The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-18
Webb's Bill to Be Taken
Up Soon.
SUCH is THE PROMISE
An Effort to Be Made TO Have Our Leg
islature to Amend the Child Lab
or Law in a Way That Will
Push Educational
Work.
Especial 10 News and ohaerverO

Especial TO News and Observer
Washington, d. G. Dec. 17.-Nhile
no such bills Will pass at this session,
Representative Webb has been assn
ed by Mr. Cleary, chairman of the
committee, that his bill to appropriate
100000 for a battle N onument ana
park or ;he battlefield of Kings
Mountain Will be one of the very fist
bills of this character to be reported
faVorably. Speaker Canncn and other
Republican leaders are interested in
this project properly To- mark th9~spot
where the battle was fought which
proved 10 be the turning point in tie
American Revolution, and fittingy To
cCmmemoratee the heroic valOr of
Campbell, Shelby, Sewer. Cleveland
Williams, Winston and their brave
monntaineers who slew Ferguson and
killed and captured his army, Kings
Mountain nIesaged Yorktown just as
Gettysburg presaged AppomattoX. 1t
is reasonably certain that early in the
next session Congress will pass this
Jill.
Glenn left this morning for home via
Richmond. While here they visited
Baltimore and Philadelphia.
General James d. Glenn, wife and
daughter, of Greensboro, are here.
Representative Kluttz left for rome
tonight, and Senator Overnlan will go
tomorrow.
Rev. a. j. Mckelway, who is with
the National Child Labor Association,
tells your correspondent that an effort
vii lbe made to have the Legislature
To amend the child labor law in North
Caralina as follows Keep the age
limit at twelve years, and to forbid
children under fourteen who cannot
read and write l1om entering the mills.
This will put a premium upon educa-
tion among mill children. Mr.. Nickel
way says this proposed amendment
meets with much favor in the State
and will be vigorously pressed this
winter in Raleigh.
The citizens of Mount Airy arc be-
ginning &. movement for a public
building IN that city Ameeting was
held there there this week and the
movement will be pressed either AT
Salisbury public building bill asks for
$4,000, as l wired last night.
According to the report of the Conn
mission Sergeant of the bureau of I'm
migration to the United States has de-
creased materially during the fiscal
year but there has been marked inn
prOVemenC III the moral intellectual
and physical qualifications of the i'm
migrants admitted during the this
time. The total number OF immi-
grants who arrived inthe United
States during the year were 812 $40, cf
whom $40, 100 were males and 263, no
females. The increase in females as
compared with the previous year was
about 20, 600. while the males dcci cas-
ed nearly $4,000. AS an evidence of
the character of the aliens admitted
report states that they brought with
them $20,894,383 or $47,76,870 over
the amount brought in. by the arrivals
of the previously ear. Italy still con-
tinues olead in the number of inn
migrants.
when / was campaigning i'm South
ern Kansas" said representative Cur
tis I'VE came to a town where they
were holding a street fair. A palmisr
had a tent in the street, and friend
and myself went in to have our palms
read. She told me l would make a.
good public speaker if / kept at it
long enough. Then she took up my
friends hand. She studied it a long
time and finally announced, You are 4
barber I"
Wrong, said my friend. 4 am a
lawyer
"'Huh! said the palmist; what's
the difference between being shaved
by barber and SKINNED by law
Ver9'''