The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-02
LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS,
Senate Passes a Bill to Establish
New Criminal Courts.
The jim CROW CAR BILL
'sssed Second Reading in the House-To.
tal TaS Provided In the Re,enu: Act is
~ n,s on the Hundrerd Dollars.

Forty SECOND DAY--Tn the So ate the
bill to ratifv the Madison county bond
|ssuo OF 1887 was tabled. The bill passed
b provide graded schools for Mt. Airy,
lorganton and Newbern. The Guii-
ford dlspensary bull passed today by q
Sote Of 80 to IL.
FORTY THIRD DAY. in the Senate
hhe bill passed to amend the public
pchool laws Of the State and devote
&l 80. 900 in per cent. bonds to public
school purposes. Mossrs j. p. Cald-
well, j. Y: Holt. j. X. Davis, Joseph
.IacOba,J j. II. Sawyer, and T.. H. ArmfielI
were elected trustees OF the Morganto
Hospital The trustees Of the Central
hospital are w. H. Fort, X. n. Spaight.
- ID. Biggs. Il. II. Stancill and j. b.
G,roadfoot.
i FoRTY-FoURTH DAY. The Senate
Tpassed the House bill for department
&of Printing and Labor Statistics, but
Xincreased the appropriation TO So, 800.
&Ihe committee report on tho Chrrlotte
#dlspensury bill was unfa2C fabe A
&1nossago was received from tho Gov
8ernor nominating tho following direct
ors Of the State Normal and Industrial
XSchool, at Greensboro: Fifth Con-
#gressional district, ). NJ. Cattis sixth
&distrlct. i. Il. Post, Jr. seventh dis
*trict, w. d. Turner ninth, Il. ID.
#Gilmer These nominations were
" confirmed. Tho Governor nom.
inated for directors OF the
N Eastern Hospital ut Goldsboro.
the following: For term Of six years,
"A beginning March 1897: Drs. Elisha
NJ Porter, Fender county; ID. w. Bullock,
New Hanover county; JOS f.. Grims-
hey, Greene county. For q term of SIX
years beginning March 1899: Albert
anderson, Wilson county; Shade ).
I'M Ntree, Craven county, These nomipa-
Nh tlous were also confirmed.
III FORrY FIFTH DAY.-In the Senate o
bill passed to establish u criminal circuit
court for the counties of Buncombe,
Madison, laucey, Haywood, Hender
son Caldwell, Burke, Mcdowell and
Forsyth. \ bill asking Congress to
protect the depositors in tho Freed
mans bank was passed. A bill was in
troduced to allow the State TO sell it's
stock in the Atlantic and North Caro-
linn hallway. The Charlotte dispen-
sary bill was defeated bya vote 3 to ] ? :.
The tlme-honored custom of giving the
pages s. in addition to their per diem
Of : came up in the form OF resolu-
tlon signed bv 33 members of the
Senate. Senators Hicks, Smith and
Daniels made eloquent speeches
against the passage OF the res Tuition
aud over half an hour was consumed
t in discussing the faisity of the
principle involved, Senator Daniels
even going go far as to produce s.
gold piece, which, he said, he would give
TO the pages but was unwilling to ex
pend the States money as bonus tC
them. Finally, by roll call vote of q
ayes TO II noes, it was decided tha
W the s. should be given to the boys
H The special order for the election O
tho trustees Of the University was takeI
up The Joint committee made the fol
# lowing nominations: Kemp Z. Battle
~ Orange county; Charles NJ. Steadman
NI tiulltord; L. III. Busbee, Wake; III. Cla,
*1 Wall, Richmond; Benhan Cameron
|.@ Durham; John Fries, Forsyth; james
r = Manning, Durham; Robert NJ
N& Furman, Wake; VIM. A. Guthrie
M Durham; Thos. =. Keenan,, Wake
W James A. Lockhart, Anson; Richar
II. Lewis. Wake. Jas. ID. Murphy
Nv Burcombe; J. l.. Patterson, Forsyth
|S& Fred Phillips. Edgocombe; L. A. Roeb
ling, Buncombe; Harry We'll, Wayne
4 William Il. Whitset, Guilford; +
H J. Hale, Cumberland; Charlie
X NJ Cooke, Franklin; terms to ex
pire 1903. Thomas J. Jerome. Union
lu place of A. b. Gorrell. deceased
Those with terms expiring in 1901
Henry Il. Faison, Sampson, in place Q
2 Il. ID. Gilmer, October, 1891; ThOma
Il. B. Pierce. Duplin, in place Of w. L
Hill, October, 1891; James Sprunt, Ne
Hanover. in place of ID. G.. Worth, de
ceased; j.. Julian Picot, Halifax,
place of w. II. Allen, resigned; JOS. l
Caldwell, Mecklenburg, in place (
\ himself, October, 1901. Those wit
terms expiring November 30. 1899: Il
H. "A. London, Chatham county. IN plaC
'S of A. II. Merritt, October, 1891; Frau
Wilkinson. Edgecombe, in place OF v
n Starues, deceased; f.. X. Outlaw, Bert
~ October, 1891. These nominations wei
& con drmed by the Senate and House.
IA FORTY SIXTH DAY. The Senate cor
vened as q committee of the whole c
s( The act to consolidate the public scho
< laws. Most of the amendments adop
NV ed tend TO increase the power of Il
s State Board of Education.
& FORTY SEVENTH DAY. In the Senate
' bill passed to provide five thousau
dollars for penitentiary, it being d.
N clared by the executive committee tn
The penitentary did not have enouc
money to pay for the return of escar,
convicts captured in Washington Cit
Nearly one hundred local bills we
passed The Senate met at o'clock
special order to complete considerable
OF the act to revise aud consolidate Il
public school law. Section 80 was Il
only section unoonsidered. 1t pr
vides that county boards OF school
rectors shall adopt q series of te,
books which shall be used for thr
years.