The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-02-18
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| prniesAlohNl men, thnc 10 Raleigh in
a body Ia ask for q dlSpensary for
| that city aud presented "a Joint meet
ing OF the Committee on Proposition,
aud Grievances petition Of ECO white
voters Ia tile city limits, which con.
stituted a majority of the white voters
of the city, besides a petition OF n thou.
sand white voters Ia the county Sen
ator John r. Wilson ana Representa-.
tives Bunch and Kenneth, of Guilforl.
in order to remove all doubt as 10 the
will of the white voters Of the city.
called primary an Thursday. the 10th
inst, which resulted in an ovcrwhclm.
ing victory for the iisrensnly. the vote
heing 53l for the dispensary and =
against
The Evening Telegram Of Thursday
has this to say of the election:
Owing Ca the sickness az Mr., II. n.
Brooks. one of the poll .holdcrs, Mr..
~ &. Workman was appointed in his
place by Mayor Taylor, The morn
ing opened up with light rain which
froze as il struck the walks and the
snow, making il next 10 impossible 20
travel, Later the rain became harder
aud the temperature warmer and
more sloppy, disagrecahlo time has
rarely been seen in Greensboro. This
win undoubtedly cause the vote TO he
light. together with the idea on the
part of many that it viii be all right
anyway because Of the refusal Of The
ant's 10 vote or participate ia The
primary" ~
On Thursday night, a few hours az
ter the polls closed. most OF the same
delegation retlsned TO raleigh to re-
port TO Senalhr Wilson and Reprcsen-
tatives kSxnctt and Bunch, who will
put thc<fsill through in short order. 1t
heinSimpossihle to get quorum of
t1xxs-Senate committee together yeSter-
paay. the final hearing before both com
mittees was postponed until this after
noon at 3 o'clock in the State library.
The delegation here for the dispensary
is composed of Messrs. A. NJ. Scales,
"a. s. Hunter. DIR. Il. w. Smith, Branch
Merrimon. DIR. L.. Johnson. Chas. III.
Ireland. VIM. Love, DIR. w, l.. Girls
sem. r. w Brooks. Rev. T. NJ. John
son. ". u. Mendenhall. Rev. J. ID.
Miller, Z. E. Balm. A. w. McAllister,
W. c. Balm and I. \. Lyon. Those
here opposing the dispensary are Mr..
Moses H. Cone and Mr.. Il. II. King,
Esq. Mr.. It. III. Busbee of Raleigh,
appears, also with the "anties."
A committee of citizens appointed by
the mayor of Tarboro. consisting of
DR.. !. NJ. Baker. w. FL. Powell, Jr..
w II. McNair. w. o. Howard, Paul
Jones. III. c. Bovine and James r.
Gaskill, to look after the water works
bill for the town, arrived here yester-
day. / had a talk last night with
Mr. Paul Jones. spokesman for this
bin was for the issuance of forty thou
sand dollars worth of bonds for water
works. sewerage and ter thousand dol
lars for lights. On account of some
misunderstanding with the representa-
tives from Edgecombe, this bill was
returned unfayorably by the committee
from the Senate. When the bin was
brought up before the Senate commit
would be considered, was not present.
Mr.. Gillian, attorney for the Tar
boro Water Supply Company, was be-
fore this committee and the town of
Tarboro had no representative. When
the news Of this unfavorable report
reached Tarboro it was a great sur
prise TO the citizens, whose intention
in having this bill passed was not to
impair any rights of the new system
in town, but to place themselves in
position to buy this system or erect
another one Mr.. Jones said an AMIGA
BILE agreement had been reached and
the bill with one or two changes would
he passed without further trouble.
The Tarboro committee left last night
on the Southern for Tarboro.
We note with pleasure bill before
the Legislature to reduce the salary
and fees of State and county officers
about 20 per cent. The Populists two
and four years ago failed 10 comply
with their promises and pledges to the
people in this respect, and the people
outside of the office-hoders, demand
that this Legislature make reduction
in line with the greater purchasing
power of the dollar. and the reduced
prices of the farmers products. Let
economy be practiced along all the lines
of appropriations to public institutions
of the State, and let no institution
have the pre-eminencc III securing addi-
tional legislative appropriations Shell
by Aurora.
The proposition TO establish a dis
pensary at Youngsville will come up
again today before the Senate Com
mittee on Propositions and Grievances.
! Senator Mcintyre, an alumnus of Wake
| Forest. is making a strong fight against
| il on the ground that it defeated the
law saying whiskey should not be sold
within five miles of Wake Forest and
made it four miles.
Ex-senator Cooper and Rev. J. J.
| Douglas, of Clinton, advocated and
Mr.. John d. Kerr opposed dispensary
for Sampson county. There is not now
| Il bar-room in Sampson county, the
commissioners having refused to grant
Sc. The advocates of dispensary
it will break up the blind tigers.
THE Senate Committee on PROPOSE
4 tons and Grievances has agreed to
recommend the bin to prevent the sale
I of liquor within two miles of Giddens-
Vile Mr. Henry Faison and DIR. John
Faison advocated the bin and Mr..
John -. Kerr opposed it.