The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-03-05
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cal WOrk, elC., ny TINS Legislature over
the cost of the session of 1897 will be
in the neighborhood of $1,000. The saw
ing in the office of the engrOssing clerk
of the Senate will be something like
81 800. Mr.. Clinard. the popular and
efficient Engrossing Clerk says:
The relative cost of the EngrOssing
Clerks office of the Senate in 1897 and
1899 is as follows:
In 1897 there were eight clerks
that cost the State mot in
GLIDING mileage ..........$ 100000
Now. in 1899, we have four
clerks that cost the State
mot including mileage). go. $500
Net gain ......... Isl ,521 90
Gould l get the mileage of the clerks
of 1897, | am satisfied that we could
show a gain of over $1,S0000 in our
office"
Father Creecy, the veteran of the Gen
eral Assembly, thus speaks of the Legis-
lature and some of its members:
''As general rule, this Legislature
has not been distinguished for the max
ing, adding to or taking from reputa-
tons. Winston has put himself in the
front rank of our Legislators. He has
made a solid State reputation. Early
in the session he tackled the leading
State issue, the suffrage question. and
although his original suffrage bill was
amended in some particulars, it was the
basis of legislation upon the subject.
and Winston was identified with it and
was the chief engineer to the last. Os-
borne brought his eminent legal acumen
to all the legal aspects of the question.
and if it is not now. five rails high. pig
tight and bull strong, then 1t can't he
did
"Carraway, of Lenoir, old dirt road
Carraway, has shuffled off his old sou
briquet and is now an ethnologist, and
in one speech he talked so glibly
on chronological lore. that he
proved himself akin TO Manteo and full
of the best strain of old Injun blood. We
never saw Carraway but once, and we
have not now II distinct impression of
his uignitied physique, but Wen bet Il
cookie that he has long black hair, with
ont kink in any strand of it, high cheek
bones. cultural voice, vindictive
temper and in walking, creeps like
cat. If old Tecumseh' Carraway is
not bloody Injun, then there's no
lnjm i'll North Carolina.
Henry A. Gillian, young Hen, has
made his mark and won Il reputation
for ability, courageousness and direct
ness in patriotism. Hen. is another
case in which the blood of dear old
Aunt Moore, his grandmamma, will
surge to the front. If Hens ambition
don't force him out OF Jericho before
his beard doth grow, he will after a
while be like Saul among the Philis-
tines. Bless the boy! He bears the
banner of the 'old man Henry, with his
name inscribed thereon.
Joseph Boushal, of Wake, a Cam
den boy, has become a peer in the
sanhedrin at Raleigh When boy he
was an agent, quasi devil, of the Econ
omist, and If our foresight had been
equal to our hindsight we would have
been more polite and considerable of
him.
In the Senate. Osborne maintains
his reputation as one of the ablest jurists
in the State. In legal questions per-
tanning to our legislation.' he was our
strong staff and beautiful rod in the
Senate and he will return to his proud
constituents with his reputation, not
| only unimpaired, but strengthened He
is great and able man and he bears me
banner of Jimmie Osborne, his father,
who went out one door as we came in
the other at the University, who left Il
green reputation there as ~the brightest
hoy in the class, but much given to
'inuocuous desuetude,' sometimes called
laZiness.
"Rountree, of Wilmington, by one
bound, sprang into fame in the Senate
in the final debate on the suffrage bill
lie was one of the men that the revol-
utionary upheaval at Wilmington threw
up to the surface and to the front. But
| if his speech on the suffrage does not
| belle him, that volcanic eruption in VIII
| mington, when Waddell rode upon the
| whirlwind,' threw up diamond among
the lava.
Others kept up with the procession
| in a sort of Simon Wig-wag' fashion
| neither making nor losing reputation
| To many it was lost opportunity. re
| others disappointment. To all a po
| litical revolution that will rebound to the
| glory and honor of the State. In other
| and distant days when current events
| have been stamped with the seal of his.
| tory, old men, in the scar and yellow
| leaf of life will tell their children and
| children's children, as their aged faces
| flush with pride. that they were mem
| bers of the Legislature of 1899.
'God bless our Legislators, all OF
| them. Bless them in basket and in
store, in their friendships and antagon
isms. in health. in happiness, in Their
| patriotic convictions, in their aspirations
and in their daily walk and conversa.
ton. FAREWELL"
In the interesting fight to reinstate
the Wilson's as Railroad Commission.
| ers Mr. Harrison, of Halifax, who was
| unable to be present on account of sick
ness was paired with paired with Repre-
sentative Willard. of New Hanover Mr.
| Harrison being against Mr.. Willard fol
reinstating
| RCTHERFORD'S DISPENSARY.
The Treasurer's Report Shows That it
is Doing a Thriving Business. but the
| Local Preachers are Opposed to It,
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