The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-02-02

4 Letter from senator s~hooifeId.----He
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Legislative Notes from our Regular CORES
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A Letter from Senator s~hooineId.---Hs
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Legislative Notes from our Regular CORES
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SENATE CHAMBER,
Raleigh. y. c., Jan. 80.
Mr.. Editor
The Legislature has now been in
.session for nearly month and what
has 1T done. Has it done ANYTHING
for the good of the State at large.
IL it has We have failed to see it. 1t
has past several bills that only af-
fected certain localities, whether
they will be for the good of the To-
calities they are intended TO benefit
| am unable to say. Probably some
will and some will not. 1t is true
that our economic troubles are
mostly national and the State leg
islature can do but little on that
line to remove the burdens the peo-
pie are laboring under, but yet that
little should be done. But we
should have better election laws and
better system of free schools. The
history of the contest cases before
the Genaraly Assembly demonstrate
the fact that there must be some de-
feet about the election laws some
where. Let those defects be rem
edied and let the laws be so amended
as to give an ignorant voter the
right to vote and TO have his vote
counted so there can be no doubt as
to who is elected. Contested cases
are rather expensive luxuries to in
dulg in.
And the man who gets the most
votes is not seated.-ED.
There was before the Senate a
bill entitled an "act to promote
sheep husbandry," or to put it in
plain english it was bill to tax
female dogs five dollars per head.
The bill provided that the five dol
lars was to 60 to the support of the
free schools. The 9th article OF
the State Democratic platform says
this: THAT the General Assembly
pass such laws as will make the
public school system more effective
that the blessings of education may
be extended to all the people of the
State tate alike"
Now if to tax female dogs is the
dependence to raise revenue to max,
the free schools more effective, ther
We say, may the Lord have mercy
on the free schools and the children
VINO are depending upon them fol
an education.
The bill to tax dogs was voted
down as it ought to have been
About the only pleasure that is lief
to the poor man is to hunt with hi
dog and gun and let us not be thu
ones to deprive him of that one las
pleasure. To tax female dogs sa
vored somewhat of a dog syndicate
Some enterprising Teller with none,
enough to pay the tax could &c
a lot of female dogs and start a dog
breeding farm aud rase pups to sci
and thus monopolize the pup bust
ness.
If the bill had passed l would have
wanted every man who voted for i
to have pup breeding farm located
in his immediate neighborhood. An
other bill before the Senate was al
interest bill, or bill entitled "Al
act for the relief of money borrow
ers.' That bill provided that tn
legal rate of interest should be fxeG
at six per cent, and it would be usu
ry to charge over that. Mr.. King
of Guilford, offered a substitute TO
} the bill, that the bill was no
to 60 into effect until ninety day
after Congress repealed the ten pc
cent. tax on State banks. That, il
} your humble servants opinion, will
be ninety days after never. Tn
5 three Peoples party Senators vote
! against the substitute on its secon
reading-on its third reading Nj
t King expressed surprise that tn
Peoples party Senators should vot
: against his substitute and at the mex
l roll call two Of the Peoples part
l Senators voted for the substitute, bu
a your humble servant still stuck t
;, his original position and voted agains
i it. You had as well be voting fe
!, the moon to shine under the Andt
o mountains as to be voting for la
: to go into effect ninety days aftt
: Congress repeats the tax on Stat
: banks Of issue. Now if we had bee
# called upon to vote to appoint a con
y mittee to catch Jack O'the Lanter
g we would have voted for it with jus
+ as much hope of success. To fave
l. a bill with that provision would
2. equivalent to acknowledging tn;
l. you had faith in the promises mac
by the National Democratic part
AS to the Southern Democrats v
have not got one word to say again
them, but word to say to them,
IS is this: Just so long as they are co
# troled by the New York and Ne
:, England Democrats, just so long wi