The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-23
Vote Was II to 80, After
Spirited Argument.
THIRD READING TO-DAY
Drewry Introduces Bill for Registration by
State of Trained Nurses---BiII for a
Code Commission by Daniel
of Warren.


vote of 72 to 3S.
All the Republicans, with the excep
tion of j. c. Bowman, of Mitchell, voted
against it.
The bill would have been put through
on it's third reading Immediately, but a.
D. Watts, of Iredell objected, saying
that no doubt many of the members
wanted a little more time to consider the
matter
Those who voted AYE when the roll
was called on the second reading were:
Messrs. Alexander. of Mecklen
burg, Beasley, Blount, Bowman, Britt,
Britton, Bullard, Cowan, Craige, Crock
er, Curtis, Daniel of Vance, Daniel Of
Warren, Daughtridge, Davidson, Dough-
ton Drewry, Erwin, Etheridge, Free
man of Mecklenburg, Fuller, Gay, Goode,
Graham, Guon, Hall, Harrington of
Harnett, Hinton, Hooker, Hughes, Hum
phrey, Hunter, King. Kreger, Leeper,
Little, Love, Lucas, Mason, Moore, Nc
Neill, McRae, Parker of Halifax, Parker
of Wayne, Price of Rockinham, Price of
Stanly Quickel, Riddick, Kicks, Rober-
son, Scott, Self, Shelton, Siler, Simpson
of Perquimans, Simpson of Union, Smith,
Stevenson, Sugg, Thomas, Thompson,
UzZell, Walters, Warren, Whitaker of
Wake White of Halifax, White of Jones,
Williams, Willis. Wood, Woodard,
Woodley.
Those voting mo" were Messrs. Abell
Aiken, Alexander of Tyrrell, Anderson,
Britain, Bryan, Carson, Def1art, Dob
son, Dockery, Duncan, Foy, Freeman of
Henderson, Gluyas, Grant, Hamilton,
Hamlin, Jarrett, Luther, Michael, Nor
phew, Morris of Mcdowell. Morris of
Polk, Morton. Murphy, Mccall, Newland,
Nissen, Offman, Pegram, Phillips, Ruck-
er, Shipman, Vann, Waddell, Watts,
West, Whitaker of Guilford.
When the bill was taken from the
Calendar yesterday morning, Jones Full
ler of Durham, began the debate on the
subject by defending his measure, and
he did so magnificently, as one of the gen
tlemen, Mr. Parker, of Wayne, said in
the course of the argument.
Mr. Fuller entirely refuted the charge
that the measure was local one relating
to Durham alone, or was instigated by
anything but a proper spirit. The bill,
he said, asked for nothing which the
railroads did not have notice was power
reserved in the Corporation Commission.
There is nothing" said he, "in the
bill compelling the Commission TO do
anything. 1t is only an appeal from the
long suffering people to have some
tribunal to which they can go and estab-
lish their right to decent treatment, or
at least to recite their wrongs"
AS an instance of disregard for the
convenience, welfare, safety, and accom-
modation of the public by some railroads.
the speaker recited the familiar condi-
tion of the accommodations at Durham,
where the passenger station has accom-
modations for only 90 people, and all ap-
peals to railroad authorities had been in
vain, because one railroad desired to
shut out another.
Mr.. Morton said that he opposed the
bill simply on account of the power it
vested in the Corporation Commission.
1t would involve, perhaps , the con-
demning of some of the most valuable
land in the city. If the people of Dur
ham should ask this Legislature to pass
bill giving them a Union Depot, he
would be inclined to vote for it.
He declared that the only large city
he knew of that had union depot was
Atlanta.
The law in South Carolina, he assert
ed, was dead letter. 1t was so generally
conceded to be beyond the power of the
Legislature to delegate such a power to
a commission. that it had never been
enforced.
He would oppose enlarging the powers
of this commission. and would favor
keeping these powers in the Legislature
Judge Graham fought stoutly for the
bill He said all this questioning about
the powers of the Corporation Commits
sion was ineXplicable to him. He thought
that had been settled in North Carolina.
There was time. in 1887, and again in
1889, when the bill establishing a Rail-
road Commission was defeated but it
finally passed in 1891, when the people
had become educated to the idea that in
them lay the power to control the cor
porations.
A very prominent corporation magnate
had once said: THE people be damned,
and that seemed to be the position of the
corporations in this matter: but this is
an age of enlightenment, when the peo-
pie know how to enforce their rights
AS to the doubt about the constitution
ality of the bill, which seemed to be
troubling some of the gentlemen, Judge
Graham quoted from Vol. Z of the Ameri-
can and English Encyclopedia, page 517,
where it is expressly stated that the
Legislature may compel two or more rail
roads to extend their tracks so as to
connect for the convenience of the travel