The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-01-07
A CORNER STONE. .lNFAMY
DISCUSSED BY. THE MEMBERS
OF THE HOUSE.
THE PEG LEG WILLIAMS LAW REPEALED
Bills TO Materially Change the School Law.
Propl silions TO Abolish the Bureau Of
Labor Statistics and Board
of Equalization.

of Equalization.
The House has the belts on and the
machinery is buzzing.
i 1t has not turned out much Of the
finished product yet but it is laying in
an immense stock of mighty fine raw
material.
Yesterdays session was a most in
teresting one. The question Of ques-
tions in this State came up for dis
cussion in a number of phases.
| | refer TO Negro Problem.
A bill was introduced to amend the
Constitution so as to eliminate the col
ored vote.
The law prohibiting all emigration
| agents coming into the State and induc-
ing colored labor to go South was re-
| pealed.
And several resolutions were intro
| duced looking to an erasure CT the name
Of Jim Young, the colored director,
from the cornerstone of the white school
here for the deaf and dumb
1t was these latter that aroused most
discussion and outraged feeling.
| The ball was set a rolling by the fol-
| lowing bill sent over from the Senate,
| having been introduced in that body by
Senator Miller, of PamIico and passed:
| Resolved by the Senate, the House
of Representatives concurring aAAss
| ~lhat the Committee Of the Geneyal'
Assembly on the Deaf. Dumb and Blind
.Asylums, shall forthwith have the name
of james Ii. Young removed from the
| cornerstone of the new building at the
| institution for the blind white children,
located in the city of Raleigh and to
| report to the General Assembly"
Then Mr.. Stevens. of Union, sent for
ward the following resolution, which
was read:
Whereas, the Board Of Directors for
| the School for the Deaf and Dumb APP
| pointed under Fusion rule, have dis
| graced the State and insulted her citi-
| zenship by placing the name of James
II. Young upon the cornerstone of the
| building, erected for white children of
the State, and
Whereas, this General Assembly de-
sires to remove the stain put upon our
State by these white believers in negro
domination; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Represen-
| tatives, the Senate concurring:
! the management of said school are here
by directed to have removed the said
corner stone, and one of similar design.
with the name of the white trustees only,
placed in its stead"
For these two resolutions, Mr.. Bou-
shall, of Wake, sent UP the following
substitute:
Resolved by the House Of Repre-
sentatives the Senaze concurring:
THAT the cornerstone of the new
building erected in 1898 upon the grounds
of the Institution for the Blind, in the
city of Raleigh be removed.
THAT a cornerstone be placed in
stead thereof, bearing the names of tbs
board of said institution, upon whose
motions and plans said new buildings
We're erected, to wit:
"B. Il. Montague, chairman of the
Board; j. A. Briggs, chairman of the
building Committee; /. Nj. Proctor, II.
Morson, II. G. Herring, J, Il. Williams,
Jno Il. Ray, Principal +. p. Milburn,
Architect"
Mr.. Boushall explained that the names
he proposed were the names of the men
who had conceived the plan for the
building, had made arrangements for It's
erection and secured the appropriation
therefor.
Mr.. Mclean, of Harnett said his OBJ
lection to all the resolutions ON this
matter, so far introduced, was that they
simply made a request of the very board
of directors that had put Young's name
on the cornerstone. He, therefore, Of
fered the following substitute putting
the whole matter in the hands OF
legislative committees:
Whereas. information has come TO
this General Assembly that n corner
stone has been inserted in the building
erected for the white deaf and dumb
and blind children of the State, upon
which the name of one James III. Young,
a negro, is engraved therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Repre-
sentatives, the Senate concurring, that
under the direction of the Committee on
the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute or
both Houses Of the General Assembly;
that said cornerstone be removed from
said building. if possible, and another
cornerstone inserted in its stead with
such engravngs or inscriptions thereon
as said two committees oor a majority
thereof may consider fit and appropriate.
Resolved further, Tint if the removal
of said cornerstone cannot be effected
without damage to the building, them the
name of said James I'll. Young shall be
chiselled out"
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