The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-02-10

any offence he might commit would be met
with impartial justice.
The substitute of Mr.. MOORE was rejected
by the following vote :: ieasa :
YEAs-Messrs Barrow, Bellamy. Brogden,
Burns. Blythe Cook, Davis, Eppes, Harrington,
Hyman, Jones oil w axe, LeggSS, moore OF Carter
ct, Smith aud White-15.
NAYs~Messrs. barnes, Bcail, Co!grove Fork.
ner, Graham Hayes, Lassiter, Lindsay, Love,
Mason Melehor Moore OF Yancey; Osborne,
Richardson, Respass, Sc tt, Shoffner, Welker and
Winstead-19. stI
Mr.. WELKER introduced q substitute
which provided that Mr., Robbins should be
censured. si,la stsls s;..al.,s.i
Mr. MOORE of Carteret, moved the indefi-
mite postponement of the whole subject. =
Mr., LOVE wanted the matter decided now
We had waited long enough.
The motion did not prevail
Mr.. BARROW moved to adjourn. Lost.
Mr.. REsPAss moved the previous question.
Mr. Cook hoped the gentleman would
withdraw the motion. The previous ques-
ton should not be called ON subject of
| this magnitude. gtsa.,5- S
Mr.. REsPAss thaught Senators had already
made up their minds how they wonld vote,
and must decline to withdraw the motion.
- Mr.. Cook would call attention to the time
when the Chatham Railroad hill passed the
Senate; bill which the Senators from,
Mecklenburg, Rowan and Craven had used
their utmost endeavors to defeat After
that bll-passed the Senator from Craven
was absent from h seat four days, many
| said because the bill had been passed despite
his eloquent opposition. When he came
back there were rumors upon the street of
parties who were willing to pay $4,000 to
get the bonds of the Railroad dropped in
the market. sse, l-l.s.z, p
The Senator from Craven had risen in his
seat and made charges against the manner
in which the Chatham railroad bonds had
been issued. The Senator from Rowan i'm
smediately the Senator from Craven was
seated introduced resolution charging cor
ruption in everything, and the Senator from
Craven adopted and defended them. He
(Mr. Cook had regarded these charges as
nothing but att cks on the Republican
party, party which has backbone enough
to run out from it any corrupt member. He
had regarded the remarks of the Senator
from Craven as unjust and uncaled for,
buthad voted for the resolution to appoint
a committee on investigation that the guilty.
if any might be punished, or the purity Of
the General Assembly established. He
knew what the Senator from Craven
had expected to prove. He had heard
him say that he had seen draft
for $1,000 that he could prove to
have been improperly received That is the
case OF Mr.. Stevens of the House, and we
had nothing to do with it. He was present
when the Senator from Edgecolnbe had told
Mr.. Sweet that lie knew of Democratic
Senator who had received money. 1t was
for the Senate to judge whether Mr.. Sweet
had made good his charges. He believed
if the Senator from Craven had informed
the Senate that he had alluded to these two
cases that much OF the present bitterness
would have been removed IF all the evil
dence was given in the report of the commit
tee, the Senator from Rowan was guilty of
bribery. But he had made voluntary con-
iession to the committee which was not in
the report.
II it WAS he should have voted to indefi
nitely postpone the whole matter. for in that
confessions he said II have committed error
but had no intention OF doing wrong" He
was sorry the matter had come up in its
present shape. He thought the Senator
IRON Rowan should have resigned his seat
and not called upon us to vote to condemn
or excuse him: He should not have called
upon the Republican party to decide upon
his crime and its punishment for the Repub-
lican party was in a large majority in the
Senate. and should not be made to say you
are guilty but we will let it GO" Whether
we should or should not say this was the
question before the Senate.
Mr.. BoBBINs said if the Senate had deci
died that what he had done had heen done
with corrupt intent it would have voted
to expel him. They had not so decided and
had freed him from any charge OF corrupt
intent. He desired every personal or poiiti-
cal friend to vote for resolution of censure
because the act itself should be censured.
Mr.. MOORE, of Carteret, moved to adj
journ. Lost. Brat 5tt.
The substitute of Mr.. Welker was adopt
ed by a vote of 81 to IA. =.
Mr. DAVIS offered an amendment which
provided that Mr.. Robbins should he
brought before the bar of the Senate and
| publicly reprimanded.' Rejectedby the fol-
lowing vote !: 8 . lta
YEAs-Messrs. Davis, Smith,.
NAYS Barrow, Barnes, Beall, Bellamy, Brog-
den, Burns, Blythe, Colgroye, Cook, Eppes,
For~ner, Galloway, Graham. Hayes, Harrington,
Hyman, Jones, Lassiter, Legg, Lindsay, Love,
| Mason, Melchor, Moore of Carteret, Moore of
| Yancey, Osborne, Richardson's, Respass Scott
Shoffner, Wclker, White, Winstead-33.
Mr.. BRoGDEN moved to amend
On motion of MOORE, of Carteret, the
| Senate adjourned. fa a4e
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
| WEDNESDAY, Feb. 3, 1869.
The House met ut 10 o'clock
The SPEAKER In the Chair. ttt
Prayer by Rev. Mr.. Long, of Chatham.
The Journal of yesterday was read and
approved.
Leaves of absence were granted to Messrs.
Hoffman, Stanton and Sinclair.
Message from the Senate announced the
concurrence of the Senate in several House
bills, and transmitted for consideration the
following Senate bills: bill to provide for
holding special terms of the Superior
| Courts; bill relative to the Western turn
| pike road, leading from Asheville westward
to Murphy, and thence by separate routes
to the Georgia and Tennessee lines; bill to
amend chap 2, title XIX, of the Code of
Civil Procedure; resolution to print laws
passed by this General Assembly with the
Constitution of the State. for information of
| officers OF the State; and resolution for the
relief of W. M. D. Moore. H
Mr.. HINNANT, from the Committee on
Enrolled bill, reported the following bills
correctly enrolled, and they were thcreupon
signed by the Speaker ia e
Act to amend the charter of the Oxford
branch of the Raleigh and CASTOR Railroad !;
on tf,a ano pff IN, a. ol.o