The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-24
The Inheritance Tax is
Adopted.
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school committee of District No. l. to
issue bonds
Cowan, of Jackson: To incorporate the
Baleam and Black Rock Railroad Com
pany.
Cowan: To incorporate St. Peters
Episcopal Church.
Cowan; To repeal chapter 1S3, Private
Laws of 1889, and amend III, Laws of
1898, charter of Dillsboro.
Hooker, of Beaufort: To incorporate
Core Point.
Little, of Pitt: To amend the charter
of Pactolus.
Daniel, of Vance: To authorize Hen
derson to issue bonds for sewerage and
street improvements.
Robertson, of Guilford: To amend the
charter of the Central Carolina Fair
Association.
Self. of Catawba: To empower the
Corporation Commission to fix milling in
transit rates
Self: To prohibit liquor in certain To-
cahties in Catawba county
Mason, of Carteret: To prohibit the
catching of clans from natural oyster
beds in Carteret at certain times
Mason: To prohibit the pursuing of
mullcts in waters of Carteret.
Michael, of Watauga: To sell the
States interest in the Boone and Blowing
Rock Turnpike Company.
Michael: To prohibit liquor in Wa
tauga county.
Lucas, of Hyde: To prevent manufac-
ture and sale of liquor in Fairfield. Con-
cordia township.
Kreger, of Stokes: To amend the char
ter of Germanton.
Smith, of Gates: Resolution that the
chairman of the Judiciary Committee and
the chairman of the Finance Committee
be requested to call their respective
committees so as not to conflict, on
alternate days. Adopted
Kreger, of Stokes: To protect certain
birds
Morris, of Mcdowell: To prohibit
throwing sawdust in North and South
Muddy Creek
CONCERNING CATAWBA.
Mr. Self, of Catawba, arose to a ques-
ton of personal privilege, and said in
part as follows:
'Since ] was sworn in as a member
of this body, a number of statements
have appeared in the public press, de-
signed as ! feared, to show, if possible
that l am not altogether worthy of the
esteem of my fellow members, or longer
entitled to the confidence of my fellow
citizens l have suffered these state
ments to pass unnoticed as their au
thors had been content to stop with
insinuations merely.
"A communication in the News and OBJ
server for Sunday. signed by c. H. Me-
bane, president of the Catawba County
Temperance Organization, goes beyond
insinuation and must be noticed
HE charges me with refusing to all
low the people of Catawba county TO
decide the liquor question by their votes,
but scrupulously avoids giving me any
credit for my honest opposition to the
Watts bill based upon the ground that
it curtails that right. ] ask you to note
that the Watts BILL which destroys the
country grain dIstilleries only passed the
House Friday night and the next morning
l introduced the bill which is now the
property of the House, providing that my
people may vote out the manufacture
and sale of brandy also. Under this bill,
if it becomes law, every voter in my
county may show his colors on the liquor
question
1.-THE facts are, therefore, against my
accuser. on this charge 1t lis true that
/ stated to him that | would support a
measure leaving the question to the peo-
pie Have | not striven with all my pow
er to make good that promise? But the
nf fol
in the Conversation referred to- that his
chief concern was to deprive the citizens
of Hickory of the charter rights. If he
had told me that the movements of which
he is the official head we're directed
against the statutory rights of the NUM-
Cipal corporation named, rather than
against the manufacture and sale of
whskey and brandy in the county at
large, | would have told him promptly
and urequivocally that he could not
count upon me as an ally. If then he
really misunderstood my position, l call
upon you to judge whose is the fault. He
appeals to a Democratic House to ignore
the protest of a Democratic member
elected by Democrats, not by the 'peo-
pie of all parties
81 have fought from my earliest man
hood, faithfully and consistently, for the
Democratic party and to put Democrats
into office, and no one can believe that
it is in my heart to prove unworthy of
this the first recognition of my humble
services In the dreary days of Fusion
domination l was going around to the
school houses and country stores in my
county, day and night in fair weather
and in foul without favor or reward,
pleading with men to come TO the rescue
of the only party that has ever given
good government to my State, while my
accuser,-this gentleman who asks Dem
ocrats TO spit upon Democrat-Was lend
ing aid and comfort to the enemies of De
mocrary and making profitable business
of it, Applause). He tells you that /
shrink No man can truthfully say
that / am made of shrinking material.
Who is the coward the man who stands
by his colors in defeat as well as in tri-
umph, or the man who deserts the flag
in the dark hour of it's supreme peril?
| call upon this body of honest and
honorable men TO judge between me and