Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-03-21
THRILLING ADVENTURES
OF A CERTAIN BILL IN THE LATE
LEGISLATURE,

After Defeat in the House it is Found IL
the Senate: 1t Disappears Then Turn.
| Up Among the Bills to be Enrolled
The P1otters' Scheme to Nab the At
lantic Railroad.
RALEIGH, March 14.-One OF
the leading Republicans in the
State said to-day that his party
and the Populists ought to be
ashamed to go home after the
way in which the Democrats out
generated them yesterday.
Representative Williams, Re-
publican, of Craven, tells me
history. He says the House
journal actually showed that a
bill to amend the charter of the
Atlantic and North Carolina rail
way had passed the House and
been ordered enrolled; the fact
is, it passed its second reading
and that Williams, cooperating
with the Democrats, prevented
its third reading. He discovered
the entry regarding the bill in
the clerks Office and struck it off.
He tells me that two weeks ago
the fusionists made their plan to
grab this road and Senator Grant
was to be State proxy and he,
Rice, Abbott and Duncan were
to be directors. The arrange
ment for the grab of the North
Carolina railway was that Sena-
tor Moody was to be State proxy.
Afterwards George Smathers'
name was put in. This bill was
tabled in the Senate.
Yesterday morning in the House
when Ray and the Speaker had
an alteration, Ray wanted the
journal read. The clerks said
they could rot find it. Williams
tells me that early yesterday
morning he saw the journal and
that part of it was stolen by un-
known persons. It is alleged
that this was done to cover up
the record regarding the bill to
appoint trustees of Goldsboro
Graded school, This is all Re-
publican testimony. The Graded
school bill passed the Senate,
but the House not only tabled it,
but put the "clincher" on it.
A day or two after this was
done, Munroe, of Wayne, found
the bill was in the Senate on the
clerks desk. He asked Senator
Grant to make a motion to have
it returned to the House. This
was not done. The House or
dered the bill to be returned to
it. The bill then could not be
found. Yesterday Mr.. Munroe
found it was on the enrolling
clerks record book, but the en-
rolling clerk looked for it and
said he could not find it. Munroe
kept on trail and last night found
the bill was in a batch brought
in to be enrolled. He called the
Speakers attention to the facts
in the case and thus prevented
ratification of the bill.
The above is the gauntlet run by
the Goldsboro Graded School
bill, with Yankee Grant as it's
father and engineer. That is
a specimen of the kind of legis-
lation he would enact and the
willy means he would resort to in
order to carry his desires to a
issue. It is in keeping
with his record and that of his
party for duplicity and Witness.
And yet this is the man that good
y "Jefersonian Democrats so
called-voted for. They said
they wanted pure Democracy
and so they fused with the Re-
publicans, the blacklist they could
find, redolent with the odor of
'68 and full Of the same old venom
and voracious greed for Of
flee, and the above report
is fair sample of the manner
of legislation they would en-
act and the unfair, high handed,
means they would
resort to.
The House had refused, by an
overwhelming vote, to pass
Grants graded school bill for
Goldsboro, and yet, by the aid of
his henchmen in the subordinate
offices of clerkships, he was
caught in the very act of 'under-
grounding" it into a law; and
when openly charged with it by
our representative Munroe, he
tried to bluff him off the track of
his rascality by getting mad
and still it took an eagle watch
to apprehend the bill, and by an
absolute personal watch of Mr..
Munroe, it was detected in
the last batch of bills that
came up for ratification in
the House, duly engrossed, al
though it had been killed dead
by polled vote of that body,
and was then and there, by the
consent of the Speaker of the
House, torn into shreds by Mr..
Munroe-and thus ended Yam
kee Grants pet bill, with Mr.. J.