The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-02
The Question of Mandatory
Licenses opens Debate.
SUTTON FEARED TROUBLE
RIFT HANCOCK THOUGHT COM
MIssIONERS KNEW BEST.
CANNOT SELL HON s-NAoE WINE
Amendments All Voted Down to Strike
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under resolution, EHIuS the last udy Aor
the introduction of bills there was rush
of them. Those introduced were:
Bal,bit to prohibit fishing with nets in
certain parts of Beaufort county.
BY Hodges, to amend chapter 81, pub
lie laws of 1868.
BY Person, to prevent Instructions in
Moccasin river.
BY Craven, to provide for bridge across
the Catawba, between Mecklenburg and
CASTOR.
BY Lusk to incorporate the Asheville
Electric Company.
BY Lusk, to amend chapter DAT, private
laws of 1873.
By Young to allow the school commit
tee of Raleigh township to issue bonds.
BY Duffy, to construct a road through
the public lands Of Onslow.
BY Lusk, to incorporate the bank OF
Asheyille.
BY Lusk, to provide for the representa-
ton of this State at the Tennessee Cen
tennial, creating a board of managers
with the Governor as chairman; to au-
thorize the Board of Agriculture to make
an exhibit; the expenses to be paid out
of the geneal fund in the treasury.
BY McPeeters, to charter the Asheville
and Bristol Railway Company.
BY Peace, to allow the trustees Of the
institution for colored deaf mutes and
blind to employ two or more physicians.
BY Sutton Of New Hanover to incor-
porate the Hanover Land Company.
By Sutton, Of New Hanover, to change
the name of Mulberry street, in Whining
ton, to Greece, street.
BY Hauser, to regulate stock in GER
tain districts in Lenoir; also TO require
insurance companies to pay force value
of their policies.
BY Lusk, to provide for the payment
of all attorneys fees for cases that are
frivolous and malicious; that there shall
be taxed as part Of the costs, TO be paid by
such prosecutor, reasonable sum, not less
than So, to be fixed by the judge or JUS
tice, which shall be paid to the counsel
defending the defendant in such prosecu-
tien.
BY Schulken, to incorporate the Excel
sier Artesian Well and Sewerage Com
pany.
BY Lyle to incorporate the Highlands
Turnpike, in Macon county.
By Cunningham, TO prevent the taxing
OF property twice in one year.
BY Leak. for relief Of ex-Confederate
soldiers in the State.
By McCrary, for relief of certain citi-
zens of Davidson county; also to prevent
distractions OF cartridges in this State.
BY White, to provide for working Ala
nance county's roads; also to establish
a time meridian in Alamance.
BY Sutton, of Cumberland, to establish
an electric light plant in Fayetteville.
BY Ward, to change certain Sixth dis
trict courts.
BY Alexander, to regulate road working
in Tyrrell; also the keeping of stock
there.
BY Pagan, to protect fishing machines
in the Roanoke river in Martin county.
BY Wemyss, to allow Cumberland to
provide jail sewerage.
BY Whitener, to create an additional
term of court in Catawba.
BY McPeeters, to establish criminal
court in Mcdowell, Watauga, Mitchell
and Yancey.
The House at 1890 met into the com
mittee Of the whole, Cook in the chair,
ON the revenue bill. 1t resumed consid-
Grafton at section &c, and section after
section was adopted. When the section
providing that the board of county COM
dealers, Duffy moved to amend by MAX
ing it "shall" Johnston. chairman of
the Finance committee, and Alexander
opposed this. The latter said it was at
his motion that the word was made may
Duffy defended his amendment. Dock
cry agreed with Duffy. Dixon opposed
the amendment. He said the county COM
missioners ought to be allowed discretion
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gave the county commissioners pater-
naIsm. White of Randolph said there
was not bar in his county and that
he did not think mon who sold liquor
was moral He wanted the Legislature
to let the word remain may. Sutton, Of
New Hanover, asked White if people
who drank whiskey were not also I'M
moral and whether a majority of the peo-
pie of the State and of this Legislature
did not drink whiskey? White replied
that he knew many did, but that it was
immoral to drink. Dockery said the use
of may would create great excitement
in the counties every two years, as these
local option elections were the most bitter
Of All. Chandler thought the amendment
equitable He wanted all the agitation
possible on this question. Alexander
said the county commissioners must be
given discretion Parker, Of Wayne, said
that the commissioners must be judges.
Hancock wanted the section to remain
as it is; that the commissioners who are
elected by the people, know better what
ought to be done in this matter than the
Legislature does. Dockery said If this
discretion was to be given, why not make
the commissioners the sole judges of all
&hng all facsff sYa
Alexander said this matter was finan-
eial question and was entirely in the dis
erection Of the commissioners. Dockery
said commissioners would have pets and
grant them licenses. Dixon, of Cleveland,
SAID he objected to Dockery's unjust re-
hection on boards Of commissioners cleo
ted by the people. Dockery said there
would be the same old ring.
80 to 80
Hauser offered an amendment aIloxyinc