Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1904-01-25
TAR HEEL LAW MAKERS BUSY
Work That is Being Done BY the
North Carolina Lawmakers.
In The Senate

rom the Western North Carolina
Methodist Conference was read, say
ng that the present divorce laws ser
ously threaten the ~sanctity of marriages
and praying for special legislation
against anti-scriptral oIvorce laws, ask,
ng for the repeal of all divorce laws
enacted since 1883. Bills were passed
incorporating the Winston Salem
Sounth-bound Railway and Durham
Ind Carolina Railway. A bill was in
reduced for registering the names and
placing headstones on all graves of
deceased Confederate soldiers in ev'
cry county in North Carolina.
Bills were introduced in the Senate
% re-enact divorce acts Of 1899, for
he prohibition in Scotland Neck town.
ship to more clearly define vagrancy;
% prevent fraudulent compromises of
suits; to procure speedy trials in civil
actions, to increase salaries of all
Judges to $4,000; to increase the pay
II jurors in magistrates courts from
twenty-five cents to fifty cents per
lay; to give homesteaders right to Sc
ect tract land other than the first as
signed them, should they prefer; to
make transportation companies issu-
ng receipt for freight Irresponsible ia
suit or claim for loss or damage; to
provide that criminal case shall stand
Or trial at first term, if summoned
ind verified il complaints are issued
Ind served thirty days prior to court;
% give lawyer appearing on contingent
zee lieu on judgment.
N the Senate bills were introduced
" Mr.. Dule covering building and loan
associations; to change time of hold
ng March courts for Rowan and Da-
fldson; to incorporate the Rhodhiss;
incorporate the Granite Falls graded
'chools, in Caldwell county; to extend
corporate limits of lexington; to pro-
1lde for the collection of mortgages
5lven in lieu of bonds; to recognize ap-
jearance at criminal proceedings; to
lmend chapter SO, Public Laws of 1898,
~ bringing Rowan county under it's
provisions.
In the House bills were introduced
o protect landlords and tenants en-
'loyers and employees; to increase ap-
oropriations for Soldiers Home; to
make it unlawful to sell liquor in five
niles Of polling place on the day Of
i%ection; to compel attendance in pub
lc schools in Watauga; to provide for
he care of idiots and epileptics in sep
rate institutions; to prevent injustice
" hasty restraining orders and injunc-
ion without notice; to confer upon
Justices of the peace jurisdiction Of Of
.ence Of unlawfully riding upon rail-
ways; to amend The Code by allowing
II increase in the number of jurors
N IrNdn1I ny,1 JQoryo,,. IN o,t1o-ipo
he removal Of action where justices of
he peace die or become incapacitated
before the final determination of the
%'etion; to amend chapter 80, acts Of
1901, regarding elections; making it
Unlawful to sell liquor on election day;
% prohibit cities and towns not having
200 qualified voters from selling Or
manufacturing liquor, was made a
special order for January 31st. A bill
o prohibit sale and manufacture of
jquor in Richmond county to go into
effect April LIST was taken up. The
line arriving for the special order, the
dill to repeal the anti-jug law, it was
mutually agreed it should be postponed
md made a special order for January
rs. Consideration of Richmond county
dill was resumed and Mr.. Burton, OF
Richmond, offered an amendment that
he act should so into effect July 1.
Mr.. Butler offered another striking out
Richmond county and inserting North
Carolina, repeating all laws in conflict
With" Mr.. Murphy, Of Buncombe, in
luired: Does the gentleman in that
Republican party of the State?" Mr..
O,,t1e., ro~I;c1, sJ o~, ,o,o ,o~,oro-{
ng my county, which is a prohibition
county, but I am not making a mis-
AXE when I say / can represent the
Republican party as taking that STEP"
Great applause.
Mr.. Bcaman, Republican, Of Mitch
I'll, said lie would to Gcd the amend
nent would pass and was satisfied the
Republican party in North Carolina
was in favor Of an honest prohibition
.aw, treating all sections Of the State
like. Mr.. McNinch said he challenged
he Republican party to city a single
instance in which it had not stood up
tor the Whiskey traffic, and if it had
Undergone any change in the past it
was on account Of being purified by the
Democratic party.
In reply to McNinch, Mr.. Butler said
ne would assure him that the Repub.
lican party in North Carolina would
endorse the amendment, but he had
offered it without consultation with .
single soul, but in absolute good faith.
The question came up first on Mr.. But
lel's amendment. The roll-call was
demanded, as the amendment was de-
leated, ayes 9, noes 81. The amend
rnent giving those who had been grant
ad license until July ! in which to pre-
DaIe for closing out their business, was
adopted. 1t passed final reading, only
one no being heard, thai Of Warbur-
Ion.
The Democrats viii caucus Tuesday
eight on liquor legislation.
The bill passed final reading to regu-
late the sale OF corn meal and fixed the
standard Of weight. 1t provides that
the standard weight of a bushel of corn
meal, whether bolted or unbolted, shall
lie 48 pounds. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person or persons to pack for sale
sell Or offer for sale, any meal except
IL bags, or packages containing by
standard weight two bushels, one
bushel, half bushel, fourth bushei OF
eighth bushel. Each bag or package
shall have plainly printed Or marked
whether meal is bolted or %unbolted
amount it contains and weight. This
does not apply to retailing of meal di'
rect to customers from bulk stock