The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-03-14


AMENDED CHARTERS.
Bills amending the charters of Dur
ham. Alb.marie ~wansboro. ~tafe~-
Vile. M"cksyiIle. Wayne,rilIe, A>he-
willie, Morgauton. Ga>ionia, Ralrigh.
East Bend. Iadkin county: Old Fort,
New BERN
BILLS RATIFIED.
The President gave notice II the
ratification of the following acts:
To incorporate Eastern Carolina
Christian Conference.
To incorporate the Roanoke Railway
and Bridge company.
To incorporate the Carolina Saying-
Bark
To amend the charter Of the Char
iottee Street Railway company. .
To protect deer in Mitchell county.
TO invalidatr an election held in
Mitchell county on railroad bonds.
TO Incorporate the Congdon Tram
way company.
To change the time for holding the
superior courts Of Durham county.
For the relief Of Abram b. Cook OF
New Hanover county.
TO incorporates the Carolina Chris
tian college.
TO amend the Code and restore to
he people of North Carolina local self
government.
TO place II. W. Garrison and G.. ".
Pannell on the pension roll.
Resolution to pay the expenses Of
the subcommittee which visited the
State farms.
To protect cutters and sellers of mill
ogs in Hyde. Pamiico and OnsIow
TO amend the charter Of Chapel Hill
in Orange county.
70 provide for the election of Jus
tices of the Peace.
To incorporate Rockingham County
Fair Association.
To declare the Raleigh Water COM
pany and to amend, extend and enlarge
its charter.
To allow citizens of Cleveland cOun-
ty TO regulate sale of liquor by popular
vote.
The House met at 10 a. m. Prayer
by DIR. Branson. The journal was par
TALLY read. The usual committees re-
ported.
Leave of absence was granted TO Mr..
X keathley.
Mr.. Lusk arose to question OF per-
Sblldl priv lltSt on ali eNllOTld1 III tIIt
Rutherford Democrat:
"The man who wrote that expression
could have had no other object in view.
| Il beg pardon for calling him a man
| will say the coward who wrote that
article, could have had no other object
in view, han to humilate political op-
ponent by stating in his paper what
he must have known to be falsehood
when he penned the article, in as much
as he is citizen of the town in which
the gentleman referred to lived and
had his being, and as there appears
to be disposition on the part of the
Democratic newspapers in the State of
North Carolina to misrepresent the
| facts of the unfortunate encounter be-
tween ShOtwell and myself, | will
| take the occasion to state the facts of
the case as they were, and to put for
| ever to rest these slanderouS misrepre-
| sensations of that unfortunate en-
counter. | shall do SO with reluct-
ance, because the man who took part in
it is dead. When God Almighty lays
his hand upon man, | always take my
hand off, and would do so now
| if left to pursue my own inclination
and wishes in the matter. In 1869.
when ShOtWell was the editor of the
AsheVille Citizen, during a heated po-
litical excitement, | got into cOntro-
versy with that paper. The editor was
stranger to me. | had never met
that gentleman. | was in cOnyersa-
ton with the Hon. }. II. Merrimon,
when, not knowing that danger lurked
anywhere on the face of the earth
some one unknown to me, sneaked up
behind me and struck me with club
| shot at the coward. for | was armed
but when he turned and threw up his
arms, eXclaimlng, L am not armed |
desisted from further attack. Mr.
Shotwell was indicted by the court
He came into court and was tried be-
fore Judge Bailey. When the case was
called begged the court not to punish
the unfortunate man, and when the
court heard the appeal he went unpun-
ished. Then Mr.. Shotwell left my
town. When the ku lux broke out il
Rutherford he was arrested. | was the
solicitor of the district. | found the un.
fortunate Shotwell bound over to court
| was directed by the Attorney Gen.
eral of the United States to prose
cute Shotwell. | absolutely refused t,
do it. He was prosecuted by Mr.. San
Phillips of this place. He was con.
tary. Shortly afterWard | was ap
pealed to by friends of the unfortunat,
man to use my influence for his re
lease, and at the instance of Mr.. Plat
Durham | appealed to Mr.. Grant. A
my instance the President extended t,
him executive clemency. He and
came back TO North Carolina on th'
same train. He knew he had his lib
erty at my Instance, and yet he Heyel
expressed a word of gratitude for III,
services in his behalf
The committee on enrolled bills re
ported that the following had heel
properly
SPECIAL ORDER-REYENUE ACT.
The revenue bill was then taken uI
Mr.. French moved to strike out sectiol
: 26, containing the tax on drummers
; The motion was adopted.
: Mr.. Leinbach moved to amend sec
tion 20. line l, by striking out tn
f words tobacco warehouse men, Tn
amendment passed. The motion
f was then made by Mr.. Sutton to recon
slider the action Just taken; motion
: lost by "a to 80.
2 Mr.. French moved to strike out com
2 mission merchant.
1 Mr.. Smith moved to strike out tn
= whole sentence, and made speech i
the interest of the peanut farmers.
f Mr. Henderson moved to amend b
e exempting farmers from all take
t whatever. He said they wanted t
= strike out taxes against merchant:
= drummers and Warehousemen, and fo
: Gods sake let the farmer be exempte
2 from something. The amendment wa
lost.
d Mr.. Hileman called for the preyiOu
: question.
: Mr. PEBBLES demand the ayes an
: noes on amendments.
5 The demand was not sustained.
: Mr.. Burnham moved to amend b
changing one per centum to = of on
n per centum: motion lost.
a Mr.. Hileman offered an amendmeI
e as substitute to insert again "tobacC
: war ehouseman and change 'One Pc
centum' to L of one per centhm on h
S commissions"