The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-18
THE OLD CARPET
IS REALLY TO co
Mr.. Drewry's Bill to Reno
vate Capitol Passed.
IN HONOR OF GEN. R. E. LEE
To investigate Charges Of Cruelty al Couyic
Camp No. q, Jones CountY---Fo Provide
for Salary Of Paymaster General
of The State Guard.

The present House OF representatives
seems determined to violate all prece-
dent and actually do something toward
ameliorating the sanitary condition of
| the Capitol.
| That was the chief topic at yesterdays
session, and it resulted in the passing
of two measures that will surely bring
some relief, if put in force.
1t is even said but this sounds almost
! too good to be true, that when the House
| meets for the next time on Tuesday,
the old carpet, just think of it, that old
| carpet, will be off the floor. 1t is time,
| surely. That carpet took the floor
| twenty years ago, and has kept it ever
| since 1t is time it yielded to some other
| member.
And all the old familiar germs and
microbes and bacteria that we have
learned to know by their nicknames al
most, during these twenty years, will
| be gone, and their faces will be seen no
| more
Truly is North Carolina getting rid of
all her old incuml1rances around the
| Capitol. The Populist is gone, the ne
| gro is gone, and now the germ is going.
| 1t will be missed, but the air will be
still purer.
! Yesterday the Special Committee on
the sanitary condition of the Hall, con-
I sisting of Drs Alexander, of Tyrrell;
Alexander, of Mecklenburg, and Croker,
| of Wilson, reported resolution to keep
! the temperature of the Hall at 50 de-
! grces, to make arrangements for ven
| tilatng, and to have the old carpet i'm
mediately removed.
| Then Mr.. DTewry introduced sub
! stitute for his bill of Friday, upon recon-
mendation of the Committee on Health.
| This substitute provides for the appro-
! priation of $2,500 to ventilate, renovate,
| furnish, heat and clean the halls of
/ both the House and Senate.
After some good humored discussion,
| the bill was passed by vote of so to 10.
1t was put upon its second and third
readings Immediately, and was ordered
| sent to the Senate without engrossment,
| and would no doubt have been imme-
| diately acted upon in the Senate, but
! that body had adjourned before the mes
| sage arrived.
1t will be recalled that the Board of
Examiners of State Institutions, in their
report on the State Prison, charged
| gross mistreatment of convicts in camp
| No. a. Jones county, where the prisoners
i were hired to the Goldsboro Lumber
! Company.
Yesterday Mr.. Offman, of Randolph,
/ offered resolution requiring the Com
mittee on Penal Institutions to investi
| gate these charges. The resolution was
put upon it's immediate readings and
I adopted
| Mr.. Robertson, of Guilford, chairman of
the Committee on Corporations, report
ed resolution that no bill chartering
any private corporation shall be consid-
cred by the House, if the corporation
| can be chartered by the Secretary of
| State under the general Corporation
Law. This was also adopted.
| bill was introduced by Mr.. Morton
| to provide for the salary of the Pay
master General of the State Guard. The
| bill amends chapter 800, Laws of 1899,
/ adding Paymaster General to section 2.
A bill by Jones Fuller to incorporate
Trinity College, names the following
| gentlemen as incorporatorS: A. L.
| Tyer, ]. II. Southgate, B. N Duke, G. A.
| CgIesby, V. Ballard, j. A. Long, j. F.
Bruton, J. N. Cole, T. A. Bishop, j. G..
Brown, C. w Toms, ]. w. Alspaugh,
| w. IL. OQell, j. "A. OEdyy T. oIlhSlSdCuSI,
Kope Elias, S. B. Turrentine, p. H.
| Hanes T. +. Mari, G.. w. Flowers, M.
A. Smith, R. H. Parker, w. ]. Montgom-
cry, F. M. Simmons, o. w. Carr R. A.
Mayer, n. NJ Jurney Dred Peacock, B.
B Nicholson, w. G. Bradshaw, E. G.
| White T. N. Ivey j. B Hurley, r. l..
Durham and w. c. Wilson.
The college is authorized to hold prop
/ linz hrn
millions of dollars.
! Thirty-six trustees are provided for,
twelve to be elected by the North Caro-
, lima Conference, twelve by the Western
| Conference, and twelve by the graduates
| of the college.
| In honor of Gen. Robert e. Lee, ad-
| iournment was taken until Tuesday,
Monday the 18th, being General Lees
| birthday.
THE DAY IN DETAIL
| Speaker Gattis called the House to
order at ten o'clock, and Rev. Mr.. M.
| Mcfarland, of Brooklyn Methodist
church, made the opening prayer.
PETITIONS.
! Bryan, of Wilkes: From Wilkes county
against prohibition.
McRae, of Anson: To incorporate
! Deep Creek school house in Anson
/ county
BILLS REPORTED FAVORABLY.
| To regulate fishing OH Pamlico River.
Mr. Vann, of Hertford. chairman of
, the Committee on Counties, Cities and
Towns. stated that it had been found inn
+! possible to get quorum of members to