The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-03-10
Thursday Nights Session
HOUSE.

house.
When the House met again at s
o. lock. two rev bills were at once in
troduced. as follows:
Freeman. of M~ecklenburk: To provide
court stenographer for Mecklenburs
county.
Whitaker, OF Guilford: To abolish
public schoo districts OF Macy Grove
and County Line. Guilford county
PASSED THIRD READING.
House Bill. for the relief of w. 5.
Bartlett. of Camden county.
House Bill. for the relief of j. G..
Hughes, late Treasurer of Camden.
House Bill. for the relief OF NJ. O..
Dickerson, clerk of the Superior Court
of Rutherford county
House Bill, TO repeal chapter 462, laws
of 1899.
Senate Bill, to prohibit liquor within
three miles of the Carolina Christian
College.
Senate Bill, to amend boundary lines
Of WaXhaw.
House Bill, to amend law relating to
courts in Rutherford county.
House Bill, to prohibit sale of liquors
in certain places in Camden county.
House Bill, to prohibit throwing saw
dust in North and South Muddy Creek,
in Mcdowell county.
Senate Bill, to protect quail in Bruins
wick county.
Senate Bill, for the relief of Avon p.
LaBarbe, of Buncombe county.
House Bill. to permit commissioners
to redu.e bond of clerk of Superior
Court Of Pamlico county.
House Bill, to regulate the sale of
liquor in Bath, Beaufort county.
Senate Bill, to incorporate Aulander
High School, BERTHE county.
Senate Bill, To establish a stock law
fence in Pitt county.
Senate Bill, to create stock law
territory in certain parts Of Pitt county.
House Bill. to secure compulsory
school attendance in the town of Wash
ington, Beaufort county.
Senate Bill, regarding the public
schools of Macon county.
House Bill, to amend chapter 676, laws
Of 1899. repeating a local liquor bill.
House Bill, to amend the law relating
to the branding of fertilizers.
House Bill, for the relief of v. B..
Davis, Register of Deeds of Madison
county.
House Bill. to amend chapter 435,
avs Of 1899, fish law affecting Pamlico
county.
House Bill, to protect fishing interests
in Brown Sound.
House Bill, to prevent telling of trees
in the run OF the Big Northeast and
branch Of New River, Onslow county.
House Bill, to prevent catching of
small mullets in Carteret county.
House Bill, to appoint a justice of
the peace for Pamlico and to validate
the acts of the same already performed.
House Bill, to prohibit hunting on
lands of another without consent of
owner in Bladen county.
House Bill. to protect fish in Watauga
River, Watauga county.
House Bill to allow Marshall Merritt,
a disabled Confederate soldier, to peddle
without license in Davie county.
Senate Bill. to amend chapter GAS.
laws of 1901, regarding to fowls in Lin
coin county.
ELECTION LAW.
Senate Bill, to provide for holding
municipal elections, substitute bill ex-
cepting a number Of counties.
Mr.. Benbow, speaking for his county,
| said that Yadkin was distinctively a
white mans county. that only II negroes
registered at the last election.
Mr.. Watts said the object Of this bill
was to keep the number down to II.
Mr.. West, speaking for Cherokee, said
that only two negroes registered in that
county at the last election.
Mr.. Watts said that the object Of the
bill was to prevent Republican towns
from being able to register negroes who
were not qualified to vote. Many of the
towns in the western part of the State,
moreover those Republican registrars in
the western towns were gathering evil
dence against those Democrats who were
indicted by the Federal Courts.
Mr.. Wood, OF Johnston. made a plea
for the bill.
Mr.. Owen, Of Sampson, said that the
Democrats had promised that. once the
constitutional amendment was passed
they would quit talking about the negro.
But there seemed to be some that could
not let the niger alone. There was now
no town in the State that was dominated
by negroes.
Mr.. Britain asked the House to ex-
cept Randolph, as did Mr.. Offman.
Mr.. Bowman thanked God there were
some true-hearted Democrats who were
willing to give the Republican counties
a chance. He honored these Democrats
liz ILC11p ~ IuIOltie
justice. and throttle free white men.
Mr.. Bowman went on to make a violent
attack upon the policy of the leaders of
the House in this matter.
DR.. Riddick said that in answer to the
speech of the gentleman from Mitchell.
ne would withdraw his amendment 10
except Franklin county.
Mr. Wooten then withdrew Lenoir
from the list of exceptions.
Several amendments excepting Re
publican counties had been adopted. but
now Mr.. Morton moved that the vote
by which they passed be reconsided.
Mr. Smith spoke of the gross Injustice
OF the Fuslon election law of 1895. He
said it stood as a gigantic stain upon the
name of the Fusion party If could no
further stained.
Ihen there was a warm interchange
between Mr.. Smith and Mr.. Bowman
Mr.. Smith declaring that the Ieoiela,