The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-12

CAESC SuIC Oh the nina Ever brOuSht-A
Bad Move Politicaily-Flurry Over Who
Shall Be Commissioner Of Agriculture.
New State Boards-Most Important of
tho Bills Which Died ON House Caien.
dar-The Bill to Preserve Dismember.
ment OF the Cape Fear and Yadkin Val.
ley Railroad Ratified.
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel.
Raleigh. N. c., March 10.
! 1t was LOS O'Clock this morning when
the legislature adjourned sine die, after
a most eventful session. of sixty-two
days.
Most Of the talk today among the
public men was about the injunction
Of Judge Simonton against interference
with the lease of the North Carolina
railway to the Southern. A very prom
inent jurist says that SO far as he
knows, it is the first time a governor
has been enjoined from bringing suits
in his own courts; that the people of
North Carolina are jealous of the fed
eral courts, this being particularly the
case west of here; that he thinks this
proceeding, for this reason il-advised;
that it will add immensely to the
strength of the populist party in the
state; that the governor will, if Simon
ton decides against him at Greensboro
April 9Th, certainly take the case to the
United States supreme court, which
will hardly confirm such a decision;
that if Simonton sets aside the ~injunc-
ton it will be equivalent to saying the
state courts can settle the matter.
The directors Of the central hospital
for the insane here are called to meet
on the 18th inst.
There is, it seems, quite a little furry
as to who shall be the new commits
stone of agriculture. The populist mi
nority want j. NJ. Mewborne to get the
place. but it may be that Senator Par
ker, Of Randolph, will be the winner.
There were no less thar fifteen fac
lions in the legislature. The lease
question tore the parties all to pieces.
1t now threatens to continue this next
year. This is why the western repub-
licans were so anxious to get it out OF
politics.
Governor Russelrs friends laugh at
the attempts made by nan of the
republican legislators to balk him in
his purpose to LAY control Of the va
rious institutions: They fought him
desperately, black and white, but in
the end he has had his way.
The new board Of trustees of the
agricultural and mechanical college
meets on the 25th. A member Of it
says there is nc purpose to make any
changes in the faculty. but to. make
changes as to the officers and employees.
j. G. L. Harris is chairman of the new
board of agriculture.
Mr.. Mebane, state superintendent of
public instructions, has just returned
from a visit to Washington to see the
United States commissioner of educa-
ton, DR.. Harris. The latter is invited
to attend the meeting of the North Car
DINA Teacers' Association next sum-
mer.
No less than 400 bilsl died on the leg
islative calendar. Among the chief
were these: To prevent habitual
drunkenness. To prohibit the existence
of trusts and combines. To establish
a state reform school. To aid in the
merce law. To require compulsory at
tendance ait public schools. To estab-
lish a true meridian in each county
of the state. To tax pistols at each
sale. A joint resolution of sympathy
with Cuba. To print and distribute
the sketches of North Carolina regi-
ments in the war. To protect public
water SUPPLIES. To reduce the tonnage
tax on commercial fertilizers from 25
to 20 cents per ton. To provide for
holding farmers Institutes. To pro-
tect song and insect-eating birds. To
protect wives against cruelty Of nus
bands. To establish the rule of master
and servant between municipal cOrpo-
ratiOnS and their employees. To forbid
minors from entering and lOafing in
barrOoms. To make the wives of con-
federate soldiers eligible to pension on
the death of the latter. To amend the
constitution by Incorporating the elect
ion law as the fifteenth amendment
m define what constitutes a POLITICAL
party. To allow court stenographers.
To fix time of payment of mill en-
ployes. To increase duties and power
of the railway commission. To create
a state board Of equalization. To
create a code commission. To incOrpo-
rate the state veterinary association. To
furnish arms and legs to all confed-
crate soldiers. To allow mayors to
perform the marriage To
allow deputy clerks of court to probate
deeds.
Editor Aver, Of Senator Buffers pa
per was asked today he thought
of the legislature and replied Let the
dead past bury it's dead"
The negroes in this state seem to feel
sure that John G.. Dancy, Of Salisbury,
| will get the place Of register of the Dis
| trict of James E. Boyd is
being pressed for the position of first
J assistant postmaster general.
: The total number of acts and resolu-
tons of the legislature enrolled was
TIC of the former and 66 Of the latter.
ment Of the Cape Fear and Yadkin
Valley railway in a sale was ratified
Monday night.
The populists are declaring that their
party will sweep the state in 1898 and
that they will absorb thousands Of re-
publicans and democrats.