The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-02-28

| election, Senator MCNEIL himself said
| it had been falsely charged that he
would break up the dispensary. that he
only favored submitting it to the people
| The saloon men started petitions and
| failed so that primary was resorted to
| Now this call for a primary was issued
| by the Senator and Representative,
and they had no right TO do this without
| request of the people, III a majority
| Of the white people made any request
| of this Legislature he would not oppose
| it, he would always Join in their Will
| but here are less than 900 deciding fer
! $500 white voters. Now | 600 white vol
erS come asking by petition for the DIS
| pensary. Is their will TO be oVerrided?
| Beside the vote in the primary was
| FOR diSpensary' or against dispen-
( sary." and many voted the latter eX-
| pecting prohibition not license to follow.
| The ticket sshould have read for dis
pensary" and for license" Senator Nc
| Neill had the poll books now and he had
| refused TO let the dispensary advocates
| see the list of the men who voted in
the primary. The right of petition is
established by the laws or the State
and cannot be denied.
When three fourths Of the white peo-
pie of.Sampson asked for prohibition the
Senator from Cumberland voted against
it because the Democratic executive
committee had opposed it. Yet he
wants the Senate to do now what he
would not do them. In closing Senator
Broughton said that he was not pleading
for the dispensary but for the will OF
the white people of that county. At the
conclusion of this speech the bin went
over until Thursday morning.
THE ROAD LAW RE-REFERRED.
The bill for the general road law came
up in the Senate again yesterday ON it's
third reading and Senator Alexander of
fered corrected bill as a substitute,
which included provision that the sec
ton II should only be applicable to
Mecklenburg county and the bill should
only apply TO counties where the county
commissioners adopted it,
Amendments were offered as follows:
BY Senator Morton to strike out section
a. By Senator Struggled that this bill
shall not apply to Haywood county where
il conflicts with the same's special law.
Senator Woodland moved TO refer the
bill TO the Judiciary committee on ac-
count Of section II which is as follows:
Section II. 1t shall not be lawful in
cities having a population over five thous-
ard inhabitants for any railroad company,
erintendent, agent or other employee
thereof, either directly or indirectly, TO
obstruct, use or occupy any one of the
four principal streets to be designated by
the County Highway Commission OF the
proper county with any locomotive, car
or cars or train, by permitting or suffer-
ing such locomotives, car or cars or train
to remain upon or across such street or
any part thereof, or by coupling, switch
ing or shifting of locomotive, car or cars
or trains, or the making up of trains
upon or across such street or any part
thereof, or by moving or stopping long
freight trains upon or across the same
for a period longer than two minutes at
one time; and whenever any such street
has been thus INSTRUCTED, used or occu-
pied it shall not be lawful for any rail
road company, superintendent, agent or
other employee thereof, either directly or
indirectly to SO obstruct use or occupy
the same or any part thereof for period
OF ten minutes thereafter; and any rail-
road company or companies so using such
street duri~e- lid period OF two minutes
shall provide and maintain suitable bars
or gates and watchmen at such street
to secure and warn the public against the
dangers attending such use; and if any
railroad company superintendent, agent
or other employee thereof shall, either
directly or indirectly, obstruct, use or
occupy such street in violation of the
aforesaid provision and prohibitions OF
this section or shall procure direct, aiG
or abet in any such violation, he or they
shall be fined not more than twenty
five dollars or imprisoned not more than
fifteen days, or both: and if, with in {
period of five years thereafter, and with
in four hundred feet on and along such
street in either direction from the rail-
road track or switch where the first Of
Tense was committed, any railroad ccm-
pany, superintendent agent or other en-
ployee thereof again violates any of the
aforesaid provisions and prohibitions of
this section, or procures, directs, aids or
abets in any such viola tons, such COM
pany superintendent, agent or other en-
ployee shall, for each and every other
violation of the aforesaid provisions and
prohibitions of this act be subjected To
both double fine and Imprisonment. as
provided in this section; and if by reason
OF violation of this section any person
is killed. the person or persons so di
rectly or indirectly guilty thereof. or OF
so procuring, directing, aiding or abet1ine