The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-02-22

price, tllll MIS-. IIuSk was 10 pay 5000
a public-spirited gentleman $500. and
the State $500; that the only money she
has received is that paid by the State
and that she thinks as the State has the
picture, it ought to pay her the $1,000
claimed by her.
What about the picture and the
claim? / telegraphed to Mr.. V. s. Iusk
of Asheville, and here is his telegram:
Asheville, n. c., Feb. 81, 1899.
News and Observer Raleigh, n. c.:
The Vance portrait was paid for in
full when sold to the State, and neither
the State nor Mrs. Lusk owes Mrs Gar
ry one cent on same
V. S. LUSK.
The Greensboro dispensary bill won
ont in the Senate yesterday after n
spirited contest. in which many excellent
speeches were made. Senators Wilson
Justice, Lindsay Hicks and others made
good speeches for the measure, while
Senator Glenn pulled off his collar and
made one of the most eloquent speeches
of the session. 1t is understood that
Mr.. Moses Cone, the leader of the OPP
position, has given up the fight and that
the bill will he allowed to pass the House
at once without further objection. The
advocates of the dispensary were pre-
pairing to come today one hundred
strong, to appear before the House Com
mittee. but it is understood that they
have been been telegraphed not to come.
If ever people deserved the passage
of bill by earnestness and determina
ton and sacrifices, it is the people of
~ rna fnt yuit xxynp mi nm MI
ty they have been holding meetings,
passing resolutions and sending delega-
tons to Raleigh for nearly a month.
The State printing will of course be
settled but there is little hope of it be-
ing settled satisfactorily TO all parties.
Some favor giving it to the lowest bid
der, others favor having it done in the
State, while still others favor having
the work done in Raleigh by union
office. The matter could be settled for
all time by the State buying an outfit
and doing its own work. No one will
do the work without making profit,
and the State could pay fair wages for
the work and still save this profit. 1t
would be much better to have the work
done in Raleigh If possible, as the diff
ferent State officials could have a sort
of supervision over the work done
for their partments.-Durham Morn
ing Herald.
People will think of the looks of peo-
pie they never saw. Somehow we had
put Hon. Thos. G. Skinner ex-Repre-
sentative in the Congress, and a sound
Democrat. as man of forty or so, dark
haired perhaps, and fresh with the vigor
or youth. 10, and behold. a picture of
him in the Raleigh News and Observer
presents a gray haired, venerable, yigo-
rous, elderly man Of strong and resolute
face. May his good gray head Ions
do its own thinking for tbs good of the
State. He is chairman of the Demo-
cratic joint caucus in the Legislature
Wilmington Messenger.
The charter of the North and South
Carolina Railroad was enrolled yester-
day afternoon, and Col. John S. Cum
nigham, of Person, who has been here
looking after it. will return home this
morning. Col. Cunningham, one of the
incorporators of this road writes that
they will very shortly begin work on this
road which begins at Virgiina and will
run through the copper mines of Gran
vile and Person counties 10 Roxboro ON
through Alamance and Arson and on
to Columbia, South Carolina. 1t will go
through a fine country and be a paying
line.
strong fight will be made in the
Senate against the antitrust bill which
passed the House last week. This Leg
islature cannot afford to adjourn without
adopting stringent measures against the
operations of oppressive combines in
North Carolina. The Democratic plat
form demanded such action, it was
promised the people from the stump and
the representatives should remember the
needs of their constituencies and not
be swayed from the path of duty by
the siren songs of trusts and their paid
attorneys.-Winston Sentinel.
Why not pass the separate car law
to-day! The following from the Wilson
News is a sample of what appears daily
in the State papers:
PINNED to the register at the Briggs
Hotel is an application to the Legsla-
ture requesting the passage of the Jim
Grow" law requiring the railroads to
furnish separate cars for the TWO races.
Several travelling statesmen have affixed
their names to it, and the prospects are
that another sheet of paper will have to
be added to accommodate all those who
wish to sign it,
Mr.. Petree, leading Republican rep
resentative, being asked about the
amendment. said that he thought Repub-
leans in the west would vote against
the amendment, but believed that III the
east and centre they would either vote
for it or be passive. He thinks the
Populists will vote solidly for 1t, and
Lieutenant Governor Reynolds takes
the same view. Petree says that under
the new election law it appears to him
to be easy to carry the amendment.
Lieutenant Governor Reynolds and
Representatives Petree, Bryan of Mad
ison, all Republicans, were asked wheth-
er they thought the suffrage amendment
would be adopted at the polls and are
quoted as saying they thought so; that
some whita RanuhlioanS in the east and