The news & observer., 1897-03-07

The committee on Cities, Counties and
Towns reported the bill amending the
charter of city OF Charlotte unfavorably,
but the minority reported that the bill
do pass and the bill was placed on the
calendar.
The Senate took a recess until $3.50
p. m.
SENATE-AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Senate reassembled at $3.50 O'Clock
and disposed of the following bills:
TO provide o garden for the colored
Deaf. Dumb and Blind asylum, in Raj
eigh. Passed
TO drain Fourth creek, in Iredell and
Rowan counties. Passed.
TO amend section 760, Of the Code,
giving additional time of commissioners
of Forsyth county. Passed.
To protect deer in Clay and Macon
counties. Passed
Act concerning State Colored Normal
school. Passed.
To incorporate the Davie Educational
Union. Passed.
TO correct State grant No. 2,710.
Passed.
10 incorporate Grand Lodge No. Z,
/. O. O. i. Passed.
To amend chapter 301, laws Of 1891.
Passed.
10 amend section 2,104, of the Code,
relating to fertilizers analysis. Passed.
TO amend chapter 9S, laws Of 1891.
Passed over.
To incorporate the order of Unity
Passed.
TO create new township in Allegheny
! county. Passed.
To amend chapter 459, laws of 1891,
relating to price paid tor weighing cot
ton. Passed
TO repeal chapter $50, laws of 1891,
relating to Martin county. Passed.
TO protect fish and game in Cherokee
county. Passed.
For relief of Clerk of Superior court of
Dare county. Passed.
To amend the charter of the town of
Columbus and Polk counties. Passed.
To amend charter of Burlington, Ala
nance county. Passed.
The vote was reconsidered by which
the bill to place Cleveland and Castor
counties in the Seventh district and Yad-
kin and Davie counties in the Eight Con-
gressional district was tabled, and the
bill was placed on its reading and passed
second reading. Objection was made to
third reading.
To authorize State Treasurer to re-
fund corporation tax when charter is
not granted Passed.
To amend the charter OF the town of
Salisbury. Passed
To allow the town Of Gastonia to vote
ON question as to leyying special tax
for removal of court house from Dallas
to Gastonia Passed
To provide for barbed wire fences in
Polk county. Passed.
To extend the time of settling taxes in
Clay county. Passed.
To indulge taxpayers in Hyde county.
Passed.
TO allow people OF Monroe to elect tax
collector and for other purpses. Passed.
To create school district at lines of
Guilford, Forsyth and Davidson coun-
ties. Passed.
Relation to stock law in Edgeeombe
county, Passed second reading.
TO prohibit the working of females on
streets or roads in the state. Passed.
An act relating to public roads of
Mecklenburg county. Passed.
To provide for the drainage Of Big
Sugar Greek, Mecklenburg county.
Passed.
To provide for the election of tax col
lectors for Mecklenburg county. Passed.
To provide for election in Polk county
on local option. Passed
To change the voting place in St.
John township, Hertford county. Passed.
To prohibit live stock from running at
large in the town of Sparta. Passed.
To extend time of organizing the
North State Company in Stanly county.
Passed.
To incorporate the Bank of Person
County. Passed.
To provide for public roads in Craven
county, running through the State lands
TO Carteret county. Passed.
TO amend section /, chapter 362, laws
Of 1889, relating to Incorporating church
| in Edgecombe county. Passed.
To amend section 80, chapter % of pri-
vate laws Of 1887 Passed.
To incorporate the town of Maysville,
in Jones county. Passed.
| In relation to special school tax in
Person county. Passed.
| To pay the railroad debt Of POllockS-
| vile, Jones county. Passed.
To establish an electric light plant at
Fayetteville Passed
To incorporate Snow Hill Railroad
| Company. Passed.
To incorporate the Farmers Mutual
Fire Insurance Company, to allow the
company to do business without tax. Mr..
| Maultsby offered an amendment. ''Pro-
vided that the Secretary of State, the
Treasurer and Attorney General shall
1 coy thaf ~ ic hannv.01anf -
| Mr.. Ray spoke at length against the
bill. He showed up the company. 1t
was a regular gold mine for one man.
| The farmers of the State would not be
| benefited one cent; it viii benefit only
one man. This was no company; it was
only one man and his name is Carpenter.
| He is the one that gets the money, and
understand he makes 81, 800 a month out
| of the farmers of the State.
| Mr.. Maultsby opposed the bill because