The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-22
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We note with pleasure that our
popular Senator, IL. :. Ward, Esq" Is
on several important committees, and
that he is making a record III the
Reformation General Assembly of
North Carolina. He is laboring earnest
ly for the relief of his constituents, and
if he makes Il mistake it will be of the
head and not of the heart. While he
is an uncompromising Democrat, when
his eloquent voice vihrates through the
Senate chamber, it viii be for the good,
and in the interest of all the people,
and while those measures he advo-
Gates may now seem selfish and UNI
just to one class or party. yet in time
we believe all will agree with him.
1t is for the future welfare Of this
commonwealth that he and his col
leagues are working, and may he and
they be guided Alright Plymouth Bca-
con.
Mr. ii. r. King, editor of Kings
Weekly, has been spending some days in
Raleigh, and writing to his paper of the
Pitt member of the House says:
You see Pitt has two members, Barn
hill and Nichols, in the House. Mr..
Barnhill's a preacher was remarked,
Yes, yes, it's Il good place for him,
though it takes a new one every day to
do the praying for the House. Pitt
has sent several preachers there. Mr..
Barnhill is married man, too. That
settles him for business. Mr.. Nichols
is a young man, good looking and popu-
lar. They are holding down their seats
cnoHnGsfl,IItr V,.iAl 20 ho,
selves and honor to good old Pitt They
are new men. but are influential and
workers Pitt county may well be
proud of them"
Elder +. d. Gold, editor of the lions
Landmark, writes this of the Legsla-
ture:
My impression of the Legislature,
after visiting it, is that it is command
ing the services of competent and sin
cere men, who have the good Of the
people at heart, and that the character
Of the legislation will be good to our
people at large, allaying partisan feel
mgs. by reducing taxes abOlishing OPP
pressive laws, and supplying the place
of such laws by good ones, purging
offices of dishonest men, and returning
to better methods of administering the
laws. and hence making the people more
contcnted with their lot. and more hope
full for the future"
Mr.. ]. B. Tyler, of BERTHE, writing to
the Windsor Ledger, gives an incident
our vig;lant reporter overlooked at the
organization of the House:
AN interesting incident took place
during the qualification of the members
of the House. Messrs Craig and Win
ston were sworn in on the new Bible
used on the first Monday in December,
1898, for the swearing in OF the recently
elected county officers at Windsor. Rep
resentative Moore, Of Jackson county,
also requested the honor of taking his
oath of office ON this Bible"
Monday night in the hall of the House
of Representatives. has been set apart
for a hearing before the Educational
Committee of the supervisors of schools,
educators and friends of education. Let
ters have been received from a number
of educators and supervisors who viii
be present 1t will be n meeting Of
NUN liiiIbItUiItts 1Ol- llt StItlttlltl W HO
will give their views have practical eXpe-
rience which will be of value to the com
mittee in framing its bill regulating the
public schools of the State.
II have been surprised at the delay
in passing the law requiring separate
cars for the races" said a leading cotton
mill manufacturer yesterday. THE de-
mand for it is so universal that / thought
it would have passed both houses the
first week. As il has not yet been done,
I hope that the bill will be made also to
require separate waiting rooms. They
are needed even more than separate
cars. When negro goes away al his
or her neighb0rs go to the train and
see them off, and sometimes they crowd
out the whites"
There is much sentiment among mem
bers of the Legislature favorable to the
passage of bill authorizing primary
elections. Senator Smith introduced a
bill in the Senate a few days ago to that
end and when it comes up for consid-
Grafton it will have a strong following
Representative Clarkson, of Mecklen
burg, has appeared before the Commit
tea on Election Laws in the same con
nection. Speaking of his bill Senator
Smith said that he had observed the
working of the primary system in other
States and found it to be admirable.
Over the bill to change the name OF
Chocowinity Greek to Chocco River in
order to fool Congress into an appro-
priation, dirt Road" Carraway, the
learned representative from Lenoir
made a speech full of antique lore and
aboriginal nomenclature, so much sc
that our head is dizzy and we are III fear
that our dexter jaw is somewhat dislo-
cated-out of plumb, so to speak. There
is evidently some PocohOntas blood in
"Dirt's'' veins.-Elizabeth City Econ
omist.
There is beginning to be some com
plant over the slowness of the LeSis-
lature in doing some things that is was
understood they would do. One is the
passage of a Jim Craw Car Law.
'If they don't do that, said good
Democrat yesterday-"well | throw up
the sponge and the members of the
Legislators had about as well do the
same"
The manly and eloquent words OF the
Hon. Lee s. Overman. the parliamen-