The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-02-28

gressmen, and an effOrtwi now be made
to create ten Democratic districts. am
afraid it will be found to be a difficult
job, and results may prove that it would
have been better to give the enemy at
least one district rather than make three
| or more SO close as to be doubtful. Be-
sides, the figures of the November or
! August election OF last year will be found
very unreliable to work with as a basis.
| But the Joint committee is now at work
and will this week submit to the caucus
the result OF their labors After the eau
Gus has doctored the same the bill will b.
passed. 1t is not practical to outline tn,
''probable" districts here because it can
not be done today with any sort of ac-
! curacy.
REVENUE BILL UNPOPULAR
The finance committee, in framing a
revenue bill, have stirred up the "busine.s
interests" of the entire State. it seems.
| and various delegations representing ali
| sorts OF manufacturing, industrial and
other interests have been pouring into
Raleigh for a week, and demanding q
hearing before the committee. They pro-
test loudly and lengthily- and to tell
the truth some of them have good reason
to do 40. Unless the committee makes a
number of radical changes before report
ing the bill. the Legislature will knock
it into smithereens when it comes ND for
passage. Ii it doesn't t. then the people
will knock the future political ambition
OF the legislators who vote for it into
something worse. 1t would take I'D all
your paper to enumerate the new and
unusual methods and subjects of taxa
ton that have been Incorporated into
this bill, and which some of the commit
teemen have been Dragging would raise
over quarter of million dollars more OF
money than the State would need. The
bill 10 likely to raise" something else,
and plenty OF it, before it becomes a law
in its present shape
The double tax feature has already
been stricken ont, and the ''income tax''
exemption raised from $500 to 81, 200.
etc.
MINOR, MENTION
The Senate quickly killed a general
State stock law bill last week
Another bill that had ought to have
had all the breath knocked out of if was
one to pay court offire and wituesse.
hall ices IN cases were true bills are not
found or defendants are not convicted
But 1t was adopted to apply to about a
uoLen counties.
Three counties have been given probibi.
ton laws SO far. viz Madison. Sampson
and Duplin-the only proviso being that
growers OF grapes and frnit may manu-
facture cider, wine. etc. from the pro-
ducts grown by themselves. Tarboro
gets its dispensary and Nashville does
not.
The convicts on State farms will not
be allowed to grow Spanish peanuts.
This is in keeping with the refusal To
manufacture fertilizer. with convict labor
Sherlf1s are unusually slow in settling
with the State Treasurer this year-and
not bali the amount necessary to meet
appropriations is in sight Mt present
The divorce bill has not been settled
yet. Tomorrow it will again he dis
cussed in the Senate making the siYtb
day on which it has been aryned in that
body. The fight is over the making ri
abandonment for three years a ground
Tor divorce. 1t is now one wear in thi.
state. but the House struck abandon
ment out OF this bill entirely, and leaves
the abandoned woman without remedy
ihats a wrong the Senate is irving RI
right. "
Since my last letter was written ono ~