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The Morning Stan OJrfttt Oil! Newsptptr In hm State. Largest circulation of any Wilmington Paptr. - - SubscriptionTerms. v One, year by-Mail .V. . .$5.00 : Six Months by Mail v. 2.50 ; "fftree Months by Mai I f 1.25 - 1 ' -1."; -A - "VOL. LXXX-XO. 128 WILMINGTON' TUESDAY, PEBRtTAllX 19, 1907. WHOLE NUMBER 12296. ' r - -- i - - - " ' - " OUTLINES, At the trial of I Carry Thaw yes terday. Dr. Evans, tho expert, teiti fled that Thaw was la sane alter ho examined him in prison, after he Bad killed Stanford White; be said Thaw toJd-hlra he dl3 not Intend to kill the fool creature, but only to wcmnixTllm so he could icet Ura into court to an swer for hia deKJ. but that White was killed ai the act of Prorldence; Thaw's will was also Introduced and Dr. Krans also declared that It Indi cated a disordered ' brain. -Under suspension of the rules the House, at Washington, yesterday passed tho Im migration bill carrytns: the clause which for the' settlement of the Jaj ane school question: Democratic Lader Williams warned the people of California that they had left the ques tion o Japanese iraralrratlon to Pres Idnt Uooserelt. who had already In a rcessae recoramended the natural ization of Japanese; he also depreca ted that the co in In k of another rai mar.t another race problem In and another t oclil problem Jn another part of the country. At Marion. Ilia- yestrrday Nora Turner shot and kill ed Hobprt Kennedy and committed suicide because he refuaed to marry her. IJooert Lewis and Henry Al- lent, hrlil In New York for stealing barjence from railroads at Richmond. Va-. escapd from prison yesterday. The Stato Department at Washing ton jcaTp it out yesterday that the final joAsaj;e of the immijcratlon bill by Comcress jreterday.,wlll settle the jcrierance of the Japanese -orer the eicluuion of Japanese pupils from the public school of California; Japanese will be admitted to the schools if Jap rxjij cooli are excluded from Imml ixTvtoo. U l beliered at Washing ton that the Impending war between Nicaragua and Honduras win "be arerted by arbitration. 11 Is ru mored In New York that First Vice President W. A. Garrett, of the Sea board Air I J no. will ly. elected Pre idfnt to succeed the late President Waiter. Ktrery dispensary In South Carolina was closed yesterday and a com ci" Ion was appointed to wind up the affairs of the Institution. Six neamen were lost by the sinking of a banco off the Massachusetts coast yesterday. New York markets: Money on call. Ann. 4 to 51-2 per cent.: ruling rate. 5; closing bid. 4:' offered at 5; spot cotton, steady 11 cents: flour, dull and about steady; wheat, firm. No. 2 red. 32 cSvator; corn, steady. No. 2. S3 elerator; oats. Arm. mixed. 47 1-2; turpentine .steady 74 2-S: rosin, steady, atralned. com mon to good, 4.4 S. MORTON'S POSITION Rose, to Point Personal Privilege in the House at Night Session MAD AT NEWSPAPER ATTACK TWENTY-NINE CASES Many Btforc Mayor Yestsrday For Sins of a Saturday Night Disor derly House Raided Eleven. For Farrrv and Roads. ' Explains Why He Railroaded Primary Dill Through House Friday Night Evening i Dispatch of Wilmington. A doctor says: "We should bo care ful with our neck. We should say so. esrcially when a politician wants us to wear his collar. (By So. Bell Long Distance Phone) ItaJelgh. N. C., Feb. IS Immediate ly tho House of the General Assembly convened in night session this even ing ileprescnative Morton arose to a personal privilege on the floor of the body. He made hs statement: The Evening Dispatch of liming ton has publisned articles reflecting on me and marked copies of the same have been sent to members of this House. I suppose, in an effort to dis credit me nmcnir mv colleagues. I de sire to say that 1 don't owe any thanks to this paper for my election and J don't expect any bouquets from them ior anything I may do or may not do whilo here. The bill referred to sim ply gives the people of Wilmington a vote In their primary for City cleric and Treasurer. Assistant City Clerk and Treasurr. City Attorney and Chief of Police Instead of these offices being filled by appointment of the Board of Aldermen, and the second section gives the Executive Committee of the Democratic party in the city power to order a new registration. The bill has the endorsement of the chairman of the City Democratic Executive Committee, who was in a hurry to have the new registration feature become a law because the pri mary election had been called for Match 12th, and the new registration must start 20 days before this elec tion, if at all. The bill was received bj me at 4 o'clock la the afternoon and for the .registration feature. I passed It at the night session. "I bavo no apology for giving my people the right to vote for their city officers and this explanation Is for tae House only. JR. O. U. AT M. IN. FAYETTEVI LLC It Is now stated that Speaker Can non Is determined that th ship sub sidy bill shan't be passed by the House. "Uncle Joe" Is liable to tiave the lobby brigade hanging art his hoe La- There Is an ancient adage which says: "In the multitude of advlco there is wisdom." The dead Shah of Persia was backed by the'adrlce and Intuition of S00 wives, and yet he wasn't so awfully wlje. -r- rr ; 1 Congress haa increased the pay of Congressmen from 15.000 to J7.S00 a year. Those "In" will want to go back at that price, but meanwhile the people will be looking around for real $7,500 men. Congressman William Alden Smith, recently elected a .C-lted Elates Sen ator from Michigan, was once a pop corn seller on the streets of Grand Rapids. Wo also suspect that he be gan bis political career as a peanut politician. A Colorado newspaper, boasting of the rise of Senator Guggenheim. smltlng trust magnate, says, "he be gan life barefooted-'' Neither did he have on a stitch of clothes, and didn't have any pocket to put a cent la if he had it. State Council in Session There This Week Wilmington Delegates. The annual State Council of the Junior Order of United American Me chanics In North Carolina will con vene In Fayettevllle tonight and an unusually laie attendance from all parts of the State Is expected. The usual large delegation frtrm the Wil mington councils has gone to be pres ent at the meeting. The first meet ing will take place tonight at 8 o'clock In the Armory of the F. I. U. I. and Mr. W. D. Malloy will preside In behalf of the city. The address of welcome will be by Mr. J. C. Cooper, and the response will be by State Councilor R. F. Poole. The address of welcome In behalf of Cape Fear Council. No. 15, of Fayettevllle. which Is next to the largest In the State, will be by Councilor V. C. Bullard. and the response to that address will be by . Past State Councilor Z. P. Smith, of Raleigh. There wm be other brief addressed by members of the State Council. Music will Intersperse the programme, the Holt-Morgan Band being engaged for the purpose. The Knights of Pythias of Fayettevllle have tendered the use of their "hall for the sessions of the State Council. The population of Wilmington was diminished by eleven as the result yesterday of the biggest Monday po lice court held In some time.. Mayor Pro Tern. O'Brien presided in the ab sence of Mayor Waddell, who is still confined to nls, home by a slight In disposition, and the eleven tempora-. rily stricken from the roll of the city population go to the roads and farm of 4Je county. .They were eleven of 29 pulled "by " the police Saturday night, a rich harvest having been reaped from all parts of the city. The most notable array at the bar ai the noon session were seven col ored Inmates of a house on Eighth, "between Ann and Nun streets, which wns mlded under orders of Capt. Geo. Smith Sunday morning just be fore day. upon complaint of Thomas H. "Knight. Alex. Bowden. VfVgil Long nnd other respectable colored resi dents in the neighborhood. Knight. Powder, and others had made frequent cnniplaint to the police as to the class of the house tip their midst, .but the Inmates were always distressingly cnilet when the officer appeared any where In the Neighborhood. Between 3 and 4 o'clock Sunday moraine the colored men came down to the haTl aiid rer,crt;d that they had been :i.vnk enert In their homes by the disorder in the house. Captain Smith loaded BOUSE APOLOGIZES Meant No Reflection on Corpora tion Commission by Passage of Selma Resolution. IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TERMINAL COMPANY AG06 WITH POLITICS Certificate of incorporation For Big . Wilmington Enterprise Filed For Record Here Has Many Pow ers Conferred; By Charter. the Commission will present the re- the petrel wagon with officers and the i port asked for in the Laughinghouse Daughter of General Lee Shown Dis tinguished Honors Wilmington Public Library Bill Change Homestead Exemption. (By So. Bell Long Instance Phone.) Raleigh, N. C, Feb 81. The House of Representatives in effect today apol ogized to the Corporation Commission for the passage of the Laughinghouse resolution Saturday, c.lling upon the Commission to make known to the General Assembly the terms of the compromise by which the recent suits fcr penalties were withdrawn against the Southern Railway Company in con nection with the Selma connection. Mr. Doughton,'" of Allegheney, intro duced and secured Immediate passage cf a resolution declaring: the House has th fullest confidence in the integ- tides and merchandise from mm rity and ability of the Commission and erals, metals, woods, clay, stone, rock does not desire to reflect on that body in the matter of the Selma con nection settlement. It is expected that The certificate of the incorporation of the North Carolina Terminal Com pany, chartered Saturday by the Sec 'etary of State, was received for so cial record in this county at the of fice of tho Cicrk of the Superior Court yesterday)) The principal of fice of the corporation will be in Wil mington, and the objects for wnich it is chartered are manifold, being given in tne paper as follows: "To acquire terminal property at Wilmington, Charlotte and other towns and places in North Carolina; to improve the same and to build, construct and erect piers, wharves, docks, terminal construction and fa cilities, to erect warehouses for stor age of coal, iron, cotton, merchandise and other produce, and to issue ware house receipts therefor and to charge and collect storage thereon'to sub scribe to other purchases, and to ac quire stocks and bonds in other cor- Amendment to Primary Law Be fore General Assembly Arouses "The Natives V;V Vi:-, SENATOR BELLAMY WAS HERE Question of Submitting All. Depart mental Officials to Vote of Peo ple Divides Public . Opinion. Recorder's Court Bill. The town is still agog with the Mor-1 ton bill railroaded through the House Friday night, making ) sweeping changes in the manner of -electing a majority of the department officials of the city. As an evidence - 6f the vide divergence of opinloivon this measure one party was heard to say yesterday that 'he was m. favor ' of . "joining the boys of the 'bloody Fifth' and meeting the Colonel with a brass . band when he returns to Wilming-, Y-; porations, to guarantee and become I tcln" while an equally . responsible surety in respect thereto, to manufac ture, sell and otherwise dispose of ar- Twenty-Qve governors are expected to be present when the Jamestown Kx position opens. April 26th. Tho Gov ernor of North Carolina and tho Gov ernor of South Carolina will bo there, and It Is presumed that the other 23 governors will keep In close touch with them in order to be on hand when they make remarks about the "long time between." ' i 1 A New York expert on Insanity, who examined millionaire Joseph Richardson, who afterwards died, pre sented a bill for 616 hours serrico at 125 an hour. The widow refused to pay the bin and the expert Is suing her. The blU would come" to 112,400. and that is enough to run tho widow craxy. Mr. J. W. Barnes Complimented. Mr. J. W. Barnes, the retiring chief clerk in the "Freight Claim ''office of the A. C. L in this city, has been pre sented a very handsome gold watch in token of the high esteem In which he was held by the clerks under him In the office. The presentation took place la the office last Friday after noon. Mr. II. A. Harding making the speech of presentation and Mr. Barnes responding very feelingly to the beau tlful expression. Mr. Barnes will go to another department of the railroad service and Is succeeded by Mr. Wil R. Taylor la the Freight Claim office. place wat. purrounded, not one being allowed to escape. In court yester day they were each taxed with $10. Including costs, with an alternative oT going to the roads for 30 days- Solo mon Hlncs. Sam Julius, John Phlfer and Etta Nixon could not raise the money and were sent out In the af ternoon. Ida Fields. Lizzie Williams and Frank Teachey escaped with the racney. Other cases tried yesterday were as follows: Annie Johnson, arrested by Officer Leon George for disorderly conduct, 15 days oa. the farm. Ame lia hradley, also arrested by Officer fJeorge for disorder, $10 and costs or 15 days on the farm. Elizabeth Haywood, arrested by Officer Leon George. 15 days for disorder and 30 days for vagrancy. Charles Graham, disorderly conduct. 30 days; resisting Officer Leon George, to iall in -default of $25 bond: John Norther, "assault with deadly weapon, making "rough house' of restaurant at No. 11 Dock street Sunday afternoon. $25 bond to higher court. John Gllmore, disor derly conduct, 30 days.. Clarence King, disorderly conduct, and Emanuel Moseley, affray, not guilty and dis charged. Lizzie Williams, disorderly house, not guilty. Ella TIxon, disor derly house, not guilty. Mamie Gar field, arrested by Mounted Officer Frank George for disorderly conduct, 15 days on the farm. Kinnle McGee, Alice Pearce and Ella McFarland, ar rested by Officer D. W Coleman for disorderly conduct Saturday night at Sixth and Bladen streets, $10 and costs each. Martha Price, vagrancy, not guilty. Five men and six women were sent out in the afternoon to begin their sentences. The cases growipg out of the Gilbert-Newton affair, at the police sta tion last week, were continued on ac count of the absence of Herbert Mc Clammy, Esq., who with Mr. Marsden Bellamy, appears for the Gilberts. Mr. Newton will be represented by Brooke G. Empie, Esq. CAROLINA YACHT CLUB. EJUfhere In today's Star we print An in alerting and Tal cable review of the cotton situation by "Mjcsxra. Ed irard Moyso & Cov cotton brokers, of New York, It U a logical presen tation of a matter of deep concern to the South,' and should convince any ne that there la no necessity to aacrl f.co tho TiJaahJe 2ple crop of tie Ccttca" State. - Mr. Robert S- Collins in Extremis. Friends of Mr. Robert S. Collins and they are limited only by the circle of his acquaintance will regret ex ceedlngly to know that he is critically III and that his life has several times been despaired of during the last 48 hours. He bas typhoid pneumonia and has suffered several very eevere hemorrhages. He was a shade better yesterday, but bis condition is still such as to give very little hope to those who are watching so anxiously at his bedside. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 1 Academy of Music Mexico. J. F. Sellers For Alderman. O. E. Leftwlch For Alderman. Bill Gowan'a Pneumonia Cure. Thomas F. Bagley Wilmington Out? Cape Fear Machine Works To 'the Public - J. M. Solky & Co. Spring Suita to Measure. - Hall & Pearsall Ilavo We Sold Lodge, A. F. & A. M. : For Loan. ' Business Locals. Sale Money,maklngi Weekly Strayed Small Red .Cow. ' '. ; Herbert McClamray Money Newspaper.- " " to Annual Meeting Held Last Night. Reports and Election of Officers. Th nnnnnl mwitne? of th Caroli- na Yacht Club last night In the coun- surance, preventing discrimination in ty court room was well attended and I raes as between North Carolina ahd resolution tomorrow. The House by a vote of '45 to 18 today -killed the bill to require the .union label on all documents printed fcr the State. The committee's substitute bill reg lating the hours of labor by railway employes passed its final reading. It prescribes an eight hour day for train dispatchers and oUjers who have to do with the movement of trains and 14 hours for train crews. There was a ten-minute recess in Khe House today in honir of Miss Mary Lee, daughter of Gen. "Robert D. Lee. She -was escorted before the Speaker's stand by a special committee and was introduced. After, she retired from the hall a special note from her was read conveying her thanks for the cordial reception tendered her by the General Assemhlyand saying that A.?fhese;JT;ar; Heels 'art great people -whose' soldiers and civil laps I entertain, like my fath er did, the profoundest esteem and admiration." On motion of Mr. Mor ton, the note was spread on the jour nal of the House. The House killed the hill to allow deputy clerks of the Superior Courts to probate wills. Among the bills In troduced were: Harris, to amend the charter of Ra lelgh and extend the city limits. Morton, to amend the charter of Wilmington by providing for the main tenance of a public library, providing a commission of v five, two of whom shall be ladles, for the managemeat of the library and requiring the Al dermen- to appropriate not less than $1,200 for the maintenance of the in stitution. Morton, to require fish in packages for shipment or sale to have the cor rect weight stamped thereon.. Gallert, to amend, the constitution relative to the homestead exemption, so that the personal property exemp tion will be $100 Instead of $500 as heretofore and the real estate exemp tion to be $500 Instead of $1,000 as heretofore. Jones, to Improve the public high ways and roads of Selma. Koonce, to elect the Insurance Com missioner Of the State by the people. McRaoken, to secure to the people of North Carolina a: square deal in in- to conduct' its business"" "iff aTTits and other material and to operate plants of all kinds for the manufac ture and preparation of the same; to buy and sell general merchandise, to deal in real estate, to buy and sell, lease and improve and operate and develop all kinds of property, water front and wharf property, farming and mineral lands, timber lands; to culti vate any and all kinds of crops and to manufacture the products thereof and to acquire and hold nd operate and develop manufacturing; to lease and sell and otherwise enjoy and dis pose of all kinds of real estate and personal property, rights and fran chises, and any and all interests therein and to receive money, prop erty and evidence of debt therefor, and to take mortgages to secure the payment of evidences of debt. The corporation has power to Jssue for any of its corporate purposes, coupons, bonds and to secure the payment of same by executing and ' delivrinj? mortgage or deeds of trust on all or anv nawt of. its uronertv. frannhlsAs. or priyiletes,- and shall- also have power 1 Governor npon recommendation St citizen, in discussing the proposed changes, tore his hair and laid down a very large fist in. a big palm with the statement, "I voted' for George Morton once, but let him ; stick' his head up for an office again; what we people here in New Hanover will do, for him next time is a plenty." v ; :'' Those who favor the bill are ex pecting Senator George Bellamy to in clude all salaried city officers, ill the . vote by the people, and those who are against it, are imploring him. to hold it up or tack on members of the Board ; of Audit and Finance, so that it-will stand some show of being killed, when -. the measure comes up in the higher. branch of the Assembly. . " ' The "Gentleman from Brunswick" v, came over yesterday and'found seve ral camping on his trail. ' To all he . ? said that he believed a submission of ,. ; all questions to the people was ' the, ! ; Democratic way of settling them, ;,but - ; A he would not commit himself to sayr ing that he was in favor of electing members of the Board of Audit f and , ; ., Finance by the people. TheyASerre.vV without salary and Mr. .Bellamy' Jhtl- t ; y mated that his plan would be to have i; members of rthis bodV :appbmjd4by ci the various ward -meetings ""He ex1- branches, and to have nne nr mnra 1 pressed himself, however, as in favor offices and unlimitedlv to hold our- of submitting all vthe; Other officers chas mortgage and convey real and personal property in any foreign coun try or place." The capital stock of the enterprise is $250,000, but it may begin business with $5,000, which is subscribed as follows: John D. Bellamy, 48 shares of the par value of $100 ech; John S. Armstrong and William M. Bellamy, one share each. These incorporators, according to the charter, have the di rection of the affairs and organiza tion of the corporation, and are au thorized to do and perform what is necessary to perfect the organization of the corporation until the directors are elected. v WILMINGTONIANS DEFEATED Golf Match Saturday With Charleston Country ClubTeam. The Charleston News and Courier of Sunday has the following: enthusiastic. On motion of Mr. Jos. H. Watters, Mrf S. M. Boatwrlght was called to the chair and Mr. John. B. Peschau, the purser, acted as secre tary. The reports of the Commodore and the purser were read and proved quite interesting to members, cover ing the operations of the club during the past season. The annual election of officers resulted as follows: Commodore C. W. Worth. Fleet Captain W. L. Parsley. Purser John B. Peschau. Measurer H. J. MacMlllan, Jr. Marshal H. 5lcL. Green. Governing Board R. C. DeRosset, S. 4M. Boatwrlght. George Davis, W. L. Parsley and C. W. Worth. Commodore J. VanB. Metts refused re-election on account of a press of other duties. The club contemplates a number of Improvements before the beginning of the new season. The damage done by the late storm will be fully looked af ter, and everything will be put in ship shape. Bia Steamer With Fertilizer Cargo. The British steamer Waverly, 2,512 j tons. Captain Wheatley, arrived In port "Sunday from Bremen,-via Nor folk, with cargo of kdlnit for dis charge at the S. A. L. warehouses. The vessel was entered at the Custom louse by Mr, F. A. Fetter, agent of the Seaboard Air Lino in this city. A cablegram from Bremen, on January 4th suites that tho Waverly and- the British, steamer Lord Stanley were in collision in tne river, at Bremen dur ing a gale. Tho Stanley had her star board plates, frames and'- bulwarks damaged land several plates of the Waverly were benL' The Wavely put n- at Bremerhaven for a short -time and. later- proceeded' to 'Wilmington on the 9 th. The repairs to the Stanley Trere made at a cost-of $7,700. . " other States Dough ton, to amend Chapter 588, Laws of .1905, 'being the Revenue .and Machinery Act, changes of which are as reported by the committee Satur day. In the Senate. In the Senate among 'bills introduc ed were: Drewry, to establish a State High way Commission with a competent en gineer at-its-head. Lovill, for the relief of physicians twho have passed the (State Board of other Sta'tes and desire to practice medicine in North Carolina. Graham, to prevent the stealing of freight in transit. . Graham, for the. better prevention of the larceny of railroad brasses and ot$er metals. Among the bills passed were the following: To allow the Governor to expend not more than $4,000 per year in the employment of counsel to ap pear before the Inter-State Commerce Commission where freight rates to North. Carolina - are ' concerned- To make it a misdemeanor for parent or guardian to 'refuse to send deaf and dumb child to the State school at Mor ganton for at least 'five terms of nine months each during the age period mingtcn, arrived in Charleston yes terday morning and during the after noon played a tournament at the Charleston Country Club with the Charleston team, meeting with defeat n the score of 32 to 0. The Wilming ton goiters were beaten in every round and the Charleston players are particularly pleased,, as it now makes honors even. The Cape Fear team was composed of Messrs. A. S. Wil liams, John J. Blair. R. H. Gwaltney, Charles McMillan, N. H. Gouvenieur, D. McRae, E. H. Silliman, C. Roun tree. The Charleston team was com posed as follows: Messrs. Fred. Tyler, C. W. Kpllock, Gaillard, Mayberry, T. A. Wilbur, Jr., M. P. Burton, C. J. Bond" and H. Wilbur. "When tho match was over the golf ers were entertained at an informal luncheon at the club house, where the visitors met a great many members Of the Charleston Country Club and had a most pleasant and. interesting af VThe Wilmington team left on the afternoon train for home. All said that the day had been most pleasant ly spent, and there were no complaints, even though the visitors had suffered to a vote of the. people, including, the Clerk of the Board of Audit and Fi nance, Chief of Fire Department, City Superintendent of Health, City Super, intendent of Streets, Milk Inspector Plumbing Inspector, and right on?" down the line. There is a variety of opinion asv to the v advisability of such a step,-"' and the local columns are . not heldV to be a proper place to express anv editorial comment by5, this paper.. ' There's no denying that the "natives are considerably stirred Senator Bel lamy found as much when' he. reached the city-yesterday, and was not later when the steamer Wilmington left for Southport, to which place he went.r on business early in the afternoon- The Senator expects to return to Ra leigh today. He will confer, with Representative Morton fan d agree on certain additions to the , bilL after which it will be put on its - passage . in. the Senate. Whether the Wilming- - The Cape Fear Golf Club, from WiIton opposition ,to the bill ' iscrystal- a very decisive defeat at tho hands of UUSIS. the primary, but it is argued on the street that there was no "constitu tional law" prohibiting him from mak ing two separate bills of the matter and, rushing the primary part through, awaiting some expression from his constituents as to the other bill. Mr. Morton's position is set , forth -elsewhere - in- today's paper in the Ra leigh dispatches, in connection with of from 8 to 18 years. The Breese bill j a personal privilege to which he arose to prohibit the presence of Intoxicated persons on common carriers, providing for their exclusion from street rail ways, trains and steamboats at the first stop. . . :r. r.."; The hill to .require the ., prompt Je llvery of telegrams was made.Jthe sper cial ordecTfor Tuesday at noon..- ' . : Niflht Session of - House. 7" "''.' , The House held a night; sessionbe ginning at 8 o'clock. - Among T)ills In troduced were: To . authorize , tho Wllkesboro" and" Jeff erson turnpike In Continued' on fourth pase-) tin the House last night.' r Chairman D. ..McEachern -and Com missioner Vollers who found it neces sary vto make a second trip to Raleigh to look after, the .. Recorder's Cort bill,-, returned yesterday; j and 'stated that.Mr. Morton had "withdrawn objec tion to ' the l. bill in" Its present : form, and tthat It would be 'passed; during this " week. Mr. Tredell Meares isuh deretpod. to be in, RaleighIn r favor'.'pf the county judicial district, as .opposed to the " Recorder's ' CJourL ' - . Read Ctar Bustss Local. lized sufficiently to warrant a fight on the floor of the Senate or not is y unknown. At any rate legislative pro ceedings will be watched, keenly for the. next few days after the "Gentle man from Brunswick" is back In his, seat. ''yr.-, - The connection of several names with some of the offices to be voted on by the people seems to be unwar ranted. Messrs. McClammy and Kel- lum say they have no idea of coming out for city attorney; that while"' they favor the bill as a Democratic mea sure in many respects, they r' have nothing to gain from an advocacy, of it. Former Chief of Police John J. Furlong .says that he is not -a candi date for the . the position he; formerly '' held. Former Chief, of the Fire De- partment Martin Newmann says that he has a million dollars in a gold , , , mine at Scott's Hill, two millions in . ; a copper mine at Town :. Creek, was r ; recently elected a Justice . of , the Peace and Js proprietor of a tolerably . good dry" goods husiness and " that- ; -while he is thankful to the numerous friends who would .doubtless "pull his leg" in the event he was a candidate, he doesn't y want any office and wouldn't, have one if Russell Foster had it on a silver platter after t him with . No. Twenty-Three. ; . Charlie Schnibben has , nothing y to fear- after that denial; indeed if he ' had any-.. . thing to fear at' all; however, , the 4 : : chief is to be re-elected. -? H ; i . The officers whom it 7, is . proposed , to submit to the people say that they ; , are not opposed to the measure at alL. and in the face of their' declarations, . It As strange to understand .whence- , , comes the objection, anyway. . Wh'eth- er it is because the Board of Alder- ;Q ? men are shorn of some of their pat - ' ronage or not does t not' appear, for ! :; members of x that body, or-at least v some"bfthem, appear indifferent to s he ;l bul.. ; sty Pji-C?"'- ' :4h- ; . The public : cannot understand why ; h -x Mr. Morton thought it so necessary, to - . . send this bill through in a hurrywtsrhtt - - " ; ' the' Recorder'siCourt Bill,? recommen- : ; . ded ;by.a. majority petition ;of 6 t-:v : . izens of Wilmington,: has been allowed; I i : V ; to grow ; dusty 'in a committee' pigeon- " ; ; hole.- ' He -puts . the -V hmtter ' on tho . ground that there -was no time to be v lost in the matter of ; registration for
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