Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-02-15

to paw N. w. Horton $4O out OF lne
general school fund; to allow Cas-
we'll county to submit questions of is
suing bonds for improving public roads
to a vote Of the people; to pay expen-
SEES of visiting committees to educa-
tioral Institutions; to pay expenses
Of the inaugurating of the governor;
to pay expenses of the committees III
vestigating the ~penitentiary farm on
Roanoke river; resolution requesting
Senators and Representatives in Con
gress from North Carolina to use their
influence to secure proper %appropria-
ton for the improvement of Cape Fear
river.
In the Senate Monday there was little
done.
The following bills passed their third
readings:
To incorporate the Tuckaseege Rail-
way; to incorporate the Asheville &
Northern Railway; to amend the char
ter Of Rocky Mount in regard to the
improvement tax; to amend public laws
of 1903 relative to graded schools in AL
amance; to amend public laws 1899 rel
ative to public roads in Allegheny; rel
alive to the killing of bear in Cedar
Creek, and Beaver Dam townships, in
Cumberland county; for the better pro-
lection OF travel in Tyrrell county; to
amend public laws Of 1899 relative to
the use of tires on wagons in certain
counties; to allow justices of the peace
half fees in certain cases. A resolution
to pay the stenographers in the EN-
crossing clerks office 81 per day; to
pay the expenses Of the committee Wis
iting the insane asylums of Morganton
inc Goldsboro.
At 1870 O'Clock the Senate ad-
journed.
In the House the following bills pass
ed final reading: TIC provide for work.
ing public roads in Macon; to amend
the charter of Mount Airy; to authorize
a special tax TO-. building a bridge
across the French Broad river in jack
son county; to amend the charter of the
Durham & Southern Railway; to allow
Waynesville to make a contract for an
electric light plant; to allow Durham
to issue school bonds; to make terri
tory within the corporate limits Of Lin
! colntcn & graded school district; to al
low GOldsbC"O to Issue bonds; to
amend the BunccE1he stock law; to in
corporate Walnut, in Madison county;
to allow Camden county tC levy a spe-
cal tax: to provide sewerage for Mon
roe.
Election Liquor BilI.
The House took up the bill making
it a misdemeanor to sell or give away
liquor within five miles of a voting
place on election day, with an amend
ment incorporated by the committee
providing that a man could give away
a drink, provided that he did not do so
with intent tx influence the election,
following the election law of The Code.
Messrs. McNinch and Alexander, OF
MeckIenburg; Davis, and Murphy, Of
B~unCombe, spoke against the amend
ment, saying it would be we'll enough
to suspend the dispensing of liquid hos
pitalities even in private houses n
day in two years, and claimed it would
be far better to do this than by adopt
ing the amendment to practically Ii
cense the giving away of liquor on cleo
ton day. 1t would be impossible to COP
vict anybody under the language of the
amendment. Mr.. Winborne said it was
an outrage to brand every man a Grim
inal who, in the privacy of his home,
should extend a COMMON courtesy to a
friend, simply because it happened to
be on election day. Under the proposed
law a man would be a criminal who
gave his wife or cook a small dram to
ease the %toothache or such like afflic-
ton. Mr.. Murphy, of Buncombe, again
spoke, saying he had seen young men
who were temperate dead drunk on free
Republican election liquor in Buncombe
county on election day. To require the
State to prove the intent would be to
nullify the law. The county of Bun
combe, regardless of politics, desired to
break up this disgrace of using whiskey
to influence elections. Mr.. Powers Of
fered an amendment striking out the
words with the intent to influence the
election" This was adopted by a large
majority. Mr.. Winborne offered an
amendment making it a crime to give
away cigars and tobacco on election
day, but this was defeated. Mr.. Muir
ply, of Buncombe, contended that
whiskey would take an electors think
ing faculties away, while tobacco would
not. Mr.. McNinch nodded approval at
this argument and asked Mr.. Win
borne if he honestly desired the amend
ment to PASS.