The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-20


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FRIDAY, March 20, 1896.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Col Harry Skinner tells the Washing
ton Post that the feeling in the First
district is almost unanimous for fusion
again between the Popllists and Re-
publicans.
Mr.. John I'll. Inman looks to see cot
ton still further advance. He expects
it to go to8A to 8hc. before the season
is over. He says while trade in Amer
lea is very bad, perhaps worse than
at any time for thirty years. trade is
good in Europe, and they VIII take
quantity of cotton.
The Iowa Legislature has passed an
anti-cigarette BILL 1t absolutely pro-
habits the sale of cigarettes under any
at wholesale for shipment out of the
State 1t is claimed by some lawyers
that the bill is unconstitutional be-
cause tobacco has been held to be 81
legitimate article of commerce and the
State cannot interfere with traffic in
it between the States.
Vice-President Stevenson tells this
story on himself. He was on trip to
Alaska last summer when q reception
was given him in one of the cities of the
Northwest He had shaken hands with
several hundred peple when little old
lady came along. She looked ut the
Vice-President with a critical and
a plainly disappearing air.
s'Are YOU the Niee-President Of the
United States ?" she asked at length.
II have that honor said Mr.. Steyesa-
son, modestly.
"Well,' said the old lady, with a
doubtful shake of the bead, Il never
would have believed it. ST. Louis Re-
public.
The board of directors of the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company held a meeting
in New York yesterday. George
Arents, the treasurer, says that only
routine business was transacted. Re-
garding the report that the company
was about to Issue an addition $1,000
900 preferred stock, he said: THE di-
rectors have taken no action in regard
to such an issue, and when they do the
public will know it,. He did not know
If they intended taking such action.
In reference 10 impending law suits, or
the inroads that the competition of st.
Louis firms are making on the trade of
this company, Mr.. Arents said: Law
suits do not bother us at all. Neither
does competition. We sell our own
brands and that is all we care about. ;"
Mr.. Arents would not discuss the ques-
ton of a dividend on the common stock.
In consequence OF the disgraceful
conduct of the gold standard Demo
Gratis in Kentucky. the old Blue Grass
State will have to go with only a half
representation in the United States
Senate for at least a year. The fact
that the Legislature refused to avail
itself of its constitutional right to elect
depriyes the governor of the privilege
of filing the vacancy by appointment.
The Federal Constitution clearly de-
fines this privilege in Section 3, of Ar
ticle /, as follows:
IF vacancies happen by resignation,
or otherwise, during the recess of the
Legislature of any State, the executive
thereof may make temporary appoint
ments until the next meeting of the
Legislature, which shall then fill such
vacancies"
This provision was applied few
years ago in the cases of the appointed
Senators from the Northwestern States
The Senate refused to admit them be-
cause they were not appointed to fill
vacancies created during a recess OF the
Legislature. Such a vacancy can only
be created by resignation, death or inn
parchment.
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