The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-25
WATTS BILL
IS 5 z ASSED.
The Senate Votes Dow n All
Amendments Proposed.
COUNTY. SCHOOLS IN NEED
Unless the State Appropriations Made
Available by Prompt Legislative Ac-
tlon Many Country Schools
Will Be Closed.
.lls.l AZ.
(specinl to rne limos. Dispatch. )

sBE3@4 Especial TO Inc
RALEIGH, NJ CT, February 24-Ths
Senate tonight passed the Waits whis-
z key bill Just us 1t passed the House. The
amendments adopted this morning were
reconsidered and ali others, including
twenty-five providing that the act shall not
apply TO certain counties unless ratified
by the majority Of the qualified voters,
were voted down, 30 as to prevent the
necessity OF conference committee and
the possibility OF killing temperance leg.
ton Tho vote was II to u and three
pairs The act will go in effect July LIST.
The Senate at It's morning session
devoted two hours to the considcra-5
ton Of liquor legislation. Mr.. Hen
$derson offered the Watts bill as 1t
had passed the, House as substitute
for tho London bill. * rambling Discus
sion followed, during which amendments
were offered fixing the minimum popula-
ton Of towns In which Whiskey shall be
manufactured or sold at 300; prescribing
that the place Of delivery shall be con-
5strued to be the place of sale-this to
prevent the shipment OF liquor into pro-
hibited territory, ard allowing the manu-
facturc OF wine and sale in five gallon
lots in country when license is procured
Further consideration Of the bill was de-
ferred until tonight. The Senate voted
down the committee substitute to the
London bill. IS .i 5 Vi i
sCHOoI, APPROPRIATIONS.
When the Senate convened this morn
ing Mr.. London introduced resolution
reciting the fact that deficit in the State
treasury makes 1t impossible for the
State Superintendent of Public Instruc-s
ton to give any assurance to county
school authorities as to when, II at all,
the State appropriation will be available,
and that many schools must soon close
down IL something definite is not known
Tho resolution then authorizes the SUI
.perintendent to notify tho county officers
that, the good faith OF the Legislature Is
pledged for the payment Of the 100000.
Il Mr.. London asked that the resolution
DO put on It's aimmeda te passage, saying
Governor Aycock was anxious that this
be done. Opposition commended that this
would commit the Legislature to bond
issue. and insisted that the resolution be
referred to the Committee on Appropri-
atoms. The resolution was referred by
good majority vote.
The Senate at Its night session passed
the joint resolution introduced this morn
Committee, providing that the good faith
of the Legislature be pledged to the
payment Of the second 100000 for public
schools. This practically pledges the
Legislature to bond issue # It passes
the House.
,
The House spent good portion Of to-
days session in Committee Of the Whole
considering the revenue bill, beginning
with the tenth section, the preceding
ones having been adopted. "A large num-
Der Of sections were quickly disposed OF,
}tllera being no amendments. section 81,
prescribing license tax on physicians,
lawyers, ETC., evoked lengthy discussion.
opposition & urging the exemption Of
country physicians. Tho section was
finally adopted without change. Section
"a, prescribing uniform tax of SIS on un-
bers unjust After argument the section
was passed over for the present. Sec
ton IS, Imposing a tax of Sis on horse
traders, was amended TO s2 20 acton
was taken on sections % and ~, proVld-@
Ing the tax on incomes.
Mr. Morton introduced a bill to regu-a
late pilotage rates on the Cape Fear
River by reducing pilotage charges on
licensed coastwise vessels to 121-2 cents
per tom and making tia mtsdemea!nor.
punishable By S100 fine, for any. tug boat
or tow boat to discriminate between
licensed and unlicensed vessels in tow-
ago fees This, Mr.. Morton claims VIII
put Wilmington on a par with Norfolk.
There the pilots fee Is 10 cents per ton,
but the greater distance UP the cape
Fear, Mr.. Morton says. 1usdt1es the
extra q 10 cents per ton charges.
In the House tonight the following no
table bills were passed:
TO Incorporate the city OF Washington,
N. G.
10 incorporate WYnston-Snlem South
Bound Railway Company.
TO establish graded school at Weldon.
The House refused by vote Of IS to 81
to put tho joint resolution guaranteeing
the second 100000 for 1902 to public
schools. on Its immediate passage and
referred 1t to the Committee on Educa-
tion.