The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-04-11
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The new assignment law has
raised a stir among the Fusion
bosses and several of them have
assembled at Raleigh at the instance
of Richmond Pearson. They have
seen the wrath and Indignation of
the people and realize that their foot
is in it pretty deep. How TO get out
of the hole is the problem that con-
fronts the relics OF the Douglass
Legislature.
Pearson wanted the Governor to
call au extra session. but this plan
wouldn'6 work, not with Elias. He
does not wish to inilict such an
affection upon the people of his
State. After the failure of the extra
session plan, Walser, Russell, HE
man and others Of the ring-streaEed
tube were hastily summoned to con
fer with the Duke Of Richmond, who,
after the pow-Wow OF the faithful,
gives it as his opinion that the
Speaker and Lieutenant Governor
Gid not sign the bill, but that the
covering of another bill, which was
signed by them, was slipped on this
bill by some one.
If the Dukes position be correct,
who did the slipping? Who could
have doneit, save some of the Fusion
gang?
Efforts have been made to fasten
the responsibility of the bill upon the
Democrats and the Fusion hearts
would be filled with delight if they
could oaly succeed in doing this.
Bat the facts are against them and
it is not likely they will be able to
either wiggle or lie out of it.
The original bill was INTRODUCED by
Il Democrat, but the original bill is a
very different thing from the bill
that was enacted Ivy the stamping
process. The bill as introduced was
as follows:
Section /. That all conditional
sales, assignments, mortgages or
deeds in trust which are executed to
secure any debt, obligation, note or
bond which gives preferences to any
creditor of the maker, shall be alb
solutely void as to existing creditors,
except those given to secure cash
advanced at the time of the execu-
ton of the same, or to secure ad.
vancement for farming purposes.
Sec . That all laws in conflict
with this act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 8 This act shall be in force
from and after it's ratification.
The Finance Committee, of which
"Reformer" Hileman was chairman,
repoi ted this bill favorably, with an
amendment to strike out all after
the word creditors" in the first sec
ton, thus doing away with the say
ing clauses that it should not apply
to mortgages ''given to secure cash
advanced at the time OF the execu-
ton of the same or to secure ad
yancement for farming purposes.
Then, although the bill, which was
found Tuesday bore the endorsement
TABLED March II, 1885," it was
certified to the Lieutenant Governor
and Speaker of the House by the
committee on enrolled bills, which
committee was composed exclusive
Iy of Republicans and Populists-
not a single Democrat OH it. And,
as the News and Observer points out,
mot a single solitary Democrat was
employed in either the Principal or
Enrolling Clerks office" and further,
if anybody paid anybody to forge
the bill through, no Democrat was in
a position to be involved"
1t is quite evident that the bill was
forged through. By whom and at
whose instance? These questions
cannot he answered to the satisfac-
ton of the people by q broad,
unsupported intimation that the
Democrats did it.