Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-02-09
LEGISLATIVE
Mondays Work in the House
Figura' tive Reported.

the present session and has beer
knoWn and characterized as g
Woodworking body since the
first days business began, hold
ing four-hour sessions every day
and its members doing laboriors
committee work most every after
noon or evening. But yesterday
it increased it's pace by beginn>
ing night sessions, as will be seen
by the following proceedings,
and from now on the amount OF
legislative grist turned out will
be limited only by the capacity
Of the plant.
Among the births al the morn
ing session yesterday was ans
other tarbaby called jim Grow
Carr. He was ushered into exis>
tence by Mr., Winston of Ber:ie,
and at the request of his father
was thrown into the Calendar
cradle to be rocked into a full
grown youth later on-perhaps.
His mission in life, if perchance
it shall be- his fate to remain with
US permanently, will be to trans
form or convert himself into any
number of Jim Grow cars, for the
separate and exclusive use of
such ladies and gentlemen and
little children of his distinctive
color or shade as shall be minded
to take rides on railroad trains in
the Tarheel State, and to smack
aud expel all such as refuse to
put up with the equal accom-
modations he offers. minus only
the lining Of white faces on the
surrounding seats, etc.
There was a sudden death at
the morning session also, in
which a prominent legislative
character was assassinated aud,
equally astounding, brought to
life again in a few minutes. This
gentleman's name vas Special
Order and the hour Of one o'clock
had been set as the time for bis
admission to that select abode
known as the Statute Books Of
North Carolina. But when he
knocked there forty-three Peters
at The gate denied him admiss
sion, and up to this hour he re-
mains on the outside, though it
is but fair to state that, even
after death, he had friends
enough to expatiate upon his
good qualities in general with
such force and effect that he vas
rescuss;tated, and while not eX-
actly translated to the "promised
land" he stands a fair chance of
yet reaching it when Invested of
some oil those qualities thought
by the aforesaid Peters to smack
too much of the earth earthly,
etc.
In other words Mr.. Wlnston's
bill reducing the fees Of county
oficers-in many cases cutting
them half IN two-falled to pass,
by the vote Of 43 to SO. on a mo,
ton TO table the bill after argus
ment pro and con, but later on,
after another bill introduced by
Mr.. Council and reducing the
fees of registers of deeds in Ger
tain counties, had been recon :
mitted to the Committee on Sal
aries and Fees. the vote by which
the Winston bill had been tabled
was, on motion of MIR, Moore of
Jackson, reconsidered and that
bill referred to the same commit
tee, Mr.. Moore and others think
ing that it possessed much merit
and should be used largely in
drafting the new bill to cover the
whole subject, which it is now
understood the committee Will
prepare and report as Q substitute
for all the bills of this character,
several of which are now in its
hands.
Two special orders were made
yesterday-one for tomorrow
"wednesday at noon, when the
textile school substitute bill will
be considered and probably
passed. The other, for Thursday.
Immediately after the morning
hour, is the Scotland county
bill, providing for the creation
of a new county out of a portion
of Richmond and possibly a par
of another county. if the bill is
amended as some desire it to be.
Il II Il
The liquor dispensary question
grows apace. In addition ito the
towns and counties mentioned il
lSunday's Post, a Greensboro
dolnOatinn is nxnactad here soon