The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-17
THE LEGISLATURE.
ORGANIZATION AND ELECTION
OF OFFICERS.
WaIser Speaker.

TIRE which will make a record AZ the
.Fusionlst Legislature OF 1895" assem-
bIed in Raleigh, Wednesday, Jan. 9Th
Ljeutanant Governor DoughtOn was IN
his seat at II O'Clock and promptly an
that the hour had arrived for
the Senate. He let fall his
payel and requested Senators holding
to come forward and take
the oath Of office. Chief clerk W. q.
Rurkbead called the roll. Hill l..
King Of Onslow was elected chief clerk.
Spencer Blackburn Of Cleveland was
elected reading clerk.
D. K. Wallace was elected engross-
Ing clerk. T. n Halliburton was elected
door-keeper and d. McMathison assist
ant
Cook of Warren and Abel OF Johnston
we're appointed to notify the Governor
that the Senate was ready for business.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
Just at noon J. w. Brown chief clerk
IF the last House called the new House
to order
Rev. d. II. Tuttle of Central NJ. +.
Church offered the opening prayer.
The counties were called and the Rep
resentatives presented their certificates
and took the oath of office, which was
administered by Associate-Justice Wal
ter Clark. 1t took 80 minutes to adj
minister the oath to all. There were
two ladies in the gallery. Usually
there are more at the opening, but the
Indictment weather, it was thought.
kept them away. Tho re were 12O
members present.
At O'Clock the election Of Speaker
was taken up.
V. S. Lusk nominated Zeb Vance
Walser R. B. PEBBLES nominated J.
F. Raw. The vote stOOd--Walser, y
Ray, 43 Walser was escorted to the
chair and "read brief speech"
Following clerks were elected chief
S. p. Satterheld of Person; reading
clerk, John A. Chaplin assistant clerks,
J. McDufiie of Cumberland, E. D.
Stanford and J r. Hancock of Lenoir
door-keeper, A. J. Moye Of Pitt j; assist
ant door-keeker, A. r. Middleton (col-
ored) of Dupiin.
G. f. French, A. R. Hileman and r
B. PEBBLES were appointed a committee
to notify the Governor that the House
was ready for business
THURSDAY, JAN. 10.
SENATE.--PresidentD oughton raped
the Senate to order promptly at II
o'clock. A motion to make the rules
Of the last Senate the rules until new
ones could be formulated was lost.
Senator Franck, of Onslow, offered a
resolution that three Senators be APP
pointed to prepare rules for the Senate
Adopted
The chair appointed as this commit
tee Senators Rice (Rep) of New Han
over, Hamrick (Pop.) of Cleveland, and
Adams (Dem.) of Moore.
Senator Abel of Johnston, introduce
ed bill entitled an act to restore SIX
Per cent. as the legal rate of interest
Without objection, the bill was placed
upon the calendar.
Senator Mewborne of Lenoir, intro
duced bill to repeal the charter of the
State Farmers Alliance and to restore
the old charter, when was amended by
the last General Assembly. The bill
was passed and ordered to be sent to
the House. Upon this bill the five
Democratic Senators did not vote.
HOUsE.-The Speaker called the
House to order and after correction OF
names business began.
A message from the Governor was
announced, and Major S. F. Telfair
the Private Secretary of his Excellency
walked down the aisle with the Docu-
ment which he delivered to the Speak
er, together with the reports from the
several State Departments.
The reading of the Governors mes
sage began II 80, and was concluded
at l 20, the reading being continuous
1t covered about ninety-nlne pages OF
typewriter matter, and comprised
about $4,000 words There was only
one copy available for the Legislature
so the poor Senate had none, and the
message was, therefore, not read yester
day in that body.
The now Readinp-C1nrl ChoYip