The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-03-12

ar a. = man. whether OF not there
wax tank Of politics. freight rates. OF
ANTITRUST bills at these banquet% ~
trust lobbyists applauded this wond-
|erfuily bright question - Mr CRAM
and looked happy
Answered Mr.. Justice. There %d~
81. banouet that a-.ended ] took
s,rrer with Mr.. Daniels. at which
70 subject about which you ask vas
discussed. 50 far as ! can remember
Then the Grant voice roared ana
SCARED a. he old how he Republican
minority was standing together 10 pro
,ect the business interests of Nortl,
| Carolina. that this amendment OF Mir
Justices was q scheme to strike al one
trust III North Carolina. the speaker
striking the highest notes of ms
oratoIjcaI anu a he yelled. it =
wclI known hat the chief lobbyist.
| JoeephlS Daniels and his wing Of the
Democratic party in this state has a
peculiar feeling against the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company" and that
! Speaker Justice and Mr.. Daniels were
| possessed of much gall.
The speaker was by his time in a
| frantic rage with the terrible visions
i'm his mind and apopleXy was to be
feared. Mr.. Blount arose to say
the speech was now dealing in per
sonalities and ought to enc.
Stevens Rouscs the Chcers.
Here Representative Stevens OF
Union. was on the floor His words
came like hammer blows as he drove
| them at Grant. WHY do YOU have
to say so much about Josephus Dan
iels? 1t is because he has put your
| party where it is. and because he has
done more TO expose the rascality Of
| theARepublican party than any other
man in North Carolina.
| AThen came the greatest burst of APP
f1pi1Ico that EHG hppn heard at his SEES
sion Of the General Assembly. In the
Hobbies. on the floor. in the galleries
the sound arose as one mighty roar
of applause. Mr.. Stevens had made a
hit. He had touched the raw sore on
the Radical carcass. He knew the
man who had exposed Radical rotten
ness and .rascality and he Haunted the
fact in the face of Grant, the shouter
Of Republicanism.
Republican Gas and Wind
Representative Parsons wanted to
take time in the matter and was for q
vote later. Mr.. Doughton declared "A
| vote tonight if we stay here till sunrise
Mr.. Parsons said there was no use in
being disturbed by a little
Republican gas and wind here
tonight, that he had heard
| such before and if the Repub-
licans took this to be a quilting party
in which they were of Importance they
| were mistaken.
Representative Morton arose 20 o
| point of order TO ask if there could be
an amendment to a substitute and was
Informed that this could be done. his
| point of order on the Justice amend
mcnt being ruled out of order. Mr..
Mcneil moved to adjourn till Mon
day, but was ruled out of order as
the Representative from Richmond
had the floor.
Representative Parsons spoke
further in advocacy of the points in
the bill, and a vote was ordered.
Judge WinbOrne'S amendments
were adopted. His amendments are
; as foEoWs:
Judge NinDOrnc'S Amendment.
Amend sub section E. one by adj
ding after the words preventing com
petition the following: lin selling or
to fix the price or prevent competition
in buying in lieu Of the words lin
buying or selling
! Add at the end of sub section +. of
| section one the following words: But
nothing in this proviso shall be con-
strued to authorize two or more prin-
cipals to employ 4 common agent for
the purpose Of suppressing cOmpctl-
ton or lowering price
Add after the word Solicitor"
where it first apears in section six the
| the atlantis may be I1;Jdc
upon information and belief and when
made upon information and belief it
shall state the grounds upon which
the affidavit is made and if reasonable
in the opinion of the solicitor.
.Add before the ratifying section:
That the provisions Of this act shah
not be construed so as to repeal or
restrict the common law doctrine pre-
venting unlawful combinations in
4 / IN do md cnnop1nrcn which arc here
by and declared to be in
full force in this State except as may
be in consistent with the other pro-
visions of this act"
The Justice Amendment.
Mr.. Justice offered the following
amendment:
Amend by adding az a further sub
section to section one. the following:
ANY combination. express or
implied, to depress or keep down
the price of any article any such
person to the combination in
tends to buy
Mr.. Parsons amendment to strike
out sub section a" Mr.. Justice
said Mr.. Parsons exception would
make the bill unconstitutional. His
amendment was lost.
The House then passed the bill as
amended on its second and third read
ings just as the city clock struck
twelve.
Justices Amendment.
The VOte on the Justice amendment.
which virtually puts subsection "a
back into the bill, was as follows:
Ayes-Mr. Speaker: Messrs. Blount
Bolton. Buchan. Clifford. Cox. Davis
Of Carteret: Doughton. Dowd. Ehring-
haus. Gallert, Galloway. of Greene,
Gillian, Gordon. Hampton. Hawkins
Harris. HOlloWell, Hooker. jacobson
John, Johnson. of Johnston: Jones, OF
Pitt: Julian, Kennedy, Koonce. Laugh.
inghouse. 0ndOn. Mclean. Mcneil
McRacken, Mangum. Manning. Muir
ply, Neal. Owen. Park. Parker. Par
sons. Peele, Pitt. Preston, Price. OF
Union. Register. Sharpe, Simpson
Stevens. Stick ley, Taylor. of Bruins.
wick: TAYLOR, Of Vance: Tillett. Tur-
lington. Vann. Vestal. Washington
Weaver. Wells. Whitley, Wood, Yount
-57.
Noes.-Messrs. Albright Boyd. Brin-
son, Bryant, Burnett. Cowies Dilling
Grant, Hanes, Harshaw. Helsebeck
Morton. Pickett. Pugh. Rector. Rose
Whitt-11.
Saved Her sons Life.
The %happicst mother in the little
town Of Ava. Mo. is Mrs. Rupee. She