Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-03-12

Sneaker Hileman said this morning
that there were some defects IN the
revenue and machinery acts of con-
stitutional nature. These may require
court decision also.
The Council Of State was in session
yesterday, and the plan OF appointing
new directors and state proxy OF the
North Carolina railway was decided on
Your correspondent telegraphed IueSday
night that the Governor would make
these appointments as soon as he got the
Legislature off his hands. This intorma-
ton was Official. The Governor tele-
graphed Judge Simonton that he had,
with the consent of the Council Of State
removed State-Proxy Wolfe and the
eight State directors. He added: ANY
consent said proxy or any OF said direc-
tors to your order in either cause VIII
be unauthorized and fraudulent
4 list of some of the new directors
containing the names of V. 5. Lusk, G..
A. Cook, John w. Graham. A. w. Graz
ham, w. II. Cladbourn and Tyre Glenn
is published. The Governors private sec
rotary says ut is fraudulent and col
lusiye."
A WARM FIGHT.
The fight about this railway lease mat
ter is going to unprecedented lengths.
Iue Opponents VI AAAf NVfN+ANA NN%s
IS using all his power 10 stir up oppose
ton to and hatred Of the Federal courts,
while his supporters denounce Judge
Simonton's order as an invasion of state
rights. Each side speaks its mind plainly.
4 Judge this morning quoted the lines:
"Trice armed is he who hath his quarrel
Just,
But four time he who gets his lick in
first"
and declared that the Southern railway
had literally knocked the Governor out III
two rounds.
The Governor Is visited by some OF
his marty but many avoid his Office as If
the smallpox sign were displayed there.
1t is one of the strangest Of the many
strange things of the year-to see Vete-
ran Republicans having nothing TO do
with their Governor.
Governor Russell is specially invited to
open the Tennessee Centennial EXPOSE
ton. by pressing the electric button and
starting the machinery. committee
from Tennessee came here to ask him 10
do this. The state Of Tennessee was, for
years. one county OF North Carolina, and
hence this act OF the Governor OF
Mother State" VIII be particularly APP
propriate Under the act OF the Legis-
lature. this State will have an exhibit at
the exposition.
BRIEFS.
Chief-Clerk Bachelor Of the Secretary
Of States office, is making the side-notes
to the acts.
There is great pleasure here at the re-
turn Of Rev DIT. Marshall, rector OF
| Christ church, from the Western Hospl-
tai. His Improvement is great. He goes
away i'm a day or two Tor long rest
Speaker Hieman escaped pneumonia
with which he was threatened, and was
! out to-day.
The Populists profess to be in fine
shirts these days-that IS, the majority
4 or Butler. Populists. The only ones OF
| the bolter Populsts who are happy are
those who get office. r. b. Davis, who
was the Populst elector-at-large was
asked to-day his opinion Of the status
OF affairs and replied: Everything Is
perfectly lovely"
There Is a great deal Of dissatisfaction
even on the part of Republicans, anC
openly expressed, at Governor Russell:
appolntment Of Thomas H. Sutton as
Judge Of the Eastern Criminal Circuit
Court
Bishops Cheshire and Watson, Of th'
Episcopal Church, and the other trustees
of St. Mary's School here, met last eve
ming In accordance with the charter
! granted this school by this Legislature.