Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-01-15

BILLS.
payment of debts This bill provides that
every claim to recover money shall be
barred in two years after the cause of &C
ton accrues, and no promise shall revive
the same or take it ont of the statute, unless
it be made in writing with a specific prom
Use to pay a specific sum and made after
the passage Of this act. Referred.
CALENDAR.
House bill No. IS in regard to modifying
the stay law (unfavorabIy reported upon by
committee.)
Mr.. Seymour moved that the report be
concurred in.
Mr.. Ellington moved to postpone the
bill until it could be printed.
This elicited quite spicy debate.
Mr.. Hodnett hoped the report of the
committee would be concurred in. He
opposed, as principle, all stay laws, but
he thought, that now, as the law was in
force, it would be disastrous to repeal it.
He wanted it to 60 out that the State
would neither decrease OF increase the
operations of that law. He knew that
some were building now on the hope that
this Assembly would stay debts contracted
since the close of the war.
j. 81. Harris, q Wake, colored, moved
to postpone for to weeks.
Mr.. Stilley argued for some time n favor
of the postponement.
Mr. Ferebee moved the Indefinite post
ponement of the bill, and upon that mo-
ton called the yeas and nays.
The call was sustained.
Pending further action in this matter,
the hour for the special order, to wit: The
several Railroad bills reported by the In
ternal Improvement committee, arrived.
Mr.. Latin then moved to postpone the
consideration of them until Tuesday, the
10Th.
Mr.. Ellis moved to indefinitely postpone
all those bills
Mr.. E. entered into an able argument in
relation to the various railroad measures
that are now pending.
Mr.. E. had been speaking short time
when Mr.. Downing arose to point of or
der, that the motion to indefinitely post
pone was not debatabe.
when
Mr.. Downing appealed from the decs-
ion, and the House sustained the Chair.
Mr. Ellis resumed, and in the course of
his remarks said that the penitentiary af
fair had swindled the State out of $780,,
900 and was proceeding with his speech,
when
Mr.. Downing came to his seat and asked
if the gentleman used that language in
regard to the penitentiary matter. He was
a member of that committee.
Mr.. Ellis replied that such was his opin
ion.
Mr. Downing Then, sir I call the gen.
tleman to order. He has no right to
reflect upon the character of any mem
Der.
Mr.. Ellis said he mentioned this affair
merely as one Of the reasons of his voting
against these railroad measures.
Mr.. Ellis continued, when
Mr.. Latin arose to point of order, say
ing that, under the ruling of the Chair, the
motion to indefinitely postpone was deba
table only to limited extent. Was not
this an elaborate argument?
The Chair stated that the gentleman
from Catawba (Mr. Ellis) was only giving
his reasons why he opposed these railroad
measures, and the debate would only fair
ly begin when the gentleman was replied
to. AS yet there was no debate &c.
Mr.. Ellis then concluded without further
interruption.
Mr.. Durham then arose to point of
order in regard to both the motion of
Mr.. Ellis to indefinitely postpone, and Mr..
Lafin's motion to postpone until the 10Th
instant, saying that each of the bills must
be read, separately, at least by their titles,
before such motions could be made. AS
yet, none of them were properly before the
House.
The Chair sustained the point.
The Clerk then read the title of the bill
to consolidate the North Carolina Railroad
and the Atlantic and North Carolina Rail-
road.
Mr.. Ellis renewed his motion to in
definitely postpone, and Mr.. Latin his
motion to postpone until Tuesday, the 10Th
instant, and make it the special order at II
o'clock.
Mr. Ellis motion was rejected and Mr..
Latiin's adopted.
The following bills went through the
same course and were disposed of in like
manner, to wit:
Bill to amend the charter of the Oxford