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T H VOL. III. RALEIGH, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1907. NO. 38 Enterprise,, eig: BILKINS LETTER. Bilkins Attends the Session of the; Legislature -Lobbying to Get an Appropriation to Enable He and Bob to Reach the North role, but Gets Sick Soon Afterward Betsy ; to Take a Course in a Business College Bob Getting Better Trip Around the World Postponed. Correspondence Raleigh Enterprise. Bilkinsville, N. C, Jan. 17, 1907. The highest ambishun ov my life wuz ter becum a member ov the Legislatur, but hit seems ter hev bin my misfortune ter miss ther nomy nashun by erbout 1 vote; however, I kin lobbie among 'em, an' I am now tryin' ter git a millyon dollar appro priashun to enable Bob an' me to buy Eskimo dogs and sledds in order ter be abul ter reach the North Poll, when we git ter Greenland. But the committee having the funds in hand sit down on the propysishun as not being germane ter North Carolina business. This axion of our solons give me such a shock that I hed ter take ter my bed, an' Betsy iz doin' awl she kin ter git my narves back ter a North Poll normal. Bob iz improvin' and iz now con valessent, but he will hev ter wate till I regane my equilibygum before we start on our trip erround the wurld. Betsy hez bin botherin me erbout wantin' ter take a coorse in King's Business College. She sez she wants sumpthin' to enable her ter make a livin' while me an' Bob air away .on tht trip erround th wurld, She will larn steenografy, tiperitin', book keepin', kommershal law an' Spen serian penmanship. Hit almost tuk my breth, she wanted to larn so many different "branches on the tree ov edycashun." But I giv my con sent an' jist az soon az me an' Bob air able ter start on our trip Betsy can take her fule coorse. The wether haz bin so warm here lately that Bob haz bin eatin' new spring grass. He thinks he might git good pickin' in Capitul Square while the Legisla tur iz in session. The representativ frum Bilkins ville will interduce a bill ter prevent tadpoles frum turnin' ter frogs, az the frog market would soon be over run an' that industry would hev ter be marketted at ruinous prices. Yours az ever, ZEKE BILKINS. JUSTICE BILL ON RAILROAD. A Relative of Both. An Irishman in an adjoining State boarded a train in which every seat except one was occupied by two peo ple. This seat had as occupants a young sport and a large shaggy dog. The Irishman stood by the seat ex pecting that room would be made for him. The young man did not take the hint, but regarded the other, who was poorly dressed, with ill disguised scorn. At last the Irishman remark ed: "That's a foine-looking dog ye have with ye. What breed is it?" "It's a cross between a skunk and an Irishman." was the sneering answer. "Sure, then, it's a relative of both of us," was the instant retort. Miss Ada Mae Felts, of Charlotte, and Mr. Sam E. Sloop, of Mt. Ulla, were married Wednesday morning, at the home of the bride's parents, Charlotte. Would Fix Rate on Three Roads at Two Cents An Eight Hour Day Makes it Unlawful to Permit Train--men or Telegraph Operators to Work Longer Than Eight Hours Out of Twenty-Four Greater Pow ers to Corporation Commission. Friday morning Speaker Justice requested that Mr. Murphy, of Row an, take the chair, and he then in troduced several bills, one relating to public service corporations, one as to railroad rates, and the third giv ing greater powers to the Corporation Commission. The bill relating to public service corporations provides that adequate service shall be maintained, and for bids discrimination in favor of per sons or places against other persons or places similarly situated, and for violation of the same, imposes a penalty against the corporation in fa vor of the person discriminated against of $500 for each act of dis crimination, and makes the corpora tion so discriminating guilty of a crime and subject to a fine of not less than $500, and the officers or in dividuals connected with the corpora tions who permit or assent to such discrimination guilty of a misde meanor, and the offense is made punishable by fine or Imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court. It makes it unlawful for any rail road company to permit any member of a train crew, or any telegraph op erator or . person entrusted with the movement of trains to work more than members of the train crew may work more than eight hours in twenty-four in order to bring their train to its destination when the train is on a run scheduled to be made and which is ordinarily made in eight hours. It is made unlawful for any per son to accept any free pass, transpor tation or frank, or accept any service from any corporation transporting passengers or transmitting messages, unless such person pays cash for ser vice, and the same corporation charges all other persons under like circumstances. The corporation or the officers of it causing or permitting any such em ployee in the classes named to work for more than eight hours per day, except is permitted in order to bring train to destination, shall be ad judged guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to fine and imprisonment. The railroad rate bill provides for a two-cent rate on certain roads and a two and a half cent rate on other roads. The Southern, Seaboard Air Line and the Atlantic Coast Line are in the two cent class and the small roads are on a two and a half and three cent basis, according to the to tal passenger earnings of each road per mile, as reported to the Corpora tlon Commission for the year 1905. The third bill confers on the Cor poration Commission plenary power to control and regulate the public service corporations in the State. Down in Kentucky a man served twenty-seven months in the pen! ten tiary longer than he should have done, "as a, result of an. oversight of the judge." Yet what can he, do about it? New York World. MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE. Senate and House Met Wednesday There is One Independent in the Lower House Only Four Republi can Senators Name of Member From Polk Not Known Here Yet, But He is a Radical. Below is printed a list of the mem bers of the General Assembly which met here Wednesday. It is complete, with the exception of the Representa tive for the House from Polk County. All efforts made thus far to learn the name of the Republican member elected from that far western shire have been unavailing, and now it is not likely that his name will be known here until he appears to qual ify next week and take the sorry seat assigned him. In the list below the Democratic members are not marked. The Re publicans are designed by the letter "R" after their names, and the one independent has the letter "I" after his name. It will be seen that there will be four Republicans in the Senate and twenty-one Republicans and one In dependent in the House. The list, as it has been given to the State printer is to be issued for the convenience of the capitol offi cials, and is as follows: Senate.:'. . First District Roscoe W. Turner, Elizabeth City; A. P. Godwin, Gates- ville. Sfip.ond District Harrv W. Stubbs. -WlHhmrston; R. D. Etheridge, Manteo. Third District C. W. Mitchell, Aulander. Fourth District W. E. Daniel, Weldon. Fifth District W. Stamps How ard, Tarboro. Sixth District J. L. Fleming, Greenville. . Seventh District T. T. Thome, Rocky Mount; J. D. Dawes, Elm City..: Eighth District Y. T. Ormond, Kinston; J. W. Burton, Jacksonville. Ninth District B. F. Aycock, Fre mont. Tenth District Thomas Perett, Faison. Eleventh District George H. Bel lamy, El Paso. Twelfth District Jackson Geer, Whiteville. Thirteenth District N. A. Mc Lean, Lumberton. Fourteenth District J. W. Mc Lauchlin, Raeford. Fifteenth District T. W. Harring ton, Harrington; C. M. Wilson, Wil son's Mills. Sixteenth District John C. Drew ry, Raleigh. Seventeenth District Tasker Polk, Warrenton. Eighteenth District A. A. Hicks, Oxford. Nineteenth District J. W. Gra ham, Hillsboro; C. H. King, Black wells. ' Twentieth District R. D. Reid, Wentworth. ' Twenty-first District J. Allen, Holt, Oak Ridge. Twenty-second District A. A. F. Seawell, Jonesboro; J. R. Rives, Goldston. Twenty-third District J. R. Blair, Troy. ' Twenty-fourth District J. F. Efird, Albemarle ; R. B. Redwine, Monroe. Twenty-fifth District-H. N. Pharr, Charlotte; W. R. Odell, Concord. Twenty-sixth District Whitehead Kluttz, Salisbury. Twenty-seventh District J. C. Buxton, Winston-Salem. Twenty-eighth., District J. Guy Carter (R.), Dobson. Twenty-ninth District Solomon Brown (R.), Hamptonville. Thirtieth District Zeb. V. Long, Statesville. Thirty-first District J. F. Rhein hardt, R. F. D., Stanly. Thirty-second District O. F. Ma son, Dallas. Thirty-third District W. A. Mau ney, King's Mountain; T. T. Ballin ger, Tryon. Thirty-fourth District W. F. Wood, Marion; B. F. Davis, Mor ganton. Thirty-fifth District E. F. Lovill, Boone. Thirty-sixth District J. E. Burli son (R.), Marshall. Thirty-seventh District C. A. Webb, Asheville. Thirty-eighth District W. E. Breese, Jr., Brevard. Thirty-ninth District Allen H. Dickey (R.), Culberson. ; House. Alamance Dr. J. A. Pickett, (R.) , Burlington, R. F. D. Alexander A. A. Watts, Taylors ville. Alleghany - R. A. Doughton, Sparta. Anosn J. A. Lockhart, Wades boro. :;' Ashe G. L. Park, Jefferson. Beaufort W. K. Jacobson, Wash ington; B. F. Hooker, Idalia. Bertie Thomas Gilliam, Windsor. Bladen F. D. McLean, Bladen boro. Brunswick C. Ed. Taylor (R.), Southport. BuncombeZebulon Weaver, Ashe ville; R. J. Gaston, Candler. Burke J. T. Avery, Morganton. Cabarrus M. B. Stickley, Con cord. ' Caldwell W. N. Harshaw (R.), Lenoir. Camden D. H. Tillett, Shiloh. Carteret M. L. Davis, Beaufort. Caswell Julius Johnson, Yan cey ville. Catawa M. H. Yount, Hickory. Chatham H. M. London, Pitts boro. Cherokee S. W. Davidson, To motla. Chowan C. S. Vann, Edenton. Clay Dr. R. T. Coleman (R.) , Hayesville. Cleveland O. M. Mull, Shelby. Columbus Donald McRacken, Whiteville. Craven W. C. Brewer, Vance boro. Cumberland Dr. J. W. McNeill, Hope Mills; H. H. Bolton, Fayette ville. Currituck Pierce Hampton, Wa terlily. Dare C. R. Pugh (I.), Wanchese. Davidson G. F. Hankins, Lexing ton. Davie R. T. Grant (R.), Mocks ville. . Duplin H. D. Williams, Kenans- .ville, . Durham J. S. Manning, Durham. Edgecombe Dr. M. B. Pitt, Old Sparta; P. C. Vestal, Rocky Mount. (Continued on Page 3.)
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