The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-10
(Special to The MesSenger.)

hitting the remarr.age of such divorced
persons.
Especial to The Messenger.)
Raleigh, n. c., March Sin the SEN
ate today bills were introduced as fol-
lows:
To incorporate the Dunn Trolley Com
pany
10 protect the flowers growing in,
plaZas in Wilmington.
To incorporate Myrtle Brunswick
county.
To incorporate the Chockayotte Rail-
way and Power Company.
House bills passed the senate as fol
lows:
To incorporate the Perpetual Insur-
ance company, Of Salisbury.
To incorporate the North Carolina
and Tennessee railroad.
To raise revenue.
To incorporate the Roanoke Island
Celebration Company with all appro-
priations stricken out).
To enable the Agricultural depart
ment to build and equip an agriculture
al building at the Agricultural and Me-
chanical college here. Brown attacked
the bill, claiming that it had been rail-
roaded through the house and that ali
effort was being made to rush it
through the senate, in advance OF the
appropriation bills. The bill provides
for the expenditure of $50, 00Q ana au-
thocizes the borrowing of this. An
amendment was offered to make tn"
amount S25, 600. Gillian sad that sup
porters of this bill defied the aopr0prIa-
tons committee and that there was .
powerful lobby behind it. Henderson
spoke strongly for the bill. The amend.
ment was adopted by a vote of 81 to 1G,
that nothing in this bill shall give tIe
board of Agriculture the power to
pledge the credit Of the state. The bin
thus amended passed third reading.
Bills passed to protect and promote
the oyster indutry.
The House.
Bills were introduced in the house as
follows:
BY Morton, regarding the powers CT
the commissioners of New Hanover.
To allow the commiss. o!Iers OF Craven
to pay for extra services.
Bills passed final reading as follows:
To incorporate the Wilson Trust and
Savings Company.
To enlarge the stock law territory in
Cross Creek township, Cumberland
county.
TO work Pitt county roads.
TIC allow Dunn to issue Improvement
bonds.
TIC amend Kinstons charter.
To establish a graded school at Clin-
ton.
To amend Wilson's charter and allow
It to issue bonds.
To establish graded schools and e.ec.
trio lights at Scotland Neck.
To incorporate the Southport and
Northwestern Railway and the North
Carolina and Ohio railways.
To establish a stock law in certain
territory in Duplin.
To authorize the ssue of 100000 Of
ten year state bonds. 70 pay off the &C.
fciency and to borrow 500. coo to pay
the school fund debt.
To incorporate the ~Chockayotte rail.
way.
To regulate the sale OF salt fish. meat,
-four and food stuffs, requiring the
packages to be stamped With tha
weight.
To amend the laws regulating the
state guard and changing the name to
the national guard of North Carolina.
To consolidate sever colored formal
schools now maintained by the safe
into three and empower the state board
OF education to say where they shall be
located.
The bill to incorporate the town OF
Shore. which is a whiskey distiil;ery il
Yadkin county came up. Murphy said
there were about $50 voters. TIA the
distillery town Of Williams which has
possibly 30 voters had been Incorporate
ed and the legislature could not &c
back on other such interpretations
asked for. He offered the amendment
70 the bill tina no liquor be sold at
Shore. Watts offered the amendment
that no liquor be manufactured there.
Watts said he had changed his mind
about the bill Incorporating Williams
n now thought it ought not to have
been passed. He declared he would use
n exhaust all parliamentary tactics to
defeat all these bills to incorporate
whiskey. Murphy retorted in answer
to this threat that some other impor-
tant legislation might be defeat5d by
! similar tactics. Curtis moved'to table