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Waather To-Dayi FAIR: WARMER VOT,. XL.V NO. 151. Army Bill Goes Through THE REORGANIZATION MEASURE PASSED BY THE HOUSE. General Deficiency Appropriation Bill Passed —Dewey Will be Made a Full Ad miral—No Extra Session, ■Washington, March I.—The last lin gering possibility of an extra session of Congress disappeared to-da.v when the House passed the Senate 1 Army Ite-or ganization Bill. Very considerable and vigorous opposition to the acceptance of the Senate bill was voiced on both sides of the ball, and for a time it ap peared possible that, the bill would not secure the necessary two-thirds to pass it under suspension of the rules. But the Republican leaders, Messrs. Hender son. Grosvenor and Cannon came to its suport on the Republican side and Mr. Bailey, the Democratic leader, threw the weight of his influence in favor of it on the Democratic side, arguing that it provided for only a temporary in crease of the army which, would be made permanent if Congress were con vened in extra session. Another big element in the vote was Mr. Hull's recital of a statement made by the President to him that be would not construe section 12 as authority to conscript the minority in volunteer or ganization which should elect to re main in the service. The bill passed 203 to 32. It now goes to the President. Tike decks were also cleared of many other important matters. The general Deficiency Appropriation Bill, carrying $21,089,000 was passed under suspension of the rules, without a word of criti cism. This js the last of the appropria tion bills. The Senate amendments to the River and Harbor Bill were nou concurred in and it was sent to confer ence, the friends of the Nicaragua Canal amendment having decided to postpone their light until the conferees report. The conference report on the Omnibus Claims Bill, the Naval Personnel and many other less important measures wire agreed to. The Senate bill making Dewey a full Admiral was passed. The bill now goes to the President for his signature. There was considerable excitement on the floor before the assembling of the House at 11 o’clock this morning, in ■anticipation of a desperate fight upon the Nicaragua Canal amendment to the River and Harbor Bill. Immediately after the reading of the Journal the Senate amendments to the Sundry Civil Bill were non-concurrtd in and the bill was sent to conference. Messrs. Can non (Rep., Ills.), Moody (Rep., Mass.), and Dockery (I)ein., Mo.), were appoint ed conferees. Mr. Mahon (Rep.,Pa.), Chairman of the Committee on War Claims presented the conference report upon tin? bill to pay certain judgments of the Court of Claims, under the Bowman and Tuck er acts. As it passed the House the bill! carried $1,189,000. The Senate ■placed upon it what is known as the Omnibus Claims Bill increasing it to $9,030,000. Over $4,000,000 of the in crease were Bowman and Tucker acts claims, $1,055,000 were French spolia tion claims and $482,000 were miscella neous claims. The conference report reduced the total carried by the bill to $3,100,000. After some debate the conference re jm>rt was adopted as was also ihe con ference report upon the Naval Personnel Bill. Mr. Burton. Chairman of the River and Harbor Committee, then secured recognition and under suspension of the rules moved to non-concur in the Senate amendments to the River and Harbor Bill and request a conference. In reply to a question Mr. Burton said that the action of his committee was unanimous. The friends of the canal amendment were satisfied with his motion. No debate was demanded and the motion carried without division. Messrs. Bur ton (Rep., Ohio), Reeves (Rep., Ills.), and Patchings (Dorn., Miss.), were ap pointed conferees. The conference report ujxin the Cen sus Bill was adopted. The conference report on the bill to reimburse the Governors of States for money expended in organizing troops h ♦♦ *>♦♦♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦ , I More Than We Gan Stand, | | A prominent Democrat in Moore I ♦ county writes; ♦! | “Our people to a man are with you in |! I the Railroad Commission fight, and feel t I that to reinstate S. Otho Wilson is just a | t little more than we can stand. * X “Keep up the good work/' ♦ ♦, ♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ The News and Observer. LEADS UL NORTH CtROUH HUES II KIS Ml GRCUUTNiL for service in the late Spanish war was adopted, Mr. Cannon. Chairman of the Appro priations Committee. was then recog nized and moved to pass the General Deficiency Appropriation Bill under sus pension of the rules. The bill was passed without divis ion. , « Mr. Hull then moved the passage of the Senate Army Re-organization Bill under suspension of the rules. Mr. Hay (Deni,, Ya.b the ranking mi nority member of the Military Commit* to? warmly opposed the bill. It pro vided. he said, for more soldiers than the Government had asked for, 100,000 enlisted >nen and 5,000 officers. He was .in favor of giving the President all the soldiers needed in Cuba and the Phil ippines. but this bill gave 2<).otK) more than he asked. Moreover he did not be lieve in sacrificing principle for expe diency. This bill contained a conscript feature. The vote of a majority of any organization now in the service would conscript the minority. Such legis lation should not go upon the statute books. Mr. Hay declared that the bill should not be passed unless it was amended. Mr. Henry (Dem., Texas), also op posed the bill against which lie said he would give the last vote lie had in the Fifty-Fifth Congress. Mr. Sparkman (Dem., Fla.), and Mr. Talbert (Dem., S. C.), also antagonized the bill. Mr. Carmack (Dem., Term.), said lie would vote for the bill as the best that could be obtained* The most prominent Republican leaders on the floor supported the bill, Mr. Can non and Mr. Hull saying members must choose between it and an extra ses sion. Mr. Swanson (Dem., Ya.), said be would never vote for a bill that would force men to serve in the army without tlieir consent. He added that this was a Democratic measure. Mr. Bailey, the Democratic leader, agreed that it was this bill or an extra session, and as between the two evils he preferred this bill (Republican ap plause). “On one condition,” added Mr. Bulky, "on the condition that the Chairman of the Committee will assure us that section 12 will not be construed as authorizing the conscription of un willing volunteers.” Mr. Hull replied that lie did not de sin* to violate any confidence, but lie would take the risk of saying that in a conversation with the President he had said he did not regard the language of the bill as authorizing the conscrip tion of a single man, and if conscription became necessary In* would call an ex tra session to secure that power. (Re publican applause). Mr. Bailey then advised the Demo crats to accept the pending bill because it met a temporary condition with a temporary provision. An extra session would fasten a large permanent standing army ui»on (In* country. When the question came to a vote, Mr. Henry (Dem., Texas), demanded lln* ayes and noes amid cries of “No,” "No,” from both sides. Only 11 mem bers supported the demand and on di vision tin* bill was passed. 203 to 32. Upon the motion of Mr. Bontelle (Rep. Maine/, (he Senate bill was passed to create the grade of Admiral for the benefit of Rear Admiral Dewey. At 0:25 p. m. the House adjourned. THU PRICE OF ARMOR PLATE. Tillman and Butler's Fight—Chance for a Government Plant. Washington, March I.—The Senate is rapidly clearing its decks for final ad journment. The Naval Appropriation Bill, which Ordinarily consumed the time of the Senate for several days, was passed this afternoon after less than five hours of debate. In that time, however, it was amended radically in one re spect. TTh* price to be paid by the Gov ernment for armor plate was fixed in the RALEIGH, N.C., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 2. 1899 bill at S3OO a toil, a reduction of the amount fixed by the House of sl4.> a ton. In addition the Secretary of the Navy was authorized, in the event of the refusal of the armor plate com panies to supply armor at S3OO a ton, to proceed to the construction of an armor plate factory to cost $1,500,000 and placing in the Secretary's control $2,000,000 with which to operate the Government plant. The tight for these amendments was led by Mr. Tillman, South Carolina, who made a characteris tically sensational speech in support of the proposition. One of tin* first acts to-day was the consideration of the bill carrying $20,- 000,000 with which to pay Spain for relinquishment of the Philippines in ac cordance with tlu* treaty of Paris. Mr. Allison (Iowa) rejxirted the mea sure from the Committee on Appropria tions, and asked for its immediate con sideration. The bill was laid before the Senate and in half a minute was passed without a word of debate. A bill was also passed granting to the Mussel Shoals Power Company right to erect and construct a canal and power stations at Mussel Shoals. Ala. Mr. Tillman secured the adoption of a resolution authorizing tin* Secretary of War to loan to the Executive Com mittee of the United Confederate vet erans for their re-union to be held in Charleston, S. (*., on May 10th, 1899, ten thousand cots, ton thousand mat tresses and two thousand tents. Consideration of the Naval Appro priation Bill was then begun, the amend ments of the committee being acted upon as the measure was read. The Dili as passed by the House car ried $44,850,038. As reported to the Senate it carried $49,204,909, an in crease of $4,348,331. After some formal amendments were offered and agreed to Mr. Gray (Del.), called attention to a provision of the bill appropriating $1,000,000 for the pur chase and manufacture” of smokeless powder. He deemed it u policy of our people not to bring the Government into competition with private industries. He offered therefore an amendment providing that not more than SISO,(KM) of the sum should lx* expended in manu facture. Mr. Hale said the committee had been assured by the Department that the Government had no intention of using the full appropriation for the manufacture of powder, but probably not more than $150,000. However, he ac cepted the amendment and it was agreed to. Other amendments were agreed to as follows: Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to contract for two submarine boats of the Holland type at a cost not to exceed $135,000 each; appro priating $2(5,000 f<»r the purchase of additional land for the Port Royal Na val Station. Mr. Hanna offered an amendment au thorizing the Secretary of the Navy to purchase from the Gotlimaun Torpedo Gun Company of.Cliicago, the gun equip ment for one or more of the harbor de fense monitors, subject to the usual inspection of the Bureau of Ordnance, at a cost not exceeding $250,000. In explanation of the amendment, Mr. Hanna said the invention to be utilized under the amendment was the first that had ever been conceived for the safe ex plosion or wet gun-cotton. He said tin* fuse had been declared by the Ordnance Bureau of the Navy and Army to be ab solutely perfect and safe, lie thought the invention would revolutionize the contest now in progress )w*tween high explosives and tin* best known arma ment. The amendment was agreed to. The Secretary of the Navy was au thorized to appoint a commission to con sider the desirability of constructing a dry dock at Key West or nearby waters. Tin* controversy over the price of ar mor plate was then precipitated by Mr. Tillman, who offered an amendment re ducing the price fixed by the bill from $445 per ton to S3OO per ton. Speaking of his amendment Mr. Till man declared that millions of dollars were being squandered by the Govern ment in feathering the nests of the ar mor trust, and lie felt that the Senate and country ought to know “what kind of a steal was going on.” He said in tin* course of his speech that ■he proposed an alternative proposition to establish a Government armor plant so that the United States could say to lln* armor trust that if it did not supply armor at a proper price the Government would manufacture its own armor. He said it was perfectly evident that the two Pennsylvania armor plants bad a ‘‘pull, whatever that might mean” in the other House of Congress and were able to bold up the price of armor. Mr. Tillman became Involved in a sharp colloquy with Mr. Gallingcr over the sulipject of doing Government work in private or in Government factories. The latter maintained the Navy Depart ment had held that its work could be done cheaper by private concerns than by the Government and that accounted for the fact that private ship yards were busy and Government ship yards idle. Mr. Tillman favored doing the work by till* Government, even at an increased price, for then labor and not capital would receive the benefits. “Why,” he demanded, “are we to yield to those armor thieves, these rob bers? Are we to permit these people to order us to stand and deliver? 1 have deemed it my duty to protest against these methods and therefore have offered my amendment regulating the price to S3OO a ton.” Mr. Chandler (N. H.), supported the amendment. Mr. Tillman's amendment was adopted 34 to 2(5 as follows: Yeas—Allen. Bacon, Bate, Berry, Butler. CalTery, Chandler, Chilton, Clay, Cockrell, Daniel, Ilunsbrougli, Harris, Kenney. Lindsay, Mallory, Martin. Money, Pasco, Pettigrew, Pet tus. Rawlins. Roach, Ross, Stewart, Sullivan, Thurston, Tillman. Turley. Turner, Yest, Wellington, White—34. Nays—Allison. Burrows. Carter, Clark, Dtboe, Fairbanks, Faulkner, For aker, Gray, Hale, Hanna, Hawley, Hoar, Mcßride. MeEnery. McMillan, Mantle, Penrose, l’erkins, Platt (Conn.), Proctor, Sewell, Slump, Spooner, Teller, Warren— 2(5. Mr. Butler (N. C.t. then offered an amendment providing that if tin* com panies refused to accept $.300 a ton the Secretary of tlu* Navy should proceed to erect an armor factory at a cost of $1,500,000 and appropriating $2,000,000 for operating the plant. Mr. Butler’s amendment was adopt ed, 39 to 27, as follows: Yeas—Alb ii. Bacon, Bate, Berry, But ler, Caffery, Chandler. Cockrell. Daniel. Faulkner, Foraker. Ilansbirough, Har ris, Jones (New). Lindsay, McLanriu, Mallory, Mantle, Martin, Money, Nel son, Pasco. Perkins. Pettigrew, Pettus, Rawlings. Roach, Ross, Simon, Stewart, Teller. Thurston. Tillman, Turley, Tur ner, Yest. Warren, Wellington, White — 39. Nays—Allison. Burrows, Carter, Chil ton, Clark, Clay. Culioni, Debose, Fair banks, Frye. Gallingcr, Gray, Hale, Hanna, Hawley. Hoar, Kenny, Kyle, Mcßride, MeEnery, McMillan, Pen rose, Platt (Conn.). Pritchard, Proctor, Shoup. Spooner- -7. After the Bill had been reported to the Senate from (he Committee of the Whole Mr. Pettigrew objected to the amendment regarding the authorization for the use of the Gothmann Gun and Projectile. Mr. Bacon (Ga.l, also made an argu ment against tlu* amendment quoting from a report on tlu* subject of tests of the gun and projectile by Captain O'Neill, chief of the Naval Bureau of Ordnance. Mr. liana replied to the statement made by Mr. Bacon declaring that both gun and projectile had passed beyond the experimental stage ami were a suc cess beyond a doubt. The amendment was agreed to with tlu* amendment that tlu* Secretary of tlu* Navy was authorized “in bis discretion” to use tlu* gun. The bill was passed without divis ion. After agreeing to meet at. 10:30 to morrow morning the Senate at V:ls p. m. adjourned. BARON HERSCHELL DIES \ BRITISH MEMBER OF THE JOINT HIGH COMMISSION. ! is Death Sudden. CVfined to his Room Ifor Sr me Time Wiv a R'tjken Bone- Official Sympathy. Washington. March I.—-Baron Her schell, one of the commissioners from Great. Britain, on the Joint High Com mission recently in session here to adjust the difference between the United States and Canada, died quite suddenly at 7:05 o'clock this morning at the Shoreliam Hotel, where lu» Jutd been confined to his bed for several weeks with n broken bone caused by a fall on a slippery side walk. I/ord Ilersehell’s death came without warning. Except for the pain incident to the fracture of his leg which oc curred on February 15th, he has been in excellent health and spirits, an 1 up to almost the hour of bis death there were no premonitory symptoms of the corning end. He had received visitors every day and had enjoyed seeing his friends and talking with them. At the time of the accident a trained nurse* was procured from Baltimore, and on account of the dead man’s help lessness she has been witti him almost constantly, especially at night, when she never left his room. At about five o’clock this morning His Lordship awak ened and called to the nurse, who found him breathing heavily. After receiving some attentions, lie said hi* felt lietter and again went to sleep. A little after six o’clock he again called the nurse and said In* felt ill and complained of great pain in his chest below the hqptrt. Dr. W. W. Johnson was hastily sum moned. and after a hurried examination dispatched a messenger for Dr. Mad dox who joined him in a few minutes. The pain, however, did not yield to treatment and at five miijlutes after seven o'clock His Lordship breathed his last. In answer to inquiries the physicians said they were unable to give tlu* exact cause of death, but the symptoms they thought, indicated that it was angina pectoris. His Lordship’s family, who, with the exception of liis son Richard, at Oxford, is in the South of France, have been cabled the sail news. It is assumed that the body will be sent to England as soon as possible, but no definite arrangements have yet been made. The Secretary of State cabled Mr. Choate, our Ambassador at London as follows: “Express through appropriate channels the deep sorrow tin* President feels by reason of the death of lord ITersehell, whose career of eminent usefulness is thus cut short on the eve of the ac complishment of his mission. Assure Lord iHerscheli’s family of the Presi dent’s sincere condolence, to which I add my own personal sympathy. (Signed) “HAY.” DONE IN SELF-DEFENSE. Parties from a Distance looking for Investment at Sanford. Sanford. N. C . March I.—The coro ner's jurv acquitted Gus Gotten of the murder of Charles Jones on the ground of self-defense. Several parties have been here this week looking around for investments. Sanford, with its two lines of railway, and its water works soon to he estab lished, bids fair to be quite a manufac turing centre. It is easily accessible to tlu* raw material, and with its splendid shipping facilities, will in a few years easily be the best town of the middle section of the State. THE POPE DOING WELL. Feverish Symptoms Due to a Cyst Which Physicans Have Removed. Rome, March 1. —The Pope passed a fairly good night mid was better this morning. Dr. Mazzoni at 9:30 this morning re moved a cyst from the left thigh of the Pontiff. The operation was successful, and the patient bore it well. It appears that yesterday’s feverish symptoms were entirely due to the cyst, from which the Pope lias long suffered. He now has no trace of fever and Dr. Mazzoni thinks no complica tions will ensue. Strict .measures have been taken to exclude outsiders from the Vatican. Some of the morning papers asserted that the Pope was suffering from rheu matic fever, following a chill, and that it was feared pleurisy would supervene. The Pope yesterday desired that the cyst be simply lanced, but fie consented to its removal on the doctors insisting upon the point. The Pope, as this dispatch, is sent, lias just partaken of eggs, biscuits and Marsala wine. MOLINEUX IS INDICTED. Murder in First Degree—Will be Ar raigned To-day. New York. March I.—Roland B. Molineux was to-day indicted by the grand jury for murder in the first degree in causing the death of Mrs. Katherine J. Adams. The finding of the indict ment does away with a hearing before tin* coroner, and there will lx* small chance for Molineux's counsel to take any steps in his behalf until the ease actually comes to trial. The case of Molineux was placed on the calendar for pleading, and hi* will be arraigned before Recorder Goff to morrow. He will, probably then be re manded to the Tombs without bail. DON'T DO ANY WHITEWASH ING TO-DAY. ADDED 10 THE SEABOARD PURCHASE OF THE FLORIDA CENTRAL AND PENINSULA RAILROAD. The Richmond Syndicate Now Controls the Seabtard, Florida Central ard Penir.- su'a and Georgia and Alabama. New York, March I.—The Mail and Express says: ‘The Florida Central and Peninsula Railroad, according to advices received in Wall Street to-day, has passed into the hands of the Richmond syndicate headed by John Skelton Williams, who recently secured (“ontrol of the Seaboard Air Line. This control nas been ob tained through the purchase of the stock of W. Bayard Cutting and It. Fulton Cutting, of this city, who hold a controlling interest in the property. The Messrs. Cutting are said to have secured for the other stockholders the privilege of selling their minority stock on terms giving them full protection. With this purchase the syndicate will control tlu* Seaboard Air Line, the Florida Central and Peninsula, and the Georgia and Alabama. The ultimate plan of the syndicate is probably to obtain a gixxi Northern connection so that the service will ex tend from the extreme South to New York. The lines already controlled and with which traffic arrangements are oper ative extend as far North as Quantito, Ya.. 18 miles from Washington. It is believed that this gap, a franchise for which has already been secured, will be constructed in the near future, and that the new system will connect at Washington with the Baltimore and Ohio, thus making a through line from New York to Southern Florida. « DON'T DO ANY WHITEWASH ING TO-DAY. GOMEZ HAS FAITH IN I S. He Believes America Will Carry Out Her Promises. Havana. March 1. —General Maximo Gomez, in reply to a question to-day as to how long the American military oc cupation of Cuba would last, said: “I have talked with the American Generals and high authorities and am deeply, truly convinced that there is no doubt whatever that tlu* United States will loyally keep its promise, and that Cuba will be free and independent. Some among us do not recognize the fact that such a radical change of Gov ernment cannot be made as rapidly as they desire.” This morning at tlu* Hold Trocha General Gomez had a conference with the Governor General. It is understood that the military authorities have re quested the authorities at Washington to send to Cuba the $3,000,(KM) which is to be distributed among the Cuban troops. The details of the conference cannot be made public in the United States just yet, because their repetition to Cu ba by cable might create local feeling and render more difficult the work in hand. It is cxiH*cteil. however, that the Cu bans will not recognize the Cuban sol diers who took the field after the signing of the ]x*ace protocol. EX-GOVERNOR M’KINNEY DIES. Richmond, Ya.. March 1. —Hon. P. \V. McKinney, ex-Governor of Virginia, died of congestion of the lungs at mid night at bis home in Farmvilie. DON'T DO ANY WHITEWASH ING TO-DAY. Fight of a Moder^abiUs HE FINDS HIMSELF BEaTEN AND TAKES TO HIS HEELS. The Advocates of the “ Exonerating” Reso lution Spar for Time and Try to Pick Their Ground. Once there was a great Roman gen eral Ilis mune was Fabius. This was long ago. Fabius won his battles by delay. Procrastination was the weapon with which he fought, and by its dextrous use he became the pride and glory of ancient Rome. When Fabius found an army too strong to successfully tackle, he simply didn’t tackle it. He sparred for time. He hung around the aforesaid army, harassed it in all possible ways, always just out of reach of a return blow, yet near enough to be a nuisance and a constant menace. Finally, ivhen the enemy had grown careless, having made up his mind that Fabius was never going to boldly at tack, down would swoop Fabius and wipe him from tin* earth. All of which brings us by easy, grace ful swoops to a consideration of the trial of the Wilsons, suspended Railroad Commissioners. This trial is to be based on evidence adduced lx*fore a special committee ap pointed some six weeks astern for this very purpose. This committee made re port on the evidence, completely exon erating both the Wilsons. * The day the report was made there was an effort to railroad the report through a joint session that happened to lx* on tap just at that particular time*. But it didn’t go; and Fabius knew that he had struck a camp too strong to t ackle. Is it surprising then that Ihe day for the trial has been set several times since, but the trial has never yet been held? Is if astonishing that when the magic ’numbers do not couie one should ask for another throw of the iron dice of 1 >estiny: After many postponements the ease of the Wilsons, suspended Railroad Commissioners, was the special order for a joint session of the House and Senate, in the House, yesterday at 4 o’clock. I( was announced that the affair would at that hour lx* pulled off. But it wasn’t. The enemy of the “exonerat ing" report did not seem to have got careless, as the ancient opponents of Fabius were wont to do. A preliminary vote showed the report of the committee exonerating the Wil sons badly beaten and advocates of that report, after gettingNhrough a motion to allow argument on the floor by counsel on both sides, secured a postponement of further proceedings in the ease until this afternoon at 4 o’clock. The clock of the House —which by the way is never right—was pointing to ihe hour of 4:1(1 when the door-k,* *i>er •an nounced that the Senate was approach ing. The members of the House ree \ved the Senators standing. Lieutenant Governor Reynolds, on assuming the gavel, said: “The General Assembly will come to order. - “The business before this General As sembly is the disposal of the report of thi special committee in regard io the suspended Railroad Commissioners. “What is tin* pleasure of the body? It was the pleasure of the body to do absolutely nothing for just seven minu tes—except talk and laugh and wait for somebody else to spring tin* mine that all knew must lx* sprung. At the end of tfio seven minutes, the Speaker announced that pursuant to the Railroad Commission Act the Gov ernor of North Carolina had suspended •I. \\ . Wilson and S. Otlio Wilson fimn tin* office of Railroad Commissioner;'that pursuant to this same act he had seul ho the Legislature his reasons for thus suspending them: that further in pursu ance of the same act the General As sembly bad instituted an investigation as to the facts connect!d with 'his s*is pension to ascertain whether it should be continued or not. A special committee had been appointed for tlu* purpose and the report of this committee was now before tli joint session for action. Evidently Fabius was trying to ascer tain whether or not the enemy was ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦«♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ \ A GOLD TRAIL. 1 I • ; i (Lexington Dispatch) ♦ | Since the times when Nimrod, the ♦ $ mighty hunter, roamed the hills and dales | | in and about Nineveh, no canine ever | I chased a colder or more hopeless trai than | J the one now followed by the Hon. S. Otho | | Wilson, of Gideonite fame. I ♦ * ♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦ THIRD EDITION! PBICE FIVE CENTS. I off guard, and the enemy in turn was matching to see where Fabius was go ; ng to attack. “Will some gentleman over ilnut* do something,” said Senator Osborne. “The committee is tired. It's done nil t can. Mr. Justice it is your resoluti >n that is before the body." Senator Justice r spondeil to (In* ap peal by sending forward the following resolution: J “Resolved by tin* General Assembly of North Carolina in joint session: | “That 'the report of the comniit+ee as to J. W. Wilson lx* adopted .nil that .las. W. Wilson lx* not removed from his office as Railroad C uuniissioner.” This was the first Fabian gun. i Mr. Hampton, of Surry, returned tlu* fiiv amending tin* resolution by add ing S. Otlio Wilson. i Mr. Justice, of McDowell, informed Mr. Hampton that tin* .•ommitftce 1 ad decided to take up the cases separately, and he didn’t see the use of tfie amend ment. Senator Ward wanted to know why this separation. ] The evidence, he said, was all mingled and blended together. The report laid put them together, exonerating lx>‘h, nni Senator Justice had introduced a resolu tion adopting tin* report. | “If they are to lx* arraigned separately, | why? What is the cause of this change 1 in sentiment:? | “If Major Wilson were to come and plead that a bruised reed ne not broken I would he fife last man to lay a rude hand upon him. But when you put his ease on the evidence and tin* law, that’s a widely different matter. I “1 scorn that spirit as a citizen .ifi.i as a Democrat, if it is present—that we should claim to base our verdict on the evidence, hut make a distinction in the ' trial because S. Otho Wilson ha miens to be of a different political faith.” j Senator Justice said his purpose for * introducing his resolution to try these j men separately was that it was a right | to which every man was entitled—a I fair trial upon the facts, unencumbered ! by any other influences. "There is no judge sitting upon the bench that would not order a separa tion of cases on such a difference of evidence.” Mr. Allen, of Wayne, wanted to know what had become of the resolution intr'i’- dueed by Senator Justice at tin* former joint meeting, to adopt the report exon erating both the Wilsons. Senator Justice said it had been lost and he introduced tlx* one just sent for ward as a substitute. This brought the matter up to the test. The Hampton amendment —to yoke tlx* Wilsons together in their race for re instatement—was adopted by a major ity of 15. The vote was fit for, to 49 against, showing that the enemy was not off guard and Fabius must wait. The succeeding chapters of the romance are therefore but records of tlx* efforts made by Fabius to get out of the reach of his alert foe. The first spadeful of entrenchment thrown up to step the advance of that majority of fifteen was by Air. Robinson, of Cumberland, who moved to reconsid er the vote by which the Hampton amendment had passed. lle thought it would do Alaj. Wilson great injustice to yoke him up with Otho. and he didn't think anybody wanted to do the Major an injustice. Air. Osborne said when the case was tried by the committee it was tried sep arately: the evidence was separate and their attorneys had asked that it he kept separate. He thohght that the General Assembly owed it to the com mittee now to consider tlx* reixirt. He said there were points in one ease that were not in the other. Senator Justice thought there was a misapprehension as to his resolution. He was not trying to get Alaj. Wilson exonerated ami leave Otho out in the cold. He simply wanted to do one thing at ii time. (Continued on Second Page.)
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