The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1869-03-31
AFTERNOON SESSION.

The House met at o'clock.
Mr.. PoU, from the Judiciary Committee
reported favorably the bill to allow widows
to dissent from deceased husbands will
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Bill appropriating $4,000 for the Uni
versity came up as unfinished business, the
pending question being on the motion to
reconsider the vote by which the bill was
postponed until the passage of the school
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Mr.. DURHAM opposed reconsideration.
| Mr.. DOWNING argued in favor of the mo
| ton.
Mr.. HoDNETT opposed the motion, and
appealed to the colored members to remem.
Der that the University was for the sons of
wealthy white men.
Mr.. STnLEY said the object of the oppo-
sition was to kill the University, and the
same opposition would be made 10 the COM
mon school bill. Believing the Legislature
would make appropriations to carry it out,
the Board of Education had put the Univer-
sity in operation; and he hoped the vote
would I've reconsidered and the bill passed
Mr.. HAYES had introduced the resolution
into the Convention, ,discountenancing mixed
schools, and he was glad it had had its ef-
feet to make Democrats oppose mixed
schools. He favored reconsideration and
the passage of the bill, without reference
to color.
Messrs. PARKER, INGRAM and FEREBEE
opposed the motion.
Mr.. MAYO favored reconsideration
Mr.. FRENCH said the motion had been op-
posed in the same breath because the Jni-
versity was for rich mems sons, and because
gentlemen did not know whether it was pro-
posed to have mixed schools The cunning
object was to antagonize one bill against the
other. in order to defeat all appropriations
for educational purposes.
Mr. REYNOLDS favored reconsideration.
He should vote for these appropriations as
long as he thought it was for the interest
of the people.
Mr.. MAYO called the previous question.
The previous question was ordered-yeas
"a, nays %.
The motion to reconsider was agreed to
by the following vote:
YEAs.-Messrs. Ames, Argo Barnett, Blair,
Bowman, Cawlhorn Downing, Forkner, Foster,
Franklin, French, Gahag an, Graham, Harris
of Wake, Hayes, billiard, Hodgin, Hoff.
man, Horney, Hudgings. Justice, of Rutherford,
Kinney, Latin, Mayo, Mendenhall, Moore, OF
Chowan, Pearson, Peck, Price, Proctor, Ragland,
kenfrow. Robbins, Reynolds, Simonds, Snipes,
Stanton, Stevens, Stilley, Sykes, Vest, White,
Wilkie and Williamson-4.
NAYs.-Messrs. Armstrong, Banner, Carson,
Clayton, Davis, Davidson, Durham, Farrow,
Ferebee, Gibson, Gilbert Green, Gunter, Harris
of franklin, Hawkins, Hicks, High, Hiunant,
Hodnett, Humphries, Ingram, Jarvis, Justus,
of Henderson, Kelly, Of Davie, Kelly, of Moore,
Leary, Long, of Chatham, Long of Richmond,
Malone, Moore, of Alamance, Morris, Painter,
Parker, Pou. Profitt Siegrst Smith of Allegha-
ny, Smith of Wayne, Sweat, Vestal, Whitley,
Williams, of Sampson, and Wilson'S
The question recurred upon the motion to
postpone until alter the passage of the school
bill.
Mr.. BOWMAN moved to amend the motion
by postponing and making it special order
| for tomorrow at II o'clock.
The motion prevailed-yeas 43, nays 80.
On motion of Mr.. STILLEY, the rules were
suspended, and bill to extend the time with
in which widows may dissent from deceased
husbands will was taken up. The Judicia
ry Committee recommend the passage of the
bill with certain amendments The amend
ments were concurred in and the bill passed
its several readings. ~
On motion of Mr.. GAHAGAN, the rule.
were suspended, and the bill to authorize thu
commissioners of Madison county to levy /,
special tax passed second reading unani
mously.
Mr.. AMEs moved to reconsider the vote b,
which the bill concerning the Eastern an(
Western Railroad passed this morning
Mr. FRENCH moved to postpone that mo
tion until Thursday next at 10 o'clock.
Adjourned.