The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-02-28

hour and after being In session less
than half an hour. on motion Of Mr..
Young, of Wake, the House adjourned
out OF respect TO tb. memory Of Robert
l. Lee. the same being his birthday.
On the zlst day OF February q resolu-
ton to adjourn from Thursday until
saturday. out OF respect to the m~m-
DRY OF Geerg. Washington. was offered
by Mr.. Williams, OF Craven. and was
passed by very large ma ority-the
same was not concurred in by the SEN
ate. The house met the next day IS
usual; motion was made BY Mr.
Lusk To adjourn out OF respect to the
memory of George Washington, the
same being his birth day. and the same
was adopted unanimously and
Whereas, On the alst day of Febru-
airy, a resolution was offered by Mr..
Crews Of Granville that the House ad-
journ at Il o'clock out Of respect to
Frederick Douglass, whose sudden
death had just been announced.
The House did not agree To adjourn
at this hour. but W hen the purpose OF
the motion was explained To simply
give publicity 10 the sudden and I'M
expected death of this distinguished
deceased, il was concurred in by all
parties and as matter OF fact the
House did not adjourn until 81
minutes after the time required by the
rules for adjournment.
Now, therefore, be it resolved
that in the interest of truth and
accuracy of history, the utter
ances and expressions of the
Democratic press in this connection
are denounced as unjust, untrue, mis-
leading, malicious and libellous.
Resolved further that this record, as
above recited, and resolution be spread
upon the minutes of the House.
Mr.. Smith of Gates offered an amend
ment to the resolution that the resolu-
ton contain also the statement that
Mr.. Smith of Gates moved to amend
by saying that we do NOR adjourn in
honor of Washington's birthday. The
amendment was voted down by vote
of 80 to %. Mr.. Ewart. Mr.. McCauley.
Mr.. Mcleod, and Mr.. Self being excus-
ed from voting. Those voting for the
amendment were
Ayes-Messrs. Crawford, Gallop,
Grizzard, HARRISON, Harrington,
Higgins of Yancey, Hooker,
House, Howard, Julian, King, Law
renee, Lee, Mccall, McClammy Nelson,
Rascoe, Ray Reinhardt, Robinson.
Saunders, Smith of Gates, Stevens,
Thomas, Wick, Woodland. Ayes -.
Noes-Messrs. Abbott, Aiken,
Alexander, of Tyrrell, Bagwell,
Brown, Bryan, Buchanan, Camp
bell, Cheek, Chilcutt, Cox, Crews,
Groom, Crumpler, Duncan, Ehedge,
Ellis, Harris of CASTOR, Hileman, Hop
kins, Huffman, Hunter, johnson, Lem
back, Lusk, Mayes, Norman,
Norment, Peace, Reynolds, Smith of
Caswell, Smith of Robson, Speas, SUIT
ton, Turner of Mitchell, Turner of
Polk, Whitener, Williams, Young.
Noes 80.
The resolutions of Mr.. Lusk then
passed by vote of 53 to 20, Mr.. Flem-
| ing and Mr.. Smith being excused from
voting. Those voting aye were Messrs.
Abbott, Aiken, Alexander of Tyrrell,
Bagwell, Bateman, Bean, Brown,
Bryan, Buchanan, Burnham, Camp
bell, Cheek, Chilcutt, Cox. Crews,
Crumpler, Dixon, Elledge, Ellis, Eth
eridge, Ewart, Henderson, Hile,nan,
Hopkins, Huffman, Hunter, johnson,
Leary, Leinbach, Lusk, Mayes, Nc
Cauley. Michael, Norment, Peace, Pc
tree, Phillips of Pitt, Phillips of Ran
dolph, Pool, Reynolds, Smith of Cas-
well, Smith of Cleveland, Smith of
Robson, Speas, Squires, Sutton,
Turner of Mitchell, Turner Of Polk,
Walker, White, Whitener, Yates,
Young. Ayes %.
Those voting no were: Messrs. Alex
| ander of Mecklenburg Crawford, Gal
| lop, Grizzard, Harrelson, Harrington,
Higgins of Allegheny, Higgins of
Yancey, Hooker, House, Howard, Ju-
liam, kell, King, Lawrence, Lee Mccall,
McClammy, Nelson, PEBBLES, RascOe,
Ray, Robinson, Saunders, Smith of
Gates, Stevens, Thomas, TOmlinson,
Wick. Noes 80.
| Senate bill, 81, was cOncurred in, and
the rest of the morning was spent in
discussing senate bill 47S, to make
all script, due bills, checks or other evil
dences of debt payable at the discre-
ton of the holder in money or produce
The DILL passed its third reading on
a roll call-ayes SO, noes 1.
Those voting in the negative were
Messrs Bean, Campbell, Cheek, and
| Howard.
| Messrs French and Mckenzie were
| granted leave of absence.
The house adjourned till 10 O'Clock
a. m. today.