The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-03-22
Messenger Bureau.


Speaker Moore, of the house, left for
home today. He was asked whether
he thought the legislature would meet
again April Bird, the date to which it
has adjourned, and replied hat he a
no idea it would meet; that for his
part he did not expect to come back.
He said the adjournment to that date
was mainly to guard against any con-
tingency. He said the session a been
trying and that he was glad to get
away, as during the past fifteen days
he had lost weight at the rate of some
thing like a pound a day.
1t is found to be true that Major
Martin, the defaulting eX-clerk of the
state treasury, stole all the penitentiary
vouchers for 1900. The state treasurer
has gone back as far as une u, 1893,
in Martins accounts. He found $568
stolen in November, 1900. Martin said
he had made later Stealings to cover
up former oneS. When e~X-treaSurer
Worth asked him if he had began
stealing as soon as he went into the
office, four years ago, he said he
couldn't remember.
The senate as the Impeachment court
resumed it's session at 10 o'clock this
morning. The papers in hat are
known as the "office-holding cases
were produced in court. 1t is %conjec-
tured hat this is for the purpose Of
III llS Solil AoOAAo v IN ~
cisionS in these cases n that in the
case of Hoke VS.. Henderson, the parent
of a long line of such opinions.
While many of the senators express
the belief that the trial will end with
this week, yet there is quite an idea
that it will go over into next week.
The extent of the preparation of
lands for crops in this section is aston
ishing. 1t is said that never before
was so much ploughing and clearing
Of lands done by March 18th.
The legislature has enacted a law for
free libraries for the public schools.
The school at Pineville, M~ecklenburg
county, has the honor of being the first
to make formal application to the state
superintendent, under this law.
The following is a summary Of the
chief general law enacted by this leg
islature:. To make the corporation
commission the state tax assessment
board. To authorize warehousemen to
give bonds and issue warehouse re-
ceipts secured thereby. To regulate the
employment of labor Gin a number Of
counties). To create the office of chief
Of fire department and prevent fire
taste To aid in the Incorporation of
savings banks. To allow ~caveators Of
wills to prosecute in certain cases
without giving ond To allow sher-
ifs to collect back taxes The election
to"s ANC SNSAA3 ~
employment of counsel by state insti-
tutions. To prevent state institutions
for mourning any debts save by ex-
press authority of h legislature. To
protect owners Of boilers. engines and
other machinery. To require electric
cars to have vestibuies n tenders.
| To provide for own and city elections
| and special elections in counties and
townships. To regulate primary cleo
lions (applying to tyenty-six counties).
To appoint members of county boards
of education. To prevent disorderly
conduct in the presence of religious
congregations. To put the dangerous
Cor criminaD insane under the charge
of the penitentiary authorities. To
provide for sale of property for taxes.
To provide for a state banking system.
To place the Agricultural college under
the agricultural department. The road
law. The School law. To prevent cut
ting timber pending action. to try title
| thereto. To encourage libraries in the
| public schools. To provide for reason
able communication of ~convicts' time.
The oyster law. To give the governor
authority to appoint directors of all
| penal n charitable institutions. To
| revise the corporation law. To regu-
late quo warranto proceedings. To pre-
vent kidnapping. To allow children
! neglected or abandoned by their par
ents or guardians to be ~apprenticed or
bound. To regulate settlement of part
nerships by surviving partners. To
make September LIST labor day. To al
low the chartering of corporations with
over 81. 000, 900 capital. To create a
| state board of embalmers. To give the
board of education control Of negro
normal schools. The antitrust bill.
| To create a text book commission. To
provide for a North Carolina Day in
the public schools. To revoke licenses
Of insurance companies which apply
for removal of cases from state to fed
eral courts. To allow the governor to
| pay counsel to defend election officers
indicted in connection with the last
| August election. To allow persons re-
] stored to sanity to sell and manage