The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-03-05
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| Senator Glenn introduced bill yes
terday appropriating $500 annually to
| the colored A. and M. College at
| Greensboro.
| There is bill pending before the Judi
| cary Committee of the House in relation
| TO pilotage fees and kindred expenses of
! incoming vessels at the port of Whining
/ ton. Every one is interested in the de-
| velopment of the business Of our own
{ seaport towns, which ought to be, as they
| were forty years ago. the places at which
| nearly every inland merchant in North
| Carolina obtained heavy groceries.
Yesterday at noon Marion Buffers
| term as United States Senator and
| George Whites (colored) term as Rep
1 resentatiye in Congress expired The
| people of the State have waited impa
| tiently and watched anxiously for this
| TO come to pass, and now that it has
| they are rejoicing with exceeding great
| joy. Even the Legislature, now in seS-
sion, took a sort of semi official notice
of the passing Of these two Statesmen"
| AS the clock in the hall of the House
| chimed the hour &c noon, Mr.. Watts.
of Iredell, very properly arose and SAL:
MIR. Speaker rise to question Of
| the highest privilege. At this moment
Marion Butler. the renegade, is no Ion
ger Senator from North Carolina. Geo.
Fl. White, the insolent negro, who has
so long misrepresented the proud people
| of North Carolina in the Congress of the
| United States. has retired, from office
| forever. We have white mans gov
eminent in every part Of the old State
and from this good hour no negro will
again disgrace the old State in the
council chambers OF the nation. For
i these mercies, thank Cod
Senator Smith yesterday introduced a
bill ito repeal chapter All of the Laws
of 1897 and TO nrovide for the geological
survey of the State under the supervision
of the board of agriculture.
Section 1. That chapter All of the Laws
OF 1891 be and the same is hereby re-
pealed.
Section 2. That the Board of Agricul-
ture is hereby authorized to establish a
geological survey of the State, said sur
vey to be maintained. curtailed or en-
larged at the discretion of said Board of
Agriculture; said Board of Agriculture is
hereby authorized to employ a State
geologist and such other officers and en-
ployes as said Board may determine
whose duties and salaries shall be pre-
scribed by said board section that all
laws and clauses of laws to conflict with
the provisions of this act are hereby re-
pealed.
Senator Burrough spent Sunday at his
hGme in Vance county.
Senator Webb. chairman of the Appro-
priation Committee, is putting in some
hard work now. He says that provi-
sion will be Incorporated in the Appro-
priation Bill to prevent any State insti-
tuition from going in debt. Some new
guards will be thrown around the, appro-
priations
Much interest is manifested among the
members of the General Assembly over
the Senatorial district appcrtionment bill.
Senator Brown and Representative Pat
terson particularly object to the division
of Columbus and Robson. now consti-
tuting the Fifteenth Senatorial district.
Mr.. Patterson, of Robson, speaking Of
this subject said: THE new apportion-
ment makes Robson a district by herself.
but the people of all Robson regard the
separation from Columbus with deep re-
greet. For thirty years the people of
those counties have elected two Senators
together and through all these years a
tender sentiment has grown up among our
people. Through the dark days of the
seventies and the turbulent elections of
"a to 30, we have battled together and
/ certainly regard with emotion this divi-
| sion
Senator Brown. of Columbus, expresses
| the same sentiment and believes the plan
| to make Columbus and Bladen district
| impolitic. Bladen went Republican in
November By go and Columbus gave 1856
Democratic majority. This will make it
a close district.
One of the new senatorial districts
is composed of Johnston, Harnett ana
Sampson. The Populst member from
Sampson was anxious to know what
counties would be linked TO his, and
when he learned old Johnston yard
stick would just measure his face. Ii,
November Bryan carried Johnston by
| .157 and Harnett by 143 white. McKin-
ley got Sampson by AS. On that vote
the district is Democrats by 555.
The House Judiciary committee
, through it's chairman, Judge Allen
promises positively to take up the libel
bill this afternoon. This bill has long
| been sleeping with this committee.
The labor law is a special order before
the House Judiciary committee this af-
ternoon. Representative Wright, of
, Rowan. is author of the bill 1t pro
hibits child labor in factories and fixes
the number of hours that shall consti-
tute a days labor.
Judge Allen announced yesterday that
the Goldsboro dispensary matter had
been settled, and he would today ask
permission of the House to withdraw