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

on EARTH" and asked that the bill be
passed Immediately. Senator Long, or
Iredell, took the same view. Senator !
Arendell said Advance certainly needed !
relief and must have it at once. Some !.
of the ni6E operating distiHeries there
arr, :Ldrcted in the Superior court aIid
all the best people in the town and
county 1avor relief for the town, inclcs-
i:.g the county Democratic chairman !
and the great mass of voters. Sena or
Fmric sa:d that il oil these small liquor
Bills were passed the state must SIP
its appropriations, and that IL this de-
Walton from the laws continued, the
state would go to"demnition bowwoWs.
and so he was opposed to every bill or
this character which might come before
the Senate and although he might De
alone, then he had rather be right than
be a prohibitionist. He said IL COM
rnunity voted for liquor, because a re"
people wanted prohibition, that would
not justify the taking away or tne
right of the majority. The time had
about come for another election and
IL Advance were a hell on earth let
the people vote it out. Senator NC
Lean said he favored the Watts law,
as far as it goes, but it does not go far
enough. The Baptist State Convention
was not opposed to amendments TO
the Watts law and according 10 the
Democratic party the Legislature
might make any amendments 1t WISH
ed. Senator Pearson spoke at lenstn
in favor of his amendment Senator
Ward said this was the first time poll
tics had ever entered into the discus
sion of a bill and that the Senate was
! drifting towards the rocks. 1t snou.o
| he careful and consider it, and If the
! state law could do what this act would
| do, then the matter should be postpon-
| ed until Tuesday. Senator scales ID
| iected. saying that If any politics had
been injected in his discussion 1t hsd
been done by Senator Pearson (Repub-
| lican) and he said the position OF Sen
| ator Pearson was untenable, in saying
he would vote for the bill without ms
| amendment, but not for the ameDomeut
of q separate bill Senator Wards mo
| ton was lost by vote OF 10 70 81.
Senator Pearson's amendment was also
DEBATED. Senator Mason said the Or
| iect of the amendment was to de1eat
the bill and it was strange to him
| that a. certain party should advocate
! and champion the Watts law, when ne
fought it in so deadly a manner t"o
years ago. He was opposed ID tne
! Democrats opposing a bill making Ad-
vance dry as it was we'll known thdi
lawlessness and disorder reign supreme
there and the duty of the Senators
slider what effect the measure Woulu
have on the Democratic party on the
Dart of liuuor men. The bill passed lis
rea ling with very few dissenting votes,
most of them coming from the Repuo-
! lican side.
| MARRIED WOMEN AND con-
TRACTS
Wards bill allowing married wo-
men the right to make contracts and
he traders as unmarried women, came
I'D as a special order, and Coke offer-
ed the following amendment:
Regulating the manner in which a
married woman may become Iree
trader. repeating section 1927 OF the
code, and substituting the following:
F,ve1v married woman under the age
Of 21 years or upwards may become
a freed trader in the manner follow
ing: First by ante-nuptial contract
proved and registered as hereinafter
| required: or second. she shall sign the
following or some equivalent form: a
, B. of the age Of 81 years or upwards
| | wife of c.. d. enters herself as a free
| trader from the date of the Tegistra
| tion hereof" The writing may D'
> proved by the subscribing witness o.
acknowledged by the married woman
| before any officer authorized to take
s | probate of deed. and shall he filed ant
. | registered in the office Of the reglste
= | of deeds for the county in WHICH tn
woman proposes to have her pr1ncl
pie or only place of bubsiness cox
= said the argument against the bill
3 few days ago caused him to draw thl
amendment. A law should be enact
ed allowing a woman to become fre
. trader if she wished. without her hus
= | hans consent. The substitute Woul
answer every purpose Wards bill pro
g | posed If the woman wished to en-
= gage in any mercantile Or industrla
= business she might do so by simpi
s signing q paper in the Office of tn
register of deeds. He favored an
l. change. as the burden is upon an
man selling goods, as to whether h
% shall get his money. StubSs aske
Ward if under this bill woman
& real estate would be subject to
, Judgment. Ward replied that it woul
- ne Mclean declared he hoped tn
women of the country would have til
,e same rights in regard to their pro!
or ertv and money as the men had.
d girl 81 years of age had a perfe
III right to manage her affairs until ST
y marries, and then, behold! she loos'
her competency, despite the adde
wisdom of years and experience. I'll
ne argument was then made that w
j. men were incapable of managing the
- affairs, but that the women in Il
country are outstripping the men
no competition in ali lines and they a
he found in every corner in all lines
Il, business. Fleming opposed the bi
- saying that it had been characteT1z'
T. to be emancipation proclamation I
a, the women of North Carolina and tn
~ it had not been proposed or prepar'
aa | by the women. but was the most da
nj | gerous law ever proposed for the "
he | men of North Carolina and would