The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-07-11
PASOUOTANK'S HIGHWAY
BOND ISSUE is ALL RIGHT
New York Attorneys Wire Approval--Senator Fere,
bees Friends Would Cripple Pasquotank
Road Project IF They Could -

The First & Citizens National Bank
of his city is in receipt OLA wire
from their New York attorneys, CaIi-
well & Masslich, stating that they are
ready to approve the Pasquotank .Coun-
ty Road Bond issue of $500,000.~ This
answers a rumor started last week &C
the effect that the Saunders bill does
not stand up under close examination
and several defects have appeared" in
the bill" Caldwell & Masslich are the
attorneys to whom the First & Citizens
National submitted the question of the
validity of the Pasquotank Road Bond
issue, when the banks bid for the bonds
was accepted by the Pasquotank High
| way Commission month ago.
The report that the Saunders bill!
was defective and the validity of the
bond issue in question. purported tc
grow out of a recent court construction
of Sect. of the Revaluation Act pass
ed by the last General Assembly. Just
what the State Tax Revaluation Act
had to do with the Saunders bill is
not quite clear, since the Saunders bill
was a law before the Revaluation Act
went on it's final reading.
But any sort of rumor was enough
for the old line politicians in this city
to make capital of. There has been a
determined effort upon the part of
Senator Miles w. Ferebee's friends and
political cronies to discredit the Pas
quotank Highway Commission ever
since Senator Ferebee failed in his ef-
fort to dictate the personnel of that
Commission.
Before Representative Saunders
would commit himself to bonding this
county for a half million dollars for
roads, he drafted an act to create a
highway commission that could be
depended upon to spend the money
honestly and intelligently. Senator
Ferebee took it upon himself to object
to the men that Representative Saun-
ders proposed to name. Saunders even
went so far as to sacrifice w. L.
Col1oon to crafty Ferebee and still his
opposition. Saunders would not let
Ferebee dictate with respect to other
members of the Board.
1t is evident that Senator Ferebee
has been sore ever since and his sore
ness has been aggravated by the fact
that he now knows that he made
nniserab BILE botch of his own district
highway legislation. 1t is Ferebee's
district highway bill and not the Saun-
ders county bill that will not stand ur
under close examination. And ever
since Senator Ferebee discovered that
his bill will not stand up there has been
nasty effort upon the part of his
allies to throw the blame for his own
failure upon the Pasquotank Highway
Commission.
This newspaper supported Mr.. Fere-
bee in his campaign for the Senate and
Representative Saunders deferred to
him in all matters Of local legislation
while in the House. Whatever glory
Senator Ferebee got out of the Genera
Assembly, he got It from the fact that
this newspaper blew his horn for him
and tried to help him make good. But
Senator Ferebee as statesman made
a poor showing, and he is now making
a worse showing by aiding or abettine
an effort to cover his own failures by
trying to discredit some one else. Sena-
tor Ferebee should be a better sport
than that. While in Raleigh last winter
he gained something of a reputation
as a sport and he shouldn't forfeit his
SHORTY reputation.