The news & observer., 1897-02-19
Railroad Commissioners Cant
Demand Passes.
RAILROADS MAY GIVE THEM
THE REFORM SCHOOL BILL PASS
Es THIRD READING.
TO INVESTIGATE THE LEASE
The Senate Appoints Committee to
Investigate the 80 Year Lease
--ls ii in Order to Secure
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% The House met at 10 o'clock.
There was an avalanche of bills.
These were introduced as follows:
By Pinnix. to amend the public school
law
BY Brown, to amend the act of 1901
making suit for violation of the fertili-
ger tax tag law void unless notice is
not within thirty days given the agricul-
tural department.
BY Cunningham, to impose a $40 penal
ty for killing mocking birds or robbing
their nests.
BY McCrary, tresolution), in behalf of
Sylvester Scoval, an American citizen un-
der arrest in Cuba.
BY Cram, to amend the charter of
Matthews in Mecklenburg county.
BY Ward, to forbid ex-Confederate
soldiers from receiving pension while
inmates of Soldiers Home.
BY nockery, to amend the charter of
Greenyille.
BY Sewers, for relief of Clarence Call.
sheriff of Wilkes.
by Craven, to impose a fine of $50 a
day for non-remoTal of obstructions to
passage of fish in streams.
BY Sutton, of New Hanover, to allow
the Wilmington street railway TO con-
selidate with the Wilmington, Newbern
and Norfolk railway running to or from
Wilmington.
BY Lyle, for relief of the sheriff of
Macon, also to require the attendance of
all children between the ages of ) and
IA at school.
BY Nelson, to provide for working con-
victs on the roads of Caldwell.
BY Chaplin, to amend the charter of
Dunn.
BY Bryan,-to repeal chapter 395, public
laws of 1895, allowing wire nets to be
placed across the mouth Of Cape Fear
river
By Chilcutt, to provide for the commit
ment of defendants by justices to the
public roads, the term to end when the
amount of fine and costs is worked out.
BY Chilcutt, to extend ward of the city
Of Greensboro, and providing forthe cleo
ton of aldermen by each ward on Il
separate ticket.
BY Sutton, of Cumberland, to establish
the relation ofmaster and servant be-
tween municipal corporations and their
employees.
BY Young, to pay the colored A. and
NJ College its pro rata share of the land
script fund.
BY Dancy, of Edgeeombe, to require
Eailways to carry bicycles as other bag
gage.
BY Whitener, to amend charter of
Berryville.
BY Hauser, to amend the Code, section
2S27, so as to make the stock impounding
fee 80 cents, and % cents day for car
Eng for impounded stock
BY Hileman. to allow Concord to vote
on the issue of bonds.
BY Hancock, to make $1.50 per 1000
feet the legal price Tor gas, not to be
exceeded; said gas to have a candle
power by burner being FIVE feet per
hour; andrequiring gas plant owners to
furnish sworn statements as to the guam
aity of gas furnished acity or town.
BY Marlborough, to extend chapter 30l
acts 1891, until 1900.
BY Dockery, to designate holidays Qe-
RdlJ JduudTy IL 1Ds
%, May 10, May 20, May 30, July 4,
first Monday in September, December
25, and all Saturdays from IL noon until
II midnight.
By Currie, to make misconduct at re-
figious worship msdemeanor, punish
able by $50 fine or thirty days imprison-
ment.
By Currie, to allow Lumberton to vote
on sewer bonds.
By Pool, to incorporate the Liberal
Agricultural and Industrial Institute at
Elizabeth City.
By Hileman, to require cotton mills to
pay their employees the second Saturday
night following their employment, and
making it unlawful to longer withhold
their wages; the offense to be a misde.
meanor, the penalty fine or Imprisonment.
By Leak. to submit to the voters of
Anson the matter Of an isue Of bonds for
road Improvement.
BY Peace, to amend the charter Of the
Southern Trust and Guarantee Compa-
ny, giving it all the power granted to the
Bank of Henderson.
By Price, to repeal the road improve
ment law so far as Union county Is con-
cerned
BY Pool, TO incorporate Roanoke lnstl-
tute, of the Roanoke Baptist Associa-
ton.
BY Price, to provide for road improve
atent III Union county.
BY Sutton, of Cumberland. to so amend
section 1928, the Code, By adding the
words "And any married woman who
undertakes to engage in business or to
contract and deal as if she were feme
sole without having first having become
practitioner, shall be guilty OF a misde-
neanor. and upon conviction shall be
fined $50 or imprisoned thirty days, or
at the courts discretion
By Peace, to incorporate Prince Hal
Lodge, A. f. and A. M.
BY Lusk, to make the Railroad Com.
mission a State Board OF equalization of
all taxes.
The bill to appropriate $1,000 to the
rolling exposition, known as North
Carolina on Wheels came up as a
special order, but was ra-referred t0