Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-01-22
PEOPLE TO SETTLE QUESTION.
The Rate Matter Side-tracked and PfohI-
bitten Is Discussed by the Legislature.

lature will pass an act giving tn
State prohibition or not, has no
yet been definitely settled, al
though, as will be seen below, tn
House caucus decided that tn
matter should be left to the PEG
pie for a settlement at the coming
November election. The proceed
ings on this important matter
thus far, is given below, as pub
lished by the Charlotte Observer
special Raleigh correspondent:
Raleigh, Jan. 21.-In a message
of extraordinary and unlooked-fol
length Governor Glenn to-day de-
clared unequivocally and abso'
lutely for State prohibition by
immediate legislative enactment
The Senate and House of Repre-.
sentatives convened in the Capitol
at II o'clock sharp, forty-seven OF
the fifty members of the upper
house and one hundred and three
of the one hundred and twenty
members of the lower house an.
swering to their names when the
roll was called. Lieut.. Governor
Francis D. Winston presided over
the Senate, while Speaker E. J.
Justice directed the deliberations
of the House.
The feature of the morning was
the reading Of the message from
the Governor, and particularly
that section relating to State pro-
hibition. NJ procurement thus
far published on this great subject
has been couched in such empha-
tic terms. Said he: II am thor
oughly satisfied that no act ever
passed by any legislative body in
North Carolina would give the joy
and be more %tgenerally endorsed
than would be the act Of this
General Assembly in giving pro-
hibition to the entire State" And
again: "If you do this, your act
will be the Wisest and best ever
passed by any legislative body and
will be ratified and endorsed by
the good people of the State"
TO CONSIDER PROHIBITION.
After having been IN session for
two and one-half hours tonight
the Democratic members of the
House of Representatives in eau
Gus assembled decided to consider
a bill at this special session CIV
ing the State absolute prohibition,
provided this measure is ratified
by popular vote at the general
election in November. If this
election is favorable such a bill
Will be operative January 1st next.
The caucus WaE one of the
stormiest ever held in Raleigh.
It convened at 8 o'clock and last
ed until almost II o'clock. Dur
ing the entire time of the sitting
a delegation two hundred strong
from the Anti-Saloon League
thundered and murmured at the
bolted doors of the chamber, petit
tloning a hearing. When such a
request was denid by a vote of Al
to ~, and when it looked as if the
body would decide to consider
only bills relating to the railroad
rate problem, two of the we'll
known members OF the caucus,
Representatives D oug]as, of Wake,
and Buchanan, of Moore, with
drew, declaring that they would
have to stand for prohibition at
this time and they could not hold
themselves bound by the express
sion of the majority on this moral
issue.
Confusion followed their with.
drawal. As many as a doz q
Representatives we're on the foo1
at one time demanding recogni.
ton. Representative Dowd, OF
Mecklenburg, finally obtained the
floor and he offered a resolution
that the caucus adjourn until
Thursday night, at which time
this matter be further considered
and settled. He declared that he
was apprehensive of trouble in the
party and thought that the caucus
should adjourn in order to have
time to consider questions present
ing themselves more carefully
Such action, however, was no
taken.
In order to reach some basis O
compromise two resolutions wer'
presented. The first was that tn
u,,eo ,+ +his ~poa,o s~oss;op oon