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

OF the gentleman from Cleslveland 1t wai
remembered by the House atthe last snmmel
session during the consideration of the bill
called the police bill, or the militia bill, to
prevent disturbances at the approach
ing election, the gentleman,s opposition wa:
very pointed. When he (Durham) predict
ed that if the bill should pass it wonld
result in disorder, that the people would moi
submit to it, the majority of this House tooA
the ground that that was preventive meas
ure, and if it were passed itwould have the
effect of keeping order at the elections. The
result proved who was correct on that sub
iect. Although there were some undue in.
fluences exercised in preventing parties from
voting at the polls. there was quiet and or.
der. and all men were allowed to exercise
the right of voting without any restriction,
except in one single county, there was some
disturbance, and that was In county be-
longing to the Congressional district which
the gentleman from Cleveland did not rep
resent. This measure Is preventive entire,
ly. If it be passed, it will deter men from
doing as they are doing now, and the exc
eut!on of the law will not be necessary. Ii
is astonishing how sensitive the gentleman is
in measure of this kind. Does he sympa.
thize with these men Is that what we are
to understand from this opposition to such
measures9 1t would appear SO! Believing
the bill should pass speedily, he called the
previous question.
The previous question was not ordered
yeas 46, nays AZ.
Mr. DURHAM said, as he did yesterday, i
ha porfoct ont tra n f0 fllS DILL
Every sensible man knows that what con-
stitutes crime is the intention. The bill
prescribes that a certain action shall be a
crime, without intention. Murder consists
in killing with malice aforethought. Men
should be punishable, if they masked them
selves for the purpose OF committing out
RACES.
MIR. MALONE moved to amend by insert
ing after the word .houses" in the third line,
first section, the words "and every person
who shall join any organization of secret
character in which pretended oaths are ad-
mipistered."
Mr.. HARRIS, of Wake, was willing, If nee
essary, to modify any feature or features of
the bill, but he was of the opinion, and he
believed every unbiased mind on this floor,
aside from political or complexional consid-
erati ons, was of the same opinion, that some
thing ought to be done to. arrest marauders
that are now proving themselves curse to
certain localities in the State. 1t is appa
rent to every man in the State thatwe have
bands of robbers, thieves and murderers in
this State.
Mr. PoU did not know whether the dis
order in the, State was overdrawn or not !;
but he did know that in his county many
robberies had been committed by men in
disguise. New laws were made as the chang
ing necessities of the people required them.
He believed that the times required that we
should pass law as marked out in the first
and second sections of this bill-making it
a felony for men to go from home with their
faces disguised. He moved to strike out
the third section of the bill.
Mr. HoDNET opposed the bill.
Mr. NORRIS was satisfied there were many
of these outrages being perpetrated through
out the country, and he favored the passage
of the bill without amendment.
Mr.. JARVIS said if the laws were not
severe enough, he would favor an amend
ment. But with this third section in the
bill it was too strong, and he hoped it would
be stricken out. 1t gave any man the power
of judge and jury when he met another
wearing a mask The man in disguise
should be arrested, tried, and if found guilty
punished, and the law should be so modi-
fed @ t--4 IL
Mr.. DOWNING would agree with the gen
tleman from Tyrrell under ordinary circum-
stances But in many localities in the State
to day, if a man were arrested. jurors could
not be found who would bring him in guilty.
Mr. BOWMAN said if his brother masked
himself and went out to commit crimes, and
was shot down, he should be obliged to say
the shooting was right, and he never would
put himself in the position of voting against
proposition to make masking crime.
Mr.. DOWNING called the previous ques-
ton. The previous question was ordered.
Mr.. PoU's amendment to strike out section
8, failed by the following vote:
YEAs-Messrs. Allison, Argo, Armstrong,
Bod1ie, Clayton, Davis, Davidson, Durham,
Farrow, Ferebee, Gibson, Green, Grier, Haw-
kins, Hicks, High, Hinnant, Hodnett, Humph-
ries, Ingram, Jarvis, Justus of Henderson, Kelly
Long of Richmond. Malone, Matheson, Mcmillan,
Mendenhall, Moore of Alamance, Nicholson,
Painter, Pou, Robinson, Smith of Allegheny,
Smith of Wayne Stanton, Welch, White. Whit
ley, Williams of Harnett, and Williams of Samp-
son-42 M
NAYs-Messrs. Ames, Ashworth, Banner. Blair,
Bowman, Carson, Carey, Cawthorn, Cherry,
Crawford, Dixon, Downing, Estes, Forkner,
Foster, Franklin, French. Gahagan, Gilbert, Gra-
ham, Gunter, Harris of Wake, Hayes, Hendricks,
Hodgin, horney, Hudgings, Justice OF Ruther-
Moring, Pearson, Peck, Price, Ragland, Rem
frow, Robbins, Reynolds, Simonds, snipes,
Stevens, Stilley, Sykes, Vestal, Vest, Wilkie,
Williamson and Wilson-52. b.
Mr.. MALoNE's amendment was rejected.
The bill passed second reading by the fol-
lowing vote:
YEAs-Messrs. Ames, Ashworth, Banner, Bar
Cherry, Crawford, Dixon, Downing, Estes, Fork
ner, Foster, Franklin, French, Gahagan, Gilbert,
Graham, Gunter, Harris, of Wake, Hayes, Hem
bricks, Hodgin, Horney, Hudgings, Ingram, JUS
tice, of Rutherford, Kelly, of Moore, Kinney,
Latin, Leary, Mayo, McCanless, Moring, Morris,
Pearson, Peck, Price, Ragland, Renfrow, Rob
bins, Reynolds, Simonds, Snipes, Stevens. Still
ley, Sykes, Vest, Wilkie, Williamson and VIII
son-54
NAYs-Messrs. Allison, Argo, Armstrong, Bod.
die, Clayton, Davis Davidson, Durham, Farrow,
Ferebee, Gibson, Green, Grier. Hawkins, Hicks,
High, Hodnett, Humphries, Jarvis, Kelly, Of Da-
vie, Long, of Chatham, Long, OF Richmond,
lone, Matheson, Mcmillan, Mendenhall, Ma.
Moore, of Alamance, Nicholson, Painter, Pou,
Robinson, Smith, of Allegheny, Smith, ol
Wayne, Stanton, Welch, Whitley, Williams, Of
Harns,t, and Williams, of sampson-sS.
Mr.. DowNINe moved to suspend the rules
to put the bill on its third reading. Lost
yeas 80, nays 37-not two thirds voting aye
Message from the Senate transmitted the
revenue bill with amendments for concur
renee.
On motion Of Mr.. FRENCH. the amend
ments were nOn-cOncurred In.
The House adjourned.
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