The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-01-24
To Be Greatly Reduced
by the Legislature.
RAILWAY NOMINATIONS
II Taken From Hi Memorial
Fss,m Negroes as TO uae school Ques
<foR-Uufaxorable Ikepers ON Bill TO
HDmOve Disabflfti es OF Married Wo-
hen Favorable Reports on Other
BIlls-Beth Houses Adjourn in Mem
DRY Of General II. Il. Lee.
Especial to The Messenger.)

SENATE
ate met at 10 o'clock.
A resolution was adopted summon
ing the clerk of the superior court Of
Mitchell county before the election COM
mittee to produce the registration
books of several precincts as evidence
in the contested case of Lambert and
Eaves against Kerley and Sowthors,
from the Thirty-frst district which
comes up Tuesday.
Senator Fuller, colored, offered a me-
7morial from hat race. He said there
had been considerable unrest among
his people and they were now reluc-
tant to fill contracts and .obliga-
| tions, so uncertain were they as to
their future, but that representative
men of his race in the state had decided
to address the colored people, asking
that they he better citizens and to adj
dress this body in the memorial sub
mitted.
The memorial was read. In sub
a it begs for forbearance of the
Legislature on the colored public school
question.
Reports of committees were ,favora-
BILE as to the following bills: To aD-
point extra commissioners for Caswell,
Edgecombe and Sampson counties. To
repeal the charter Of New Bern, though
not to invalidate any Of its present
debts.
Unfavorable reports were made on
the following bills: To remove disa-
bilities of married women. To punish
lawyers who 'conspire" te injury of
clients.
The following bills were introduced:
To extend the time for organizing the
American Trust and Savings Com
pany. To put a tax of $50 on pillar
tables.
The senate adjourned in honor of
Lees birthday.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The house met at 10 o'clock.
The following bills were introduced:
To repeal the act imposing the tax on
inheritances. To incorporate the In
ter-State Telephone and Telegraph
Company. BY Mr.. Mclean, of Rich
mond, to create the county of Scot
land out of the four southern town
ships of Richmond county. cat his re-
quest the bill was read in full.) BY
Mr. Allen, of Wayne to repeal chap
ter 109, acts 1897 as to non-suits; also
to so amend chapter 122, acts 1897, as
to the charter of the Atlantic and
North Carolina railway, so as to take
away the power given the governor
and place it in the hands of the board
Of internal improvements; also to re-
peal chapter $50, acts of 1897, regard
ing the same road, so as TO take from
the governor the power to appoint the
state proxy. By Mr.. Williams, of Dare,
to create new wreck districts in Dare,
Hyde, Currituck and Carteret. To pro-
tect people from courthouse rings.
(There was laughter at the title of
this bill. For information it was read.
1t makes it unlawful for any board Of
county commissioners to employ any
attorney when the latter is in any way
connected with any bonded officer Of
the county or in n affairs in connec-
ton with the county commissioners
and 1t further requires that all public
improvement shall be let to the lowest
responsible bidder after due publica-
tion.0
Representative Overman said: "Mr.
Speaker, in honor of the memory OF
the worlds greatest chieftain, Christ
ian soldier, patriot and statesman,
teacher Of youth, exemplar of all that
Il h~ox- rood o~I +-.a -~,,SL.-
greatest hero, General Robert E. Lee,
I move that this house do new ad-
%journ."
Mr.. Mclean, of Harnett. moved this
be by a rising vote, but the SPEAKER
| said the constitution required a yea
| and nay vote.
The motion of Mr.. Overman was
unanimously adopted.