The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-03-11

/ tie thunder Storm VAS almost start
ing. Ga; from tie capitol the PEG
pie poured. Groups CT excited talk
ers were seen everywhere. The men
-railso.ders-who had raised . row
/ did rot seem TO realize that they had
Amos; been guilty Of ireason-had
disgrncsd their positions and the
State. and they did not seem 10 care.
| AFTERNOON SESSION.
The House met 81 three o'clock,
Speaker Hileman in the chair.
Doekery proposed the following
resolution which was read by him:
Resolved, /, That consideration
Of the suesfi,ut. lease bill be made
the special order fol- / o'clock tomor-
.ow.2. Ina, the special committee
IN charge of this substitute be 70
qaes'-d, oii.cted and required TO re-
port the substitute bill AT this hour,
whether or not the decision OF the
Sapr NE Cunt shall have been rer-
iere = f citing II; ), That the vet.
bs taken npnn the sub zritu'e not
| later = ar , o'clock Of the So ne day;
1. Tat The Supreme Court be re
qaes;,d 10 consider the legal . fleet
| OF accepting the substitute bill. and
render a dee sion g soon as possible
for the benefit 81 the House"
It was 6 O'Clock when the vote was
| completed. The result was yeas
81, nays 50. There was some ap-
plause at the announcement.
The resolution offered by the COM
mittee was then taken up and read
as follows: Resolved, By the
House of Representatives that the
Chief Justice and the Associate JUS
tees of the Supreme Court be re-
specially requested to examine the
bill nov pending before the House
entitled An act to prescribe the
terms upon which foreign railroad
corporations may become incorpor-
ated in this State, aud for other
purposes and to minnie ate
through the Speaker Of the H SO
the opinion Of the court upon the
question whether, if tn. bill shall be
passed by both Houses and ratified
it shall become operative before the
ratification of it by the stockholders
Of the North Carolina Railroad
Company, and that the members of
the court be further respectfully re-
quested to communicate their opin-
ion to the session Of the House of
Representatives to be held On Sat
urdaY, the 6 h inst, if they shall find
it cons stent with their duty to do
so.
| Resolved further that the Spe aker
OF the House be requested to send a
copy of the bill with these resolu-
tons i'm mediately TO the chief JUS
tee of the Supreme Count
The resolutions were adopted.
THE FIGHT ON SATURDAY.
The House met on Saturday, and
at one o'clock the fight was re-
new d. There was almost as much
confu sion as there was on the pro
ceeding day, but it was not quite SO
boisterous
The following opinion of the Su.
preme court was read: "Your reso
luton is before US. Precedent anc
the courtesy due to a coordinate
branch of the government impel us
to respond to your request. With
out expressing any intimation Of
opinion, either way, upon the ques
ton whether the power to lease it,
road is vested in the North Caroline
Railroad Company by its charter
we are of the opinion that the power
II 1t exists, is now vested in tn,
stockholders, and the provision il
section 6 of the bill submitted tc
US. which makes the validity of 6
lease dependent upon its acceptance
by the board of directors. would bt
an amendment of the charter trans
ferring power from the stakeholder.
and invalid, unless accepted by tn,
stockholders in general or specia
meeting assembled.
(Signed) "W. T. FA1RcLorH.
"Chief Justice n c., for the Court -
After the reading of this opinion
Mr.. Cook, for the committee, re
ported to the House the bill which
the House bill had first passed au
thorlzing the Governor to brine
suit to test the validity of the lease
instead of the Senate substitut.
which validated the slcret deal lease
for 80 years instead of 80 years
inns brought on a hot discussion
during which the House was little
better than mob. The disturbanc.
was mainly kept up by the rail
readers" who were trying to fore,
the Legislature to confirm the 9!
year lease at $3.50, 900 a year in fac,
OF the fact that two propositions haf
been made Offering the State mucl
more than this. One of these prop
ositions was by J. R. Reynolds, O
Winston, who off cred $500 1000 a YEA
tor the road and agreed to put n,
Sloo OOO as a guarantee of goot
faith. He is worth a million dol
lars. The other proposition is from
the Seaboard Air Line for tie sam,
sum.
The men who were standing b,
the people, though in the minority
J took every turn and resorted to al
tactics which parliamentary Law
permits to prevent the State from
being cheated out of $3.50, 900 q wear
The first vote taken was on the hi
which had been reported bv tn,
committee, authorizing the G overno,
to bring suit to annul the lease. III.
vote was as follows:
Ayes-Messrs. Alternately, Alex
ander, Arlington, Borrow, Brown
Bryan, Of Chatham, Carter, Chan
man, Cook, Cox, Craven, Crumpler
Gurrie, Dixon, of Greene, Elliott
Fagan, Ferrell, Foster, Hancock
Hartness, Hauser. Holmes, johnson
fh,lng, Lusk, Lyle, McBryde, Meares
morton, Nelson. Peace, Pearson
Person Of Wayne, Person, of Wil.on
, Plott, Price, Pargason, Rawls. Raw
nolds. Schulken. Sutton of Chm hc,
land, Sutton Of New Hanover Wsrd
Watts, Wemyss, Whltener, White y
Randolph, Williamson-Ayes, so.
Il Noes Messrs. Adams A;ko A,