The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1891-02-25

feel that the landlords are here legislat-
ing for themselves where they have no
representation. Another thing he didn't
iIke-putting the tenants Of the State
under the the head of servants. l. may
be sentiment, bHt nevertheless L am OPP
posed 10 it. We ought not to make
servant out Of the honest tenant.
Mr.. Payne sud he mad al" ", as
landlord, allowed MS dissatlhed tenants
aud Iaborers to leave him II they wanted
to. since they would do no Work there
after if they stayed. lie had introduced
the bill
Mr.. Freeman said, answering the
charge that the tenant had no represan-
tative If thought did not represent
the tenants Of my county L would resign
and 90 home When we deal with the
Agricultural classes We are DONG par
ticular business. | hope the bill viii
pass
Mr. KING thought the Sen ators had
labored under misapprehenslon. Ine
bill was drawn so as to make 1t piaIn,
the reason the terms cropper ana tenant
were used.
Mr.. Gilman thought the tenants and
troopers should not come under the
head Of servant. Don't make the tenant
guilty of misdemeanor as IS servant,
but let the landlord, who induces him to
leave, be- the only one guilty.
Mr.. Turner declared that the tenant
could not be guiity under this act bat
only the landlord Its only ohjec is to
reach those Landlords who witIily en-
tice away the lab0rers of other landlords.
Mr. Gilman moved to recommlt the
bill, which motion was carried.
The Cigarette BiI..
The bill to prohibit the sale of cigar
etts to minors was brought up and Mr.
Allen of Granville, opposed its passage.
He said that he represented great to-
bacco section. and 1t would hurt them II
the bill was passed. This bill
will be weapon in the hands
Of these cigarette trusts against
the ralsers of tobacco. There is law
here to prohibit the sale of liquor to
minors and every one knows it is still
sold to them This act Will only teach
young boys to break the laws IN their
infancy. IF We cannot prevent our chill
dren from smoking cigarettes We should
not ask the Legislature to do 1t. The
great American trust, while their sales
will not be whit decrease, will tell the
tobacco raisers that they cannot pay
them as much for their tobacco as they
would had the bill not been passed and
thus the ralsers cannot get as good q
price, The bill went over until it could
be better investigated.
To incorporate the Brunswick aDd
Southern r ailway Co. Mr.. Williams
opposed the bill and believed that corpor
at1ons ought to ba held strictly to ac-
count. he said that tbs bill compelled
the county Commissioners TO order an
election in anyway. Mr.. Butler moved
| TO amend the bill, carried Mr.. Lucas
moved to recommit the bill carried.
On motion of DR.. Speight the vote by
which the bill to change track OF the A
| Il Z. Railroad at 1arDorO was recOnsl-
| dered, and the bill recommitted.
| Quite d Railroad Discussion.
Bill to allow the Eastern Carolina
! Land aud Improvement Company and
| the w. O. & N. O. railroad to consolidate
| created much discussion. In 1887 the
Eastern Carolina Improvement Company
got charter which would give them
10, 900 acres of White Oak swamp land
| lJhere are 80, 900 acres Of land in the
Fract) which belongs to the school fund :,
and the Board of Education shall pay
half of the expenses Of surveying. For
some cause. on the last day Of the ses-
son, a little provision was stuck Ii that
| allowed the railroad to run down below
the swamp and go to the head OF White
Oak river. The Board of Education was
glad to give half of the land If the com
pany would build a railroad, provided
the road should go through the State
swamp land; but ii was imposed upon
and the supplemental act did not com
pel the road 10 be built through the
State lands. They have acted III bad
faith.
| In 1889 they got another little act
that the Board of E lucation should give
the railroads ALL the $4,000 acres, and
pay for the survey. He character I'd
this as piece OF trlckery.
He offered the following amendments
That chapter 299, laws of 1887, enu
tied an act supplemental to IAN act tC
incorporate the East Carolina Land and
Railway Company" be aud the same is
hereby repealed.
That section A of chapter % of the
, laws of 1889 be repealed.
Mr.. Gilman favored extending the
, time and selling them the land for S25,
900 in first mortgage bonds in the road.
The Board of Education in 1889 Offered
to take fifteen cents an acre for the land
. The company has net forfeited the char
+ ter. 1t is due the State that this roaC
should run through the State lands. Foi
years we have been isolated and wanted
railroad, and hope that no clause II
the charter shall be repealed unless bac
3 | faith has been shown.
' Mr.. Bellamy opposed the amendment
5 and said that if the old charters were
wrong they ought to be repealed. Thi
| bill is merely to consolidate the roads
and the matter of the state lands ough
| not to be injected. The road is running
: from Wilmington to Jacksonville, and /
f wants to consolidate and go TO New
/ MT Lucas was here in 'S9-one Of
committee to investigate this matter
and the arrangements then made me
with Supt Fingers approval The peo
pie of that section need road. Tnt
| supplemental act does not look right.
Mr.. Gilman asked Mr.. Butler to with
draw his amendment, let the bill pass
and then put it in separate bill. Mr.
Butler said that this was the only time
to settle this matter. The purchasers
desired only what was right. The orig
inal act gives the railroad alternate lots
That is fair and equitable. Let US make
the road go through the land, and
then give them half. The road acted iu
bad faith and sneaked the supplemental
bill through the Legislature. My amend.
ment is to protect the children.
Ii. Gov Holt declared that the
amendments We're not germane. Mr..
Butler said that the bill allowed the w.
o. q E. Carolina to buy the other road
and that it was gernaue to the bill.
Mr. Bellamy urged that Mr.. Butler
amendments come up as a separate bill.
This road needs all the encouragement
we can give it. 1t runs through poor
country. There is stretch of seventeen
miles of white sand in which a human
n ,rt L
country-no nothing but the red ant crawIs
| ODOD it