The news & observer., 1901-03-15
THE NIGHT SESSION.
Silver Service Presented to Speaker Moore
appropriations Finally settled.

and appropriate. speech. he presented
to Speaker Moore on behalf of the mem
bers of the House magnificent silver
service as token of their esteem and
love cherished by the members for
their speaker.
The gift was a set of beautifully
clased silver knives. forks and spoons
in a handsome case, bearing uDon its
lid silver plate engraved as follows:
Presented to Hon Walter f. Moore,
Speaker House of Representatives, 1901.
Ihe applause from the House and
cfoWded iopples and galleries was tre-
mendous, as Mr.. Hoey made the pre-
sentatlon and continued for some time.
speaker Moore accepted the handsome
GIT ms an appropriate speech. He re-
turned his thanks for the uniform
kindness which the body had ever
treated him. This git. like it is beau
tiful and will be .prized by me and my
family still will not be as indelibly
fixed upon my memory as the kindness,
{ the esteem and the faces of these''--
/. Mr. Moore's emotion completely over
came him at this point, and he was
obliged to stop. 1t was a touching
scene.
THE APPROPRIATION.
Judge Allen said that he had been
considerably disturbed when he found
that the House had in the afternoon
adopted the section of the appropriation
giving all the appropriations asked for
by the Hospital at Morganton. He had
taken course opposing all appropria-
tions that he thought We're more than
the State could afford. He had been
considerably encouraged in this course
by the gentleman from Anson, the gen
tleman from Iredell and others. But
it seemed that they had stopped at
Raleigh. AS soon as they got to the
West, they had voted to give every doll
lar asked for.
Mr.. Robinson interrupted to say that
he had voted for everything the Cen
trail Hospital had asked for.
Judge Allen went on to say that he
would offer amendments to reduce the
amount for the Morganton Asyums. If
they were not adopted, he should sup
port the amendment of Mr.. Bedding
field to strike out all the amendments
already made 1T was not right to
scale some and not others. He then
moved to reconsider the vote by which
the bill had passed.
Mr. Mason opposed this. saying the
matter had been settled and ought to
stay so.
The motion to reconsider prevailed,
and Judge Allen sent forward an
amendment to make the amount to
complete the buildings already COM
menced at Morganton $37 .OO0 for each of
tho txyo yaorc inCfaad af @-E mn
He called the ayes and noes on this
question and the amendment was lost
by vote of &c to 81
The ayes were: Messrs. Allen, of
Wayne, Baldwin, Beddingfield, Blount.
Carraway. Collins, Daniels, OF Vance,
Daniels, of Warren, Dees. Fields, Gath
er. Harris, Hoey, Hood Jenkins Law
renee, Long Mann, McCuIoch, Morgan,
Nash, Nicholson, Oliver, Parker, Pearce,
Richardson, Shelton Simlns, Smith,
Stewart. Whitaker, Of Forsyth White,
of Halifax, White, of Jones, Zachary.
The noes We're: Messrs. ArGrey. Ban
herman, Blythe. Bradsher, Carr, Con-
nor. Craig, Duls, Duncan, Ebbs, Cat
tis, Graham, Hayes, Lane, Little, Mac
I<ethan, Mason, Mauney, Mclean, Nor
phew, Nichols, Page, Patterson, Rober-
son, Robinson. Ross, Rothrock, Roun-
tree, Russell Seawell, Shannonhouse,
Watts, Whitaker, of Guilford, Wilson,
Winston, Wright, Marlborough.
In explaining his vote in the negative,
Mr.. Robinson said he did not intend
to cut down the appropriations for this
institution so that white women would
have to be in felons cells for four more
years. They would have frozen to death
last winter, if the season had been a
severe one.
Judge Allen then sent forward an
amendment to make the amount $40,-
600. This was lost by a vote of 35 to 40.
After some confusion of amendments
and substitutes, Mr.. Robinson finally OBJ
tanned the floor.
He said it seemed here tonight that
we did not know what we were doing.
When the question of the Eastern Hospi-
tai came up, the argument raised that
there We're hundreds of poor insane in
the fails, But when the question of the
Western Hospital came up, they only
came from every county of the West that
it had some of these poor unfortunates
in it's iails. He was for giving every
cent of money that could be judiciousIy
SAPCnQcu. NIL IbODlHSOu IuduS d pOWETlul
plea for those poor unfortunates in the
jails. He hoped this Legislature would
not be the cause of any poor creature
freezing to death for lack of a shelter
He then offered an amendment to in
sert $780, 600.
At this iuncture it was announced that
a compromise had been effected, and Mr..
Page sent forward an amendment to in
scrt $55,G00.
Mr. Pages amendment was passed.
Thereupon Mr.. Long offered an amend
ment to the Goldsboro appropriation OF
$4,000 for each of the two years for
new buildings, making it $4,000. Mr..
Watts offered a substitute to make it
$40, ,000
Mr.. Robinson said that while he was
in favor of disfranchising the negroes, he
thought they ought to receive all the
care tho, needed. and they need every
dollar that is asked for here.
Mr.. Watts said that. as the amount
for the Morganton Asylum, which has
under its care two thirds of the whites
in North Carolina, had been reduced, ne
favored reducing this also.
Mr. Watts amendment was lost, as was
Mr.. Longs.
Mr.. Wright proposed to amend py' IN
serting $17,50O Lost
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