The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-11

sentative from Person. and Col. Cum
ingham don't deny it.
| 1t seems that when the Democratic
| county convention of Person met it
| first nominated Col. Cunningham for
| the member of the House. A COM
nittee found Col. Cunningham and es-
| corted him to the court house.
No one else had been nominated,
but Col. Cunningham did not know
this. He delivered a fervent speech
and in the midst of it cried out:
You have nominated good ticket
Vote it all through"
And he never knew till later why
the crowd roared. That's one on
me- said the Colonel.
The County Commissioners of Madi-
sno are asking the Legislature to pass
a bill for the issue of $500 in 20
year bonds, paying per cent Of this
nearly $4,000 is to pay existing bonds
and county Indebtedness, and SO, 900
for the building of a Jail. The old
bonds mature in 1907 and of these the
receiver of the Western Carolina Bank
holds $15,500, with about $4,000 in
terest. In the past the county has
refused to pay these bonds and re-
sisted efforts to collect them. the in
terest being defaulted. The Legisla-
ture of 1903 authorized the commits
Sioners to issue bonds, but they did
not do so. The Supreme court de-
cided the case of SmatherS against
the commissioners that the county
could not be forced to have the bonds
which it declared however. were valid
and such decision may make the new
bonds less valuable. The court has,
however, granted a rehearing and it
is believed that it will be reversed.
Perhaps the most unique man in
Raleigh today is Capt. Swift Galloway
who arrived from Snow Hill yestert
day afternoon. He is the same Capt.
Galloway that he was twenty years
ago, only a little older and more eX-
perienced through the drift of years.
He knows all the public men in the
Old North State unless perchance 1t
is some young statesman who has
just recently come upon the political
stage. Capt. Galloway always comes
to Raleigh during the session of the
General Assembly. He has thousands
of friends through the State who are
always delighted to see him.
Representative Little, of Pitt. on
Saturday introduced in the House a
bill to pay Superior Court solicitors
salaries instead of fees.
AS read by the Clerk the title of the
bill sounded ITO pay listers salaries
instead of fees" The stenographic
reporter who goes by sound upon
translating his notes wrote listers and
seeing something was omitted Sup-
piled it with tax-making it tax list
erS.
In speaking of the ludicrous error
Representative Little good naturally
remarked that he expected a wave
of enthusiasm would sweep over the
State among the thousands of tax
listers at the thought of getting sal
aries in place of the very very small
fee for each tax payer on his list, and
it looked like a pity TO disapnSint
them by this explanation.
Mr.. Titles little bill is designed TO
pay solicitors a salary of $4,000 in
place of the fees they now receive and
provides for the payment of all fees
into the State Treasury.
eff twenty-five hundred dollars
year is enough salary for a Judge,
EIGHTEEN hundred is enough for a So
licitor,' This ominous remark was
made by member of the Committee
on Salaries and Fees yesterday when
Representative Titles bill putting So
licitors on salary of twenty-five hum
dred dollars and cutting out fees. was
read before the committee.
While tive committee at once de-
cided to defer action on the measure
until a more suitable occasion, it was
significant that the only expressed OBJ
lection to the bill heard was directed
at the amount of salary it carried and
not at the salary principle.
Several suggested that two thousand
dollars was plenty and some said
EIGHTEEN hundred was ample. Is it?
That is d question.
Is eighteen hundred not enough
and the legislature fixes it so, how
many solicitors will have TO resign?
That is a more serious question.
There seems TO be an impression
that solicitors have greatly the adj
vantage of judges because they eau
put in most of their time in private
practice and have so much less travel
ing expense. besides getting a good
civil practice at every court. n prom.
inent legislator said yesterday that he
knew three solicitors who Favored the
salary principle, if it was made $500,
and several who would fioht it to the
end
This member declared that some
solicitors did not get exceeding eigh-
teen hundred dollars out of the office
while some were credited with realiz-
ing four and FIVE thousand.
He also said that it was wrong to
attempt to deprive these officials OF
the full fruits of their official position:
that it would be best to adopt a sal
airy bill to go into effect at the begin
ming of the term succeeding the pres
ent one so that all who sought solicit
torships in future would know what to
expect.
1T is Interesting to note that this
Solicitor Salary bill hobs up every
legislature. like the one making pistol
toting felony. and has never yet got
beyond the domain of a sharp discus
sion But it promises to at least make
a breeze this time.
Senator Watkins from Randolph was
exhibiting Il little bouquet of flowers
in the Senate lobby yesterday morning,
and claimed that they came from
home but some of his colleagues
doubt it. as the Senator has had his
eyes on the ladies' gallery ever since
! he has been here.
pADON AND COMBINATIONS.
The MurrayS. Sentenced to Eighteen
Years Get Of With Two. Rice is
Pardoned on Account of
Ill Health.