The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-01-13
OF WAYNE,
STARTS THE BALL
No Child Under Ten Shall
Work in a Factory.
DOCKERYS BILL SAYS II
New Rules Provide for New Committee and
for Clerks to Judiciary, Finance and
Propositions ---Jones Fuller
Touches Depot Question.

touches Depot Question
The child labor bill has been introduced
in the House.
1t was done yesterday morning by H.
B. Parker, Jr., of Wayne.
The bill prohibits the employment of
any child under the age of II in any
factory in the State, unless a widowed
mother or totally disabled father is de-
pendent upon the labor of the child. or
in case a child is an orphan and has no
other means of support. No child under
ten shall be employed under any cir
cumstances.
The parent or guardian Of any child
employed must file with the employer an
affidavit certifying the age of the child.
No child under 16 shall be kept at
work between p. m. and a. m, or for
moro than siXty-siX hours in any week,
or more than eleven hours in a day.
No child under II shall be employed
unless he or she can read and write, and
! unless after January 1st,. 1904, such child
attend school for at least nine weeks in
the year.
Settle Dockery, Of Richmond, intro
duced bill regulating employment in
factories, which contains a section pro-
hibiting any child under II from being
employed in any factory.
This bill limits a days work to 12
| hours, a weeks work to sixty hours. 1t
provides, further. that no child under JIG
shall work later than p. m.
Both of these bills are printed in full
in another column.
a bill that has a very pertinent, not
to say direct bearing upon the Durham
! Depot question, was put in by Jones Full
Ter.
1t proposes to amend chapter ia, Pub
lie Laws of 1899. so as to require when
the Corporation Commissioners may con-
slider it practicable any two OF more
railroads entering a city to have one
common or Union Passenger Depot.
The rules for the government of the
House were adopted as reported by the
committee. BY them the Speaker is given
the liberty of voting as a member or as
the Speaker in case of a tie. That is,
he may wait for a tie before voting on
a measure, or he may vote in his regular
turn as member, if he so prefers.
new committee. to be called the
Committee on Expenditures, is one of the
changes. Another is the right given to
the Speaker to appoint twelve pages.
Moreover, three committees, Finance,
Judiciary and Propositions and Griev-
ances, are allowed clerks, to be appointed
by the respective chairmen, with the
consent cf the majority of the commit
tee.
A bill by Mr.. King makes it nisde-
meanor for a hand to violate his
contract to work and he may be punished
like any other criminal.
Another bill by Mr. King amending
section 1899 of the Code, gives the de-
fendant in criminal cases the right to
only six peremptory challenges of jury
men. instead of twenty-three, as the law
now is. The State has only four, and the
object of the bill is to make things
little more even.
THE DAY IN DETAIL.
The House was called to order at noon
by Speaker Gattis, and opened with
prayer by Rev. G. F. Smith, of the Eden
,, ton Street Methodist church.
'rhc Journal of Saturdays proceedings
was read and approved.
PETITIONS.
For Incorporation of Corinth Baptist
church, by Simpson, of Union.
RESOLUTIONS.
Doughton, of Alleghany Relating to
counting the vote of State officers.
King, of Pitt: To print the calendar
bills and Journal.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
No. 55-Parker, of Wayne: To ragu-
late child labor. Committee on Manu-
facture and Labor.
No. 56.-Willis of Bladen: To amend
chapter 80, Laws of 1899, relating to
stock law in Bladen county.
No. 57.-Offman, of Randolph: Re-
lating to killing deer in Randolph county.
No. 58-Fuller, of Durham To amend
chapter 1O4, Laws of 1899. relating to
Corporation Commission
No. 59.-Beasley, of Currituck: To pre-
vent the spreading of disease among
hogs, cattle. etc.
No. 60.-Ray of Yancey: To incorpor-
ate the Cane River Railway Company.
No. 61-Dockery of Richmond: To
regulate the employment of men, women
and children in factories
No. 62.-Rucker. of Rutherford: For
the relief of Miss Mamie Turner, a
teacher of Rutherford county.
10. 63-Woodard, of Pamlico: To
amend chapter 81, Laws of 1899, charter
of the Pamlico Oriental and Western
Railroad Company
No. 64.-Sugg. OF Beaufort: To in
corporate the Savings and Trust Com
pany of Washington.
No. 65.-Beasley, of Currituck: For
relief cf S. J. Tanner.
No. 66-Humphreys, of Rockingham:
To incorporate Sharp Institute. at In
telligenee. N. c.
No. 67.-Quickel, of Lincoln: To pro-