The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-02-07

TO amend the CldIEeT Oh the 1Cfi<a-
lossee Railway Company.
To fix the time OF holding of u in
Warren.
To protec, hog owners IN Tyrrel.
To regulate the speed and manage
ment OF vehicles in Mecklenburg coun-
~. h senate amendment being con-
Cured in.
To provide for election OF commission
ers and magistrates by the people in
Ferquimans.
To amend act 1893 relative 10 water
supplies
To amend compulsory school act 81
1905 for Macon county. BY extending
age Of which children must attend
school from S 10 10 years. with other
amendments
To prevent trapping Ash in Swan
and Hazel Greeks, Swain county.
To amend act Isas regarding me-
chanics by striking out Wake county.
To protect fish within IL miles from
the summit OF Grandfather Noun
tain.
To amend act sol relating 10
hunting and fishing in " and
Jones.
For relief OF John w. Riley.
To amend act 1903 regarding unit
ing in Robson county.
For relief of Clerk w. NJ. Watson,
of Craven, allowing absence from Of
fee.
To better regulating fishing in Cur
rituck Sound.
To amend graded school law to
| Rocky Mount.
To incorporate Haywood Institute.
To regulate fishing in C.esoKee.
To protect and promote the grow
ing Of ginseng.
The bill amending act 1901 regard
ing depredations of domestic fowls in
Merganton and Rutherford county
came up, Powers explaining it by say
ing it includes chickens ana turkies,
preventing them from scratching up
gardens while the original bill named
geese only. Stronach, of Wake. de-
sired to insert an amendment SO as to
include an old white rooster which
he said flew over his y fence every
morning. but this amendment was OBJ
jected 70 and the bill passed. as did
one to prevent hunting and fishing In
, Gooseneck township, Martin county,
without written consent of the owner
of the premises.
The bill passed providing for the
allotment of homesteads in lands
held in common.
I BILL. DEFINING VAGRANCY.
The House took up the bill defIn-
ing vagrancy and fixing the punish
ment therefor. 1t was explained that
it was the Georgia law, but that an
amendment submitted by Alexander,
of Mecklenburg, and endorsed by the
committee, including able-bodied
men who were idle lived on the wages
OF Wife or minor children. Biggs op-
posed the principle involved, which
he said makes it a crime Tor n man
to live on the labor of his children,
and said he desired to enter his pro-
test against any such legislation. Red
wine declared that an abie-bodled
man. who would work his wife and
little children simply to support him
in idleness was a criminal n should
be so treated. Biggs said he did not
subscribe to the present idea that men
could be made moral by an act of the
legislature. The bill was very strong
ly supported by Olive, Powers, DAVIS,
Of Haywood, and Alexander, the lat
ter describing very strikingly the con-
duct of man trifing white men who,
as he said lying around cotton mills.
will not work because the wages OF
their wives and little children sup
port them. Biggs offered an amend
ment SO as to say minors, not over
IS years" Alexander accepted the
, amendment and the bill passed its
reading.
\ bill passed authorizing registers
Of deeds to administer oaths in prov
ing accounts to be presented to the
county commissioner.
The bill to prevent misrepresenta-
ton by merchants in the sale of goods
and in advertisements came up and
was explained by it's author, Stron-
[ ach. of Wake who said 1t was designed
20 protect honest merchants. That
the Bible said all liars would be
burned and he desired to keep as
many merchant liars out OF the eter-
nal fire as possible. The. law pro-
f posed had been in use in New York
and worked we'll. Upon objection oi
/ further consideration of the bill. ii
was made a special order for next
: Friday.
= The bill introduced by Rutler foI
the election of county boards o.
l education by the people came up with
an ~.unfavorable report from the com
mittce OF education. Butler present
ed a minority report and explained
t and advocated his bill, saying the Law
: would not go into operation in 1906
SO the terms of the present boards oil
: education would not be interferred
with. The three men selected as tn.
t board of education for each count,
were now holding the most impor.
{ tant offices Of the county and they
should be elected by the people. Ora.
ham,, of Lincoln. said that under the
!, present system the State had ad.
vanced more than ever in North Car.
olina's history and that the people