Mr. Andrew I). Raby, of Swain, was
put in nomination by Mr. McPeeters,
of Swain. The vote resulted as fol
lows: Swinson, 7."; Raby 26. A
number of private bills were intro
duced. The bill was passed to count the
ballots and inaugurate the Governor
next Tuesday (second and third reading-)
At 1 :21 the House adjourned until
Monday morning at 11 o'clock.
FIFTH DAY
justices a! the peace elected Ut yr
shall end on the first Monday in t.
cembr, 1st.
By Pearson, of Burke, to prohibit
railroad companies from defeating or
lessening competition, (it forbids
any railroad company to purchase or
lease any competing line of railroad
or to enter into any contract with a
competing line, calculated to defeat or
lesson competition in this State; that
any citizen may bring auit to annul
such agreements by railway compan
ies, or where the State is a stockholder,
a citizen or the (iovernor may prose
cute.) By Sutton, to prohibit the sale of
cigarettes in this State, and to pro
hibit the giving of the same; the pun
ishment to be fine or imprisonment cr
both.
By Sutton, to protect the public from
baggage smashers. (It requires also
me provision or suitable waiting
rooms, aad for the publication of
schedules in newspapers.)
r.ynution, to provide that in ap
peals to a higher court, all the evi
dence shall, if desired, be sent to the
higher courts.
By Cox, instructing Senators and
Representatives in Congress to use all
their efforts against any further ex
tension of Civil Service reform and
to so modify the present law as to
prevent anything like life tenure in
oflice.
The Senate resolution raising a coni
mitteee to investigatecbarges of brib
ery in the Senatorial contest was
unanimously adopted.
