The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-02-25
Petitions were presented as fol

lows.
Mr. Alexander-A petition fol
the establishment Of norma
school at Charlotte for the coloret
race.
Mr.. Alexander-A petition tha
the appropriation to the fremen'
association Of So 500 be contiued.
On motion of Mr.. McCsskey th,
Senate Calendar was taken mp.
To establish q reform school fo
the white and colored youthful Grim
inals OF the State, to be located il
the city that will make the best Of
fer Of money, laads, etc.
Mr.. McCaskey said he introduce
the bill some time ago, it was one o.
the demands Of the Populist Party
and that he was glad nearly all th,
newspapers were in favor OF it.
was an institution that North Caro-
ina was sadly in need Of.
Mr. Alexander said that this wa
one OF the issues Of the last cam
paign. That he favored it, but sine.
coming here he thought it would b.
wise to postpone the matter unit
some future time, as at present the
State WAS not able financially 10 es
tablish such schools
On motion of Mr. McCaskey il
was made a special order for WED.
nesday) at II o'clock m.
The time for the special order se,
for tod y having arrived, it wal
taken up. To provide for the gen
eral supervision Of railroad, steam
boat, canal boat, express and tele,
graph companies. The gist of the
bill is to make the passenger rates
q cents for first-class and . cents
for second-class per mile, and to re-
duee the freight rates in proportion.
1t also forbids any issue of free pas
ses to public officers.
Mr.. Butler spoke at some length
on the bill, saying that if rates were
reduced the railroads and other com.
panies would be bene flied because
they would have much more bus.
ness, more people would ride and
more people would ship goods. He
called on the Popullsts to supper,
the bill, as it was one of the de-
manGs.
Mr.. Anthony said that if the rates
were reduced the corporations would
duce the pay of their employees
Che poor ones and they were get
ting now only enough to live on.
Therefore he opposed the bill.
Mr.. Scales said there were several
things in the bill he would be glad
to support, but as it now stood the
bill would reduce the rates on all To-
cal lines and in justice to the local
roads he could not support the bill
as it was, but if the Senator (Butler)
would so fix his bill as not to ipjure
the local roads he would support it
Mr.. Ray offered the following amend.
ment:
Sec. l. That the railroad commls.
sioners shall after their presen,
term expire, be elected by the quail
fled voters Of the State as other
State officers are elected
Sec. =. That in addition to the
powers already granted and giver
to said commissioners, they shall
have the power to prevent any re
duction in the wages of any
employe of the railroad com
panies of this State, and wher
satisfactory proof is brought be
fore the board of railroad com
missioners that the wages o.
any employees of any railroad
company have been reduced, th'
commissioners shall have the righ'
to enter a fine of 5000 against sucl
company for each offeuse, and sait
Judgment shall be valid and bind
ing against the property of sucl
railroad company. Mr.. MCCARTNEY
moved to table the bill. A roll cal
was demanded. Tabled. Ayes, "a
noes, %.
The House met at 10 o'clock ant
Rev. DR.. W. C. Norman Offered
prayer.
Among the bills introduced were
the following:
By Price, to allow any justice O.
the peace to provide himself will
a seal and to attest by the same hi
official signature, and making an.
official act SO attested by seal vallt
in any county, and to be received
and acted on without attestation o
it's genuineness; the seal for sucl
seal to be ten cents for each attesta
ton, in addition to the fees now al
lowed.
The bill to provide for the govern
ment Of the enitentiary came up q
unfinished business, but at the re
quest of Dockery, it's introducer, i
was informally passed over.
The bill providing for the pay
ment of special venire in capita
cases came up. 1t has caused
great deal of trouble, and has beer
back and forth between the Hous
and Senate for three weeks, and il
the hands of two conference com
mittees. 1t came over from the Sen
ate with many additions to the Lis
of excepted counties. The Hous
refused to adopt the report of tn
conference committee, and it wa
again referred to the conferenc
committee. Mckenzie said the bi
was originally drawn at the rogue:
of Rowan and Buncombe, but tha
flood of amendments were sent IL
Lusk said he wanted the provision
of the bill to stand for Rowan.
The House took up the bi
to amend the Code regardin
: costs in justice of the peace cour
I so that no county shall be liable f
: any costs in a trial exclusively in tt
Z jurisdiction of justice of the peac
Cook, who introduced the bill, e:
planned it, the text of the bill beins
THAT no county shall be liable
y pay any costs in any action or pr
ceeding exclusively and original
within the jurisdiction Of justi'
IS of the peace" Cook favored !
8 Lusk, Schulken, and Sutton,
u Cumberland, opposed it. Lu'
x asked if there was not more i
y d,oamopf to instice of the neace