
it. He ably urged the propriety of embo-
dying these amendments in separate reso-
lutions, and promised to vote for all of
them, if so presented.
Mr.. Robbins also appealed to those who
presented the amendments, to present
them in separate resolutions, and pledged
IL
were not entirely germane to the original
resolution. Some gentlemen had said the
object was to offset the enquiry into the
acts of the late Constitutional Convention,
by bringing forward other matters. 1t was
an honest confession, to admit that the acts
of the late Convention needed ofsetting !!
But he would inform the gentlemen that
the Conservative party was not responsible
for the Convention of 1866. The present
Governor of N. c.. called it: the Hon.
President of this Senate sat in it as mem-
ber and many other leading Radicals
participated. And the white voters of this
State (now the Conservatives) voted down
its work He wanted the country to take
notice that the manifest purpose of these
numerous amendments was to prevent the
Treasurer's Report from being received
this session The evident anxiety of the
Radicals here to kill off the resolution, by
overlooking it with cumbrous amendments,
awakened suspicion in his mind that he
had not before entertained, that the course
of the late Convention in regard to the ex-
penditures of money would not bear inves-
tigation.
Various Senators participated in the de-
bate-among others Messrs. Wynne, Cook,
Welker, Shoffner, Galloway, NEGRO, Lassi-
ter, Rich, Sweet and Etheridge.
The remarks of Mr.. Wynne were forci-
BILE and to the point. He insisted that the
Radicals owed it to themselves not to allow
the impression to go forth to the country
that they feared investigation. He con-
fessed that the uneasiness manifested by
some Senators here, who were members of
the Convention, awakened in his own mind
the same suspicious expressed by the Sen
ator from Rowan. He hoped the amend
ments would be withdrawn and introduced
separately.
Mr.. Love came on more than once, with
exceedingly pithy, pointed and telling re-
marks, cutting the Radicals to the quick,
and insisting that they face the music and
not kill off the resolution by lodges and
subterfuges.
After the adoption of the resolution, the
Senate adjourned.