The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-06
OFFICIALS ON TRIAL.
SWINSON'S CASE AGAINST REY
NOLDS AND HILEMAN.

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Held for Consideration-The Railway
Lease observation-disclosures Carr
and Others Testify Favorable Report
or the public Printing Bin-A Delega.
ton to Fight the Goldsboro Police
Board Bill.
Especial to The Messenger.)
Raleigh, N. c., March &c. c. Fa-
| gan, populist bolter, is the man slated
for clerk to the railway commission.
OF course he is backed by the republic
cans.
A delegation of t~hirty-five citizens
from G~oldsboro arrived today. There
is much indignation at the way in
which Senator Grant railroaded the
Goldsboro police commission bill
through the senate. 1t is on the house
calendar and thus far the delegation
has secured no hearing.
The Investigation by the house COM
mittee into the North Carolina railway
lease was quite prolonged this after
noon and very tame. Governor Carr
and Colonel Andrews were examined.
Judge Avery and w. II. Day represent
&c the governor and the Seaboard Air
Line respectively.
At the house committees investiga-
ton today of the North Carolina rail-
way lease. Governor Carr said he had
talked with Colonel Andrews six
months before the lease was effected
and made public; that he thought it
was to the best interest of the state;
hat he had been so advised by James
w. Wilson, who told him the state
could not again get so much; that he
was so anxious to get the property
listed for taxes, though that alone
would not have induced him to make
the lease.
General Hoke stated in his evidence
that he had said it took two to make
q h 2ro9iO and two TO hrpak ono h11t
that he did not feel called upon to ex-
press an opinion whether the stock
holders would or would not ratify the
senate substitute for the lease bill.
nat Grant in answer to Judge
Avery's question whether he had re-
ceived letters or kilograms from sena-
tors in Washington telling him If he
opposed the lease it would be against
his being appointed sergeant at arms
of the United States senate, denied en-
phatically that any such letter or tele-
gram had been received by him..
F. B. Arendell. ]. w. Wilson and
Henry w. Miller were examined. Judge
Avery said as counsel for the governor
that section 5 of the substitute bill
was the amendment to the charter of
the North Carolina railway and that If
this substitute was adopted there was
no assurance that it would be ratified
by the private stockholders and then
the ninety-nine veal lease would still
be in force and all the power taken
from the governor to bring suit to test
the validity of the lease. A resolution
was, at Avery's suggestion, adopted by
the special committees asking the leg
islature to give the committee author
ity to request an opinion from the SUI
preme court or this point. The COM
mittee adjourned until tomorrow after
noon, after telegraphing several large
private stockholders to come here.
Avery asked the committee to issue a
subpoena for numbers of stockholders
to be present at the hearing tomorrow.
Substitute bill is set as a special order
for noon tomorrow, but some persons
say it Will be postponed until Satur-
day Or Monday.
Joint committee on public printing
tonight favorably reports the bill to
give Guy v. Barnes, Of Raleigh, the
public printing, all work to be done
here by union labor.
The indictment against Lieutenant
Governor Reynolds and Speaker Hile-
man was held at the mayors Office.
Justices Morcom n John Nichols sit
ting. Counsel for the defendants was
Senator Smathers. assisted by Chair
man A. r. HoIton and T. r. Purnell.
Several state officers and a big crowd
were present. Swinson made the point
that no demand had W been made on
him by the defendants for his keys.
but they broke in. The keeper of the
capitol said he was in charge Of all the
rooms in the capitol and had a right to
enter. Hileman was quickly dis
charged, no case having been made
against MIN. The hearing as to the
lieutenant governor was continued and
the justices reserved their decision until
tomorrow.