The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-14
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The Legislature has been in session
now little more than month ana no
law FOR the better collecting of debts has
been passed. So far as We recollect or
have observed no bill touching upon the
question has been offered in either branch
OF the General Assembly, nor even sug-
gested BIZ any member. No one has APP
parently given il a moments consideration
The subject has been entirely ignored.
Salisbury Daily Sun.
The members of the Nebraska legisla-
ture make free use of railroad passes. In
his prayer the other day their chaplain
prayed in this manner: I'VE thank Thee
that the members OF the legislature have
the privilege OF returning 10 their home
and spending n period of recreation win
their families with such ease and TO
little expense to themselves, and we
earnestly hone that they viii not forget
to render unto Caesar the things which
ri2htfully belong TO Caesar"
The life of a legislator is not altogp.h-
er a bed of roses. 1t has not come TO
US that any North Carolina legislator
has been abused by any of his constitu-
ents, but if any are denounced, they
can find comfort in the following letter,
written to a member of Parliament IN
New South Wales by man who apph-
ed for job and failed to get it:
Dear Sir: You're a dam fraud, and
YOU know it, don't care rap for the
billet or the money either, but you
could have got it for me ii you WASH I
as mean as mud. Two pounds a week
amt any more to me than 40 shillins is
to you, but I object to bein maze an
infernil fool Of Soon after you was
elected by my hard working Ieller
wanted to bet me that you wouldn pe
in the house moren week before YOU
made an ass Of yourself. l bet him a
COW on that, as | thought you was
worth it then. After | got your note
saying you declined to ackt in the mat
ter | druv the COW over to the feiler
place an told him he had won her.
That's all | got for howlin meself horse
for you on pole day, and months befoar.
You not only hurt mans pride, out
YOU iniura him in biZness. | believe
YOU think you'll get in agen. l don't.
An what ! don't think is of more <on-
scquInce than you imajin. l believe you
take a pleshir in cutting your BEST
friends but waite till the clouds roll by
an they'll cut you--just behind the ear
ware the butcher cuts the pig. Yure no
man. Yure only a tule for a few squat
tiers. And don't think yure much of
a CRATER either. Go TO hades. l lower
meself riting to a skunk even tho /
med him member of parlerment
In certain county where it was pro-
posed to destroy the distillery OF a eiti-
zen. the owners wrote to his represen-
tatives protesting against legislation
looking to that end, and said that since
the establishment of his distillery there
had been less drinking, less lawlessness,
less rioting, less bad conduct and less
separation of wife from husband tnan
before it's establishment. II a distiilery
has that effect, why not establish them
everywhere?
Representative Simms yesterday vi h
drew his bill providing for the building
of macadamiZed roads in Wake county
TO all factories employing as mucn as
800 600 capital, such roads TO be built Mt
county expense.
Representative Beddingfeld, of Wake
county, is getting a large number OF let
ters from labor organizations congratu-
lating him on his fight for an increase
in the pay of guards at the penitentiary.
There will be the biggest fight you
ever saw, when it comes to fixing the
now Congressional and judicial dis
tricts," said an observant, but disinter-
ested visiting statesman in the lobby
of the House yesterday. THE reason
is that, with the exception of the Few
farmers in the Legislature, the forr7 a
ton of the new districts will touch
the personal interest and political am
bition of every man here. Those chat
are not candidates for Judge or solicitor
are candidates for Congress-and there
you have it. No matter what change
You make or don't make somebody's
going to be hurt and howl"
The Monroe journal evidently thinks
tie divorce law" has passed the Legis-
lature. 1t has passed the House only
and is pending now in the Senate. The
Journal says of the bill: This Legis-
lature has done one thing that is en-
phatically good. 1t is the repeal of the
divorce laws enacted since 1887. This
carries the law back to something like
the Bible ground for the separation of
those who have Deen lawfully Joined to-
gether. One statute after another mad
been enacted since the date mentioned
until North Carolina has become one of
those many States of the Union in which
divorce was very easily obtainaole.
The work is credit to the Legislature.
The law is still not so stringent as tnat
of South Carolina. and it is perhaps
best that it is not
The following communication was read
to the Senate yesterday and on motion
of Senator Justice ii was accepted.
70 the Senate of North Carolina: In
behalf of the EuzeIian Society of Wake
Forest College, we. the undersigned COM
mittee, do respectfully request your pres
cnce &C the exercises of the sixty sixth an
niyersary to be held on the afternoon and
evening of the fifteenth Of February,
nineteen hundred and one.
WINSTON d. ADAMS,