The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-06

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cultural department are coming in
quite rapidly, and the commissioner
; says they are favorable.
The supreme court has never passed
on the matter OF Imprisonment for
| non-payment OF taxes. In the case of
that taxation is "a debt and something
| more than a debt" That opinion
! cannot be quoted as an authority in
| support of the new revenue act r-ela
tive 10 imprisonment for debt, upon the
question discussed by Attorney Cen
eral Walser.
! The ex-editor of the defunct Raleigh
/ Tribune charges its eX-business man
ager, Kenyon, with $4,000 shortage in
' accounts and says Kenyons wherea-
/ bouts are not known. This charge,
not SO direct, was made when the paper
J was seized by the sheriff.
/ Judge Timberlake, in the mandamus
case to prevent the private stockhold-
ers of the Atlantic and North Carolina
! railway from meeting orders that they
do not meet until Judge Simonton al
! lows Governor Russell to appoint
! state proxy.
| Much interest Is felt here in the ques-
| ton whether the governor and the at
' torney general will furnish any testi-
mOny to Judge Simonton in the lease
case of the North Carolina railway.
What do they know of fraud in the
lease? What can they say?
| A. c. Hales, bar keeper here, and
! a Mrs. Underwood, both from Moore
how heAea, n fny N a W
fully living together in this city. He
had deserted his wife and she her hus-
band. They have given bail and de-
parted.
The railway commission grants the
Murfreeshoro railway permission to
take up its track.
There is clearly a fight to the death
i now between Marion Butler and Tom
Watson. Butler is determined to crush
, Watson. That is no secret.
| 1t is probable that quite a number
of mandamus suits Will he brought
against the state treasurer to force
him to pay the special appropriations
made this year. He is trying hard Il
! avoid doing this. The first of these
cases is the one which comes UP july
18th. II is the one TO force him TO pay
| the apprO priatiOn for oyster lands
! in two or three counties.
The fact that the school tax law o
! 1897 is legal in all respects is now set
| tied by the declaration Of the attorne,
general and the secretary of state Th
| peopre who thought it demonstrations
! got mixed with chapter 121 Of the acts
. J Whit is the act 10 StinTUla tgXatiol
, ! fOr schools in 1Ural districts Thi
latter act did not pass properly and i
;, Invalid. The other act r. chapter 421
[ TIE secretary Gf state lays: In re
ply to yours, ! beg reave IT, say that
4 a
ton to the passage Of The act ITO en-
! courage local taxation for publ
schools. ] find that the DILL was intro
duced in the house of representa- tive
: ON the 1st of February. 1t passrl sec
D ond reading in the mouse on the 1st o
B March and third reading on tie 3r'
| of 'e1arch The yeas and nays we1-
: called on t7r second and third reading
/ The bill went to the senate on the 3rI
= , of Marc. 1t came up on second read
| ing on the 4th and amended and
J passed. 1t came up on third recalling
| on the 5th and was tabled. Immediately
| thereafter the vote by which 1T was
abled was reconsidered and the bill
was referred to joint select commit
= | tee. The bill came up again on the 61 h
| The votes by which sundry amend
: | ments 'therto had been adopted wers
: | recOnsdered. An amendment propOe-
: | ed by the select committee was then
ing. In ahe senate also the yeas and
nays Were called on the second and
i rhird readng of the bffl.
, The bin with the senate amendment
then went back to the house and on
I, the Sth the a.ouse concurred in the SEN
ate amendments and the bill was or
dered enrOlisd for ratification. The
yeas and nay. We're not called on con-
currence in the senate amendments.
The act was daily ratified On the 9Th
Of March"
pnbljc school committeems writes
the attorney general to know whether
he can vote as a member of the board
, and also as a chairman. to settle a til: :
| in other words, whether he has a dou-
Bile vote. The attorney general says
the common law doctrine is that a
double vote is not allowed in corpora
tions unless by express statute. This
rule he says is uniform and well set
tied. He adds that this is not the case
in legislative bodies In 1895 he voted
| twice: once as the member from David
son and then as speaker OF the house
Congressman Stroud, of this district,
has left Washington and the secretary
Of his committee says he will not re-
turn this session. o..
1t is learned that Hill E K ng and
James Allen, both Of whom ar clerks
in the agricultural department, have
not resigned as mem DerS or the BOARD
of agriculture. 1t is said further that
three clerks are now doing work which
up to June 18th one man did at $50 per
month.
The revenue collections in this dis
trict for 1894 We're sels,470; in 1S94-5,
sl,054,s0s in 1856. s1,07O,s3S and in
| 1867, 81 9ss. The collections on
| spirits were. in 1894, s102, 900; in 1ss4-5,
| 1000; in 1856, 172.000; in 1867,
s1s1 900. This is extremely creditable
to Collector Simmons. 1t is an increase
Of ouver IS per cent. during his term Of
, office.
! Ten Of the criminal insane from the
hospital at Goldsboro were brought II