Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-02-07
MONDAY.
SENATE.

SEN ATE.
In the Senate to-day the most
important bills were: To amend
the Code as to the formation of
corporations; to fix fees of regis
rers and clerks Of court; to re-
peal the act appropriating ten
thousand dollars to the Oxford
Orphan Asylum.
Bills passed final reading: Els
tablishing graded schools in
Kinston; to reduce registration
fees on lien bonds to so cents and
probate fee 10 cents.
Resolution was adopted that
the House and Senate in joint
sesaion Wednesday at s o. m,
lanta exposition.
HOUSE.
In the House the chief new
bills we're: To provide for the
printing of the history of the n.
q. regiments; to raise a commit
tee to investigate the fish com
mission; to inquire whether the
State owes Josiah Turner for the
public printing; to provide for
the office Of superior court stem
ographer; to amend the insur-
ance laws SO as to work forfeit
ure when companies appeal their
cases from State to Federal
courts; to simplify the taking of
testimony; to increase the APP
preparation to the colored agri-
cultural and mechanical college
$4,000; to forbid any State officer
to have free railway pass;
to amend the pharmacy act:
to prescribe the duties Of
solicitor and regulate their pay:
to amend the charter Of Char
lotte; to make it a crime for a
person in this State to injure an
other in another State; to incor-
porate the society for the pre-
vention Of cruelty to children.
Bills passed allowing all
county commissioners to exempt
firemen from poll tax; to allow
increase of school tax in Char
lotte.
A report in the contested cleo
ton case of Person VS. Munroe
from Wayne was made in favor
Of Munroe, sitting member.
Bills to punish delays by rail
ways in freight shipments was
unfavorably reported; to abolish
the death penalty and establish
courts Of oyer and terminer were
tabled.
Favorable reports were made
on a bill to create a new
county out of Robson; on
a bill to allow the people of
Cleveland county to vote on
liquor licences; to re-charter
Elizabeth City, and to give to the
school fund the uncalled for part
of the direct tax fund.
There was hot partisan debate
on a bill to allow cenvicts to be
worked on the public roads in
Wilkes and some other counties,
this arising out Of charges that
in Buncombe couny a woman had
been worked on the roads, shack
led and brutally whipped. This
brought up the whole question
Of county government.
Ewart's report to the House
on the Wayne case censures the
commissioners Of Wayne for
appointing incompetent poll
holders. They declined to send
a subcommittee to Wayne, but
sub penaed witnesses. The re-
port goes out to-day that the IT.
Irregularities were such as to
merit the attention of the grand
jury.
There was a minority report. Ray
asked why, if there was so much
rascality, the report was not in
favor of Person: Ewart said Ray
was the only man who had voted
against the resolution. Munroe,
rising to a question of personal
privilege said any allegations
made in the report against his
people were repealed, that the
vindication of their. honor did not
necessarily lie in this Legisla-
ture and that he thought the at
tack in the report was discourte-
Gus and ill-timed.
TUESDAY.