The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-03-16
AID OF THE SUPREME COURT
NEEDED To DECIDE WHAT THE
LEGISLATURE DID.
Pension Act Not Signed by Lieutenant
Observation-Disclosures Defects in Rev.
enue Art-Railway Lease Matter Still
Subject of Bitter Contention-Many Re.
pubIicans Avoiding Contact With Their
Governor-Republicans Dissatisfied With
SuttOn's Appointment.

| Subject of Bitter Contention-Many Re
publicans Avoiding Contact With Their
Governor-Republicans Dissatisfied Will
Sutton's Appointments.
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel.
Raleigh. y. c., March II.
1t was discovered this morning that
the lieutenant governor had not sign
ed the pension act. 1t seems that there
was an error in a figure discovered af-
ter the speaker had signed. and the act
was sent pack for correction. When ii
was brought back TO the lieutenant
governor did not sign, thinking ne had
already Tor so. The secretary of state
declines to allow it to be signed now.
unless the supreme court SO orders.
That court will pass upon the matter.
The secretary of state intiinated that
the matter a largely in the auditors
hands. The auditor said he could not
| act without a ruling from the supreme
, court.
Speaker Hilenan said this morning
that there were some defects in the
revenue and machinery acts Of a con
stitutiOnal nature These may require
a court decision also.
The council of state was in ses-
sion yesterday, and the plan of APP
pointing new directors and state proxy
OF the North Carolina railway was
decided on. Your correspondent tele-
graphed Tuesday night that the gov
ernOr would make these appointments
as soon as he got the legislature off
his hands. This information was Off
ciaI. The governor t~elegraphed Judge
Sinoantnn that no had with tho oo.-
sent of the council of state, removed
State proxy Wolfe and the eight state
directors. He added: ANY consent by
said proxy or any of said directors to
your order in either cause will be un-
authorized and fraudulent"
Private Secretary Alexander said
that Judge Simontcn had received
Governor RusselPs telegram and re-
piled that it will have his due consid-
Grafton.
A list of some of the new directors,
containing the names of V. S. Lusk,
c. A. Cook, JOIN w. Graham, A. w.
Graham, w. H. Chadbourn and Tyre
Glenn, is published. The governors pri-
vate secretary says: 1T is fraudulent
and cOlluSiVe."
The fight about this railway lease
matter is going to unprecedented
lengths. The opponents of the governor
say he is using all his power to stir
up OppOSlllOL l anu 1ldlGeO Ol the leu
eral courts, while his supporters de-
nource Judge Simonton's order as an
invasion Of state rights. Fac side
speaks it's mind plainly. A judge this
morning quoted the lines:
Thrice armed is he who hath his quar-
rel just;
But four times he who gets his lick in
fuSt,"
n declared that the Southern railway
had literally knocked the governor out
in two rounds
The governor is visited by some of
his party, but many avoid his office as
if the smallpox sign were displayed
there. 1t is one of the est of the
many strange things of the year-tO
see veteran republicans having nothing
to do with their governor.
Governor Russell is specially invited
to open the Tennessee centennial ex-
position, by pressing the electric but
ton and starting the machinery. A
committee from Tennessee came here
to ask him to do this. The state of Ten
nessee was for years one county of
North Carolina, and encet this act Ofthe
governor Of the mother state will be
particularly appropriate. Under the act
of the legislature this state will have
an exhibit at the exposition.
The legislature did an immense
amount of work. T~wo-thirds of this
could as easily at a thousandth part of
the cost have been done by the cOun-
ties themselves, as any one who looks
over the 776 acts will discover.
Chief Clerk Bachelor. of the secre-
tary of states office, is making the
side notes to the acts.
There is great pleasure here at the
return of Rev. DR.. Marshall, rector of
Christ church, from the western hospi-
tai for the insane. His improvement is
great. He goes away in a day or two
for a long rest.
Speaker Hileman escaped pneumonia.
with which he was threatened, and was
out today.
Senate Ben Tillman denOunces Judge
Simonton, and says the Southern rail-
way owns him.
The populists profess to be in fine
spirits these days-that is the majority
or Butler pOpulists. The only ones OF
the bolter %populists who are happy are
! those who get office. r. B. Davis, who
was the populist elector at large, was
| asked today his opinion of the status
| of affairs and replied: "Everything is
perfectly lovely"
Their is a great e of dissatis-
| faction on the part Of republicans, and
| openly expressed, at Governor RusselPs
| appointment of Thomas H. Sutton as
| Judge of the Eastern criminal circuit
| court.
Bishops Cheshire and Watson, of the
Episcopal church, and the other trus-
tees OF st. Mary's school here. met
last evening in accordance with the
charter granted this school by this leg
islature.
Senator Buffers PAPER says edito-
rally today. that tie action of the
democrats on the n~irety-nine year
railway lease matter has knocked out
any idea Of cooperation Of popuTisSs
and democrats in 1898.
Colonel A. NJ. Waddell came yester-
day to attend the supreme u and
retu1 to Wilmington today.
No Bodies Recovered from the Railway
Wreck.
Evansville, Ind, March 11.-No bodie:
have been recovered today from the
wreck of the Evansville and Terrt