Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-02-01
RALEIGH'S BUDGET.
The Election Law Questionable
Penitentiary Matter.


Penitentiary Matter.
RALEIGH. y. c., January %.-(Special)
The Legislature has repealed an election
laws. Tomorrow night the Democratic
caucus will take up the new law, pre-
pared with great care by Senator Glenn
and Representatives. Stubs ana Winston
and Democratic state Chairman SIM
mons. To-day each committeeman was
given draft of the new law. IL Is very
different from any former laws. AS exc
pected, 81 restores the old date OF elec-
tons the first Thursday in August. This
IS done to prevent Federal Interference
az elections by disassOciItins the latter
from the congressional elections. 10 also
names August, 1909. as the GATE for tAe
first election. The State Board of Elcc-
lions IS not composed as formerly. Then
ii was of State officers, and was merely
q canvassing board. Now DO has greater
power. 1t is 90 meet in April ON each
election year, and ii is to be composed
Of five discreet persons. The county cleo.
ton boards are also new creation. The
bill is well drawn. AZ is very compre-
hensiVe.
The penitentiary continues TO ongross
quite large share of public attention.
Your correspondent endeayOred 10 ascer-
tain whe'Hr w. II Day Governor Rus
sells lateft,appointee az Superintendent,
intends TO step down and out February
10Th. when the Democrats take charge.
Captain Day said: Il have told no one
what 1 viii DO. 1 have not said / would
resist the action OF the Legislature. 80
man knows what i win do The peni-
Tertiary managed by anybody under the
new law will be failure. The legislative
committee Of inquiry has done lis WORK
well, but II has failed TO look into the
treatment of the cOnvicts. 1t is well
recognized that the new law Is not salts
factory and impractcable, and that IL
when the new Board OF Directors meets
1 step down and out and surrender the
Legislature will make a decent law"
There are two negroes charged with
murder in JAIN here Tor safe-keepng. one
is from Castor, the other IS from johns
ston. The latter was IN the cell with
Booker, the negro who was hanged, and,
looking out Of a window, saw Booker
hanged lie did not intend TO See the
hanging. 1t has totally unneryed him
He has always feared lynching, and sleeps
only a short while each night lie says
his dreams are all Of lyuchers.
a bill is introduced in the Legislature
TO charter the Oriental Insurance Com
pany, of Asheyille: capital, 500 900.
There Is q strong fight against the pro-
position TO levy a corporation tax. il is
or extension of the idea OF taxation OF
gross earnings Of insurance companies.
and its main purpose Is TO reach the rail-
ways The tax on merchants purchases
now yields about $4,000 d year. and that
on corporations would yield over four
times that sum- and permit the dropping
az the uflrCh9ea tax which fe cert 1frlftf
odious 20 the merchants.
Lambert and Eaves OemOcrats were
given seats in the Senate from the Thlr-
ty-first District to-day, defeating two Re
publicans-Kerley and Southor. The event
IN the Senate session was the discussion
Of the insanity laws, and there was a
fight which failed 10 strike out the provi-
sion for a department. for inebuates, and
bill was introduced I'm the house to put
the Agricultural and Mechanical College
in Democratic hands by the election OF
eighteen additional trustees There are
now nine Fusion directors. a bill passed
10 protect the public from food adultera-
ton II imposes a heavy penalty for
adulteratiOn, unless food Is branded as
not pure. The whiskey dispensary for
Bddcn county was abolished, Il being
stated that the people were "a unit in op-
posing Its continuance. Din was intro
duced Incorporating the North and South
Carolina railway from some point in Per-
son county, on the Virginia line, TO