The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-02-17

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ing public school pupils with scboo,
books at actual cost; Nj. Denny ~
allow Surry county to pay certsiS
school claims; MI. VIII tfeld, to alIov
the charter of the Atlantic and Nortb
Carolina Railway to be extended wost
OF Goldsboro; Mr.. Reed, to amend The
charter of the Asheville Railway. NJ
Upchurch, to tax dogs and raise rev,
enue for the school fund; Mr.. Chears
to more efectually prevent lynch Law
in North Carolina, and to regulate II.
pay of jurors in Arson and Union
counties; Mr.. McGill, for the relief ~
the Clerk of Cumberland county an,
perior Court; Mr.. Galloway, to amend
the charter of Stanley, Beaufort
county; WI. Walker, to require bank.
and banking institut .ons to make an
nual reports; MI. Doughton, to ore.
vent fishing with seines in ALLEGHENY
river, and to make Al feet a iawfnI
fence in Allegheny county.
The railroad commission bill va,
made the special for Monday next at
4 p. m.
Mr.. Bryan, of Wayne, spoke at som.
length in support of his resolution
He spoke of matters relative to the
Wilmington & Weldon Railway and
to the Petersburg Road, which is
really a part of it He thought the
legislature should carefully investigate
all matters relative to the great priv.
leges asked for by the former road.
Mr.. Morton offered an amendment
providing that the two roads be not
coupled together in the matter of in.
quiry. He continued that the corpo.
rations were distinct and separate,
and that their affairs should be con.
sidered separately. Be- said the Peters.
burg road hal only seven miles in
North Carolins. A refusal to grant
that road a charter would be a dis.
elimination. The committee, il one il
appointed, should consider the roads
separately. 1t vas not proper or just
to refuse the Petersburg road a char.
ter because of something which the
Wilmington & Weldon Railway had
done or had not done. The Peters
burg road had not asked of US special
privileges OF exemptions,
Mr.. Jones ofed an amendment pro,
viding that the committee shall inves.
tigate the facts as to whether the VII.
mington & Weldon Road owes back
taxes probably amounting to $780,.
OOO), He said a correspondent had in
the past few days asserted that the
Wilmington & Weldon Road had a
trust fund, as it is called, amounting
to ST., SOC, 900. He alluded to the i'm.
munity from taxation which the road
had enjoyed. Immunity from taxa
ton was in fact a refusal to bear q
public burden. He declared that the
Wilmington & Weldon own a con.
trolling interest in the Petersburg
Road. He said that as long as the
Wilmington & Weldon Road had i'm.
munity from taxation he would for
one never vote to grant a charter to
the Petersburg Road and its northern
outlet.
Mr. Hall, of Halifax, did not think
it right to try to force n railway to
surrender certain bridges, by refusing
80 grant a charter to another road.
The Wilmington & Weldon has the
right to build branches free of taxa.
ton. If the charter is not granted
to the Petersburg Road the Whining,
ton & Weldon will build a branch
road from Weldon to the Virginia
line. He asserted that it would be
unjust to use one corporation as
lever against another.
MI. PEBBLES, in expressing his great
regret at the fact that there was 3
single road in North Carolina exempt
from taxation, recounted the early
history of the road. He said there
was a remedy, and that was,
that if the railways brought suit
against persons tor injury to their
property, the State should require the
road to say that they had paid their
taxes, or else they must defend their
own property. There was a legal right
to withhold a new charter to the Re-
tersburg Road, but not a moral right,
for he had no doubt that the people
Who took that road believed tina when
its charter expired a new n would
be granted. He urged action at once
In gram ing the charter to the Peters
burg Road. AS a corporation the
Wilmington & Weldon Road has No
stock in the Petersburg Road. The
same syndicate owns STOCK in both
He had introduced the bill to re-char'
ter the Petersburg Road. The ROAD
had complied with every demand
made. He was willing to 60 to any
length TO make the roads pay tax, ou'
could not vote to punish one road 1or
alleged faults of another.
Mr. Bryan said his sole idea was 70
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