The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-02-07
,ne Bill to DOmesticate
Passes Both Houses.
The CRIMINAL INSANE
Give the House Much Troubie-Oppo
sftion TO Combining Them I'm the Penis
tentiary-House Passes the New Ham
County Convict Farms A Bill 10
Amend h Charter of the Brunswick
Ferry Company IntrOduced.~

Amend the Charter of the Brunswick
Ferry Company Introduced
Especial 70 The Messenger.)
SENATE.
Raleigh, y. c., February 1.-The sem
ate met at 10 o'clock.
Bills were introduced as follows: To
abolish tax collectors in Nash. To de-
fine the fees Of clerks, and justices OF
the peace for issuing process To pro
tect stock running atlarge in Cum
berland county. To allow clerks 20 is
sue restraining orders.
Bills passed as follows: To amend the
code relative 10 drainage of low lands.
TO allow the directors Of the deaf and
dumb school at Morganton 10 fill va
cancies. To authorize the commissioners
OF Craven 10 set aside a sinking fund,
II pay a bridge debt. To domesticate
foreign corporations. (This is Craig's
bill and passed unanimously, it had al
ready passed the house.)
Senator Mcintyre, by leave, Introduce
Ell a bill regarding the disposition of
insane and inebriates among Croatan
Indians.
The bill TO amend the charter of the
East Tennessee and Western North
Carolina Railway Company, by allow
ing it to build from Cranberry to Lin
~colnton, passed its third reading, as did
the bill TO prohibit buying and selling
Of pretended rights or titles.
The senate went into committee Of
| the whole for consideration of the bill
| t. amend, consolidate and codify the
insanity laws. The section which pro-
Yides hi criminal insane shall be
cared for and treated in wards of the
| penitentiary, which nave heretofore
| been assigned for that purpose, and
| said wards shall be known az the de-
partment of criminal insane, and the
| board of directors Of the penitentiary
is given full control and management
Of said department, was opposed by
Senator Daniels, nothing in his opin-
ion could eliminate the stigma Of being
confined in the p~enitentiary, call it by
no matter what name.
Senator Mason also opposed the pro-
vision.
Senator Brown said: My candid
opinion is that the main object of this
provision is to get the insane asylum
clear of troublesome patients. 1 am op-
posed to it. Take. convicts from the
central prison of the penitentiary, if
you like, and end them to farms where
they rightfully belong; and then it will
be all right to create a central prison
as an institution for criminal insane,
but as the matter now lands we should
strike out the provision altogether"
Senator Fields urged that the GRIM
inal and dangerous insane be allowed
to remain in the hospitals, providing
more room for them there if needed.
Senator Cooley agreed in this view.
Senator Glenn said the committee
had found that the penitentiary could
be arranged for the reception Of GRIM
inally insane at a cost of something
like 81 1000; but he would be glad to
support an amendment appropriating
$50, 900 or $50, 600, if necessary, for build
ing a new and seperate institution fol
the criminal insane.
Finally Senators Hicks Travis
Speight and Daniels were appointed 8
subcommittee to draft an amendment
and submit it.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
TIL house met at 10 o'clock.
A resolution that the state arsena
be removed from the capitol square wa:
favorably reported.
Bills were introduced as follows: tt
prevent distemper and other Infection:
diseases among cattle. To prevent OBJ
struction Of Harrison creek, OnsloN
county. To punish persons who sell
whiskey in any local option territory
To regulate fraternal and benevolent
societies, orders and associations. To
establish public landings at foot of al
roads leading to and crossing naviga-
bic streams. To protect s~ub-contrac-
tors and others. By Mr.. McNeill, tc
amend charter Of Brunswick Bridge
and Ferry Company. To allow Arson
county to levy special tax. To amend
the Code relative to the service of sum
mons on infants in the absence Of guar
dams ad litem. To abolish the Office
Of coroner in Northampton. To incor-
porate Union City, Robson county.
Bill To equalize the payment of state
witnesses, sheriffs and clerks was ia
bled.
Bills passed final reading as follows:
To give New Hanover the road law
and allow the people TO vote on a tax
To amend the law regarding probates
and private examination Of married
women, by simplifying the probate
laws regarding proof in recording deeds
and other papers, being a complete re-
vision of this chapter of the Code. TIC
create new wreck districts.
By leave, Mr.. Robinson introduced a
bill 10 give Cumberland county addi-
tionai terms of the superior court.