The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-06
TO END THE PARTY FEUD.
REPUBLICANS WANT TO MAKE
TERMS WITH THE GOVERNOR

RusselI's Small Following I'm the Legis.
lature-Th- Attitude of the Boilers Puz.
zling-Every BOlter to Get an Office.
Sutton, of New Hanover, Aspires to q
Seat in congratulations Delegation
Unable to Get a HeariDg-The Colored
Public Schools of Edgecombe.
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel.
Raleigh, n. c., March 5.
The republicans did not caucus last
night but efforts were made by tnelr
committee to see what could be lone
to settle the feud with the governor.
One Of the foremost republicans aid
today that, outside of Representatives
Hancock, Sutton, of Cumberland; anu
Sutton, Of New Hanover; Governor
RUSSELL had only two friends in the leg
islature-Senators Sharp ana Cahiioh'
the latter a very recent convert
The attitude of the boiling popullsts
is puzzling. They are Of course after
what is in sight, but the statement OF
their chairman, made yesterday, tnat
they consider their contract with the
reDubIicans terminates the +"@
LEGISLATURE adjourns, is interesting.
What will they do afterwards! VIII
any Of them return to their party 1ney
are now o%utcasts and absolutely de-
pend on the republicans for what they
get.
Places have to be provided for these
boilers. So yesterday when a bill was
I'D to give to the legislature the election
Of the clerk Of the railway commission
your correspondent asked a potter VINO
wa to get this place. He replied Z. I.
Pagan. And so it is all the way. Every
one OF the twenty-one boilers VIII get
a place.
The legislature has altered the license
tax on insurance companies so 1t is $2OO
for fire and accident, and $3.50 for life
companies.
It is the talk here that Governor Rus
CELL will see that his law partner, Dave
Sutton, gets the position OF mayor OF
Wilmington. Sutton said yesterday ne
was thinking Of going to Seattle. h
remarked recently that he might run
for congress in the Sixth district.
The dispensary bills are passing. Inc
liquor men have made a strenuous hght
against them. The bill for Asheville
and Buncombc county is the only one
checked.
The scenes at the trial of the lieuten-
ant governor and the speaker OF the
house yesterday afternoon and last
night, in the mayors office, were anus
ing and novel. A. l.. Swinson, the ex-
enrolling clerk, who caused their arrest
for breaking into his office, was on
hand. He is one or the most opstlnate
men on earth and he has hung on like
a bulldog. This criminal prosecution
was quite a surprise. SWinson makes
a demand for full pay for the entire
legislative session..
The members of the large delegation
here from GoldsbOrO to protest gains
the passage by the house of the senate
dill putting GoldsbOrO under control or
q. police commission tried hard TO get a
hearing before the committee, but with
the exception of the North Carolina
railway lease bill no reference Of senate
bills which come to the house is MADE,
and so the Goldsboro bill was on the
calendar, where Senator Grant, it's pro-
moter, wants it to be. 1t is said Sena-
tor Grant is having this bill passed IN
spite against the people OF Goldsboro.
Revenue officers made a lively rald
Yesterday east of here n captured
three Illicit diStilleries.
Work begins in a few lays on the
new Presbyterian church here. 1t will
be a costly building.
of the North Carolina railway before
the house special committee did not END
until 10 o'clock last night. The com
tee gave notice it wOu be continued
today. The counsel for the governor
Judge Avery wanted ~subpoenas for a
majority Of the private stockholders.
The system Of county supervision In
augurated by Superintendent Scarbo-
rough was re-enacted on Wednesday
last. The colOred teachers of Edgecompe
county made the chief effort for re-
turning to the old system, many OF its
teachers wrote individual letters to
Senator Butler, and sent a special rep
resentative from among their number
&C. M. Eppes) to Raleigh to secure
friends for the bill. This representative
is enthusiastic over the success or the
school bill and is fulsome in his pr1~'
of Dockery and Young, republl -.
Cunningham, Dixon and Walters, oil
ocrats, and names Blackburn, repuhll-
can, as the arch enemy Of negro 80"
tion and the common schools. Eppes
says the colOred teachers Of EdgecOmbe
desire the people Of North Carolina to
know that the common schools OF
Edyecombe have been managed for
eighteen years without the semblance
of craftsmanship. The White people are
as liberal as any in the state, and al
though they own the property, the
negro schools have averaged six
while the whites run five and
a half months. The cOlOred teachers,
n intelligent elemen are perfectly
satisfied with the past administration
of their schools. |