The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-14
Red-Letter Day Again in
the House.
Continued from First Page.)

Britton, Of BERTHE: To put James
Thomason on pension roll
Beasley, OF Currituck: supplementary
TO an act OF 1898, relating to fishing and
hunting in Currituck county.
West, of Cherokee: To establish :.
graded school at Andrews, Cherokee
county.
Thomas, of Ashe: For relief of a. S.
Eller, Clerk of the Superior Court of
Ashc county
Etheridge, Of Dare: To amend chapter
40, Laws of 1891.
Ncwland, of Caldwell: To extend cor
rorate limits of the town of Lenoir.
Newland: TO establish a graded school
in Lenoir.
Self, of Catawba, feb Murphcy. of
Rowan: To appoint G. H. Peeler q Jus
tice of the Peace in Rowan county.
Kinsland, of Haywood: To incorporate
Pleasant Balsam Baptist Church. in
Haywood county.
Mason, of Cartcret: To prohibit the
hedging of fish in Cartcrct county.
Smith, of Gates: To change time of
holding terms of certain courts in the
First Judicial District.
Rucker, of Rutherford: To amend sec
Jarrett, Of Macon: To provide for at
tendance of school children in Macon
county.
DeHart of Swain; To regulate work
ing of convicts in Swain county
Drewry, of Wake; To settle a debt due
by the tSate to Mrs. f. p. Tucker, exc
cutrix of r. S. Tucker.
Warren, of Person: For relief of a
teacher in colored school district NO ).
Person county.
Robertson, of GuiIford; For relief and
support OF the University of North
Carolina.
Michael, of Watauga: To protect fish
il Wat&uga River.
Price, of Stanly: To amend chapter 4,
sections IA and II, Laws of 1901 relating
to the public schools OF Stanly county.
Harrington. of Harnctt: To regulate
hunting in Ellington township.
Harrington: To prohibit floating saw
dust in certain creeks in Harnett
Jarrett, Of Macon: To incorporate the
Bank of Franklin.
Doughton, of Allegheny: To amend
chapter 386. Laws Of 1901 relating to
terms of courts in Surry county.
BY consent, the bill to prevent the
shipping of liquor into Cumberland
county introduced by Mr.. Billiard was
put upon it's immediate readings, and
passed.
AWAITS BILL AMENDMENTS.
When the Watts bill, the unfinished
business from the day previous, was
taken up, Mr.. Curtis sent forward the
following amendment: amend section
one by inserting after the word law,
in line seven, the following: Provided,
that the manufacture shall be confined to
towns of not less than 500, and the sale
to towns of not less than go"
Mr.. Freeman, of Mecklenburg. offered
to amend so as not to apply to churches
using wine for communion service, ana
MIR. Simpson, OF Union to insert one
gallon wherever five gallons was used.
Notice was given of several more
amendments, two by MIR. Morton and
one by Mr.. Woodley.
The Speaker ruled that all these
amendments were merely before the
House for consideration and that the
question was only at present upon the
amendments offered by the committee.
MP. HINTON.
Mr. Hinton, of Pasquotank, rose to
protest against the amendment offered
by the gentleman from New Hanover. He
considered that he was simply trifling
with the demands of the people Of North
Carolina. He had spoken as if the Dciu-
ocratic party depended for it's life upon
the Whiskcy traffic.
Mr.. Morton arose to ask some qucs-
tiCns, but Mr.. Hinton declined to be in
terrupted.
He went on to say that the gentleman
from New Hanover spoke as if he were
the special champion of the Democratic
party, and that her interests depended
upon that gentleman.
He then asked if Governor Aycock and
Senator Simmons did not have the in
terests of the party at heart.
Mr.. Hinton finally yielded to a qucs-
ton from Mr.. Morton, who asked him if
he mad not signed a paper to the effect
that he would leave this question to a
vote of the people of Pasquotank
Mr.. Hinton replied by saying that dur
ing the campaign il L-l been said that
the temperance people were going TO
ruin the Democratic party, ard it had
been proposed that all the candidates
should sign the paper referred to- He
admitted that he had signed it, but de-
clared il was not binding upon him be-
cause the others had not signed the con-
tract.
Mr.. Hinton then went on and made a
vigorous speech for some temperance leg
islaticn, rot especially the Watts bill.
MR., BENBOW.
Then Mr. BcnboW spoke for the wishes
of the people of Yadkin. He said not
a single petition had come up from that
county, and that he spoke fer the Demo-
Gratis as well as the Republicans.
Yadkin county differed from most of
the other couLties OF the State. There
were no towns of moro than 600 people
and every town already had prohibitive
laws, and accordingly the first section
of this bill entirely knocked out Yadkin
county. 1t would iniure all classes Of
the people not only the distillers, for the
traffic benefited all the people of the
county, even the preachers.
Coming to the committees amend
ment, he declared that it would mean
wholesale family drunkenness, instead of
temperance.