The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-19
WORK OF THE LEGISLATURE
Captions OF the Twenty-Eight Bills
and Resolutions Adopted-News OF
the Death Of II. {. b. Mite Address
of w. Thomas Desired.
Messenger Bureau
Raleigh. n. c., June Is.

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AS predicted two days ago. the legis-
lative session lasted only three days,
and was the shortest on record. Ev-
cry bill passed was ratified.
Speaker Connor said today; The
legislature protected well the election
law and the franchise amendment. II
met the objections to the amendment.
so far as 10 its standing or falling as
a whole, very completely, Many bills
were introduced. Very few passed"
In all, twenty-eight bills and reso-
buttons were ratified. The bills were
as follows: To repeal Chapter 125 pri-
vate avs 1895: TO print and distribute
the amendment and the election law;
the c~ontitutiona amendment; the
election law; TO incorporate the Clar-
ence Barker memorial hospital at dis
penSary at Biltmore; TO submit the
~dispensary question to the voters OF
Marion and Swain counties; 10 estab-
lish stock law in parts of Nash county;
TO abolish office OF county treasurer in
Henderson,; to regulate manufacture
and sale OF liquor in Macon; 10. estab-
lish graded schools at Lexington; TO
print the special committees report
on the penitentiary and the ~agricultur-
al department.; to allow a jury list TO
be drawn in ~Edgecombe; 10 pay 4. c.
Beddingfield salary for the term he
served as corporation commissioner;
to take certain counties out OF the
western criminal court circuit; for re
lief Of certain teachers and the treas
urer of Craven; 10 give the corpora
ton commission full power 10 assess
railway property as private property is
assessed; TO pay the ShellfiSh commits
sion elected in 1899 and others out OF
the shellfish fund; to amend the oys-
ter law as to ownership of boats and
as to dredging with steam dredges,
etc; to allow superior court judges to
regulate liquor licenses in Northamp-
ton; to allow OnSlow to use its surplus
special tax fund for county purposes.
The senate last night adopted this
resolution in regard to the death or
senator Jackson of Lenoir county
Resolved by the senate, That the
senate has learned with deep regret OF
the death of John Quincy Jackson, late
a member of this body, who suddenly
departed this life, full of years and of
honors, in his city Of Raleigh, on the
morning of June 14th.
Resolved further. that in the death
of Senator Jackson the senate has
lost a valuable m and the state
one of it's best citizens, whose useful,
conservative and exemplary life,
sound common sense and strictest in
tegrity had gained and retained the
him. St
Resolved further, That the profound
sympathy of the senate be extended
to his family; that these resolutions
be spread upon the journal, and that
a copy be sent TO the widow of our la
mented associate whose death is a
personal bereavement to each mem
Der of the senate"
New reached here today of the
Heath in Colorado, at the age of 33, Of
H. G. B. Mite, who was for severn
years assistant state geOlogist of North
Carolina. He was widely known in
this state and greatly esteemed. His
work here was of immense value. He
prepared the report on the iron ores,
that on monazite, and had done a great
deal of special work in the eastern
and western sections. He was a native
of Baltimore and died of hear disease.
Many membe of the legislature left
this morning for Morehead City, as
the special guests of State Senator
James A. Bryan, of New Bern, the
president of the Atlantic and North
Carolina railway. Tomorrow evening
they will hear the address Of DR.. J. L.
M. Murray before the North Carolina
Teachers Assembly.
Governor Russell pardons George
Thompson, of Robson county, who
was convicted of rape and sentenced
to be hanged but whose sentence was
commuted. Warden Grim, of the pen
itentiary, says there were excellent
reasons for the pardon, as a negro wo-
man who had sworn against Thomp-
son, confessed to perjury. 4,
Senator Butler arrived here today, to
look after populist campaign work
and also his paper. OF the latter j. F.
Click is nov editor.
The legislature, which meets again
July oath, is keeping a keen eye on the
fusion judges.
The republicans are saying that un-
der the United States revised statutes
the constitutional amendments legal
ity must be tested in the United States
district curt, etc.
Your correspondent desires informa-
ton as to the postoffice address Of w.
Thomas, a North Carolinian, who
claims to have a process for working
southern pine for making wood
by eliminating the rosin.