Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-03-21

every county in it, in order to
give a place to a partisan lawyer
and Senator. The expenses of
the legislative session were in
creased S., 900 over those of the
last Democratic Legislature, and
the sens and daughters and wives
of members of the Legislature
were quartered upon the State,
some of these women working
at the same tables with buck ne
groes. RESOLUTIONS in honor of
a negro miscegenationist were
adopted and an effort made after
wards to lie out of it.
Time would fail US to tell of
the deeds of a Legislature the
most Infamous of any but one
and pushing that one closely
that has ever sat in North Caro-
lima.
It's members, while candidates,
vapored about extravaganza, and
have increased the public ex-
|penses. They insisted on the
stump that salaries and fees
should be reduced. yet made a
reduction in no single instance.
They refused to reduce their own
per diem. They voted down a
resolution which provided that
no member of the Legislature
should fill a place of its creation
and filled up almost every place
created or that was made Vacant,
with its own members, to its
own shame and to the public
scandal. The party of the OPP
position has inveighed for years
against the free pass evil and
yet the Fusion legislators bit at
passes like pixies. They re-
fused to incorporate in their
election bill a provision that
election officers shall be men of
good moral character. Their reY-
enue bill was denounced by one
of their own men on the floor of
the House as the most Infamous
measure ever proposed in the
State. They did not scrupple to
charge each other with falsehood
and double-dealing. and as for
bills introduced, no member,
Democrat, Republican or Popu-
list had any security that they
would not be stolen, changed, or
the memoranda on them, altered
lso as to make them tell lies.
To crown all, a plastic Speaker
who waived his prerogauive at
the beginning of the session in
compliance with what all the
State believes. Notwithstanding
| his denial, to have been a bar
Igain, counted a quorum to get
bills through, rushed through in
the defiance of all law and pre-
cedent, and at last directed the
negro at the door to close it upon
the representatives of the peo-
pie, in order to keep in the hall
the Democratic representatives
IAN act which very nearly pre-
lcipitated a riot; an act far more
|high-handed and offensive than
many which have precipitated
riots in this country.
Not this did not crown all.
The growing act was the
leaving at Raleigh of a com
Imittee of three members, two OF
whom were drunk during the
session and both of whom have
been drunk ever since-one not
Ionly drunk but down-to investi-
lgate charges brought against
the judges and lawyers of the
Estate by a woman who has had
more or less:litigation,divorce anc
Iother lawsuits. and has beer
cast in one or more of her suits.
This committee is drawing 81 pei
day, salary and expenses besides,
land one of it's drunken members
said to the Observers Raleigl
correspondent Friday that he
was studying how to run up ex.
penses. They may continue il
nominal session as long as they
choose, and their per diem ano
Expenses are to be paid by the
State as long as they profess tt
sit.
The record of this session O
the Legislature has not yet beer
half told. When it is fully made
up and exposed in all of its hid
eous deformity a deceived ant
Outraged people will turn from
lit with disgust and loathing.