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The Weather Todayi | oab"?”"! Rain; Warmer. The News and Observer. Volume LVI. No. 132. (LcsaHOs ©DO fctpftOD ©aQCFoDDonsQ [Q)g}S[ty [Pap^o o © Bod E®ftDD Kl®\sy© «> *«,*, 'oß®ft3(s)DD RESULTS OF THE ELECTORAL VOTE Roosevelt and Fairbanks Declared Elected SCENE IN CONGRESS All the Formalities Consume Fifty Minutes, the Two Houses Meeting in Joint Session for the Pur- Pose of Declaring the Election. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Feb. 8. —Although the result of the Presidential election was known early in the evening of No vember Bth. it was not until today when the Senate and House met in joint session that Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks were offi cially declared to be elected President and Vice-President respectively for four years, beginning March 4. 1905. This quadrennial function of Congress ] attracted to the House Chamber, I where the electoral vote was can- ! vasxed. an immense gathering, promi- I nenj among the auditors being Mrs. Roosevelt. Miss Alice Roosevelt, the j President’s sister. Mrs. Captain 1 Cowles, and Mrs. Charles W. Fair- ; banks, wife of the Vice-President- I elect. President Pro-Tempore Frye, I of the Senate, presided and delivered the announcement of the result of the count which showed that Roosevelt and Fairbanks received 336 electoral votes, and Parker and Davis 140. The whole proceeding consumed ex- I actly fifty minutes, thereby establish ing a new record in counting the elec toral votes. Reading tlie Certificates. The tellers of the two houses, j Messrs, burrows (Mich.) and Bailey (Texas), of the .Senate, and Gaines j (W. Va.) and Russell (Texas) of the House, took their places at the Speak- j or's desk and the certificates were read, nv oacn teller in turn. Alabama came first, ‘the certificate showing that Judge Alton B. Parker, of New York, and Henry G. Davis, of West Virginia, had received the votes of that State. The Democrats lib erally applauded. The other States were called in alphabetical order. The first mention of President Roosevelt's name came when the vote of Califor nia was announced. This also was the signal for applause from the Re publican side. The announcement that Maryland had given one vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks was greeted with applause and handclapping by Republicans, which was renewed by Democrats j when the further announcement was j made that Parker and Davis had re ceived the remaining seven votes. There was marked demonstration by the Republicans when Missouri’s eighteen votes were announced as having been cast for Roosevelt a%l Fairbanks. Tlie applause came most ly from the members of the House. By a coincidence, it fell to the lot of Senator Bailey to read the vote of bus own State. Texas. General ap plause greeted him as he announced that Parker and Davis had received the 18 votes of that State. A similar coincidence occurred when Mr. Gaines read the vote of West A r irginia. Announcement by Frye. As soon as the votes of all States had been read. Senator Frye directed the tellers to make formal announce ment ot'ihe result. Senator Frye recapitulated the vote and then made the following announcement: “This announcement of the state of the vote by the President of the Sen- j ate shall be deemed a sufficient dec- j Juration ofthe persons elected presi- j dent and vice-president of the United | States, each for the term beginning | March 4, 1905, and shall be entered ; together with a list of the votes on ; the journajs of the Senate and House of Reprcsentatives.” This ended the proceedings. For two hours preceding and for three hours following tlie count of the | vote, the question of freight vatu i regulation held full sway. As on j the previous day of the debate, that j Republicans and Democrats claimed the credit for originating the present legislation. Mr. Bartlett (Ga.) supporting the minority bill, explained the attitude of the South as not being radical. It was. he insisted, conservative and lie said that when the time came to pre serve the country from radicalism, socialism, or anarchy, the South would rally to and save it from destruction. I Insincerity was ascribed to the Re-j publicans by Mr. Cochran (Mo.), in j t|„. matter of rate legislation, who s-iid that it was not intended to pass! tip proposed legislation. Out simply! to do something to oaclfy public sent’-j jin nt. | Mr. Ksbh (Wis.). who assisted in : framing th“ Townsend Bill, summed up up; arguments sot anil against tii.it . Oil) up to the present time. Some, he said, had regarded it ns the in >si im- i po’*t int legislation since tie* Civil W ai. j while oilp rs had contended it amount j •,-d t<> nothing. Such extreme* views, he held to he indicative of the Cues that the bill was what it was claimed ! to be —a compromise. Tb> then en ter d hito a lengthy discussion n-i' jug the action of the majority of the j committee in providing «the special court of transportation feature, upon which he said opposition seemed tj t*u centered. Ron oil The Railroad Trust. Maintaining that the rai roads con stituted a trust, Mr. Rou (N ). not _t|iicstioning the sincerity of said he was of a party boJy and soil to tie- trusts and that any legislation which popular clamor forced would be the mildest and least hurtful to the rail roads that Republican ingenuity could 'possibly evolve. Mr. James (Ky.), accused the Presi dent of taking the platform of the Democratic party “that bears the bloody stain of Bryan’s faithful feel" and holding it up to the people of tl e country. Ho cared not how much it was said the Democrats were follow ing the President. He knew that the soldiers of the United S ates followed the President gallantly at San Juan Hill. “But," he added, “no more, sir, than the Democracy w’ll follow him when he charges the Harrimans, the Vanderbilts, the Cassatts arid tne Hills in this country of wealth.” The Demo crats applauded Mr. Ilefiin (Ala.*, when he said that “William Jennings Bryan, the Daniel of Democracy has advocated the present legislation le fore the people of the country." In a charaetertlstic speech Mr. Gaines (Tenn.), who was the sole Democrat who voted with the Repub licans on the adoption of the rule, said he did so because he found them right on the question, even though they gritted their teeth after having been ’egged on” by the President v»* v .o had applied the cat’o nine tails to their backs. A number of other Represoiv Hives spoke for the bill, and several against it. The House adjourned until to morrow. Will Grow Now Faster Than Ever. (Rockingham Headlight.) Hamlet claims to have a population of nearly 3,000. Two new churches are to be built there soon, one by the Baptists, and the other by the Metho dists. The Presbyterians have a nice church. Hamlet is a nice, growing town. CITY W FIGHT Scheme tp Sell Water, Sewer and Lights. * Hearing This New Bern's City Fathers Petition the Legislature to Await a Vote of the People. (Special to News and Observer.) New Bern, N. C., Feb. S.—lt was rumored on the streets yesterday evening that a petition had gone to Raleigh to the Legislature seeking au thority to sell the water, sewer and light plants of New Bern. It was the regular meeting night of the board of aldermen, and the following resolution was passed: “By the board of aldermen of the city of New Bern in session at its reg ular meeting Feb. 7, 1905. “Resolved, That whereas the elec tric light plant of the city was built by the city by virtue of a popular vote in Its favor and “Whereas, the water and sewer plants were bought by the city in pur suance of a vote of the people upon the question submitted to them: Therefore, be it “Resolved, that the board of aider men request the General Assembly of North Carolina and our Representa tive and Senators therein, that no act be passed allowing the electric light plant or the water and sewer works of the city to be sold without the prop osition being first submitted to a vote of the people at a legal election and a majority vote in favor thereof. “And the terms of any such sale ought to be made known to tlie peo ple in the resolution submitting the question and no sale should be author ized upon other terms than those so submitted. “And the city attorney is hereby di rected td present this resolution im mediately to our Senators and Repre sentatives and through them t<< the General Assembly.” DISC LAI ME) l IT It >M K KAi IX S. Says He Did Not \V«e in Favor of Separate statehood for New .Mexico. (By the Associated Russ.) Washington. Feb. B.—The Senate to day received from Mr. Kearns, a <iis claimor cf Hie vote in favor of sepa rate statehood for New Mexico, which the records for yesterday credited him with. He said that he had been mis understood by the clerks and that he had voted against the provision. Sev eral Senators corroborated his state ment. but a number asserted that they had understood him to vote for the amendment. Mr. Bacon took the floor on a point of order concerning the status of Mr. Kearns’ amendment to the Stat-hood bill for the annexation of a pa t of Arizona to Utah. He said that the 1»i 11 as prepared for transmission I > the House includes that amendment, while he contended that that provision nad gone out with tin* other provisions re lating to Arizona and New Mexico under iiis motion. Mr. Lodge said that in order t • < m rect the mistake if it is such it wmtid be neee.ssaiy t< rc-eall the bill. The Senate spent almost an hour in connection with ’he House of Rept venial ives it’ canvassing the Rresiqen iial volt, and the remainder <►; the session was devoted to executive busi ness. Tlie Senate adjourned until (-mor row. Appointed by The Problem. (By the •Associated Press. * Washington. Feb. 8. —The Presidt nt today sent to the Senate the following nominations: William L. Short, of Mississippi, to be collector of customs for the district of Vicksburg. Miss. Postmasters: Georgia. Li m R. Wimberly. Abbeville; Thomas A. Jones, Elbcrton. Tennessee, Daniel w. Starnes, Lawrenceburg. RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 9. 1905. FROM THE WASTES OF THE 1C! OCEAN The Life Boat of the Da mara Comes In. THE MISSING APPEAR Exhausted With Toil. Their Forms Sheathed in Ice. They are Drawn to Land and to Glowing Hearthstones of Hospi table Homes. (By tlie Associated Press.) Halifax, N. S., Feb. S.—After bat tling for twelves hours in an open boat with tlie temperature two de grees below zero and a mighty gale lashing tlie sea, Captain Gorst, three passengers and ten of the crew of the ill-fated Furness liner Danutra, have reached Pleasant Point in safe ty. The news of their safe arrival was received here late today in a telephone message from Musquodo bolt Harbor, twelve miles from the point of landing. The news was brought to Musquo dobolt after a hard day’s travel through almost impassable snow drifted roads,- by one of the crew, who landed in the first boat that left the wreck yesterday. He telephoned the agents here that Captain Gorst and the others in the second life boat, which had been reported missing, reached Pleasant Point just before dark last evening. The seamen re ported that all in the Captain’s life boat were badly frost bitten and ex hausted. some of them being so be numbed from the cold that they had to be lifted out of their seats. The landing was effected with the greatest difficulty and all in the boat were thoroughly drenched by the big breakers. Every person was encased with thick ice from head to fool. Nearby houses were opened up to the sufferers, but it is not known wlieth* or or not any of them will succumb. It will be several days before the sur vivors can bo brought to this city. Mrs. Prowes, the woman passenger who was inthe boat bore up under the trying ordeal wonderfully well and endured the great hardship with fortitude. She encouraged the men when they were almost overcome by the cold and wearied with constant work at the oars. When near the landing, tlie rowers were so fatigued that they could not force the boat through the surf, and the men on shore waded out and dragged the boat in. WRAPPED IN SLEET. Half a C ontinent Under •» Glassy Man tle That Benumbs the Pulse of Business. (By the Associated Press.) Louisville, Ky.. Feb. 8. —With rain and sleet falling over nearly every mile of country from the Ohio river to New Orleans the usual avenues of wire communication which have been demoralized xii*ce Sunday, today went from bad to worse. Nearly every branch of commercial life felt the in terruption and the prospects for bet ter conditions are not promising. Cloudy weather, with rain, sleet* or snow prevails from the Dakotas to the Gulf of Mexico, where, with warmer weather, a heavy rain has been falling for 4 8 hours. A storm area is moving in over the Central Gulf region. The indications are for warm rains over the entire district south of the Ohio during the .next 36 hours, which it is expected will raise all streams and rivers and start the ice which has bound many of them in a tight clasp for several weeks. The telegraph and telephone com panies are lighting against tremendous odds. Enormous quantities of new material are required in a widely scattered area and difficulty is expect ed in finding workmen. Business is accepted only subject to indefinite de lay. The loss in revenues to the tele graph companies and to thy broker age houses controlling leased wires, is enormous. The small armies of linemen sent out in every direction to repair the damage are handicapped by the continued rain and sleet. Wires are no sooner strung than accumu lated ice snaps them. The broken ice covered wires but added weight on the poles and many poles also fell to the ground. It is believed that it will be a month before communication is re sumed over regular routes. It is esti mated. also, that with the present large force of men it will be ten days' before the wires are restored between Chattanooga and Atlanta alone, to say nothing of repairing miles of broken wires and broken poles throughout Mississippi, Arkansas. Texas. Louis iana. Florida. Georgia and Kentucky. Reports from Arknsas and Texas are that the temperature is rising. The demoralization to telegraph and telephone wires continues and com• i municatinn w ith many points in sev- \ eral sections of the :4outh is uncer- ! tain. Natchez. Miss., has been shut off from the world since Saturday last. Vicksburg, Miss., was cut off for two days and nothing has been heard from Shreve- ort, La . since yesterday A special from Mobile reports gen eral rains in Alabama and all rivers are booming. Chattanooga renorts a slow and cold rain and telegraph and telephone lines in a demoralized condition. All trains are delayed and street cars are interfered with. The Tennessee river is rapidly rising. Knoxville reports the streets there (Continued on i’age Six.) RENOS SHIELD OF GREENE, MOB Privy Council Sets Habeas Corpus Aside. ALSO LASHES CARON The Extradition Trial Halted by the Writ of the Canadian Judge De manding the Bodies of Greene and Gaynor Will Now Go Forward. (By tlie Associated Press.) London. Feb. B.—The Privy Council rendered its decision this morning : n the Greene-Gaynor case, in favor of the American government. The council reversed the two judg ments of Justice Caron, of Quebec, of August, 1902, and ordered the respond ents to pay the costs of ‘he appeal. The council’s decision caustically criti cises the action of Justice Ci ron in releasing Greene and Gaynor and Ca ron’s “extraordinary intervention, and adds; “Where a prisoner is brought be fore a competent tribunal charged with an extradition offence, and is remanded for the express purpose of. affording the prosecution an oppor tunity of bringing forward evidence 'whereby the accusation is to be sup ported, if in such a ease upon a writ Os habeas corpus, a learned judge treats a remand warrant as a nullity and proceeds to adjudicate tlie ease t"l though the whole evidence was efore him it would paralyze the ad ministration of justice and render it impossible for proceedings in ** .tradi tion to bo effective.” The decision simply reverses Jus tice Caron’s judgments atd leaves Greene and Gaynor under remand as before Justice Caron intervened. j *_ Jehu F. Gaynor ami Benjamin 1). -Greene wi re indicted in Savannah, (fit.. December s. 189 D, charge l with em bezzlement and defrauding the Uni ted States government, together with Captain Oberlin M. Carter, in the per formance of government contracts for the improvement of the Savannah river and other river and harbor work in that district, the illicit profits be ing estimated at $2,000,000. Gaynor and Greene were arrested in New York. They contested extradi tion to Goqrgia. and when ttm United Suites commissioner decided that they j must go to that State and plead to the | indictments, they fled to Canada. They hud been at liberty on $40,000 bail each and this was forfeit.'l. Efforts to extradite Gaynor and Greene from Montreal were progressing fav aably and the extradition commission was sitting in Montreal when Gaynor and 1 Greene went to Quebec. A question | arose as to whether they could be i brought back and detectives kidnapped them and tock them to Montreal. There was a big legal fight over this action and a Quebec judge issued a writ of habeas corpus which was served on the jailor at Montreal, who delivered up the prisoners without no tification to the extradition tribunal, land permitted them to oe rushed back to Quebec. Efforts to quash the writ cf habeas corpus under which they had been returned were denied by Justice Caron. After a long legal con troversy Gaynor and Greene obtained their liberty within the limits of the province of Quebec. The United States government then appealed to the Privy Council of England, the highest court in that country. The Trial to Follow. (By the Associated Press.) \ Montreal, Feb. 8. —Judge LaFon** taiim. extradition commissioner, before whom the case was being heard on its merits at the time of the habeas corpus proceedings, said today: “Unless something unforseen oc curs the sheriff of Quebec will now nave to deliver the prisoners to Gov-j ertior Vallee at the Montreal jail and they will then he b 'ought before me and the regular trial, halted by the writ of habeas corpus will be recom menced. I shall then upon the evi dence submitted decide whether or not there is sufficient grounds for extraditing the accused. 1 presume, however, that nothing vhuteve • will) be done until the receipt in Quebec of the official papers announcing the decision of lie judicial!committee." TIIEIR IMMEDIATE ARREST. It is tin* Understanding lien* That This May Follow. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Feb. B.—The State De partment received notice of the action of the Privy Council through the fol lowing cablegram from Ambassador Choate: “Court decided in our favor in re lation to Gsynor-Greene case. Opin ion rendered by Lord Chancellor. Also in case of the Kitty 1). versus the King, the court granted leave to appeal on condition of return of vessel to cus loqy." Although sufficient detail is not yet before the law ollieers here to warrant a final ( pinion as to the effect ; f the Privy Council deciison, the present un derstanding that it wii lrosult in the immediate re-arrest of Gaynor and Greene, who arc now at large in Que bec imc!*.r suvveilunco of Washington secret seiv<c< officers. There wiil be a re-opi ning\ of the extradition pro ceedings before Judge Andrews, which had been vacated by Justice Caron’s action and tlie officials here feel sure, that the request for extradition will be granted. Gaynor Greene are technically charged with obtaining government money unde: false pretenses and the application for extradition was denied in 1902 by Judge Caron on the ground that no such offense was set out in the extradition treaty. If the renewed application is granted the men will be brought to Atlanta, Ga., for trial on charges growing out of the misappro priation of government money in con nection with the river and harbor works on the Georgia coast under the administration of Captain Oberlin M. Carter. The attorney general speaking today ■of the decision of the Judicial Com mittee of the Privy Council in the Greene-Gayncr case, said that the var ious and obvious reasons, and espe cially before the receipt of the full text of the opinion, it isim possible to speak of its effect and the precise re sult upon the future program of the government toward the accused. “The government is, of course, greatly frat ified at the result,” he said. “It has always been convinced that the decis ion and action of Judge Caron in dis charging the defendants was erron eous and unjustifiable, and has been confident of sucess in its contentions before the Privy Council. It seems clear from the cable reports of the de cision that the jurisdiction of tin* Mon treal extradition commisisorier, Mr. LaFontaine, to issue a warrant of ar iest valid in Quebec, is sustained, and that, on teh other hand, Lion of Justice Andrews in remanding the prisoners to the Montreal jurisdic tion for tin? completion of LaFon taine’s inquiry, Justice Caron, while having jurisdiction to issue habeas cor pus, was bound to follow the remand. He was therefore in error in taking the case on the merits and discharging (Cnotinued on Page Six.) POU ON RATE BILL “He Correctly Sizes Up the Situation.’’ Letters From Over the State Asking Senator Simmons to Use His In fluence to Secure Immigrants From Austria. (Special to News and Observer.) Washington, D. C., Feb. S. —Today Representative *Pou delivered an able and exceedingly sensible speech on the railroad rate bill. He was followed closely by mem bers and gat levies and was warmly applauded and heartily congratulated on its conclusion. This speech made a profound im pression in the House and has been the subject of much discussion and exceedingly favorable comment since the adjournment tonight. Col. Bill Sterret the veteran Texas newspaper man, probably the gest known newspaper correspondent here, said to your correspondent, “Your man Pou has made the only speech worth a picaune on this question; he j correctly sized up the situation.”-* In fact Mr. Pou wully sustained his enviable reputation by this speech, he is easily one of the strongest speak ers in the House. Since the publication that Mr. Ival terbrunn, the Austrian immigration ! agent, would visit North Carolina in March for the purpose of selecting a location for immigrants from his country, Senator Simmons has re ceived a large number of letters from all over the State requesting him to use his influence with Mr. Kaiterbrunn to get him interested in the writer's sections. There is deep interest in this question, from the mountains to sea. General Julian S. Carr, of Durham, is here on private business. Mr. D. K. Pope, assayer of the mint and Mr. Jake F. Newell, late Repub lican candidate for Congress, both of Charlotte, are here. They say there is no political significance in their visit. Their doubtless is. Mr. Pope will apply for re-appointment to his present position and it is said Mr. Newell will u'pp' for a Federal posi tion outside of North Carolina, prob ably a consulate. false: exclaims miles. The ( barge That lie Sought (o Humil iate Jefferson Davis. (By the Associated Press.) Boston, Mass., Feb. 8. —In a state ment issued todav concerning tbe re cent discussion of the imprisonment of Jefferson Davis at Fortress Mon roe in 1865-6 General Nelson A. Miles says: “The matter has been agitated at different periods during the last forty yCars, but never before lias it been discussed in the halls of Congress. As far as my olficial action is concerned, it was directed by tlie highest, author ity; it received the approval of, and has never been questioned by my su periors or the government. 1 have no apology to offer of any kind to any person. The charge that the acts of the highest officials of the govern ment or myself were prompted for the purpose of humiliating Mr. Davis or the people who associated and sympa thized with him, is as puerile as it is utterly untrue. ‘■it is to be regretted that the high officials. President Johnson, Secretary | Stanton and Bantu, Judge Advocate General Holt and Major General Ha!- lack are not living in order that they might answer the vicious vituperation by which, their names are now as sailed. Still. 1 am sure that they act ed in good faith, and as they be lieved for the best interests of coun try upon the information then in their possession and the condition of the country at that time.” A woman takes up a great deal more room in a crowded street car than she does to a room with only her and a mouse in it. Price Five Cents. BOND ISSUE OF $500,000 ASKED Bill Providing for This In the Senate, PASSED SCALES’ BILL Quiet. Uneventful Day Passed in the House. No Discussions. But Unfa vorable Report was Made on Advance Liquor Bill, and Postponed. The innate was aroused from its slumber yesterday morning during the routine of reading the. new bills intro duced by the bill of Senator Charles A. Webb, of Buncombe, to authorize a bond issue of $500,000 The issue would be for the purpose of providing suffi cient funds to equip tlie State Hos pitals for the Insane, and the several State educational institutions with necessary permanent improvements. Mr. Scales made a strong and effec tive speech on his bill requiring the delivery of freight to conveyances with reasonable promptness. A fight was made on the speech before the com mittee to which it was referred, and certain concessions made to the repre sentatives of tiie various railways who opposed it with the definite and un qualified understanding that the rail roads would not offer further resis tance to the measure when it should be reported formally to the Senate. But the railroads holding out set their machinery to work in the Senate and opposed the bill regardless absolutely of any and all promises, and this false ness seemed to inspire Mr. Seoles with renewed determination and power, and he fought the opposition to the last ditch, finally winning, and his bill passed with an overwhelming ma jority. / Mr. Mason, of Northampton, offered a resolution that the rate of taxation ought to loe lowered, in ‘some way. consistent with the public welfare. Mr. Fousheo introduced a new bill to enlarge the powers of the Corpora tion Commission relative to telegraph, telephone and express companies. A bill was introduced by Mr. Elling ton to relieve Mr. W. 11. Worth, late Treasurer of the loss sustained by the failure of the First National Bank of Asheville, and the Batik of Guilford of Greensboro. SENATE—THIRTY-FIRST DAY. The Senate convened at 11 o'clock. Lieutenant Governor Winston presid ing, and praver was made bv Rev. M. M. Marshall, D. D.. of Christ Epis copal church. Petitions. Announcements of petitions were made by: Strlngfield, from the inmates of the Soldiers’ Home, ninety-three in num ber. denying charges of A. C. Smith. Pensions. New Bills. The following new bills were intro duced: By Grady, to amend chapter 548 of the public laws of 1903, decreasing the salary of the brigadier generals. Military Affairs. By Grady, to amend chapter 374 of the public laws of 1899 to increase the rank of quartermaster general, etc. Military Affairs. By Ellington, to relieve William 11. Worth, late Treasurer, of the loss sus tained by the failure of the First Na tional Bank of Asheville, the Western Carolina Bank cf Asheville, and the Bank of Guilford. Greensboro. The bill Is as follows* Whereas, William IT. Worth, late Treasurer of North Carolina, did, in pursuance of the laws of the State, de posit, ip the First National Bank of Asheville. In the Western Carolina Bank of Asheville, and in the Bank of Guilford, Greensboro, to the credit of the .State, certain funds of tlie State, as was customary with his predecessors in office, said banks having been de positories of the former State Treas urer and all of said batiks having failed; and after having given credit for ail dividends llaid by the revenues thereof, there stul remains unpaid of the funds deposited in the First Na tional Bank of Asheville, the sum of $1,900: of the funds so deposited in the Western Carolina Bank of Ashe ville, tin* sum of $67.50; and of th ■ sum deposited in the Bank of Guil ford of Greensboro, the sum of $2 32.50: now. Therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: Section 1. That the Auditor of the State is hereby directed to credit on the books of bis- office the amount of money still due' from the banks afore said, amounting to $2,600, and tin* state Treasurer is directed to make a like credit on the books of bis office, and that William 11. Worth, late Treasurer of the State, be absolved and relieved from any further liabil ity for and on account ol tbe monies deposited in the banks as set forth in the preamble to this act. See. 2. That any dividends here after paid op said deposits shall b<* paid to the /State Treasurer and turned into the general fund. Finance. By Webb: To incorporate tbe Ashe ville & Northern Railway Company. Rail roads. By Mason, of Northampton: A joint resolution that the rate of taxa tion ought to be lowered. Whereas, the assessment of property for taxa tion has been greatly increased, an I the tax levied thereon has become burdensome: Be it resolved by the Senate, tlie House of Representatives concurring, (Continued on Page Three.)
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