The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1905-03-09
LEGISLATURE anJoIass



~ere declared adjourned sine de.
Many members had gone home On
Saturday and nothing @as done BE-
soaa the routine work of closing Up
the session.
President Winston appointed seaA.
tors Webb and Suhha ~ III. Senate
branch Of the committee 10 examine
the books Of the State Treasurer AMI
Auditor message from the Cover
nor was received. containing recon
mcndation or nomination for trustees
of the various institutions. The Senate
went into executiy. session 10 eoE~
slider these, and when II rose. II Was
announced that all bad been approved
These are as follows: Directors Of the
Agricultural Il Mechanical College. as
Raleigh-WillIam Dunn, third district:
4. T. McCallum. sixth district: S. T.
Wilfong ninth district. Directors of
cofored Agricultural & Mechanical Col
lege. AT Greezsboro-E1rst district. w.
A. Darden. third, w. II. Newberry: nj
large. J. D. Minor. r.. W. aohphis.
Charles G. Rose and W. 4. EnIoe. Di-
rectors for the Institute for the Deaf
and Blind, at Raleish--Joseph L. Po-
que. c. B. Edwards. J. c. Mcmillan.
r. b. Boyd. ]. NJ. Walsh, r. H. Hayes
and 4. l.. McNeili. Directors for In
stitute for Deaf Mutes. at Morganton-
NJ. II. Holt, j. c. Seagle, A. V. Miller.
W. G.. Lewis, J. G. Neal J. p. Jeter.
Directors of the colored Stale Hospi-
tai at Greensboro-D. L. Mckinne. w.
Z. Creech, DR.. Albert Anderson. Di-
rectors of the penitentiary-J. G. Hack
EFT, chairman; w. A. Grassland. ]. p.
Kerr. r. Fl. Speight. J. ID. Dawes. Di-
rectors Of State geological board-H.
f. Fries, Hugh MacRae. Frank Wood,
Frank r. Hewett. Board of internal
mprovements-B. G. Beckwith. r. A.
Morrow. Oyster Commissioner. W. NJ.
Webb: assistant commissioner George
Fl. Hill
JAMESTOWN APPROPRIATION.
The Senate concurred In the House
amendment to the jamestown Expo
sition bill, reducing the appropriation
from $50. 900 to 100000. with a provis-
ion that the United States should ap-
prOpriate a million dollars. The res
olution of thanks to newspaper report
ers was adopted; also one to the
clerks, pages and laborers and the
lady stenographers. A joint resolution
was adopted asking the establishment
Of a sub-postoffice at the capitol dur
ing the next session of the Legisla-
ture
A bill was then taken up to increase
the salary of Chief Clerk Norwood. in
the office of the Secretary of State
from 81 900 to $1,000. Mason spoke in
support of this, while Foushee. Bur
ton. Long, of Iredell and Wright OPP
posed it. Turner, Fleming and Duls
then spoke in its favor, and Sinclair
in opposition. who moved that the bill
be referred to the committee. This
motion was opposed by Webb and
failed. The bill passed IS to 8, and at
LAO the President announced 1t was
noon, and the Senate should adjourn
Thursday in House and Senate.
In the Senate Thursday message
from the Governor regarding the South
Dakota judgment of Schaffer bonds
was read and the bond committee re-
ported. Upon motion of Mr.. Duls, the
reports were adopted and the thanks
of the Senate extended to the Gov
ernOr and counsel Of State. bill
was introduced to provide for a dis
pensary at Whiteville, and a resolu
ton inviting the National Editorial
Association to meet next year in North
Carolina. Bills passed to charter the
kinston G. Cape Fear Railway; TO in
corporate Mineral Springs, in Union
county; to prevent the running at
large of dangerous or vicious dogs;
to prevent the manufacture of whiskey
in Rutherford; to establish a dispen-
sary at Roxboro; to prohibit the killing
of quail in Alexander; to prohibit the
manufacture and sale of whiskey In
Union. and to allow the people to vote
on dispensary or prohibition; to amend
the anti-jug law by making it apply
only to Mitchell. Cleveland, Cabarrus,
CASTOR, Perquimans and Ashe, this
being the law enacted two years ago;
to refund commissions of sheriff of
Rowan on taxes; to authorize county
boards of education to fix the time for
holding schools; to incorporate the
Christian University; and also Lenoir
College, in Catawba county; to regu-
late the apportionment Of school funds
Of Mecklenburg; to provide for the es-
tablishment of public school libraries
in rural districts; TO authorize the
State board of education to publish GER
tain textbooks relating to history and
literature Of North Carolina.
In the House a message was receiv-
ed from Governor Glenn, detailing the
terms of the bond settlement agree
ment and urgiLg its adoption. the mes
sage being similar to the report by
the committee to the House last night.
Chairman Graham, Of the committee
On revision of laws, or Code read an
extract from a Raleigh letter to The
Charlotte Observer anu other papers
yesterday. saying that The Code CON
mission had done some arbitrary
things. such as placing all public insti
tutiions. including schools. under con-
troll of the board of public improve
ments. He said the report was I'M
founded. A detailed method was
adopted While some members OIL
the committee did not work, more
than twenty had done so and no two
or three men had done the work or
attempting TO dominate the others.
The bill authorizing the payment OF
the $215, 900 in settlement of the Schaf-
fer bonds came up on second reading.
Mr. Powers. of Rutherford. said that
twenty-five years ago he and Mr.. Ora
ham, Of Lincoln. we've members of the
Legislature which issued bonds in set
tlement Of the state debt for SAC, ,oeo.-
900; that the bonds now being settled
were about the only ones which were
not sent in under the terms of the set
tlement, and that the holders. now
virtually accepting the terms offered
By the debt settlement Of 1879, was
creditable TO the honor as well as the
sagacity of that settlement Mr..
Graham, of Lincoln, added that the
settlement Of 1879 was made by a leg
islative committee and bondholders in
conference. just like the present set
tlement. Mr. Graham congratulated the
committee for having effected set