The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-27

lie drunkenness III Chatham county.
Propos ton and Grievances.
Roberts; TO amend the act Of 1898
Mars Hill in Madison
county Cities and Towns.
Morgan For relief of Miss Penny
Wright, q school teacher in Scotland
Neck Education
McGill: TO amend pension law of
1903 relating to pensions fol soldiers,
sa. Iors and widows. Pension Commit
tee.
Pattison: TO abolish pretended
election for graded school in Whittier,
swain county. Education
Buchanan: or relief OF +. Auber-
~. Proposition and Grievances.
Wade: To prohibit throwing saw
dust in streams of Montgomery coun-
". Proposition and Grievances.
Gayle: TO provide that certain
funds be paid into hands of trustees
Of Scotland Neck graded school. Ed
ucation.
Ally Tc incorporate the Tuckasec-
gee Railroad Company Railroads.
Ally: TIC amend the Code relating
to certain grants under the Cherokee
Land Law. Propositions and Grt'Van-
ces
Wmborne: TO change the name of
the HEREFORD County Telephone Com
pany to the North state Telephone
Company Propositions and evan
ces.
Wirborne TO amend law ST. that
the executor of an executor shall not
be executor of the first testator. Ju-
dietary.
Biggs: To allow County Commits
sioncrs of Durham to eXpend $4,000
in opening streets and improving court
house property in conjunction with
81, of of
dar.
Mr. Biggs rising to a question of
personal privilege. stated that IN the
report of q morning paper OF the
meeting of the Judiciary Committee
yesterday afternoon, he was represent
ed as opposing the striking out OF the
abandonment feature Of the divorce
Jaw. when on The contrary he took
the opposite position.
Final Reading
The following bills passed their
final reading:
TO revise, consolidate and amend
the charter of Spencer, Rowan county
special Order on jug Law.
The hour of twelve arriving. the
bill to repeal the law OF 1903, except
so far as it applied to the counties Of
Cleveland, CaDarras, Mitchell and
CASTOR.
Mr.. McNinch offered an amendment
incorporating Il State anti-jue law IN
TO section two of the Watts law. he
said he had no desire and the friends
of temperance had no desire to take
advantage Of an accidental law, but
by passing the bill with his amend
ment this occidental law would i'm eff
feet be repealed and at the same time
q straight anti-jus law would be en-
acted.
DAVIS. of Haywood chairman Of the
Committee on Liquor Traffic, said that
as the amendment injected entirely
Eea matter. which was not considered
by the committee when il made its
original report, he moved that the bill
De re-referr ed To the committee.
Murphy, of Rowan, objected 20 re-
commitment He thought members
ought 10 meet the issue face u face
and be willing 10 say whether they de-
: red to take advantage of an acct
dental law or not.
Winborne said that he introduced
tn" bin for repeal except as for the
counties named in the act Of 1903.
The bin was 50 wcrded that amy couu-
~ desiring ii could DC placed Within
the anti-jug law territory. IL was q
well known fact that au anti-juS bill
70 apply to tile whole state was &c
feateQ by TIE Legislature of l902. ana
Il was moth ng but proper to repeal
amy law that was enacted by mistake.
{ Judge Graham favored rccommit-
ment oil the bin 10 the committee ana
this action vas advocated by stewart
Of larnett. and Alexander. OF Mock
! lcuburg.
Noonce OF 0usloW, spoke Ia oppo-
sition "a pOstponcment saying that
lit was generally understood in the
campaign, and he 50 stated 10 mis-
| constituents i'm the campaign that the
| law would be repealed because 1t was
| tainted With error. If not with fraud
| lie had the authority of the diStin-
guished chairman of the Democratic
Committee for the assurance that the
| law rs q matter of course would be
repealed.
| Mr. Warren. of Jones. said the law
/ Was not made an issue i'm his section
because il was universally considered
| that as a matter Of course the law
would be repealed That was the on
! ly manly course TO pursue, and then
! III desired. Introduce = bill for Gn an
Iu-mg law for The state and let II
! stand on its merits. Men high in au-
tthority in North Carolina had led The
! people - believe that this law would
! bc promptly repealed SO far as II re-
lIten 10 territory nor iDcjuhct - ~
| bill He opposed any postponemeni
! of the matter.
| Murphy of Rowan, said that he had
ino objection to an anti-iug law Iol
those counties which member desired
| To have it apply 10, but he was not II
| favor Of postponing action in repeal
! ing the law covering the whole State
! The people expected to see this law
repealed promptly. and here II was
! the 20yh day of the session and the
| bib to repeal had been held back un-
Ia this late day, and now IL was pro
! posed to still further POSTPONE II.
| Mr. Mitchell, OF BERTHE favored the
lrepoal without any further postpone
ment, He said ii was well known how
he stood on the temperance question
land how the liquor influences trie1
| to defeat him IN the last campaign.
| But he could not rest content mo-
ment without voting 10 repeal the
present law, passed inadvertently. IL
! believed that an anti-jug law could pc
lpasscd by this legislature to cover the
whole State. but whether that were
| SO on not. it would be objectionable
land unmanly to allow the law as al
! present construed by the supreme