Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1905-03-02

u1tlee " lHVoSClgaIe the South DakO-
ia bond judgment and other bond mat
ters Senators Zollicoffer, and Scales,
of Guilford
In the House.
In the House Tuesday the bill al
lowing new trials for newly discover
| ed evidence, pending an appeal in
criminal cases. came up. the first hill
| as unfinished business. Fowler, of
Sampson, led off in strong speech
In behalf of the bill, declaring that as
the law now is, new trial could be
! granted in a case involving the title
to So bull yearling, but not in the
case of human life or human liber-
ty. Laughinghouse, of Pitt, opposed
the bill, saying it was strange to him
how lawyers could lose sight of the
side of public protection of life and
liberty in their terms and sympathize
with criminals. Stewart, of Harnett
In defending the bill, also defended the
legal profession from what he termed
mere assaults from the last speaker
Laughinghouse stated that he had not
attacked the legal profession, but had
simply presented some plain facts re-
gardlng a good many members of it,
who seemed to keep up in the lead.
Other speeches in favor of the bill were
by Murphy, of Buncombe: Robson
and Winborne. Those speaking against
the bill were Redwine, Cover, Feim-
ster and Graham, of Granville. The
taken on the bill, and 1t was defeated
by vote of SIS to 46. The bill had
been up four different days during the
session. Messrs. Winborne and Rober-
son had made about four speeches for
1T, and Judge Graham as many against
it. 1t passed its second reading by a
vote of 46 to As about two weeks ago.
The following bills passed final read
ing: To AIMED the stock law in Dup
lin; to amend the charter of Clyde;
to incorporate Pee Dee Valley Rail
way Company; to incorporate Ashe-
vile & Northern Railway Company;
to incorporate Raleigh & Southport
Railway Company; to incorporate
Southport & Northwestern Railroad
Company; to allow Rutherford county
to refund 100000 of it's bonded debt;
to protect landlords and tenants in
certain counties; to amed charter of
Black Mountain; to protect fish in
Yancey; to amend charter of Farmers
Mutual Fire Association; to incorpor-
ate Pine Top Banking Company; to
re-incorporate Chowan Baptist Asso-
citation; to protect game birds in Ma
con county; to prohibit fishing in
amend charter of the town of South
North Fork of New River, in Ashe
county.
The Anti-Jug Law.
A bill defining the place of sale of
liquor, coming up on it's third reading,
the following additional counties were
exempted from the operations of the
act: Hyde, Alleghany Washington,
Nash, Perquimans, Stokes, Pitt and
IyrreH. There was considerable de-
tate between the two members from
Buncombe. Mr.. Murphy desired Bun
combe to remain under the operation
Of the McNinch law, and Glenn favor
ed exempting it. The difficulty was
finally adjusted by Mr.. Glenn yielding
and stating that ne would introduce a
bill to fit the case, so Buncombe was
not exempted. The bill then passed
its final reading, and was ordered sent
to the Senate. The House then ad-
journed.
There was but little accomplished
Wednesday in the Senate. A few To-
cal bills were introduced and few
passed third reading.
At noon the House took up the Sen
ate bill, known as the Vann bill, regu-
lating fishing in Albemarle and Pam
leo Sounds. and it passed it's final
reading.
Winborne Bill Dead.
The bill providing that county COM
mlssioners can upon petition of citi-
zens of any school district order an
election for special school tax for
either race. came UP, and Winborne
explained it, stating that if the old de-
cisions of the North Carolina Supreme
Court were followed, the bill would
not accomplish the object that was in
tended, but that since the old deci-
sions, the United States Supreme
Court had rendered decisions which
made this law now constitutional
one. He said that Governor Glenn
heartily approved of this bill, and had
received assurances that the State Su-
preme Court considered it constitu-
tional. Winborne said he had intro
duced the bill to take the place OF his
bill amending the State constitution.
1t simply meant either race could sup
piement its regular public school fund
by a vote Of it's own-property holders
Tor additional taxation. The previous
question was called <on Graham's mo-
tlOn to refer, and the bill was referred
to the committee On education, which
means it's DEATH