The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-02-21
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
d LIS INTRODUCED In THE
HOUSE AND SENATE.
Republicans Score Butler-A Pnpu-
list Senator Created q Sensation
The State Guard.

list Senator Created q Sensation
The State Guard.
THURSDAY FEB. 14TH.
Bills were introduced in the Senate
Thursday as follows: To provide fol
lumber inspectors; to regulate the
drawing of jurors; to extend the time
for work to begin on the Greensboro
and Norfolk railway.
The Senate refused to concur in the
| House amendments to the bill to pun
ish delay by railways in shipment o
perishable freight. 1t tabled a bill
providing for compulsory education of
the blind, and passed bill to require
railways to redeem unused tickets and
to prevent ticket scalping.
In the House bills were introduced
To provide for the election of the
Commissioner of Agriculture by the
i Legislatures; TO require executors to
| give bond, and to promote the breed
I ing of better horses.
REPUBLICANS SCORE BUTLER.
Several Republicans resented at
tacks made by Marion Buffers paper,
The Caucasian, charging them with
trying to smother the 6 per cent. in
terest bill. They made some severe
ItmdIhS dOUuU DuUlcT dup Ills pressure
uuOn the Legislature, and they be-
came even more excited when Popu-
/ list said if the 6 per cent. bill was not
passed the PupuliStS would no Longer
! vote with the Republicans, and that
no more important bills would be
| passed.
An effort was made to suspend the
rules and put the interest bill on the
second reading. but failed.
| Rills UQrQ tabloid n nako Nov h
! a legal holiday and to Prevent prefer
| ences by inSOlvenL corporations.
A not debate was in progress when
| the House adjourned on the question
of transferring Mitchell county from
| the Eighth to the Ninth congressional
| district.
FRIDAY FEB. 18th.
In the Senate Friday a petition
was presented by the women OF the
State asking for an appropriation fur
the women's exhibit at the Atlanta
Exposition. Bill were introduced to
Incorporate a trSining school TO
| idiotic and weak minded children; to
remove the court house from Ruther-
fordton to Forest City; to define the
qualifications of train dispatchers; to
reduce the appropriation to the Oxford
Orphan Asylum.
Bills were passed requiring all cor
porations to pay cash for checks and
scrip; to require railways to redee m
| unused tickets: TO work convicts on
the public roads in Mcdowell, Lin
coin and Randolph; to protect the
holders of fire insurance . ,licies by
| making judgment lien Oh real aud
personal property Of the company.
In the House r NJ Normeut, of
Robson, was sworn in. Bills were in
PRODUCED To require the officers of cor
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To be sworn; to relieve building and
loan associations from uSuriOus COO
tracts. and permitting them to issue
insurance policies; to appropriate
s.. 200 TO the State Fair; to require
schools, colleges and churches TO be
Incorporated before clerks Of superior
courts: to pay superior court solicitors
So 900 salary. The bill to transfer
Mitchell county to the Ninth district
place the balance of the direct tax
fund to the credit of the school fund
passed second reading.
SATURDAY FEB. 18TH
The most important new hills in
PRODUCED in the Legislature Saturday
were to prevent duuole and unjust
taxa tiOp; to abolish trusts, mOnop
olies, and com binations, aud to pro
tect private corporations; to prevent
working of female convicts on public
roads; to repeal the appropriation To
the State Guard; to amend the build
and loan association laws; to require
superior court clerks to record all
money they receive; to protect Wins
tons water supply. Mr. WestmOre
land asked consent to introduce a bill
to amend the charter of the Winston
Salem Street Railway Company. Mr..
Wall, by consent, introduced d bill to
establish normal school for tue col
ored race at Winston.
Bills passed amending the charter of
the Wilmington and Southern Rail
way; to Incorporate the Peoples Fire
Insurance Company: to amend the
charter of Winston, so that the people
will elect the mayor.
WOULD NOT VOTE.
A Populist Senator created sensa-
tion by declaring that he would not
vote to amend charters for political
reasons only. The Senate made the
State temperance bill the special order
tor tomorrow TUESDAY The commit
tee reported it favorably.
Bills were tabled for hours of open
ing and closing of bar rooms; prescrib-
irg duties of solicitors and paying
them salary.
THE STATE GUARD.
mittee heard argument on bill to re
duce the State Guard appropriation.
and agreed to report, without preJu-
dice, a bill reducing the entire apprO-
priation to SO, 600. Adjutant General
Cameron. Capt. Thad. Jones, of the
United States army, and Commander
Arthur Winslow, of the naval reserve,
addressed the committee in opposition
to any reduction General Cameron
made an able presentation of the value
/ and the necessity for well maintain
ed guard.
MONDAY FEB 18TH
The principal new bills introduced
| in the Legislature Monday were the
| following:
To enforce the payment Of taxes on
| instalment debts; To incorporate the
| Morganton aud Shelby railway: to in
corporate the Roanoke Railway and
| Bridge Company; to regulate hours OF
| labor in manufactures; to provide for
| school taxes in each school district; to
| compel taxpayers to list their solvent
| credits; to incorporate the Carolina
| Mutual Fire Insurance Company; to
| appropriate s., 900 for the woman's ex-
| hibit at the Atlanta Exposition; to
amend the Constitution by prohibi
| ing any officials from taking free
passes from railways; and to provide
| for revision and digest of the public
| laws.
A bill to create another cause OF d.
vorce was tabled by the SeLate.
LEGAL RATE OF INTEREST.
| TptereSt Yesterday centered in the