The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-01-19
The State Legislature.
WHAT TINE LAWMAKERS ARE DOING
FOR the STATE.

some Few Things we See snd Hear, With
Such Comment as VIII be of Gen. raj In
terest.
The reduction of clerk salaries |
did not go into effect till S4turdsy
Since then they have been getting !
81 per day. OF cours they expect
to draw their salaries at the end of
the term. The Doorkeepe,s we sup
pose are getting their S. and the
laborers are getting still So so, and
there are eight or ten colored ones,
Notwithstanding the report that
white men should have the job.
DIsPpTING OVER NEW JUDGES.
The Democrats in caucus the 9th
er night had quite q warm debate on
the subject Of increasing the judges
to four more. Doubtless all wanted
it, but some thought it would be bad
politics. Others claimed that what
ever objections might arise, could
doubtless be overcome by the good
Offices thus created. On this point,
it was kinder postponed. 1t is
thought the judges will not be crea-
ted But will see.
DISPUTING OVER RAILROAD PRRSI-
DENT.
Then they had dispute what city
or town should get the Presidency
of certain railrod. GoldsbOro
wanted it, and Newberne wanted it.
This was quite sharp. Some Demo-
Gratis have said rather than see it go
to Goldsboro, they would rather see
the present President retained.
NOT CERTAIN TO THE BILL.
1t is easy for the Democrats to get
out of hole. When the house was
wanting Jim Young's name taken
off the corner stone of the new white
Deaf and Dumb building, to Gle
the State of such scandal, and they
were about to take the vote, then
Mr.. Giles, of Chatham sent up an
amendment providing that "the
proper authorities be and are here
by instructed to Grace the name. of
John G.. Norwood, a colored MN
from the corner-stones of any school
houses in Wilmington.
This hurt the boys, they were
caught in their own trap. Demo
Gratis had put Norwood's name on
the white school buildings in Will
mingtoD, and it would be ref1ec-
ton on white supremacy to inter-
fere with what they did. So Mr..
Brown, of Stanly raised the point
of order, "that the amendment was
foreign to the bill under considera-
tion,' ana his point Was sustained.
To show it is not the "nigger" these
fellows hate so much, when some Re-
publican offered an amendment to
take Jim name off and leave the
others, some Democrat intimated
that "Jim's name was the most re-.
spectacle of the lot"
A CONTRAST THAT DoEsN T CONTRAST
The Lexington Dispatch seems to
be off its wits. 1t seems to be ahead
of the procession. About q week
ago it came out in a contrast of this
and the Legislature Of '97. The only
difference discovered was that at this
time two years ago, the fusionists
were increasing clerks and iaborers
pay, while this one had al.
ready reduced the pay Of all these &c
per cent. Now there is one of two
things certain-elther the Dispatch
does not know what it is talking
about, or does not tell the whole
truth, either of which renders it un.
worthy of confidence. When the
Dispatch wrote, this legislature hsd
not reduced the pay of clerks and Ia
borers. The clerks received SIS pei
day till Saturday. the laborers
several of whom beiug negroes =
against a Democratic caucus ruins
still get So and So so per dav. A
bill was introduced and passed the
House Saturday last, to cut the So 81
laborer 20 per cent. This has not
passed the Senate yet. So, in tina,
respect, the dispatch was wrong
While the Legislature of '97-likt
this one will do-did many things i
ought not; yet We are of the opinion
that it only paid clerks the salary al
lowed them by Democratic law
and the same pay that the Democrat.
having been giving for years.
In regard to the many unnecessary
Offices the 'fusionists" (D created il
'97, the present legislature has beer
too busy trying to repeal Democratic
laws, and enacting laws allowing
counties and cities to levy specia
taxes and issue bonds, to abolish an,
of these worthless Offices. Beside
they are too eager to fill them, an,
then don't have half enough. w,
will bet our steamboat against thu
Dispatches interest in the Philippine
islands, that the present legislator,
will create three Offices to every on
it abolishes of the worthless Office
created in '97, and the Dispatch ca,
hold the stakes. We say this becaus
the same story has been used by al
the local papers in the State.
NUMBERS OF PAGES, sc.
Early in the present Legislature
the Democratic caucus of the Sen
ate Resolved that six pages would b
sufficient for that body. The i'm
| nraSSiOn went abroad that fhov h