The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-02-28

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and that they were elected because they
were for a dispensAry. He SAID Frank
O'Donnell, president of tBheI Stage Liquor
| Dealers Association, was here working
iaapainst thetnbill, Uand ahau 81 lobby iahere,
| iand cit lreared had secured some MEM
| tbers as workers ;J'IIe declared shat the
| fight was the people against the saloons;
Chat the ftlispenssry prevented night
drinking. No lfuuor -is now allowed to be
fssoiH fff BtinconBe at Asheville. -
Murphy said The 'bilf gave the entire
eodnty of lBuncombe the right 20 vote on
the uuesti8n Of a d:spensary at Ashetille;
| lthat if it left the vote TO, the people Of
9ASheyiile he would support it. 80
Tusk said he wished To DISCUSS the
Question dispassipnately; lie, begged the
LEG: Stature to let Buneombe county govern
! itself and lei. it settle, this matter ip its
good old honest way; that it was a local
matter. He asked that proper cons<dera-
| ton be paid Gambler and himself and
| let them look after, the affairs. of their
| own, county; their own domestic affairs.
| He declared his advocacy Of the bill was
| because the people of Runcombe wanted
| it. He said there were IL bar-r0oms IN
Ashevilles and one at kenilworth. The
question is whether Buncombet shall con-
troll it's own affairs or whether the out
| side world should control. nft eai
Blackburn took ground against the bill,
and said he knew that Ids stand was not
popular, that the Ill win Of the good wo-
men fell upon the head of q man who
attacked the dispensary. He declared that
he maintained the rights of the keep
I ers: that they were citizens; that they
| were licensed; that he was willing to vote
for a bill to submit the liquor question to
| the whole people of the State; that the
/ question of O. disnensary at AsheYdlle
should be spbmitted to the people OF
| Asheyille. He denied that members were
working to defeat this bill, He said the
/ baT-roons 4of .Asheyille pad Stwo7thsrds
/ of. the expenses OF the schools OF Ashe-
vile. Lusk said this WIS Hutruei that
tbs, schools were maintained by "a special
tax and not by eent.pf liquor tax.iLpsk
asked Blackburn if he ;woRld support 8
dispensary law for alleof .Buneembe
Blackburn said he Was speaking TO thls
bill. He denounced The dispensary sys-
tenn: that-the State WAS trying to put
| itself I'm the, place of the bar-keepers
| whom ct denounced. He said he had
/, heard mem here say There WAS an agree
ment between the. people of! Buncombe
and Lusk that the latter should not inter
!. fer,e with this idispensary BUSINESS. Lusk
/ said this was agfalsehood, and thai
I Blackburn had hetters retraet 10 before II
got cold. nna BATS ~ rahg19Aitf
Is d aisk called THE previous question. II
twas orgeredat The question came up On
the passage OF the Dill ON second reading
rImsk demanding the yeas and nays. The
9Fote wds yeas rs, nays %, as follows:
q Ayes1 fdsgsrs. Abetnafhy, Allen
AleNander,. 'Ariedge, Arlington, Babbltt
! Bingham, Brown, Brewer Bryan OF
I E5dgecoriihe, Bunch, Burgess ,Chahdiier
Chatter, Cook. Cox, Craven, Creech
Crulnpler, Currie,, Dancy, Daniels, DE
weese. Dixon of Cleveland. Dixon OF
Greene, Drew, Eddins, Elliott, Pagan
Terrell. Foster, Freeman, Gall0p, Grubbs
Hancock, Harris of Halifax, Harris o.
HYDE. Hardness Hauser, James. John
son, Lawhon, I4usk, Lyle, McBryae, Nc
| KenZie. McClelland, McPeeters, Nc
a 3rary. Meares. Morton, Nelson, Orms
bvgf Parker. of Wayne. Pearson. Person
: Pur-ason, Rawls, Reynolds, R0untree
Sschulken, Smith, Somers, Sutton OF
Cumberland, WaIters,i Watts, Wefnyss
Whiteaer, White Of AlaRaance, White Cd
BERTHE, White of Randolph Wilson
Marlborough and Young-=I6.
No@ -Messrs. Adams, Aiken, Bailey
Blackburn, Bryan Of Wilkes, Cathey
sChapin, -Ggrnning ham, Docltery, Duffy
Ferguson. Hare; Jones, Leakgi Murphy
Parker of Perquimans, Peace, Person
of Wilson, Pinnix, Roberts, Sutton Of
New Hanover, Ward and Williamson
23a "a W. ~ hfa
I.usk offered an amendment providing
,forr u cheaper mode of holding the cleo
tom. Adopted. blackburn offered ar
amendment leaving st to the people OF
AsheNile 9a e9r seaa
Il. Blaekbarn's amendment was lost, and
the. bill passed with two noes. There
| was applause. On motion OF Lusk th'
'tclincher" was put on the bill.n
|. The supplemental Halifax county
fence-law bill came up as a special order
1t provides that the act letting stock g
at large shall not go into effect unit
January /, 1890 AS soon as twas reaC
Hancock rose aud said it was desire o
the Elections committee 20, take up tn
Broughton- Young case and he mover
to indefinitely postpone the Halifax bill
which meant that the bin could come
ND no more this session. On this Nc
Kenzie demanded the yeas and noes
Hancock and Sutton, OF New Hanover
stirred like bees through the hall. TIL
vote on the motion to indefinitely post
.t,ofle was a yes, 40; hoes 81. Aftermath.
explaining his vote said the Halifax PEG
pie wantedi tlfis bin passed and tina
ttshe aturningnlotsse OF the stock was al
outrage Alexander voted against post
.ponemenbi and called ON the House t
pass the BILL Brown said Senator Cfaf'
had come TO himi yesterday and fsa1e a
wanted the supplementary bin pa ssed
HANCOCK said Clark hndi justlltold hin
lac, wanted tire supplemental fbilt Killed
HANCOCK Qgnosed ftheihilhandi,said sena
tor Clark and the twp Halifax men1wani
ed theaappRlemental,, bill Salleda l1oige
said this had been padelta party cues
ton and that undue influence had bee
hrought to beaE johnson said tARf Stat