The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-31

the Committee on Finance, and that
said committee lie instructed 10 be
ready to report. Mt any time, the amount
appropriated at this session.
Mr.. Flack, II. B. 243, TO abolish
county boards Of education.
Mr.. Hileman moved that the Special
Committee on Election Law already
appointed be also the Committee on
County Government Carried.
Mr.. Lnsk, by unanimous consent.
took from the calendar II. B. III, to
amend section ), chapter 31S, laws OF
1893. to change the tax on the charters
of corporations from $50 to $50.
Mr.. French moved. for the moment,
that at II. a message be sent to the
Senate that the House was ready to
ballot tor United States Senators. Car
ried. The Speaker appointed as teilers
on the part of the House Messrs. Win
borne and Lusk.
H.. 1875 Is. B. 400, to reduce the
official bond of Pitt county reported
unfavorably) Tabled.
Said the Speaker: 'the hour OF II
having arrived the nomination OF Uni
ted States Senators are now in order.
the first being for the long term, begin
ming March 4, 1885,
Mr. Lusk thought the short term
Senator should be first nominated,
which was acquiesced in by the Speaker.
Mr.. Hunter of Madison nominated
Jeter G.. Pritchard tor the short term.
He said, in part
MIR. Speaker and Gentlemen 1t is
with unalleged qualification that | now
rise to name the next Republican Uni
ted States Senator from North Carolina
He is man whose name and reputation
are not bounded by county and State
lines, but are broad and extended as the
vast sisterhood of States of our Ameri.
can Union, and which, scorning the
petty restraints of continental boundary
lines, have leaped across the eastern
and western oceans, and established fol
him national and international fame
Without disparagement of any Other
man, may say that in the length and
breadth of our ""Old North State from
the serried heights of the Unaka on the
west, to where the wild waves Of the ole
Atlantic beat increasingly upon the
sand banks of Cape Hatteras on the
east, there is not man more eminently
fitted for this exalted station than he t(
whom | now refer"
1t was seconded by Mr.. Ewart, an6
also by Mr.. Turner.
Mr.. Ray nominated Lee S. Overma1
as follows:
Il present to this House the repre-
sentative Of party that has never sur
rendered its flag to any other party or
earth. We found at the end of the wa
that every power was in the hands O
the Republicans. You may take tht
prejudice and passion out of the Repub
hcan party, and / say to you here
before God, that it weuld go to pieces
in 60 days l have heard them &C
back into the charnal houses of The
past, and uncover the old dead corpse
of slavery, and have seen them faunt i
in the face of North Carolinians who
would give their blood for their State
the citizens of when Christ died t(
save. Such party Of hate cannot last
/ nominate here to-day man whose
every hope turns to the star of the fu
ture-who can say, this is my own, my
native land-whose interest is your in
terest whose honor is as stainless a:
the stars, Hon. Lee S. Overman, O.
Rowan. Great applause)
Mr. Overman nomination was sec
onded by Mr.. Robinson.
For the long term Mr.. Mitchell o
Franklin nominated Marion Butler a.
follows:
He is too we'll known to receive an,
eulogies. A man whom | love- Be
lieve me, | but reverberate in this tn
echo of thousands of people in Nortl
Carolina. This man is loved and hatet
as is no other man in North Carolina
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