The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-03-17
la.e ,he mite ofinterest in this State.

OF the LlCtle htVcT uiupihC INVao.
Mr.. ESTES introduced the following reso-
luton:
"WHEREAs, 1t is manifestly evident that the
necessities of the State demand the immediate
passage of the revenue bill by this General AS
sembly, and @hereas said bill has been before the
Senate OF this General Assembly for upwards OF
two weeks without action. Therefore,
- BE it resolrcd, That u message be sent to the
Senate requesting them to take up and act upon
the revenue bill at once"
Mr. ESTES moved suspension of the rules,
and said it was of the most vital Importance
to pass the bill at once. 1t had been
lingering in the Senate more than two weeks,
and members of the Senate had boosted
that the bill should not pass until certain
appropriations were made. We had often
sent requests to the Senate to perform Ger
tain acts, similar requests were sent to Con-
gress, and it was competent and courteous
for us to send this message.
The resolution was adopted.
In a short time afterwards the following
message was received from the Senate
"Mr SPEAKER: The Senate orders that the
message received this morning from Mr.. John Il.
Bouer, Clerk of tho House of Representatives,
iniormng the Senate that he was instructed to
send u message to the Senate requesting that
body to take early action upon the bill to raise
revenue, be returned to tho House of Reprcsen-
tativcs. T. A. BfRNES, Secretary"
The special order for II o'clock, being the
scpnrt of the Committee on Relief,
Mr. BOWMAN, from the Special Committee
Relief, reported a bill as n substitute for
the bin to regulate proceedings in certain
cases. to be entitled AN act regarding pro-
ceedings in certain cases."
Mr.. MALONE, from the Committee on Re-
lief, read minority report, that the meas
ures reported by the majority went further
than the necessity of the case demanded, DC.
Mr.. JARVIS, ofthat committee said the
gentleman had promised a minority report.
He had made speech against the bill re-
ported by the committee.
Mr.. MALONE said he intended to make
speech and proceeded to enlighten the House
on the State of the Union, &C., for thirty-five
minutes when he made an apology for Oc-
cupying the time of the House, and took
new departure for another speech.
would paralyze the industry, the energy and
the enterprise ofthe people of the State, and
lock up capital. He feared there was an
intention to pass relief bills stay laws, &c,
until debts became SO old that reputation
would result.
Mr.. WEIGH moved to print the bill and
postpone its consideration until II o'clock
tomorrow.
MIR. BOWMAN opposed postponement, and
said the bill reported as a substitute was
substantially the bill under consideration
yesterday He had listened to the speech of
the gentleman from Caldwell, Mr.. Malone,
and was in doubt whether it was fourth of
July Grafton, speech against the stay law,
on the question of Incorporating an immi-
grafton society, or on the repeal of the GRIM
inal code. Any effort now to delay action
was an effort to defeat the bill. Yesterday
| he had consented to the reference of the
bill, in order to rarmonize the different
| amendments, and th,.s committee had unan-
imously reported the substitute, with the
exception of the gentleman from Caldwell,
who came in this morning with minority
report and said the bill could not pass. He
dared the gentleman to vote against the
| bill.
Mr. INGRAM opposed postponement, be-
cause we were ready to act now, the people
demanded relief, and postponement would
consume time.
Mr. HAYES favored postponement.
Mr. JARVIS said these gentlemen who
moved to postpone and print FOR informa-
ton, Immediately turned around and stated
the contents of the bill, showing there was
no necessity for printing
Mr. DURHAM thought the bill was in vio-
lation of the clause of the Constitution pro-
viding that justice shall be granted with
out delay.
| Mr. JARVIS called the yeas and nays on
| the motion to postpone, and they were Ia
ken, resulting-yeas AZ, nays 40.
The question required on the adoption of
the substitute offered by the committee.
| THE bill restores the rules of pleading in
force under the Revised Code until alter the
adoption of the new Code of Civil Proce-
| dure. A proviso to section authorizes the
court, in its discretion, to limit the provi-
sions of sections 6 and of this act to ac-
tions er contractu. A proviso to section 8
says no proceedings under this section shall
| prejudice the lien of any creditor, or dis
charge the sheriff from any liability for the
safe keeping of such property. Section II
suspends all laws and clauses of laws in
consistent with the provisions of this act,
until the LIST of January, 1871, and this act
shall continue in force until that date.
Mr. MALONE offered the following proviso
to the last section
"Proyiled, That this act, except SO far as it
makes summons rcturnable to the regular terms
of the court shall not apply to any debt contract
ed since the LIST day of May 1865, nor to any ac-
ton now pending, or to be brought arising e.
delictO. Provided, also that nothing in this act
shall prevent the collection OF bills OF costs In
criminal causes as authorized by the law now in
existence" i'h
Mr.. FRENCH opposed the substitute of the
committee, because it applied to debts con-
tracted since May, 1866, as we'll as debts
contracted prior to that date.
Mr. FOSTER opposed the substitute. He
believed that allowing an exemption OF
$500 by law was sufficient. This bill
would operate to repudiate debts, when he
believed justice demanded that no exemp-
tion should be given above the homestead.
He moved to lay on the table.
The motion did not prevail-yeas "a,
nays 70 as follows:
YEAs-Messrs. Allison, Ames Argo, Arm
strong, Ashworth, Banner, Barnett, Blair, Bod
ford, Downing, Durham, Ellis, Farrow, Fere.
bee, Franklin, Gibson Graham, Gricr, Gunter,
Harris Of Franklin, Harris of Wake, Hawkins,
Hendricks, Hicks, billiard, High, Hlnnant, Hod.
nett, Hoffman, Humphrics, Ingram, Jarvis, Jus
Of Davic, Kelly OF Moore, Kinney, Leary, Long
OF Chatham, Long Of Richmond, Malone, May O
McCanless, Mcmillan, Mcndenhall, Moore Of
Alamance, Moore OF Chowan. Nicholson,
Painter, Parker Peek, Pou, Price, Profitt, Rag
segrist, Sinclair, simonds, Stanton, Sykes
! Vestai, Wc'ch. Whitley, Williams of Sampson
and WilsOn-72. 'r.as
SAYs-Messrs, Carson, Carey, Cawthorn, Davi
DIXON, gstes, forkncr, Foster, Galagan, Hayes
kea ksBjr0w, Seymour, Smith of Martin. Snipe
Stevens, Sweat, THOMPSON Vest, Williamson