The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-02-25
Doctors Won't
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pension roll
Foy. of Pender: To provide for inn
mediate sale of fruits and vegetables
seized under claim and delivery proceed
| ings.
Blount. of Washington: To regulate
| fishing in Roanoke River.
Alexander, Of Meeklenburg: To regu-
late the liquor traffic.
| Alexander To regulate saloons.
Hinton, of Pasquotank: To provide for
the better working OF roads in Pasquo-
| tank county
| Hinton: To amend chapter 4O4, Laws
of 1901, for the relief of T. p. Wilcox.
late sheriff Of Pasquotanl1 county.
! Harrington, of Moore: To incorporate
Beulah Hill Baptist church.
| Guion, of Craven: To prevent Telling
of trees in Little Swift creek
Goode, of Cleveland. To authorize the
Commissioners of Kings Mountain to is
sue bonds.
Goode: To lay off and establish a ney
county by the name of King.
| MacCall, of Davidson To amend the
charter of Thomasyllie.
| Morton, of New Hanover: To protect
claims in New Hanover.
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vent drunkenness and disorderly con-
duct.
! Bowman, of Mitchell: To appoint addi-
tional Justices of the Peace in Mitchell
county.
| Newland, of Caldwell To pay wages of
deceased employees to widows or next Of
kin.
| Newland: To incorporate certain
in, C11J
and Burke counties
Alexander, of Tyrrell: Increase num-
Der of County Commissioners of Tyrrell
county.
Alexander: Prohibit liquor within three
miles of q certain church.
Kinsland, of Haywood: To amend chap
ter 2S5, Laws of 1899, relating to water
mills in Haywood.
PREVENT CARRYING PISTOLS.
House Bill, to regulate the carrying,
manufacture and sale ofhiring of fire
arms.
! 1t prevents the use of pistols less than
| twenty inches in length and three pounds
in weight Mr.. Daniel, of Warren, author
of the bill, explained that its object
was TO stop the carrying of concealed
weapons.
Governor Doughton questioned the con-
stitutionality of such a law, unless it
related only to the carrying of concealed
weapons.
! Mr.. Smith moved the bill be referred
to the Judiciary Committee, and this pre-
walled
MENTAL ANGUISH BILL.
Mr.. Guion's bill to allow damages for
mental anguish in cases of delay in the
delivery or transmitting of kilograms,
passed second reading, and Mr.. Morton
! objected to it going on third reading.
| Mr.. Guon moved suspension of rules
Carried. Mr.. Morton protested against
the passage of the bill.
| The bill passed its. third reading by
a vote of As to 10.
/ REVENUE BILL
Then the House wqht into Committee
of the Whole and took up the Revenue
| Bill once more, adopting without dis
cussion sections 10 20 % machinery for
| the collection of the inheritance tax.
INCOME TAX.
Then came the income tax There is
change in the form of question asked by
the tax-lisrer this year.
The question that will he asked now
is; WAS your gross income from
salaries, fees. trade, profession and prop
erty not taxed, any or all of them, for
the year ending June LIST, in excess of
one thousand dollars? If so, what was
that excess ?"
Judge Graham thought there ought to
be some way provided for the tax-lister
to find out if the taxpayer is telling
the truth as to his income.
The section was passed over for awhile.
Mr. King proposed to strike out section
25 that no city, town or county shall
| levy an income tax. He said the coun-
| ties needed money as much as the State,
and were constantly asking the Legisla-
ture TO allow them to levy special taxes.
He proposed to substitute section pro-
vding that one-half of the income tax
go to the State and one-half to the
county.
This was voted down.
Then Schedule B was taken up and
sections q and % relating to theatres
and travelling companies were adopted.
also sections 80 and 80, concerning cir
cuses manageries and other entertain
ments.
TAX DOCTORS OR NOT.
Section 81. the five dollars license tax
on attorneys, physicians and dentists,
caused quite lengthy discussion.
First Mr.. King again did not see why
a county or town could not get some OF
this tax.
! DR.. Alexander, of Mecklenburg. offered
an amendment providing that the tax
! should not apply to physicians locating
in the country or in towns of less than
500 people He spoke of the expenses of
the country physicians. They had to
! furnish medicines, which cost from $500
to $500 a year. They made no extra
charge for this medicine. Moreover they
lose a larger part of their labor than
any other class of men. Fully one-third
| to one-fourth of their work was done
without remuneration.
| DR.. Alexander, of Tyrrell, opposed any
change in the law. The physicians of
North Carolina, he declared, did not wish
that any discrimination should be made.
There was no law that compelled doe
tor keep on making professional calls
M nay for