The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-01-27

! If limitations relating 10 interstate
/ commerce would not defeat the object
Of the bill He asked Mr.. Craige II the
! bill would reach corporations doing in
! ter-state business.
: Mr.. Craige declared the bill had been
! investigated by a number OF leading
| lawyers in the state, and they declared
that it would reach all corporations.
Mr. Boushall said he thought the bill
would impose hardships on some Of the
smaller corporations and at the same
. time fail to reach those for which it is
intended.
An aye and no vote was taken, on
the bill. In voting AYE" Mr. Rountree
. declared he believed the bill would fail
4. in it's object. He said he did not be-
lieve it would reach corporations doing
interstate commerce business.
The bill passed its second reading
80 to T. Mr.. Willard voted no.
The bill then passed the third read
ing.
, The bill incorporating the Roanoke
Railway Bridge Company passed; also
to reduce the number of defendants
challenges in capital cases from twenty
three to eight and to increase the num-
Der of challenges on the part of the
state from four to eight. The intro
ducer of the bill said it was intended
to decrease the number Of lynchings.
There are more lynchings in the state
now than executions.
Mr.. Rountree said he was very much
impressed with what was said and he
requested that the bill be referred
This was done.
The bill will not apply to any indict-
ment now pending in the state courts.
The bill to repeal the charter of the
town of Stoneville, Rockingham coun-
ty, was opposed by Mr.. Gattis. He
said its object was reputation of GER
tain bonded Indebtedness. He said the
repudiation business had gone far
enough in North Carolina
1t was ascertained the town had vot-
ed bonds for a railroad. The bill was
Immediately referred to a committee.
The bill providing for the establish
ment by the United States of fish cul-
; ture station in the state passed all the
readings.
By leave a bill was introduced to es-
tablish a textile school and providing
for it's location at the Agricultural and
Mechanical college at Raleigh. The
bill carries with it an appropriation of
$4,000 for next year and similar
amount for the year following.
The bill extending the charter of the
Wilmington Gas Light Company pass
ed its final readings.
The bill repeating the laws of 1895
and 1897, which consolidated the elec-
tion law, passed all it's readings. The
republicans voted against the bill.
/ The joint resolution, notifying the
fish commissioner at Washington that
the transfer of site had been made
who was elected county commissioner,
was adopted.
The bill to increase the number of
county commissioners Of WashiA1sttssaS 1.
county from three to six met with Op-
position from the republican member
from that county. Democrats made
this hot for him. They developed the
fact he ran on ticket with a negro,
who was elected county commissioner,
but that he did not vote for the negro,
who was elected county commissioner
and had never voted for a negro.
This brought Isaac Smith, colored,
to his feet. He said he would vote with
the white people on this bill.
Mr.. Harrington made objection to
this statement. He said that Anglo
Saxon blood coursed through his veins
and that he had always fought for
white supremacy.
Smith replied that Mr.. Harrington,
according to his own statements, was
not with the colored race and he was
certainly not with the white race, and
he would like to know what race he was
identified with. This put the house in
an uproar of laughter. The bill then
passed all its readings.
The house committee on education
decides to report favorably Mr.. Clark
sons bill to establish a textile school
as a separate institution, and unfaver-
ably on Mr.. Boushall's bill for textile
schoG in connection with the Agricu1-
tural and Mechanical college at Ra-