The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-03-14
SENATE.

The calendar was taken up. An act
to make legitimate certain children
(Annie Laurie and Joseph Mckinley
of j )seph B9anson, of Greene county,
which had passed third reading in the
House, was tabled by the Senate on
the ground that it's enactment would
be unconstitutional. The bill to abolish
the criminal circuit composed of the
counties Of Madison, Henderson, B IN
combs and Mcdowell passed final read
ing, as did bill to establish a dispen.
sary at Selma.
A bill to authorize the commission
ers of Caswell county to levy a special
tax, passed final reading. Bills also
passed to authorize the commissioners
of Alexander county to build a court
house and Jail; to investigate the De
partment of Agriculture after ADJOURN
ment; to authorize the commissioners
of Mecklenburg county to issue bonds
for the improvement of roads; to
amend and validate the charter of the
townsville Railroad; to make Labor
Day a legal holiday; joint resolution to
pay the expenses OF the sub committee
to the penal institutions; to repeal
chapter rs, laws of 1891. (This repeats
the ''Peg.leg" Williams tax.
The bill to reduce the salaries of Ger
tain State off oers came up as a special
order at 11;3O.
The salary of the State Treasurer
grst came under consideration. In
the bill as it passed the House this sal.
sary is reduced to So $50. Senator
Hairston spoke strongly in favor of a
general reduction of salaries of State
thcers, and said that the party was
pledged in the last campaign to reduce
such salaries. This was opposed by
Senator Glenn. He thought the State
officers received too little as the matter
originally stood, and he could not see
the fairness in reducing the salary Of
the Treasurer and leaving the Cover
nor's salary, say, intact.
The salaries of the stewards at the
various hospitals was also discussed in
this connection. Hairston again advo-
eating a reduction. The bill reduces
the salaries of these officers to $3.50.
Glenn said that it required an expert
to do the work, and that a good man
could not be had for this salary. Sena
tor Travis seemed wearied with the at
tempt at reduction, and offered the
following amendment: Resolved,
That the Offices of North Carolina be
put up to the lowest bidder from Gov
ernor down"
In answer to a statement made by
Senator Hairston relative to reduction
being a duty to the tax payers, Sena
tor Glenn declared that when the sal,
aries were fixed the taxable property
of the State was $26, 600, 900 and now it
is $500. 900. 600. He thought the State
needed good men-its b~rainiest men
and that the legislature should not
bubble about a SUM necessary to their
living.
Senator Osborne said that he had not
seen anything in the bill that he could
conscic2atiously vote for. He wanted
some little time to take the matter into
consideration, and he therefore sug-
gested that the bill be referred to the
Senate judiciary committee. 1t was
go ordered.
The Senate then took up the Jim
Grow" car bill, which had already
passed the House.
The bill passed final reading. S9na.
tor Hairston, from Davie, was the only
Senator who voted against the passage
of the bill. He explained his dissent,
ing vote by saying that the bill was net
what he wished and that he would
vote no rather than compromise.
For a full explanation of this bill
see proceedings of House, forty-third
day, February 22I, in The Progressive
Farmer of February 28jh.
HOUSE.
The calendar was quickly taken up.
Bills passed third readings as follows:
To allow Person county to fund it's
debt; to allow Tarboro to establish an
electric light plant, waterworks and
sewerage; to allow Monroe township,
Union county, to issue road improve
ment bonds, $50, OOO; to establish graded
schools at Mount Olive.
Mr.. Gattis moved a reconsideration