The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-13
END OF THE LEGISLATURE.
Number of Acts Exceed Those of Two
Years AgO-Christian Scientists Re-
turn HOme-AuditOr Dixon Says the
Bond Issue Was Too Smal1-The
Haywood Case.
Messenger Bureau,
Raleigh. y. c., March 10, 1913.

Raleigh y. c., March 10, 1903.
The supreme court today took up. the
appeals from the Sixth district. Only
a. few attorneys are here. among these
being, w. c. Monroe, Frank Daniels and
Isaac F. Dortch all of Goldsboro.
The state superintendent Of public
instruction says that as soon as the
applications from counties for aid from
the 500, 900 appropriated to keep the
public schools open four in the
year can be scaled, the warrants VIII
be issued. The applications amount
to $40, 900.
Everyone is delighted with the new
system of typewriting the acts Of the
legislature, the work being beautifully
done, and a great saving effected.
Besides this, a copy is furnished in car
bon, which is prepared by a lawyer
and hen goes to the public printer,
while the original is bound. to be fled.
There was surprise that h number of
acts of this legislature should exceed
that of two years ago, but it is so, for
the number is 1890, or % more HI in
1901. AS to the cost Of enrolling the
acts, the saving is very great. amount
ing to $1,575. Yesterday $40 bills and II
resolutions were ratified, this being a
| great days work. Twenty young lady
typewriters worked all day Sunday in
order to get the acts ready for ratifica-
ton yesterday.
| Three convictS arrived at the penlten-
| tertiary today from Bladen and Edge
combe. The number received this year
has been small.
! The number of diStillery towns in
corporated, so far as known today is
five; Cokely, Myrtle and Old Sparta
in the east, and Shore and Williams in
the west.
The Christian Scientists people who
hung on here for more than a month
fighting the bill designed to put them
| out of action in North Carolina have
! gone home. Their fight cost them a
| pretty penny, for lawyers. board, ETC..
but they stuck to it aud never left the
galleries of the senate n house until
the gavels fell and the legislature adj
journed sine die.
Mention been made of the fact
that the house of representatives was
heavily loaded with employees. 1t
turns out that it lac 9 clerks. Is pages,
2 d~oor-keepers. and q laborers. This
broke the record. Of course a let of
these people had been promised political
jobs and places had to be made for
them.
One of the attorneys for the defence
IN the Haywood murder trial when
asked today whether there would be
any postponement Of the trial said he
did not know; that there had been no
meeting Of counsel since they had their
first meeting together. He added that
Ernest Haywood, the defendant vas
the coolest man in the crowd; cooler
than any Of his n
Auditor Dixon said today that IN his
opinion the only thing in which the leg
islature slipped up was the amount of
the bond issue. He hinkS the SmallneSs
of the issue a mistake, that it would
have been far better to have issued
enough to prevent getting in a hole
again; that a million dollars issued
would nave put all the institutions in
the best possible condition, in such a
condition that the state could have
said to them not to come pack for half
u score Of years or may be a genera
}tion, asking for my appropriations
for extension. Auditor Dixon very
sensibly says that the policy of making
the appropriation SO small for perrla-
nent Improvement is costly to the state
as it makes constant additions neces-
SarV.