The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-03-03
Especial to The Messenger.)
SENATE.

Raleigh, N. c., March 1.-The senate
met at 10 o'clock.
The election law bill was made a
special order for tomorrow.
The bill to abolish the criminal cir
cult, composed OF Madison, Henderson,
Buncombe and Mcdowell passed its
final reading, as did the bill to estab-
lish a dispensary at Selma.
The revenue bill was made special
order for tomorrow.
Among the bills passed were: To in
vestigate the department OF agrcul-
ture after adjournment OF the leglsla-
ture To make labor day legal hoi-
day. To repeal chapter y, laws OF
1891, known as the "Peg-Leg" VIII
liams tax law.
The bill to reduce the salaries of GER
tain state officers came as spe-
cial order. The salary of state treas
urer first came under consideration. In
the bill as it passed the house this sal
ary is reduced to $2,25O.
Senator Hairston spoke strongly in
favor of a general reduction Of sala-
ries Of state officers. The party was
pledged in the last campaign to reduce
such salaries.
This was opposed by Senator Glenn.
He thought the state officers received
too little as the matter originally stood,
and could not see any fairness in re-
ducing the salary of the treasurer and
leaving the governors salary intact.
Senator Travis offered the following
amendment:
Resolved, That the offices of North
Carolina be put up to the lowest bid
der from governor down."
Senator Fields contention was that
a reduction was demanded by the con-
dition of the working classes, and that
the salaries of state officers had far
more economic value now than when
they were fixed.
Senator Justice did not think a re-
duction at all equitable. 1t discrim-
mated as against a few officers. The
passage of the bill, he said, would make
no political profit. The people are not
fools
Senator Daniels believed there should
be reduction; that the officers should
not be paid out of proportion to other
citizens of the state.
Senator Glenn said that for amount
of work required and done North Caro-
lima gave less salaries than any state
in the union.
Senator Osborne suggested that the
1;1 ba IA no hn 70 ind 0io,~
committee, which was done.
The Jim Crow" car bill came up as
a special order.
Senator Ward offered substitute.
Senator Lindsay also offered a sub
stitute which made no exemptions ex-
cept for nurses.
Senators Ward and Lindsay both
withdrew their substitutes, and Sem
ator Ward offered the following amend
ment: Strike out through express
trains"
Senators Glenn and Jerome said the
amendments would simply kill the bill;
that the bill had been carefully con-
sidered by men who had studied the
matter, and that if the senate wanted
any Jim Grow" car law at all it had
best pass the Craige bill as it came
to the senate.
Senator Cowper's amendment that
the bill do not apply to small river
steamers, was lost.
The bill passed it's final reading, Sen
ator Hairston being the only senator
who voted against it. He explained
by saying the bill was not what he
wished, and that he would vote mo-
rather than compromise.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
Bills passed third reading as follows:
To allow Tarboro to establish electric
To incorporate the Fayetteville Coast
Line Railway Company.
Mr.. Gattis moved reconsideration OF
the bill to appoint five commissioners
for Forsyth county, which failed TO
pass last Saturday night. Messrs. AL
len of Wayne, Council and Winston
said there were special reasons for re-
consideration. Mr.. Mclean said there
was no worse negro ridden county in
North Carolina than Forsyth. The bill
then passed it's third reading.
The bill passed to provide for the
election of four additional trustees of
the state school for blind and deaf
mutes, these being William Boylan,
Pulaski Cowper, B. K. Partin and G.
M Bell.
The. bill to reorganize the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical college came up
on third reading. Yesterday by an
oversight the regular $4,000 appropri
alton was repealed. The bill as passed
today restores this.