The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-14
NEW PROJECT FOR
STATES CONVICTS
Senate to Consider a Parole
Commission Bill,
OFFICES FOR LEGISLATORS
Goodwin Of Harnett Proposes 10 Stop Combine
of Fire Insurance Companies and Senate
is Asked 10 Pass Divorce MN-
rage Law

rage Law.
The Senate of North Carolina did busi-
ness for an hour yesterday before going
over to join with the House in counting
the State vote.
The regular order of business ran along
smoothly for some time, everybody
agreeing with everybody else, and the
bills Introduced" please, had come on
TO the Second Reading figure until
Senator Blows bill for the better keep
ing of books by clerks of court for exc
reached Then Senator Blow was asked
to explain, and he did so. Hicks, Of
Granville thought the books in his
county We're already well indexed and
moved to except Granville, finally chang
ing his amendment so that any county
might be excepted where there was no
necessity for the new work. Senator
Blow said the only expense would be
book costing 50 or Sc and the registering
of back reports at ? cents for each re-
port. Finally on motion of Senator
hCbTyue, Ol HODcSOn the Dill went over
until tomorrow.
Then appeared the Mann resolution
prohibiting members of the present Gen
eral Assembly from taking any office in
the next two years erected by this as
sembly. It appeared in a rather bat
tered shape after the jolting it had re-
ceived when it went up against the Ju-
dietary Committee, which sent it back
to tho Senate with an unfavorable re-
port, only two Senators, Messrs. Mann
and Pharr, having voted for it,
/ Senator Mann made an able plea for
the bills He said his constituents, COM
ing from seven counties, wanted this
done. That he did not desire to antag-
onize the ambition CT any man in the
General Assembly, but that the bill was
| in accord with his judgment and sense
of what was proper He thought this
would check what might become a habit,
and would give the people more conf
dence in their representatives. Besides
he said, it would remove all thought of
any improper motives actuating a man
/ to vote for a bill creating an office
and would obviate future trouble
Senator Pharr said he thought the bill
was along the right lines, and was one
that should very properly be passed.
Senator Webb, who reported the bill
for the committee. said that such a bill
would not be binding on any one. That
if bills creating Mill Inspectors, State
Barber Inspectors, Prison inspectors or
Code Commissioners were passed and the
best men for the positions could be
found among the members of the Gen
cral Assembly, that these should be ap-
pointed.
Senator Mann again spoke, and said
that the cost of the matter might be con-
sidered also. If the State lost the South
Dakota suit and there had to be a spe-
/! cial session of the General Assembly, it
would cost money to elect men to fill
the positions vacated by appointees to
office and if as many of the present
General Assembly We're appointed as the
preceding, this would be a large number
Senator Hicks said that IN some flu
ture bill, seeking an office the enacting
clause could wipe out all the provisions
Of Senator Mann's.
The Senators then, a majority in
which the volume OF voice was great
against the bill and weak in favor of it,
voted against the bill. 1t went down in
defeat, and if there are offices created
by this Legislature the law makers of
1903 are eligible for them.
The bill of Senator Goodwin, of Harnett,
for preventing combinations of fire in
surance companies is apt to create much
interest. 1t makes such combinations
unlawful when they are for the purpose
of controlling rates, but not otherwise.
All fire insurance companies doing busi-
ness in North Carolina are to file each
year an affidavit that they have not in
the past year entered into any trust or
combination TO prevent competition,
false statement in this to be counted as
perjury. punishable by a fine not less
than 500 nor more than $1,000, and by
confinement in the States Prison not
less than one nor more than ten years.
Provisions of this law if violated will
revoke the license for three years.
The Parole Commission Bill of Senator
Brown provides for a commission of
Prison Parole of three, the Governor,
the Attorney General and one private
citizen to be elected by the General As
sem6ly. BY vote of a majority of this
commission a prisoner may be paroled
for a term not exceeding year, and
must give constant report of his avoca-
tion and conduct. If the regulations Of
the parole are violated, the prisoner is
to be arrested again, and if the parole
is observed it may be extended and fin
ally be made pardon when the com
mission so agrees.
No power of pardon or Communication of
sentence is taken from the Governor.
The commission is to meet at his call
and the only member to be paid is the
citizen elected, his salary being 500 a
day for actual service, with mileage att
five cents. A secretary to do clerical