The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-01-31

the gentleman 10 give two hours To
consider the minority report ard re-
serve only forty minutes Tor discussion
by the majority. The agreement was
reached that IN. previous question
should be called at !. 10 p. m, and the
vote Immediately taken at that time.
Mr.. Feeble. took he floor and argued
the question from Il legal standpoint.
He charged that the dissenting opin-
ion Of Judge Clark. of the Supreme
Court. was not sustained by a single
authority. He read over much of the
testimony and read many legal author
tiles. He spoke till ] IL O'Clock.
Mr.. Duffie, OF Onslow, spoke till seven
minutes OF two o'clock. He used some
violent language toward the oth her side
OF the House, and said he did not see
how any man. who had taken an oat h
to support the Constitution of the State.
could vote for the report of the ma
jori'y. lie was interrupted by Mr..
Turner, Mr.. Ewart and others and
called on To modify some of his express
sions. He insisted that the contestant
could not be seated without violating
the election law, as construed by the
Supreme Court. Mr.. Duties Irish
blood seemed fully aroused for the con-
|
hemence, and sometimes transcended
the bounds of legitimate debate in his
charges against those vino opposed the
report of the minority.
Mr.. Ewart said II have reached the
conclusion that ii will be impossible 20
come TO any understanding that will
satisfy the gentleman from orthamp-
ton and his adherents that any con
testant for seat in this house shall be
seated. When you made out your case
you denied that the action of your can
vassing board was illegal. Your at
torney, an able and honorable gentle
man, the counsel for the contested. ad-
mitted that it was illegal. Any con-
trOversy here about whether these IOo
men voted: None at all. He cannot
force me to say that spit upon the de-
clSlOn OF the supreme court. | never
cross bridge till | come to it. The
decision in the case of Harris vs.. scar
borough, by the majority of the court,
was a political decision. You know.
deep down in your hearts, that the
opinion of Judges Davis and Clark
was a just and righteous decision. 1T
is the fault of the registrar, and not the
fault of the voter, that he is not legally
registered. His vote must be counted.
This is the decision of the court.
This Democratic Registrar, Bobbitt
says: Il registered every man who
wanted to vote, whether white or black.
[ registered them according to the
state in which they were born. |
thought this was a valid registration.
L registered one man who could not
tell in what state he was born, because
| believed he had ri ght to Vote He
was an honest man. He believed that
these lO2 voters had right to register,
and that he had legally registered
them. They went away believing that
they were properly registered, and un-
der the election law, as construed by
your own supreme court, their votes
should be counted.
at has been charged in this debate
that the members on this side of the
house were about to vote upon prop
OsitiOn that they did not understand
/ believe that the gentlemen on this
side of the chamber are endowed with
at least modicum of common sense
and | resent the charge as a slander.
1t was asked if we didn't take an
oath to obey the constitution of the
United States and the laws of North
Carolina We did, and we propose to
| hCCp tIIdl Id w dS COIlStl utu DN tHc tou
preme court and uuder the cOnstruc-
tiOn of the Supreme court, even under
the present election law, no voter can
be deprived of his right to vote, if the
fault in his registration, is OccasiOned
by fault in the registrar. He read
from the Supreme court decision.
. These gentlemen know as well as
any man knows that this registrar
Bobbitt, put down the names of those
voters and led them to believe that they
. were properly registered.
He asked the gentleman from North
> hampton if he did not believe the de
, cision of Judge Clarke was right. Mr.
PEBBLES replied, "NO! sir"
Mr.. White called attention to the fac
that the Democratic side of the hous'
. were now taking precisely th'
} opposite side of the question
that they took in 1889 whel
= Wolf Pitt township in Richmono
1 county was thrown out to count in :
7 Democrat. That Legislature over
: ruled the decision of the Superior cOur
which decided that COvingtOn was en-
titled TO the seat which they gave to
Democrat.
f Mr.. White was asked if he was not
: good Democrat then? He answered
: that he was and just because of sucl
e things he had quiz the Democrats
: party in disgust.
The hour having expired the repor
r of the minority was put upon its pas
c sage and lost. Ayes Al noes 80.
:. The report of the minority was thel
called up and passed by the foltowin!
e tie. Ayes SO noes 30, Mr.. WOOdar'
n of Swain was paired with Mr.. McLeal
= of ioh Nhnca 20
Messrs. Aiken, Abbott, Alexander 0
f Tyrrell. Bagwell, Bateman, Bear
: Brown, Bryan, Cheek, Chilcutt, Cox
j Crumel, Currie, Drew, Duncan, Elledgt
: Ellis, Ewart, Flack, French, Harris o
CASTOR, Harris of Hyde, Henderson
Il Hileman, Hopkins, Huffman, Hunter
: Keathley ,Leary, Linebach, ,Lusk, ,Maye:
McCauley Mcleod, Michael, Mitchell
# Morrow, Norman, Peace, Petree, Phil
Y lips of Randolph, Reynolds, Self, Smit
n of Caswell, Smith of Cleveland Spea
d Stikeleather, Strickland, Taylor. Tur
ner of Mitchell, Vickers, Walker, w hit
: Whitener, Williams of Craven, Wooter
d Young.
Those voting no were Messrs. Alex
o ander of Mecklenburg, Baker, Carlyl,
l. Duffy, Eewards GallOp, Gizzard, Hal
relson, Harrington, Higgins of ALE
'f ghany, Higgins of 1ancey, HoOke
IF House, Howard, Julian, King, Law
renee, Lee, Mckenzie MewbOrne Ne
J. son, PEBBLES, RascOe, Ray, Reinhard
Robinson, Saunders, Smith of Stanl
20 Stevens, Thomas, Tomlinson, Wick.
ie Ayes SO, Noes 81.
Mr.. w. II. Crews, who is bla6
Of man, then came forward and took II
as oath of Office.
h. The Chair announced the fOllOwin
IN committees and the house adjOurns
Or till Friday 10 a. m.
COMMITTEES.
Committee on Banks and Currency
Bryan, chairman: Gentry, McKinne
t. Henderson, Linney, Taylor, Bean, Du
+ can, Lineback, Mccall, PEBBLES, Vic
IN Saunders.
he Committee on Election Of Justices of {
ly Peace-Ewart, chairman: Chilcu