The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-31

Bills passed TO amend the act of 1903
ic:ating to working cherokee's paL.i.
roads.
For the election of commissioners in
Franklin by the people.
To allow a bond issue for public foa.is
IL Caswell.
railway.
a resolution was adopted authorizing
the committee on claims, Of bola TIE
Senate n House to inquire in.c the
matter Of the judgment and bonds in
the South Dakota case, and t report
it's conclusions to the legislature, q, ing
he committees authority to advise with
he state officers and the course. en-
ployed by h state to the recent suit.
The committee to make such further
investigation as may to it seem prorec
and necessary to preserve best the IN
terests OF the state and to report TIE
best of dealing with such : ia;.
ment and bonds.
To prevent the sale by retail .: II
give away any cocaine or morphi.lc tx
cept upon prescription of a physician,
veterinary surgeon or dentist.
An effort was made by Hawkins, o.
Davidson. to hav this bill re-com:Eit-
ted, saying it was not strong enoUsh
and gave a monopoly to physicians The
motion to recoTnmit was lost. DIR. Alex
ander aid the bill had the unanimous
approval Of the Committee on Heath.
and as amended should pass. Robertson
of Guilford, said the law was badly
needed That for several years he had
been a druggist and he knew how COM
NOR was practise of using lca1'y
drugs, and IL understood the habit was
on the increase, except that cocaine
a supplanted the use of morphine
which was the drug most used when he
stayed in a drug store. He declared
that all pharmacists would welcome this
law, as it would relieve them from haV-
ing to sell those deadly drugs and those
who had formed a habit of using theri.
The bill passed it's final reading.
To provide for partition of mineral
interests when same have been sepaTau
ed from surface rights.
Judge Graham introduced a meraorial
for a committee composed Of E. j. iia...
: A. Ashe, ". A. Montgomery aid l..
<. Avery, asking that tablets be erectr /
at the battlefield Of ~Chicamauga, APP
propriating $500 therefor, AMI one at
Bethel, where wyatt fell. appropriatrng
$3.50 for this The memorial
was referred to the Committee on Pub
lie Buildings and Grounds.
SPECIAL ORDER.
Saturday at II o'clock was made u
special order to consider the bill tor
the protection of fish in Pamlico county.
January 31st was made a special order
to consider the bill providing for rev
trial in criminal cases for newly dis
covered evidence.
Ten thirty o'clock was liked for the
hour Of c~onvening in future.
TO DRIVE OUT BUCKET SHOPS.
The House committee or the judiciary
unanimously decided to favorably report
tomorrow a bill to prevent the opera
ton OF bucket shops in this state. The
text Of the bill is:
Tha whoever, as principal or agent
Of any corporation or person Or persons
shall set up and carry on a bucket snop
in North Carolina shall be guilty Of a
misdemeanor and upon con Lotion
thereof shall be fined or imprisoned at
the discretion of the court.
A bucket shop in the meaning OF the
preceding section is a place where are
posted or published from information
received as same occurred. ~fuc:uatins
prices of stocks, bonds, petroleum, cot
ton, grain, provisions or other commod-
tiles, or of any n or more OF same i'll
the trades made or offered to be made
on the boards of exchange, or By any
person, firm, corporation or crganiza-
ton, and wherein the person or persons
"a IRVINE on tho h11ol-of Sh0n4 ai+hcr oS
principal or agent, pretends to buy O,
sell or goes through the form Of uy-
ing or selling, then and there to any
other person or persons, any one of
said commodities at certain prices fixed
by or according to the prices p,stcd OF
published, but wherein neither party
actually buys such commodity, and
neither party actually sells same. That
each day or, part of days operation Of
said bucket shop hall constitute a sep
arate and distinct offense.'
At the hearing before the House judi
ciary committee, a number of wei
known business men Of the state APP
peared and spoke, among these being 3.
Alexander, Of Charlotte. representing
Miller & Co., Stock Exchange, Char
lotte; johnson, Cotton buyers, Of Ra-
leigh; Thompson, President Of the
Wake Cotton Mills; C. NJ. Busbee, attor-
ney. All denounced the bucket shops,
but expressed great e that the bill
under consideration might be so con-
strued by the courts as to seriously in
terfere with legitimate stock brokerage
transaction, and cotton future pur-
Chases. Stewart, author Of the oil.
stated that it was a cop Of the Missouri
statute which had Decn IL operation
seven years and it's construction by the
courts of that state mad proven a bless
ing to legitimate transactions. He read
letters from Governor Folk former DIS
trict attorney. stating that The law hai
driven out all of the gambling ex-
changes but had not destroyed the legI-
innate b~rokerages.
The Finance committees agreed to re-
turn to the old method of taxing tele-
graph and express companies by abol-
icbinr tha n,ilaa uo tav unI rpnoc;,~ :,