The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-01-09
Monday night was adopted. 1t is as fol-

Monday night was adopted. 1t is as fol-
lows:
REPORT OF COMMITTEE.
The following is the report of the COM
mittee:
Your committee appointed to examine
the reports of the Superintendent and
vonr Executive Board beg leave 70 re-
snectfully report that they have ex-
amined the reports referred to them and
find them correct; and it is with feeling
Of gratitude to the management that your
committee finds the institution in such
excellent condition.
We recommend their adoption.
Respectfully submitted.
M. F. MORPHEW, Chairman.
j. L. GWALTNEY,
EDWARD T. CLARK.
L. NJ. BRYAN.
KEENAN, HUGHES.
The present Executive Board was re-
elected. Mr.. J. c. Davis was reelected
chairman. At this iuncture, as the fol-
lowing resolution was read. other direc-
tors came in:
RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD.
Resolved, That the chairman of the
Board have the reports of the Saperinten-
dent and Executive Board printed. and
transmitted to the ensuing session of the
General Assembly.
'sThat in his report to the General AS
sembly he call attention to the great in
Justice being done that class of unfor-
tunates miscalled the criminal insane by
confirming them in the State Prison. and
convey to them the recommendation Of
this Board that some other provision be
made for their care"
The directors who came in late-Gt was
then 935 a. m, they say)-asked to be
informed as to what business was being
transacted, and what had been done.
These directors we're Messrs. A. B. Young,
3. w. Ballard, secretary of the board, j..
I. lie Grand, r. r. Gotten and ]. w. Den
mark. Then Mr.. lie Grand asked that the
Board reconsider what had been done and
give him. Mr. Young, Mr.. Ballard and Mr.
Cotton the opportunity of considering the
report, which had been adopted before
their arrival Messrs. Ballard and Cot
ten also urged reconsideration, stating
that they had been unavoidably detained
in the city thtrty-five minutes. The ma
icrity declined to reconsider 1--WE then
asked that we be allowed to enter a pro-
test. but that was at first declined. but
afterwards we got it in" said Mr.. Bal
lard last night.
BY this time the feeling was growing
heated, and the minority mem
bers-Le Grand, Young, Gotten and Bal
lard-said that the Executive Board had
not given them full opportunity to ex-
anime into the affairs of the penitentiary
such as they had a right to demand, and
that they had been treated very dis
by the majority members of
the Board holding the meeting in their
absence. Then the majority members of
the Board stated that Messrs. Young, Cot
ten and LIE Grand be permitted to protest
against the adoption of the reports. Mr..
Ballard said he simply desired that the
names of the seven members who were
present, and who adopted the special
committees report be known and that he
protested against the lack of business
methods which had been shown. The
Board then adjourned, but not before Mr..
lie Grand and Mr. Travis had engaged in
a hot debate over the failure to purchase
the Arson farms The minority directors
were in a bad humor last night and said
that the Legislature ought to make
rigid examination into the affairs of the
The majority members said
this was exactly what they desired.