The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-09
NORTH STATE LAWMAKERS
Work That is Being Done BY the
North Carolina Lawmakers.
The Salary Bill.

favorably the Senate bill increasing
salaries of the judges of Supreme and
Superior Courts to $500. Among
those making speeches advocating the
bill were c. II. Busbee, James II. Pou
George Strong, Thos. B.. Womack, and
II. III. Hayes. These appeared i'm re
Spouse to an invitation by the chair
man. Judges Graham and Winborne
Of the committee opposed the increase,
as did Feimster, another lawyer mem
Der. Eringhaus, MeNinch, Laughing.
house and others of the committee
spoke in favor of the bill as adopted
by the Senate and this prevailed. The
committee, by a vote of 8 to z, decided
t. report fayorably a bill to put SOL
icitors on a salary, but delayed nam
irg the amount of such salary until a
subcommittee, by inquiring into pres
ent incomes of the sixteen solicitors
of the State under the present fee
system, can approximate and agree
on a fair salary.
Wednesdays Work.
In Senate no bills OF general impor.
lance were introduced except one re-
Gucing fares on railroad and n to
better regulating fire insurance and
ether companies. Bills passed to bet
ter protect clans and other shell fish
in several counties. The principal
discussion was on tho Ward bill.
which amends the Watts liquor regula-
ton. 1t provides that no town of less
than 1.500 people could grant license
for the manufacture or sale of liquor.
An amendment was accepted by Ward
10 modify this by making population
1000. A further amendment was of.
feTed providing that every town au-
thoriZing the sale or manufacture snail
keep & saiaried police Office, who shall
make daily inspections and monthly
reports, and the possession of United
States license to sell where sale or
manufacture is prohibited shall be
blima facie evidence Of violation of
the State law. Mr.. Ward said these
additions did not change his bill in
eny respect. A motion to
postpone consideration was made. Mr..
Stubs said the bill would probably
be the only liquor legislation to come
before this session and 1t involved
principles of the utmost Importance.
Mr.. Burton said that from a political
standpoint, the bill should be consid.
cred.
the motion to postpone until Thurs.
d3y was adopted almost unanimously.
Bills passed fiEal reading to enable
married men whose wives are insane,
or lunaticS, to convert their land free
Of oowcr upon certificate of superin.
teDdent Of hospital for the insane; to
cure defective orders in the registra-
ton of deeds. In the House a bill was
to regulate the sale of pat
ent medicines containing alcohol or
drugs: to amend the fire in
surance act OF 1899, to provide for in
Interchangeable mileage books on rail
ways. Bills passed regulating the
sale or cotton seed and fixing a stand
ard; changing the name of the Enter.
prise Saving AMI Loan Company to
tie Waxhaw Banking and Loan Com
I5ny; 10 provide for the election of
county commissioners by the people in
90 authorize Mecklenburg's
beard of education to borrow money;
provide for primary elections in
Craven; to include Stanly, Ashe and
Montgomery counties in the act pun
the killing of fish with Gyna-
The following bills passed the third
reading:
To amend the law of descent which
allows all children of a mother to in
nerit from their mother, whether legi-
innate Or illegitimate; (this law pro-
vldes simply that illegitimate children
may inherit from their common mother
provided they get nothing that is left
~ the father to prevent the killing
squirrels in the county of Jones and
franklin; to provide for the holding
Of primary elections in Buncombe
county; to protect fish within twelve
miles of the summit of Grandfather's
in Mitchell county; resolu-
ion of the Senate to pay Governors
expenses of his Inauguration, (the res
)lutlon authorizes the Auditor to draw
his warrant on the State Treasurer
or the amounts set forward in the
resolution; the entire amount does
not exceed $1,000 to fix the time for
real estate for taxes in Jack
son county; to relieve the board of az.
'iculture from contributing to the cur.
'ent expenses of the Agricultural &
Mechanical College at Raleigh. Scales
aid he did not oppose the bill but it
go before the committee on
appropriation, as although it relieved
ne or agriculture from contri-
outing to the college, it provided for
In appropriation. Mr.. Mclean, chair
nan of the agricultural committee
which reported the bill f~avorobly, csk-
I'd the bill be not referred. He asked
hat his original bill which was set
or a special order be withdrawn and
| bill which carried unanimously in
House containing the same re-
ports, be substituted. Mr.. Mclean
aid the board of agriculture should
appropriate their funds to the Agri-
& Mechanical College; that
hese amounts should not come from
he pockets of the farmers alone. He
loped Scales motion would be voted
Town. Scales said the bill carried
With it an appropriation of $4,000 and
t should go before the proper commit
He said Investigation never hurts !
good bill and if it was a proper one
would not be hurt and a few days
-elay would work no injury. He ask.
d what was the use of such a commit
ee if it were not referred to the prop
r committee. Mclean asked if the