The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1905-01-12
RALEIGH LETTER.
The Personoel Of the New 0enersl AS
sembIy snd Some Of the Work Ac.
complislSed so Far.
GoRMAN NEWS BUREAU. /
RALEIGH, n. c., January 9, !

compsas'e0 50 Tss.
GoRMAN NEWS BUREAU.
RALEIGH, n c.. January 81
The Inauguration Of Governor-elect
eileen and the other State officers, We'd
nesday, January 18th, will be the event !
of the present week.
A large crowd will be here from dis |
lance, especially from Governor Glenn's
home town and county. special train |
having been chartered for the occasion. |
1t is authoritatively announced that |
Governor Gleen's private secretary lover |
whose personality there has been much
speculation) will be General James ID.
Glenn, of Greensboro, who is the Gov |
ernOr's brother.
General Glenn was a Senator in the
General Assembly of 1901, and again in
1903, and is very well and favorably
known.
The New Legislature.
The scenes presented up at the capitol
this time did not vary much from those
that have been witnessed on the first
Wednesday after the first Monday in ey
cry "off year" for many ammo d0minis.
There were the same character OF ex-
perienced legislators-men who have
served term after term in one branch or
the other in the General Assembly, and
as a rule without seeking the Office.
But this class is smaller in numbers
than the writer has known them to be
in at least ten years.
The new mem" are more in evidence
this year than for many years. By this
we do not mean that they are necessari-
~ undeveloped, immature, inexperienced
men; for quite a percentage OF the new
| men, while inexperienced as legislators,
are not lacking in general business ex-
perience or worldly wisdom.
During the last three sessions Of the
| General Assembly this writer has report
| ed the Senate branch, and find myself
| to-day, at noon-just as the gaval OF
the Senate to Order-lOOking into more
| strange faces than on any previous SINH
| lar occasion.
| AS a matter of fact there are only eight
Senators, of the fifty who served in the
last General Assembly, here today.
| My imaginative ear hears Reading
Clerk Murphy calling the old ROLAND
there are so few responses!
| John S. Henderson, of Rowan. Not
here. Joseph A. Brown, of Columbus.
Not here. John E. Woodland, OF Wilson.
Not here Henry A. London, of Chatham.
Not here.
And the roll-call goes on-almost I'M
answered 1t really makes one feel un-
comfortable to think about it.
| And yet while they are not here to-day
most of them are busy with some useful
and honorable and laudable work. Some
have been called up higher in the official
ranks, and nearly all remain on some OF
the fields of LIES activities-performing
we'll their parts, and awaiting the final
roll-call to which we must all answer
some day.
In the House there are only fourteen of
the old members returned.
In their places have come good men
and true men, who will serve we'll their
marks upon the legislative slate of fame
before the fourth day of March.
Among the old Senators who are here
again this session are:
c. S. Vann, of the first district, who has
figured prominently in the last three ses.
sions; an Industrious legislator and an
able Senator.
Donnell Gillian, of the fifth district
who served Edgecombe county SO well
in the last Legislature. an able lawyer
and an eloquant speaker.
D. J. Aaron, of the ninth district, whom
the people OF Governor Aycock's home
county have honored themselves by send.
ing to the Senate on a previous occasion
J. A. Long. Of the eighteenth district
the active, able and experienced business
man who last session so effectively rep.
resented the county of Person, and than
whom no county will have more influ.
entail representative on the floor of the
; Senate
A. J. Burton, of the twentieth district
the able and successful lawyer of Reds.
vile, who so effectively represented Rock
ingham county two years ago.
G. A. Webb, OF the thirty seventh dis
prominently and influentially in the Sen
legislator.
W. W. Struggled, of the thirty-eightf
district, the popular Haywood county
mountaineer who made his presence fell
g on several occasions in 1908: faithful
conscientious, typical representative o
| the people who send him here so willing
e ~ and gladly.
]. L. Crisp, of the twenty-ninth district
the only Republican Senator here two
years ago; a man who has commanded
the respect of all his political opponent
j and acquired the personal friendship o
j many of them, and who successfully en-
D deavors to make his district an effectiv
y representative.
These complete the list. The other 4:
|, | Senators, now about to answer to tn
first days roll-call, were not here in tn
last Legislature, although there are Sen
ators Foushee, of Durham; Mason, O
Northampton; Ward, of Craven: Scales
l oe G,,s e
> have served as Senators in previou
| Legislatures.
i. Among other experienced legislators il
the Senate this session are noted H W
J. Stubs, OF Martin, who has served fou
j terms in the House; Hector Mclean, q
n Scotland, formally in the House, an,
n probably few others whom do not re
= call at this moment.
!. OF the entirely new men, there ar
y some particularly able and eloquent ones
J. and this Senate, in it's personnel and II
4 cord OF service, is going to compare YER
r favorably indeed with all it's predecef
q sOrs.
The most important bills introduce
K in the Legislature SO far are those to n
. peal the anti-jug law (which makes til
4 place of delivery the place of sale of lie
# uors); to appropriate s., 900 for a statu
s to General Matt. W. Ransom; to max
\ the carrying Of concealed weapons a fe
t ony. All these bills were introduced i
% the House.
q In the Senate the first liquor bill of til
n session was passed-the Webb bill whic
4 eliminates the little stills of less eapacit
n than 36 gallons per day-and althoug
r a local measure, applicable only to tn
n city OF Ashville. it's prompt passage. b
q the vote of 81 to IA, indicates the sent
}. ment of the Senate on the liquor questio
> generally.
I'll R. D. Bynum, the slayer OF Deacon A
!. ford, who was captured last week. is no,
. in Jail here, having been formally con
4 mitted last Friday by Mayor Powell
without bond.
> The best lawyers in Raleigh have bee
), engaged to defend him. 1t is said tina