The news & observer., 1897-03-05

Bill to place Orange County III '"N
Fourth Congressional district ana to put
Vance and Surry in the Fifth came up
II roisasd n row. On vote 1t was appar'
emily tabled. Young said the change was
desired by people OF Congressional ailni-
tion. He said he regretted ihnt nc oitl
not vote against the change Of the Seventh
and Eighth districts. he purpose IL TO
make the Fifth Republican, vt the eX-
nense cf the Fourth. he declared that u
the Republicans IN the Firth had PUT
mn n man with Il record they would MOI
have been I'm this trouble; that the man
nomina ed WAS a gold bug and shou"
not have been nominated. t"les. NJ
ought." shouted Blackburn Crews re-"
sented Ioungs attack on Congressman
Settle. pnd then spoke in support of the
bill Y,uug said the rc-districting was
being done without regard to population.
Crews limited that Young wanted to run
for CongreSs two years hence.
An amendment was offered by White,
of AIamauce to put Durham county in the
Elonrth district. This was lost. SO the
bill provides that Orange shall be put IN
the Fourth and Vance and Surry in the
Fifth. Brown demanded the yeas and
nays on the passage of the bill. Inc re-
srlt was yeas Sc, nays AS. Objection
was made to third reading.
AT noon the house went into election
of trustees of the University. Hancock,
chairman of committee read the nomlna-
tions. Hancock, Pearson and johnson
were appointed tellers. There were few
changes. Mckenzie voted for ID. X.
Julian in place of J. A. Ramsay. Parker,
of peruuimans (Populist bolter) voted
''no." and Lusk turned around and stared
at him. saying, ''This is the unkindest cut
Of all" The nominee of the committee
were elected.
Brewer moved to suspend the rules ana
put the Congressional district bill above
referred to on third reading Young de-
manded the yeas and nays and gave no
tice that 81 votes were necessary. The
vote was yeas 81, nays A. Sutton, OF
Cumberland said if he were satisfied
that this was a subject of CAUCUS d3cta-
ton he would vote yea, but voted no.
The bill passed third reading.
Roberts made a motion to adjourn for
one minute in honor of William Mckin-
ley. 1t was overwhelmingly voted down.
Roberts angrily cried out, "Weil, Its all
right any how"
Bills came UP to allow the people OF
Wilkes and Ashe to build a road for
Mills River to Wilkesboro by extending
time for completion. Lusk offered an
amendment leaving the matter to a vote
of the people of Ashe, and this raised
big laugh at Blackburn's expense. Black
burn having spoken in support of the
BILL Bryan, of Wilkes, offered an amend
ment that Wilkes county people should
not work more than days in a year
on this road. This amendment was lost.
The bill passed second reading, Bryan
walking about the hall and crying out
Everybody git up" Squat down." &c,
while the House and galleries laughed.
Bryan objected to third reading. Went
over till tomorrow. Blackburn saying,
We'll pass it tomorrow"
Hancock made report from tellers on
the vote for trustees Of the University.
Names selected by committee were Sc
lected.
Mr.. Pinnix, of Yadk;n, advocated his
bill to take Moore's N. G. History out Of
the public school list. He said it was
partisan, and that from it you could not
tell who was Governor from 'T2 to '76.
1t was a blank. Mr.. Mckenzie asked
Pinnix il he favored State adoption. He
said Yes" Mckenzie then said, why
not leave it to the State BoardY Mr..
Eddins said this was the only State histo-
ry we have We ought to take this off
our list till we have a new one In
many respects it is a good book Let
it be revised. Let the teachers settle
this matter. All histories have objec-
tionable features. Historians all have
bias, more or less. Several reyisions
have been made and the book has been
He moved TO amend by prov
iding to readopt if Objectionable features
are taken out Of the book. Sutton, Of
New Hanover, said the history was bad.
Kill it and somebody will write history
that will be fair. Moore's History
teaches prejudice to the children. Eddins
asked: "Will you point out the objectiona-
BILE features?" Mr.. Hartness thought
this an important matter. Had never
before heard any objection to this book.
This legislature has been full Of the
spirit of education. 1t viii be fatal
blow to strike down our only State his
tory. 1t would cost much money to be
forced to buy a new book and discard
the present history. When a better his
tory is written, that will be time enough
to bring up this matter. Mr.. Murphy
created a laugh by moving to amend
by changing to "Branson's Alamnac."
Seriously DIR. Dixon opposed the bill, say
ing that each county controls the matter.
He moved to table. Tt failed. DIR. Dix
on demanded roll-cau. Foster moved
to amend by requiring State Treasurer
refund the money that parents will
expend to buy any new history. Lost.
Bill passed by "a to 40. Hartness and
Mckenzie raised the point that the clerk
had put down White, of Randolph and
Aiken as voting when they did not vote
at ALL Correction was made as to White,
of Randolph, but Aiken's name was
kept on the roll. Mckenzie said he
would protest ON the journal.
Bill to extend corporate limits of Mt.
Olive, passed.
Bill to change voting precinct of Fall
ing Greek, Lenoir county, passed.
The give Sanford township, Moore
county, to have the alternative" system