The news & observer., 1897-03-07

tress me We have had three years of
| financial distress. We have been entrusted
with a solemn duty. 1t is no time to trihe
with the people. Jefferson said: A gov
| ernment is never better than its people
The majority of this House is demonstrat-
| ing it's incapacity to govern"
They accuse us of being disorderly,
| and yet whenever / say what is not pleas
| ant to the railroad men, they howl and
| hiss me."-Sutton of New Hanover.
II am informed that Private Secretary
Miller is sending sandwiches TO members
The people get no sandwiches free" said
Sutton of New Hanover.
Aiken got up and said he had paid for
the sandwiches himself and it was false
to say that anybody had given him any
thing.
I'VE have right to our parliamentary
| right" said Cook, "and nobody has any
right to charge us with dilatory tactics"
Cunningham: "We have a bushel of APP
| pies, and there is no reason why we
should adjourn for supper"
1--WE are carrying on conduct that is n
| disgrace to North Carolina. Blackburn.
When the name of Adams was called
| on the dozenth or twentieth motion to
adjourn, nobody voted for him. Cook
/ VI w dlitH iBSt anu utIEtll<NI an HIVES
tigation to see who was thus guilty of
fraud
What in the hell have you got to do
with it." yelled out Chaplin of Hamett,
| to Alexander who interrupted a speaker.
you are fooling with the wrong chap
now" said Alexander.
After the lobbies were cleared, the row
and confusion kept up almost as bad as
| before.
| DIR. McLelland moved to send back for
| the expelled lobbyists, and apologize to
| them.
Bryan of Wilkes: 'It is mean and un-
| fair and unjust. / will stay here and
vote no till l die"
Mr. Mckenzie moved that the Southern
and SeabOard send up supper.
| Il am opposed to it" said johnson.
| I'VE come neGr enough now belonging
to the railroads. Then they would own us
| entirely
Dockery, in the midst of the row. be-
gam 10 sing Amazing Grace, How Sweet
| the Sound"
| johnson of Sampson, in discussing the
| Goldsboro charter yesterday, said: "If
we continue on the same line as this there
| viii not be enough members of TINS Leg
islature to even see the organization of
/ the next Legislature"
| Masten, Chief Clerk, who made himself
| officious, called n member to him. and
| said: Move to suspend the rules"
| Though lobbyists had been excluded. he
walked down the aisles, and his assistant,
| Stanford, were busy lobbying for the rail
| roads.
| The Old Red Fox from Wilkes afford
| ed much fun last night. All the mem
bers gathered around him, and among
| other things for which he was applauded,
| he said: I'VE have cost the people 81 900
| by this deviltry. / love to kill time.
| This Legislature will not adjourn till
/ II O'Clock t0-night-at least our pay goes
/ on till then. ] see old men here. They
| all say they never saw such q Legislature
as this We have at least learned that
| a minority can rule a majority. and that
| one man can rule a Legislature Also.
| that unless a man thinks with the Speak
| er, he cannot be recognized. We had to
become old men to learn these things"
| Continuing, he sad: Il move that in
| definite leave Of absence be granted to
| the gentlman from Warren, and for all
| the members of the special committee"
| Uaughter). / also move that a very spe-
| cial indefinite leave Of absence to Sutton
I VI ANtN lldHI0AtI. i dISO want lptlNe OF
| absence for the Speaker pro TEN.
Cook interrupted and said: ''If You viii
| increase the rent 100000 we will go
with you"
| Bryan: eve are afraid to trust gentle
men who have forfeited all their word of
| honor. We know a little too much to let
| them fool us again. If we agreed, on Mon
| day morning the gentleman from Warren
would come in here and want to refer it
to the Supreme Court before he could
vote"
Mr.. Roberts said: II move we elect
John Quincy Adams Bryan Speaker"
Bryan, addressing the chair said: "If
you will swap places with me ten minutes
this bill will pass, 1t will be the brightest
star in your crown if You will allow the
| Red Fox to hold the chair fifteen minutes
| hope there will be no objection to the
the gentleman from Wilkes holding the
chair. | have had experience in the chair
| am the best parliamentarian in this
House. | want to go back home and say:
We have a government by the people
Ferguson Of Haywood, with contempt
in every mOdulation of his voice, de-
nounced the hypocrisy" the tyranny
and the gag rule" OF the Speaker pro
tenn. You have paraded yourself, he said,
over this hall for the last sixty days de-
ploring the revolutionary methods that
have heen resorted to. You have denOun-
ced this body as a mob, and disgrace to
North Carolina. Your actions in the
chain this afternoon have proven that you
We're not honest in your denunciations,
and for it you deserve the scorn and con-
tempt of this body, of your constituents
and the State of North Carolina, the home
t,ff fa4s Ipol lsv,e@ {In hf-fh aPf
stitutional liberty
Mr.. Walters, OF Rockingham, said:
''The legal right Of the directors to make
this lease, either for 80 or 90 years at 5,
or per cent. is perfectly clear to my
mind. The Thousand and one perplexities
in the environment of the board of di-
rectors and the Southern Railway at the
time of the lease is also perfectly plain to
any intelligent mind The controlling fact