The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-21

Ten-Centennial Exposition at James
| town, Va, and the National govern
ment give it financial aid Gas it should)
| and the commissioners of BERTHE au-
| thoriZed to sell a Jail lot.
| Judge Graham full of law, Judge
| Winborne to the contrary nOtWith-
standing, seeks to validate judgments
| under which sales Of contingent re-
mainderS have ben made, (WhateVer
| they are), and big-hearted. handsome
| Captain Laughinghouse, of Pitt, puts
| in bill to provide ror larger and
better quarters at the Soldiers Home.
| But if the variety was in the intro
| ductory chapter, the subsequent one
| furnishes the Spice--dram being the
| chief topic and how to prevent the
good people of Richmond county from
getting TO it, or the liquor dealers get
| ting it to them. The Richmond coun-
| ~ prohibition bill was made law and
after July first next there will not
be single legal saloon or distillery in
a North Carolina county bordering on
South Carolina. They will have one
advantage over dry central counties
like Guiford in that a South Carolina
dispensarv is always handy to reach
in case of snake bites, or other un-
fortunate calamitous emergencies.
And Mr. Butler, Representative But
Ter, of Sampson, didn't he do noble
thing. Been sitting there just as nice
and agreeable and pleasant, and inno-
cent and harmless all this ses-
sion without bothering nobody
or even deigning to dignity the little
fly blow efforts of ex-Congressman
Fowler and ex-Private Secretary
Cowles to bate the Democrats into
unparliamentary temper or injudicious
retorts, by giving them the least no
tee or encouragement Been sitting
UPRIGHT there helping like :, nlGE 10
pass proper DAVIS and letting O;hc"
representatives little local bills alone,
like a 'considerate COLLEAGUES is cx-
PC cted to do. But yesterday ne
Vaulteds into the arena, with the
agility of a cat bouncing upon a roor
little mouse.
AS Mr.. Buffers brother ex-senator
Marion, had assayed to deliver the
good old State from the barefIre RUE
OF its white founders and upbuild-
ers into the hands Of Russell and tta
hordes of Russell's "savages,' so did
Representative Butler yesterday
earnestly endeavor to become anoth-
er epochal reformer and deliver
North Carolina out of the hands of
the conservative prohibition anti-sa-
loon temporaizers, out of the group
of the whiskey devil, into the delight
full embrace of universal prohibition
ana tDScluI6 SODTlcly. buL Du1ut /
than this was Mr. Butler. Not only
would he do this. but he would have
it done as a benefcent gift from hiss
party, ere the echoes of that partys
anathem as from party PLATFORM
from stump speakers and from
thousand still houses and saloon eX-
patriated Threats, had not yet died
away. Anathem as against the Dem
ocratic party for giving the people in
ans w a. pr0tpcfIOn
was available the right to vote Whls-
key out or in as they pleased. The
funniest thing about the whole thing,
was not what the Democrats did, and
how little they must properly had to
say about it, but the way Mr.. Tut
ler's Republican colleagues. some of
them went back on him and their old
party, he had SO virtuouSly commit
ted to prohibition without a vote or
a petition of the people if the State
for it. Right that minute brer Grant
and brer DobSon and several other
shining lights, broke loose from their
party. and joined the Democrats.
Brer Fowler stuck TO his chief and
brer Cowles rushed after him pei
nell until he came to the brink of
the awful prohibition perdition,
when, hating to break loose from his
party, he stood shivering on the
shore, put both feet into the cold
troubled waters, voted for universal
prohibition, cast one long lingering
ook back towards the heroic features
OF Grant and the sepulchral physiog-
nomy of Dobson, thought of where
ne came from. away over the hills to
Wilkes. yes Wilkes. the home of
Blackburn, corn Ticker. good people,
land Watts law haters and his Re
publicai. paItisanS), and then he
turned a double somersault, bursted
loose from his party and from But
Ter It's So Z announced Chapter ore
and actually joined the Democrats
The whole thing was comical farci-
cad. And it was dreadful. for on SO
serious subject Mr.. Butler was I'M
fortunate in selecting this occasion to
play politics without a shadow of an
excuse, or thought of political sin
ceritv.
1t is strange that Mr. Boney's
corn meal bill came up every time
during its tortuous corn, along side
Of q liquor bill, but it did. -And yes
terdav contem poi dneOus with the PASS
of the Richmond county liquor
law, the corn meal rolled out OF the
hopper il natural sequence and itself
became law. as the varied and di-
verse matters detailed he,ow will
show.
1t was truly a day off variety and
OF spice.
ProceG .Iings ~ Detail.
The House was called to order by
Speaker Guion at eleven o'clock.
Prayer was offered by Rev. DR.. Nann,
president OF the Baptist University for
Women. Reading of the journal was
dispensed with. 80
Petitions Presented.
Webb. For compulsory education
from citizens of Carteret county. Edu-
cation.
Taylor Relative to- oyster industry
in Brunswick county. Committee on
Oysters.
Bills Introduced.
Mitchell. Endorsing the jamestown
Exposition and favoring an appropria-
ton from the National Government.
Committee on Federal Relations.
Redwine. To protect landlords and
tenants, employers and employees.
Manufacture and Labor.
Taylor. To repeal oyster law of
1908 relating to Brunswick county.
Oysters.
Laughinghouse. To increase appro-