Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-02-13
RALEIGR'S BUDGET.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE OLD NORTH
STATE LEGISLATURE.
Some of the New Bills introduced
festerdny-The Insane AsyIums-
The Agricultural Colfcgc-Contest
Decfdcd-swinson Defiant.

RALEIGH, n. c., February H-(Spe-
cial.)-The principal new bills introduced
In the Legislature to-day were these'
To incorporate the Coleman Manufactur-
ing Company, and allow it to operate
cotton-mill near Concord, to employ
negro labor to provide that In all
cases OF marriage Of women under Il
years of age the marriage shall nave
the same force as IL the woman were
q; to reduce the State tonnage-tax on
fertilizer to 20 cents per ton; to reduce
the salaries and fees of all public officers
not fixed by law % per cent; to create
a commission, composed OF Governor
Russell, Julian s. Carr, and w. A. Hoke,
to procure a suitable design for nonu-
ment at Raleigh to Zebulon b. Vance.
DEMOCRATS VOTED NO.
The House took up the election con-
test of Field against Crews. from Vance,
and voted that the latter Is entitled TO
hold his seat. the Democrats voting no.
A bin passed approprating $4,000 for
the Goldsboro' Insane Asylum; $4,000 for
that at Raleigh, and 100000 for that at
Morganton.
The Senate passed bills Incorporating
the Winston-Salem Southbound Railway
and placing the Agricultural and Me-
chanical College IN the hands of Repub-
leans and Populists; also, a bill re-
quiring railways to furnish passes to the
railway commissioners and their rle.Ss
Bills passed the House making the
meetings of stockholders Of the Atlantic
and North Carolina railway unlawful.
unless the States proxy be present, and
repeating the charter OF the Goldsboro
and Morehead railway.
SWANSON DEFIANT.
Enrolling-Clerk swlnson, whose office
was abolished last night, though really
there Is no such office in law. to-day
locked his Office and desks and left. The
speakers Of the Senate and the House
by advice Of the Acknowledgement. to-
night forced the door Of his office. Then
he appeared and refused to give up the
desk-keys, and filed a statement that he
could not be deposed. The speakers will
tomorrow ask the Supreme Court to
issue orders TO him
NORTH CAROLINA RAILWAY.
The Republican fight over the matter
Of the lease of the North Carolina rail-
way is now assuming a sort of sectional
character; I'm other words, the Russell
men, in the East. are against the Pritch-
ard men, I'm the West; so in a sense.
it Is East against West Governor Rus
sell is wrapped up in the idea of an
nulling the lease; while the Lieutenant
Governor is bent on having the lease
stand. And so it goes all through the
party.
Last night I'm the House there came
very near being quite a political drama.
Eprxra Of hot k..v, lf H..
Populists, had been defending the "glori-
Gus nineteen" as he terms the boilers,
incidentally denouncing Butler and boss
rule" when a Popuist named Carter
protested against letting the Republi-
cans alter a motion they had made. or
dering a committee TO report in four
days on the question whether there had
been bribery in the senatorial election.
Republican cried out that Democrat
was offering opposition. Then a bolter
walked over and said Carter was a
Democrat because he always voted with
the Democrats. Johnson, one of the
Populist leaders, promptly said: Eyes;
and many more of us will vote with the
Democrats" The lines between the Popu-
list majority and the boilers are sharply
drawn. Feeling does not diminish 1t in
creases
The remark was made last night, az
ter the bill TO make railways liable for
death or injury Of employees Che fellow
servants bid had passed the House,
that the railways keep the lives of their
employees insured, just as they keep all
their property insured.
1t is stated by one of the Republican
leaders that it is decided that the oyster
patrol steamer shall be maintained at
New Berne by the Shell-Fish Commits
l. % - o.. - L..
funds, and at no expense to the State,
but will be at the Governors disposal in
case he desires the naval reserves to use
it, or there is any emergency.
A bill is to be introduced in the Legis-
lature TO impose tax Of Is cents on each
package of cigarettes sold in the State.
WANTS a RECEIVER.
Tomorrow there will be a hearing
here in the matter Of the appointment
Of a receiver for the Raleigh Paper Com
pany. This company owns paper-mills
at the Falls Of Neuse, near Raleigh, on
which, during the past year or two, $780,
O00 has been expended for new plant.
John b. Brewer. OF Murfreesboro'.
makes the application for a receiver and
it is expected that. by consent Charles II.
Belvin will be named for this position.
Miss Helen Morris Lewis. Of Asheville,
this evening addressed the Legislature
on the subject of "Woman's Suffrage"
This idea appears to have no footing
whatever in North Carolina.
James ID. Mcneil. of Fayetteville,
president of the State Firemen's Associa-
ton, and Chief Martin Newman, of VIII
mngton. arrived here to-day to oppose
a bill placing the freman's relief fund
under control of the Auditor, who is to
pass upon cases. This is a modification