The news & observer., 1897-02-26
LITTLE BILL BRYAN FLAYEO
COL. LUsK REVIEWS HIS SNEAK
MEASURE OF 1895.
scoRNEo FOR PRIrcHARo VOTE
The Over WheImirg Majority by Which
the Appropriations Passed--Fa'eigh
Cotton Weighers Bill PASSED..
Lusk's Championship.

a donation to CASTOR county to erect a
court house and jail at Gmstonia.
By Hauser, to provide for election of
Railway Commissioners by the people.
and give the Commissioners the right to
prevent reduction of wages of any rail-
way employe whose annual wages are
less than $1,000, the penalty being $50 for
each case; and also providing that no
railway shall charge over 212 cents per
mile for first-class fare and cents for
second class fare between any two
points in this State. under penalty Of
500; this to apply to roads as stand
ard" by the Railway Commission.
BY Duffy, to protect turpentine work
ers. by fining $50 any person who adul-
terates spirits of turpentine with kero-
sene oil (or 80 days Imprisonment or
both.)
BY Bryan, to protect landowners in
Chatham, by forbidding people in stock
law territory to Craze stock outside.
BY Cunningham, to incorporate Bethel
Hill Institute, and to forbid hunting in
Person by non-residents.
By Brewer, to change time Of holding
courts in Surry so as not to conflict with
Federal courts at Greensboro.
BY Conley, to renew the prohibition act
for Old Fort:
The bill to charter the Winston-Salem
South Bound Railroad was taken up.
McCrarys amendment to force it to go
through the town of Lexington was over
wheImingIy voted down and the bill
passed second reading.
Bills passed:
To amend charter North Carolina
Dairymen's Association so as to allow it
to offer premiums, the State to give it
$500 annually
To amend charter of Wilkesboro, so
as to allow annual elections ON liquor
licenses to be held.
To change time of holding Superior
courts of Craven.
To amend the law regarding restora-
tion to citizenship, so that petitioner can
file his petition in the county in which
he was convicted or the one in which he
resides.
To amend charter of Mt. Airy
Bill to appropriate $4,000 to the Roll
ing Exposition" or North Carolina on
Wheels" came up. OF the sum the bill
proposed that half be expended in fitting
up the car, and requiring the car to be
sent to certain States, for a month each,
and in certain others 15 days; the entire
time of the exhibit to be years. SUIT
ton, of Cumberland, offered an amend
ment, striking out the. appropriation of
$4,000 and providing that there be no
expense to the State, and said the State
would lose $4,000 in trying an expert
ment without notice or investigation;
that the money could be applied to the
University He said the lobby was here
and that somebody wanted q job. He
opposed the bill out and out.
Freeman, the father and promoter of
the bill, spoke in support, and said i'm.
migration to this State from the North
and West was greatly needed, and that
other States, Georgia and Florida, was
sending out these cars. He drew
a frightful picture of the condition of the
legislature, and said this was by far the
most important bin of this sesson. He
said the car was nearly completed and
cost S15, 900. He said in a very excited
way, Il want to spot the man who
dares to vote against the bill, and at this
the House laughed. Dixon, of Cleveland,
said he favored the bill; on the principle
that if North Carolina had a good thing
let her show it. Cathey favored the BILL
White, of Randolph, said he rose SO
Freeman could spot one man who would
vote against his BILL He ridiculed the
legislature for piling up appropriations.
making no provision for them in the
revenue act He wanted to put "North
Carolina on Wings" by putting on ap-
preparations for the schools. Hauser
said the bill was merely to provide a fat
place for two men. He said Freeman
had been son wheels" himself; had been
to the Newbern fair, and was not re-
sponsible for what he said. He favored
Sutton's amendment. He ridiculed the
idea of such cars as ''side shows on side
tracks" Hancock favored the bill, say
ing it was in the States interest. He
called the previous question. Sutton's
amendment was first voted on. Bryan,
of Chatham, demanded the yeas and
nays. The amendment was adopted,
yeas, Al; nays, 81; and the bill as amend
ed passed second reading. Freeman
asked to withdraw the bill. Sutton OBJ
jected to Withdrawing it, and said it
would come up again. The bill passed
third reading.
Bill was taken up to amend chapter
$50, acts of 1885, requiring a true meri-
dian to be established in each county,
by inserting an enacting clause and strik-
ing out section providing for the ad-
justment or compaSSeS ana the correct
ness of boundaries. White, of Alamance,
said the ignorance of the true meridian
by surveyors in the State is simply
amazing; that no county has objected to
the law; that lines are being established
ewing to this ignorance. Eddins said
the government would furnish the correct
tables and added that the lines run by the
average surveyor were no more accurate
than those run. by pole.
BIZ to make it misdemeanor for any
person not duly licensed to perform the
marriage ceremony passed. White, Of
Alamance, said an unlicensed person had
performed such a ceremony in Eastern
North Carolina and the Supreme Court
decided there was no law to punish him.
Bill came up to allow operatives in
Alamance receiving checks from en-
xioyers to endorse them, so they can be
ased in any store the operative pleases,