The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-03-05

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to investigate election lrsuds in Ger
tain localities.
Dula, for the relief of certain tax
of fire.
Hurley, bill to amend chapter S77,
laws 1893, relating to a state banking
system.
Also. a bill to amend chapter 311,
laws 1893. concerning ex Confederate
soldiers peddling without license.
Also, q bill to incorporate Mt. Gilead
church, Montgomery county.
Fowler, bill TO prohibit the sale and
manufacture of liquor within three
miles of Goshen Baptist church, in
Sampson county.
Black. bill TO incorporate Spring
Greek Free Will Baptist church in
Mitchell county.
Also, by request, q bill to repeal
chaDter=997, laws 1889.
Mercer, bill to incorporate the town
of St. Louis, Edgecombe county.
Starbuck, bill to incorporate Westana
Milling ano Mining Company of Gull
ford county.
II CONCURRENT CALENDAR
was taken up and an amendment bv
the house of representatives to bill tO
allow MoLtgomery county to sell part
OF the Jail lot in the town of Troy was
concurred in and the bill ordered to
be enrolled for ratification.
Also, a bill to regulate the time for
holding the superior court of Cumber-
land county, with a House amendment,
which was concurred in, and the bill
was ordered to be enrolled for ratiica.
ton.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
Bill to incorporate the Sanford, Lii
liDgton and Eastern Railroad com
pany.
To change the time for holding the
superior court Of Durham county;
passed.
For the relief of 8, E Petty, a school
teacher in Robson county; passed.
To amend the charter of the city of
Wilmington, in New Hanover county.
SPECIAL ORDERS
being Senate bill pa, known as the
Ladies' Monument Association bill,
providing for a loan from what is
known as the Direct Tax Fund, now
remaining in the State treasury un-
claimed by those to whom it is due.
The bill provides to loan the Ladies'
Monument Association q sum not to
exceed $40, 600, with which to complete
and pay fol- the monument to the mem
DRY of the eX Confederate soldiers of
North Carolina now being erected upon
Capitol Square.
MI. Moody contended that the money
did not belong TO the State, but to her
individual citizens. The State a
lend it, and if loaned, the good ladies
of the Ladies' Monument Association
will pay it back. The State may have
the power, but she has no legal right
to appropriate it to the school fund.
The State stands only in the position Of
trustee of the fund. 1t might be loaned
to the school fund and it may be
loaned to the monument association.
The ladies ask such a loan. They have
had appropriated from this same fund
some money and every dollar of it has
been faithfully accounted for. In re-
gard to the subject of education Mr.
Moody said no greater educators were
aver erected than the many mOnu-
ments of our land erected in memory
of DUR great men
Mr.. Newborne-Egypt had erected
the greatest monuments the world has
aver known, but when she forgot her
common people there was nothing left
but her pyramids Babylon and Rome
had made great records with walls,
colloseums and other things of like
characters, but when they neglected
the education of their common people
their lights went out. There was q far
greater duty we owe to the little ones
left orphans by the late civil strife in
this country than the plling up of cold
stone far away from the moUldering
bodies of their brave soldier fathers
who died upon the battlefield. He had
never doubted the honesty of the good
ladies but he appealed to them to Dor
row the money from other sources.
He advocated the appropriation Of the
direct tax fund to the school fund of
the State. apply it to the brains of
our children and not pile it up in cold
stone and marble to be only looked
upon and admired by the passer- by in
the city of Raleigh. Would this legis-
lature take from the State University
or our Normal schools to put into this
marble shafE7 If y on dare not do this,
how can you do this proposition as
provided for in the pending bllll The
common people of our State must be
recognized and their welfare and ele-
walton must be the object of our legis
lature before we loan from our limited
means t build monuments of stone for
admiration.
The bill failed to passages 8, noes
%
Mr. Forbes in explaining his vote on
the bill said:
When l was canvassing my district,
travelling a lonely road. L~heard q
plantlve voice in the distance. l could
not tell from whence it came. But on
approaching a poverty stricken cabin
I beheld q beautiful little maiden In
tatters and rags. Her golden rlnglets
were streaming down her back, and
her bare feet we're pRttlng the ground
With an old tin pan in her lap and a
oonnIo Of ntickr che Was heating q LII. /