The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-07-25
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TINE PRESENT LEGAL RATIO OF I6
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DEMOCRATIC EFFORT TO DESTROY
STATE AUTONOMY.
The most recent brsy from the
Democratic Douglassass machine"
is over the Revenue Act passed by
the last legislature. 1t Is one last,
expiring effort to make = bad look
ing record for the General Assembly.
1t is q hoarse, wheezy, hard breath
ing, disjointed kind of a squawk; and
is about on par with other squawks
which have come from the same
source.
Al 10 well known, this machine
has made every effort which their
combined brains and meanness could
devise to discredit the Peoples legis-
lature Of 1895. They have savagely
condemned some actions and in the
next breath been forced to approve
those very acts. Then they began
to look for indicted Ps and uncross-
ed t's, and when they found one they
set up y hoarse howl about the stu
pidity and incompetency of the legis-
lature. An error in the name of a
newly elected magistrate has been
sufficient to constitute glorious in
splration for an assinine concert of
brsys, blows and wheezes that would
make young thunder and wind
storm ashamed of itself. Poor
fellows! 1t is almost q pity that
something terrible was not done by
the legislature by accident or other
wise 30 that they could have some
thing to wheeze and bray about,
without being forced to make a
record of such blackness and decep-
ton as to defy eradication.
The living truth is that the last
legislature was one of the most COM
petent and efficient in every respect
that ever assembled in North Caro-
lima. Former Assemblies, aud es.
pecially those under Democratic
regime have simply been terrific.
The records have been turned over
in such miserable condition as to al
most battle comprehension; but then
they we're Democratic legislature;
Democratic officials did not make
very much complaint; and Democratic
papers never would tell the people
about the condition of things be-
cause it would be rejecting on y
Democratic legislature. We are
goirg to prove this statement by
quoting from Secretary of State
Coke's report in 1893 when Demo-
cratic gang was in control. The
Secretary says Public Document No.
2, lsaaCpage A.
81 feel 1t my duty to call attention to
the evils following from the enrolment
of the bills passed by the Legislature.
These bills, in many cases, are 50 dis
figured by erasures and blOts as to
make them almost illegible. Omissions
of one or more words in other bills
have lost, in one case, considerable
revenue to the State, and in others
have destroyed the real purpose of the
statute and impaired the rights of in
dividuals."e
This is . pretty severe indictment
against the gang by one of It's own
officials. Bills almost alleqi5le! "Con-
siderable revenue to the State" lost!!
DESTROYED the real purpose Of the
statute!W All by a Democratic legis-
lature. And yet neve, a word was
heard of this miserable, buDgling
work through the Democratic press.
We have cited the above to lead to
the cause of the last Doug assass
bray. They say there is no "ratifi-
cation clause" to the Revenue Act,
and therefore it is void. A suit will
be brought 10 test its legality.
The facts are these. 1t was the
clear intent of the legislature that
the machinery bill and revenue bill
should constitute one Act. They
are both printed together and at the
end of the machinery bill the usual
ratification clause appears; but at the
end of the revenue bill, which pre-
cedes and is bound with the ma
chinesy bill, there is no ratification
clause on the original copy.
n
It was not until the laws were
printed that the Douglassasses be-
gan to bray. They raised the usual
row over the absence of the ratifica-