The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1923-07-20
GOSSIP FROM
THE CAPITAL
Finances, Roads, Port Termi-
mails and Special Session
Furnish Most of 1t.

+ RALEIGH, July 19.-To whom it
may concern; if anybody: the Raleigh
correspondent of THE INDEPEN-
DENT knows that the auditors ut the
end of four months decided North
, Carolina was short. but is going to
leave it to Legislative committee to
break the news to you. This it may
do tomorrow afternoons: but since the
subcommittee report must be viscd
and approved by the whole commit
/ tee and there may be a little more
: touching up vcrbiagc-thc figures
arc all conceded by everybody who
has had anything TO do with thcm--it
may be Sunday or Monday before
the Legislative committees present
mcnt of the States financial status
is made.
But the auditors report on State
Treasurer Lacy's books will be filed
with the Council of the State and
pr'o'''c ii"''cr vi re'oI" ''''o'io"'
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Tested; certainly there will be few who
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this sort of weather.
The deficit is there II isn't large
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h'''''e out I'St evening ana consult
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wore ma dolcg,ti,u. nrcscnt todov
L,. u,o u, ,,.iu .,,., toovror.
C,,t Williams or Wn,rirgtou tur-
bo,tmon ,uJ I;rhtcrcr il to ro IN
the bat to rcfutc some of the state
mcnrS made by the chamber Of COM
mcrcc of his community. That is cal
rulatcd to bring the chamber on
in rebuttal-cver knew n chamber of
commerce that would quietly submit
to being contradirtcd even it 1t knew
itself to be wrong.
Can't. Jim's afT.rT71lc gives South
portcrs. who had been about dcclar-
I'd out of the running. comfort. They
sav that there are many good citi-
zens who believe that Southport is
the place 10 start the building of
State terminals and that thereafter
surh terminals may bc extended all
fine wov to Wilmington if busincse
iustifies Tbnv ,rc confident that
thcirs is tbc only harbor worthy of
thc nomc tbat North Carolina has.
brt thov haven't made mucb hcod-
,vor
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cusscd
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.t;.h ,.o,,,I r,.o >. l;.,o.o of .bo
N..,.:o a,:,,oJ ,,l ;m.. oe.o.
hmoarra.. .aJ, o,J ,od. .o,n 90
.l,o uono..oJ uo,+o.. &c tho Drrh,m
o,ra.1 11;nI. O,o w 1ood. h..
rroodwoor and commiss;oror 11;u of
+bo Fourth dist,;ct has onnrovcd
u,i.. hrt tbo old ro,d-, nort Of tbo
p,nLho,d 11;uhu.,r u.h,toror +b,+
$780,, ; J., ,,onJ.;do
oe co, pouot,u rar,oro, fir.t
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,,I -, o1l Lo, r.ho hos hoor r;ddod
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La.J T;f.oo, Lu,Jno1 ,on :, r,Irr.
aa oa,,' - ,Lo Can;t,I ,roor. ~ CO
,ao 80 hoan .,o;n 1,,.ror, ho,,ow
hal. ,J e,,.h -, =, ,,,,;c,;or ,.L;cb
affected 70 listcn patientlv.
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,,a, Con,;.s;o, roroIr .,:J +h,t i
u.orld Look furtbcr into tho matter.
There is something to be sail on
both sides-not as much as was said
at thc hearing: there couldn't be