The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1891-02-18
HOUSE.
Thirtieth Day, Tuesday, Febru.
arY 10Th.
HOUSE.

| auJ JuFueu.
HOUSE.
Thirtieth Day. Tuesday, Febru-
| ary 10th.
| House called to order by Speaker
| Doughton at 10 O'Clock.
After prayer By Dr.. Branson, of Raj
eigh, the following bills were iutro-
duced
To allow Henderson county to levy
/! special tax; to incorporate the Oxford
| Coast Line railroad; IMr. Taylor, to au-
thoriza Graham county to perfect the
| public records: to change the dividing
| line between Graham and Macon cOun-
| Ties; to locate the dividing line between
| Moth Carolina and Tennessee and the
! Graham county line; Mr.. Suttou, to in
corporate the Fayetteville Compress and
S Storage Company ;Mr. Bryan of Wayne,
| to incorporate the Seven Springs Miner
al Water and Improvement Company;
Mr. Morton, relative to the employ ment
| of school teachers by cornmitteemen;
, Mr PEBBLES, to authorize Northampton
county to levy a tax to pay for the build
ing of a jail
The following bills passed third read
| ing: To incorporate the Spray Water
Power and Land company; to validate
! deeds of probate taken before magis
| trates, where clerks of court were parties
| TO the conveyance; to cure certain in
equalities in the jury lists; to incorpo
rate the Enterprise Land and Improve
ment company OF Cumberland
| Justice of the Peace for Ashev,lle town
charter OF New Berne 50 as to give pow
er to suppress dislrderly houses and to
| secure better observance of the Sab
| bath; to incorporate town of Centre
! vile, Forsyth county; to amend section
2iS, of the Code providing for the SER
vice OF summons; to incorporate White
Pain church, Columbus county; to in
corporate Beulah German Reformed
church. Davidson coRnty; to incorporate
Bladenboro Presby terian church; to in
corporate the East Carolina Land and
Improvement company; to declare va
can't the places OF such trustees of the
University as do not attend four meet
ings, to protect the water supply of
Goldsboro; to incorporate the Charlotte
Literary and Library Association; to
nemd sec 403 of the Code SO that q
majority of the members of the bar can
It calendar which shall be followed
oy the Judge presiding, to incorporate
the Caledonia Pottery Company; to in
corporate the Phoenix Fertile r Com
p;.ny OF Wiimingt on, with 500, 900 capi-
tai; declaring Rowan county under the
operation Of the Stock Law.
The following bill was tabled To
encourage mechanical proficiency in the
State.
The following bills passed second read
ing: To pay witnesses before CorOners
the same as when before Magistrates
Balls passed third reading: Amending
, the charter Of the Atlantic & Western
,, railway, so it can be extended to the
Chowan river
The Soldiers Home bill was made the
special order for Thursday, and the bill
to give Solicitors salary was made
, special order for Friday.
o The Railroad Commission.
At noon the bill to create a Railroad
9 | Commission was taken up. The bill
which passed the Senate yesterday was
on motion of Mr. Jones substituted for
| the House bill.
Mr. Pritchard offered a substitute for
g | the bill, which was read 1t provided
t for commission with advisory powers
) at 81. 500 salary. and was the bill pro-
: posed by the railroads. Mr. Pritchard
y spoke at some length in support of his
substitute, and begin by saying tina,
f there was nothing political in this meas
| ure. In parts of the State he admitted
there was clamor for a Commission. but
| during this session not one weli-founded
. complaint against the railways had
| come up. AS to the election of magis
trates there was a difference, and ht
. | felt bound to admit this, as he had beer
! whipped out on that question. He ex
y | pressed his unbelief that the railroads
; could control the Legislature or the peo
ple His substitute provided that th'
:. people should elec: the Commissioners
r 1t also provided that the Commission
\ shall take into consideration the cost o
| railroads.
f He made detaih statement Of wha
n railway enterprises had done and wer,
doing for the Western col mites aud de
q | clared that cast-iron bill would stol
d this and shut out capital. He Offered
this as compromise measure. The bill
n would strike down the weak railways
4 chartered since 1868, and not affect tht
Raleigh and CASTOR, the North CarOlin,
Y and the Wilmington and Weldon rail
/ way. he argued that these companie;
had right to fix maximum rate ane
Y that under the charters this was mat
' ter of contract between them and th'
State. Mr.. PEBBLES asked Mr.. Pritchart
n to name single one in which the Su
,e preme court had decided this point di
rectly, as he did not wish the conclusion
# arrived at merely by reasoning from
e anology. Mr.. Pritchard went on to con
d tend that railway commission checked
the building of roads. He was glad to se'
n a provision of the bill that no member o
the Legislature should be on the com
g. mission.
Mr. Jones expressed belief that Mr.
v Pritchard had introduced some cheal
,e demagoguery into his speech, and his in
% timation that this Legislatures did no
le represent the people were without basis
He said that every reasonable man woul.
=, consider the cost of railways &c: In tn
ID matter of the right to charge maximum
rates in the case of State VS.. Green, from
i. Mississippi, is conclusive. No one, saw
it. Mr.. Pritchard, has ever claimed that tn
to North Carolina railway had rights of thi
kind. The attorney Of the Wilmington