The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-02-17
BUTLER PLAYS
HIS LAST CARD
Asks Ewart's Rejection Be-
cause he is Persona
Non Grata.
FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS
THE OUTLOOK Is GOOD FOR ONE
AT ELIZABETH CITY, DUR
HAM AND WINSTON.
FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS
TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
For Cape Lookout. Senator Pri'chard Thinks
it will Pass. Harb1r viii Cost Three
and Half Million Dollars.
Properly Lost.

Washington, y. c., Feb. 16.-(SpecialJ
Senator Butler was not at the Senate
to-day, and therefore the case of Judge
Ewart did not come up in executive ses-
sion careful investigation made to-
day discloseS the fact that the vote in
Ewarts nomination will be exceedingly
close. / am informed that there has not
been such bitter and personal fight on
a nomination in years. Senator Pritch-
ard has left nothing undone to secure
Ewart's confirmation. He really has
made it personal matter. 1t was given
out to-day that Senator Butler had play
ed his last card in the fight, and that he
was more confident than ever that Ew-
art would be defeated. According to the
story he went among the Senators and
stated that Ewart had made himself
persona non grata, and as matter Of
senatorial courtesy. Ewart's nomination
ought to be rejected. This was a sur
prise to the Senators who are supporting
Ewart for they understand that Butler
was resting his case in the numerous
charges that were filed against the judge
last year. One Senator said that at the
outset had Butler invoked senatorial
courtesy, Ewart's nomination would have
been rejected. and that it was now too
late to bring that question into the fight
Senator Lindsay, one of the leading
members of the judiciary Committee is
warm in his support of Ewart, and his
speech in the Judges defense made the
other day was quite a surprise to the
opposition. Judge Ewart is in the city
and will remain until his case is disposed
OF. The administration is lending its
powerful influence in behalf of the
Judges confirmation, and III the closing
hours of a Congress this influence is not
to be discounted This week promises to
see the wrangle ended. i
Representatives Skinner and Linney
braved the snow blizzard and were in
their seats when the House was called
to order
Colonel Harry Skinner is making a hot
fight to secure North Cardinals share of
public buildings. He is a member of the
Committee ON Public Buildings and
Grounds and as a member of that COM
mittee he was in a position to demand
that the Tar Heel State should not
be ignored. The result was that Skin
ner's bill appropriating $4,000 for pub
lie building at Elizabeth City; Kitchin's
bill carrying $4,000 for building at
Durham, and Linney's bill of $4,000 for
building at Winston were favorably re-
ported and placed on the calendar. Col.
Skinner says the Committee on Rules
has just two more days for the construc
ton of public building bills, and that he
feels quite confident that his bill will go
through, as it is ahead of the Kitchen
and Linney bills. He will, he says, do
all in his power to help get through the
bills for Durham and Winston.
Senator Pritchard has proposed an
amendment which he will offer to the
River and Harbor Appropriation Bill,
appropriating 100000 for the com
mencement of work on a harbor of re-
fuge at Cape Lookout. 1t is estimated
that the harbor win cost $780, 900.
This is a matter of great Importance,
inasmuch as the report shows that with
in the last nine years over 81, 100000 of
property has been destroyed, TO say moth
ing of lives lost. From Cape Henry to
the Gulf of Mexico there is no ha Dor
suitable to accommodate large vessels.