The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-04-03
Contained in Omnibus
Public Building Bill.
kElFER'S BILL A RUNT
So Far as Creating Strong Interest IS
Concerned. MIR. Small. However. is
interviewed on Effect OF Reduc-
ton Of Southern Representa-
lion. Growth OF TiI!man.
By TiiOM ~ !. PENCE.

Washington. =. e, March aI-Tho
omnibu public building bin. ~Iliea
has practically been completed. ANA
which is almost certain to become q
law, provides for Il number OF North
Carolina Projects.
The largest appropriation is for q
public 6aiIding at salisbury and tho
next largest for an addition to tho
public building 1t AsheEille. Wash
lHgt0n and kinston get appropriations
for new buildings and Winstou-Salem
gets 4 stated sum IL increase the cost
Of h building now being construct
ed. FayettcyiHe-and Henderson are
recognized with appropriations suf1i-
Gent TO purchase sites for buildings.
only u other North Carolina pro-
Ject Is being considered ly the COM
mittee. 1t has not been definitely de-
clded whether High Point is To be in
cluded in the list of favored towns.
Raleigh. Wilmington, Lexington and
the other points that wish better pub
lie buildings facilities. Will have to
wait until the next Congress.
The total appropriations for North
Carolina approximate ~$250,000.
The Position OF Tiilman.
There are things more to be dread
- iI'I the 1888 III Il seat III the
United States Senate declared Scna-
tor Tfllnlan today in an address to the
people Of his State, announcing hetWaS
going to take the stump in behalf of
the d~lspensary as soon as Congress
This statement was
prompted by suggestions in South Car
DINA papers that he had better attend
to national affairs and keep out Of
State politics. leaving the intimation
thar ha 1niChf- no 1ati,al II, ,,,.;4r14 ~,
life. Tillman accepted the chaliegc
and is out i'll a lengthy statement to
the people. He ridicuIes the results
Of prohibition in fifteen counties in
the state as follows:
."Under the dispensary law Whiskcy
was sold by the pint and quart. mainly
through diSpcnsaries. 1t is now sold
through the express offices by the gal
lon ana jug, While the retailing is
done by i drink IN almost every
county. as in the dc bar-room DAYS
The prohibitiOniStS. high license men.
Old haf-room element. Diind tigers. and
moonShincrs have united against the
tlSpcuS;lFy n want to vote it out.
These elements viii unite to support
the anti-dispensarN candidates for the
legislature as they will hardly put up
candidates pledged To their respective
politics. 1t is the ~dispcnsary against
the field. and the dispenSary
CTa must beware Of division among
themselves by advocating county dis
peDsarics."
Senator TiIIman then goes on TO de
clare that the management Of the
state ~diSpensarN has become rotten
and corrupt: thai the people grow
tired ana wanted a change, but that
the change is more desired in propc4.
laws thai in going away from the
present system. He gives notice that
he will not support any MAJ in the
coming campaign whose actions VIII
bcar the closest scrutiny.
Judge PritcIard arrived here today.
He called at the White House and
conferred with several friends
during the day.
Fletcher II. Brooks. OF North Caro-
lima, graduated from the United States
Naval Medical School today and en-
ters the medical service Of the navy.