The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-03-11

called 20 order a, 10 o'el~ek ntd
prayer was sasr,a ty R.s. Mr.. Fee
tar Of The city.
After The morning horr the Hcrse
verf icso = con nittee o.. the vhoss
Tor Id. consideration Of the revsnu.
act. Tie sessioa Vas sl.nly aitend
ed, mary OF the members spendlrr
much OF the tine ia the lobby O. the
Ser ate ehamee. witnessing he great
railroad bill fight.
THE kIyESUE ACT.
A special order bill 70. II O'Clock
vas p s'ponsd until o',,lock K. aud y
motion prevailed iha, the House Go
into . committee Of the whole FOR
the consideration o. the revenue act
The act was read and disposed CT by
sections.
We will present TO our reader
later the revenue act as adopted.
BIZ TO prevent mirors from enter
ing bar and billiard rooms Was pat
upon its second reading. IL pro
vides that owners of such resorts
Who shall ailow minors to enter OF
loaf around their places, after no
lice has been given by parents or
guardians, shall be guilty of . mis-
demeanor. 1t was amended so as 70
apply to bowling alleys.
Mr.. Blackburn effersd an amepd-
mept that it be a misdemesuor f,r
minors to enter such places. Mr..
Bailey offered another anne ndment
that the notice from parents be mad e
In writing. This was accepted BY
the introducer; but rejected later.
Mr.. Blackburn spoke in advocacy of
his amendment, nsying that il was
nothing but right that the boys
should have some restraint upon
them.
Local bills consumed tie remain
der of the days session.
sATURDAY-s6rH DAY.
Senate
This day was entirely devoted to
introducing bills of a local nature
and many were passed. The bill 10
prohibit State officers to receive or
use free passes was taken up as the
special order.
Mr.. Ray offered a substitute 10
compel railroads to issue passes to
all State tfticers and TO reduce pas
senger fares to cents a mile 70,
first class and II cents a mile fol
second-class.
Mr.. Butler moved to amend by
making the rates q and cents-
accepted. Upon the adoption of the
substitute the ayes and noes were
called, and the substitute was lost.
A motion was then made to IA bic
which resulted in a tie vote. The
Chair gave the casting vote and the
bill was tabled.
The important business of thi.
Sc ssiou was the Asheville dlspensary
which after an exciting debate pas.
sed its several readings.
The Halifax stock Law also arous
ed much discussion but was faally
tabled by vote of 50 to51.
The remainder of the session wa,
devoted to purely local bills.
MOSDAY-4srHD DAY.
Senate
The Senate convened at 9 O'Clock
After Introduction of a number oI
bills the question of Public Printin,
came. The minority report signet
by Messrs. Atwater, Moye, Freeman
Ward and Reynolds. 1t was adopted
This bill to authorize the pint com
mittee on Public Printing to con
tract with Guy V. Barnes to do tn,
State printing was taken up. Tn
report of the maj ority was unfavor
able Mr.. Shore moved to make
the bill special order for eigh
o'clock Tuesday. He wanted to wal
until after bids for printing ar
opened. Mr.. Ramsay wantt,
to pursue the same course. Mr.
Butler favored the passage Of tn,
bill. He read some figures from tn
Auditors report. showing that tn
cost of public printing under exist
ing laws was much greater than il
previous years. In reply to a sug
gestion that more work was done b,
Stewart Brothers than by forme
public printers, Mr.. Ray said tha
the volume of work was smaller
The motion to postpone was lost, an,
the bill passed second and thir
readings.
The House met at 9 o'clock.
| This, under resolution, being tn
last day for the introduction o
bills, there was q rush of them.
After the introduction of q larg
number of bills the House went int
q committee of the whole and re
sumed consideration of the revenu
act.
| Hancock offered a resolution raj.
ing q joint committee of six to be al
pointed by the President of he Ser
ate and the Speaker CT the House I
confer with Mrs. Albert Guerry r,
garding the purchase Of the oil po
trait of Senator Vance, now on vie
in the capitol. There was quite
little debate. The vote was 4
, to 45, and it appeared that ii
Speaker would have to break Ii
, tie, but Petree came in and vote
. aye; SO the resolution was adopte
. There was applause Of Petree's vot
The bill was taken up to encou
age local taxation in rural distric
!, for the public schools (aftef expli
nation by Dockery). 1t appropr
! ates $l0O. 900 to be used by the Sta
! Board of education to stimulate Ia
: alton In townships or districts, al
allowing the Board to give a tow
i ship the amount which the iatt
g raises, up to $500; local taxation a,
o State aid to correspond being q
. basis of the bill. Hancock said tt
q bill was bad one: that as for hi
l. self he favored striking out all Z
y sections of the bill save the first a
u propriating 100000. He said
wanted this given directly, a.
10 wanted to 60 on record. Rancocl
le amendment inserting the wor
"public schools" was adopted, q
?. the bill passed second reading-sy