The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-17
NOT TO SIT WITH
DIRECTING BOARD
Supts. or Principals of the
State Asylums.
A. A.&M.COLLEGE NEEDS AID
The Senate Passes lhe Bill Which Senator Glenn
Introduced to Repeal the Act Creating
The Examiners of State In
s!ituticn.
A. & M.COLLEGE NEEDS AID

Stution.
After an hour and thirty minutes q
law making yesterday the Senate con-
cluded it had enough for one day and
adjourned.
There was barely a rifle of speech
making and OF all the talking during the
day the Reading Clerk did the most of it,
A little humor crept in when Senator
Holton introduced a bill. 1t was to re-
peal section and chapter of the laws
of some year. and when it came up on
the calendar ready for a second reading,
Mr.. Holton. in answer to inquiries. said:
1t is only bill to permit the hunting
of foxes in Wilkes, and ex-senator Spain
hour is anxious to hunt gray foxes and
red foxes there, and this bill will let
him do so.'' Somebody laughed and then
some others laughed to keep him COM
pany.
Senator Glenn's bill to repeal the act
creating the Board of Examiners OF
State Institutions came up for it's third
reading, and no one said nay. 1t goes
to the House and if it is saved there
must arise a champion there. for the
Senate has done it's part towards the
massacre of the Investigating Board.
The bill introduced by Senator Hen
derson providing for a ten days notice
In place of a thirty days notice in con-
tested elections of members of the Gen
eral Assembly when such elections are
to fill vacancies is still on the books.
1t came up for a third reading yestel-
day, but Senator Justice said that he had
an amendment to offer and that some
legal points in the bill needed looking
into. An amendment was offered by
Senator Holton that the bill apply to ex-
listing cases, so that the Buckner- Griffith
contest come under it's provisions Sen
ator Justice said his motion was not to
delay the matter and the bill was refer
red to the Judiciary Committee.
Senator Glenn introduced a bill to
amend the charter of the Durham and
Charlotte Railroad. 1t is to allow that
road the privilege of extending a road
from some point on its line in Chatham
county to Greensboro.
The directorate of the asylums of the
State will not be appointed as heretofore
II the bill presented by Senator Hicks. or
Granville, becomes a law 1t provides
that each director of the North Carolina
Insane Asylum, the Western North Ca
olina Asylum, the Eastern North Carolina
Asylum, the North Carolina School for
the Deaf and Dumb. and the North Car
olina Institution for the Education Of
the Blind be hereafter appointed for six
years by the Governor as their terms
expire by and with the advice and cor
sent of the Senate, and is to receive
$4.OO day and actual travelling expenses
Tor attending board meetings When the
Senate is not in session the Governor is
10 appoint to fill vacancies, which the
next Senate may accept or reject. No
more than three directors of anv one
institution are to come from one county.
Inc Dill also provides that no superin
tehdent or principal of any-of the insti-
tutions is to be ex-officio the secretary
OF the board nor shall any superinten-
dent or principal sit with the board ex-
cept when called on to give information
Senator Hicks says that he has in mind
no particular institution in presenting
this bill. but that his experience in con
nection with various boards, and the am
pointing of these makes such a bill as
the one he proposes of value to the best
interests of the various institutions
The subject of the equipment and
maintenance of the A. and M. College
is contained in bill introduced by Sen
ator Norris. 1t asks for an appropriation
OF $4,000 annually for two years to CON-
plete and equip buildings now being
erected; 5000 annually for current ax-
penses in addition to the present appro-
priation. 1t is stated that unless an in
crease of income is obtained the Textile
department will have to be abandoned.
the Agricultural and Mechanical Depart
ments curtailed and 200 students sent
home
1t is further given out in connection
with this bill that the income of the
college has not met the expenses in five
or six years, and that two years ago
these amounted to $20.521.62, paid off by
special legislative appropriations. The
student body has increased to 504, eX-
penses correspondingly, with tuition at
*zO a year, and 246 free tuition scholar
SHIPS. To run the Textile Department
$4,000 year is needed, the Agricultural
and Mechanical Departments have been
enlarged, there being eight times as
many agricultural students as there
Were two years ago. The deficit this
year is expected to exceed $S, 600.
Ihe $2o,OOO asked for the building fund
is 10 cover expenses on the new buill-
ings erected necessary for their compile
tion, the amount thus far expended s34.-
24S.O3 having been obtained on loans and
debts authorized by the Governor and
council of State. The debts caused by
fire are stated as amounting to s46,50O.
sENATE-THIRTY-F FIFTH DAY.
The Senate met at II o'clock yester-
day, Lieutenant Governor Turner pre-