The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-04-09
EXPOSITION COMMISSIONERS
HAVE A CONFERENCE WITH RePRESeN-
TATIvES FROM CHARLESTON.
Directors OF the Soldiers Home TO Meet
Next Copies of the schoo
Law Issued-western Union to Fight
the Tax Case-Lookin9 Up Martins
Stealings-Crosses to be Presented
Confederate Veterans.
Messenger Bureau.

Raiefgn, N. G., April 4.
This morning The North Carolina
commissioners to the Charleston expo
sition met here. In compliance with a
request OF Julian s. Carr, one of their
number. The other commissioners are:
James Sprunt, William Dunn. S. p.
R%avenel, Jr., Thad r. Manning, A. Can
non, E. K. Proctor. Jr., Osmond Bar
ringer. W. l. Hill. w. c. Heath and
Fred A. Olds. The meeting was for the
purpose OF meeting officers OF the ex-
position and comforting in regard to
possible participation by this state.
George F.. Weston. of Mr.. Vanderbilt's
farm, who is a member Of the board Of
agriculture. was present by invitation.
Colonel Hemphill. Colonel Averill, Mr..
Ficken and others Of the exposition
management arrived this morning.
They were entertained at the Capitol
Club, called on h governor and visited
the agricultural department, it's muse
um, etc. The meeting of these visitors
and the exposition commissioners was
held in the governors office.
State Auditor Dixon. who is ex-officio
q member of the directorate OF the SOL
diers' home today called a meeting Of
the directors for April 10th. At this a
new chairman will be elected, (this
position was for ten years filled by the
late William c. Stronach). A superin-
tendent will also be elected. 1t is I'M
derstood that Captain Robert II.
Brooks, who for the past three years
has we'll filled this position, will be re-
tanned. Auditor Dixon says plans for
a new building will be arranged. 1t
will be a dormitory, which, later can
be used as a hospital. He said: Il
think in fifteen years there will be no
further use for the home, and then the
buildings will be available for other
uses. The home will 500 cease to be
a home and become merely a hospital
for veterans"
The captions of the 1871 acts and
| fifty-two resolutions of the legislature
| up to it's recess March 18th, is publish
| ed. 1t ought to have been out two
| weeks ago; but the hitch as to h pub
lie printing caused delay. The new
school law was issued today. The rev.
| enue act Is not yet issued. The delay
in this case is very annoying both to
the auditor and to the corporation
commissioners.
The legislature met again at noon.
! On the train a little before that hour
| President Pro Tenn. Henry A. London,
| of the senate, arrived. Owing =" his
not being here yesterday no acts could
| be ratified. 1t seems that he was moi
| coming, though it was stated a wash
u On the railway had delayed linn.
so a telegram was sent telling him his
presence was absolutely necessary, as
President Turner, of the senate, could
not be here.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany will continue the fight against the
order of the corporation commission
assessing it for taxation at 81, 000, 900
By order of the federal court the as
~.r~o
$500, 900, until the matter is heard. The
local attorney returned today from New
York, where he had a conference with
the officials, and says an effort will
be made to get the testimony taken at
once.
The examination of the treasury
books, particularly the penitentiary ac-
count, by the legislative committee, will
require two or three weeks, it is be
lieved. The irregularities in the peni-
tertiary accounts aggregate $4,000. but
the state expert is not ready to swear
to over $40, 900, Major w. H. Martin, the
embezZler, has declared all the while
hat $4,000 was abo the amount OF
his stealings, but yesterday, while on
trial, he called State Treasurer Lacy
aside and told him the defalcation was
not going to exceed So, 500. Nobody be-
lieves anything Martin says, Of course.
Ex-Treasurer Worth requested the leg
isletive committee to allow his chief
clerk, J.. w. Denmark, to go over the
books with the committee. This re-
quest was granted. Martin stole $1,20t
from Treasurer Lacy, during the brief
period he (Martin) vas in the latters
Office teaching the new clerks the rou-
tine work. Ex-Governor Russell told
me on the 26th Of March tina he had
for two years distrusted Martin. He
also told me then that Martin, he was
informed, had stolen 81, 200 from Lacy
On the 10th of May, Memorial Day
the Daughters of the ~Confederacy will
present crosses of honor to the sixty
five inmates of the soldiers home and
then TO the members Of the local camp
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