The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-22
Senate Re- Refers The
Williams Resolution
BILLS MADE LAWS
Both The Senate and the House Pass
Large Number !of Bills
of Local Interest and
Importance.

The proceedings in the Senate and
House yesterday were devoid of spe-
cial Importance or interest. The only
incident in the short session of the
Senate to break the routine monotony
was the request by the Committee on
judiciary TO have the Williams South
Dakota judgment and the Schaffer
bond resolution taken from that COM
mittee and referred TO the Committee
on Claims, which was done.
One Senator speaking to another
about this committee misfit. said that
| in the House similar mistake had
been made early in the session when
Col Cunningharn's child labor bill had
by request been referred to the COM
mietee on Education. which as soon as
it got hold of it passed it back to the
House with request that it be sent 20
the proper or logical Committee orr
Manufacture and Labor.
IN the House a great deal Of work
was accomplished, almost all Of it be-
ing of a local nature. So we'll did the
members work and so little did they
speak, Speaker Guion felt constrained
to compliment them, when at 100
o'clock he announced that the calendar
was cleared and "a brand new start
could be taken Monday morning.
Several bills, pregnant with big
possibilities were killed by being laid
on the table. Two of them were pro-
posed amendments 10 the Constitution.
one repeating the homestead law and
one changing the time of assembling
of the General Assembly from January
| to April.
Another bill which went the way OF
all flesh was the Surperfiuous one or
authorizing the Governor to pardon
| from the criminal insane department
any prisoner VINO had become sane
since the commission of crime.
The Governor already mas the power
to pardon any body. sane or insane,
that is sentenced to the penitentiarv
or Jail and in not the very remote
past a defendant sentenced TO Jail was
pardoned before he ever got there,
and still later another was pardoned
pending an appeal from a. sentence to
work on the roads before his appeal
was heard by the Supreme Court So
the passage of the bill mentioned
would have been what the theologists
call a work of supererogaton.
The only bills of general importance
| introduced was one to allow street
4 w
| to policemen and 1iremen and one to
expedite and cheaper trials concerning
| titles to real estate
A great many bills were made into
| laws so far as the House could 90
| it by approving them after three read
| ings and three endorsements by
vote of the majority.
The bears and the partridgeS in
| Swain county owe their representative
| life long debt, for getting law
| through outlawing bear traps and
! trappers, and prohibiting the killing
of quail in any manner for three years
| so that their tribe or their coveysN
may increase. If gallant Bob White
| does not whistle his merry tune and
| grateful Bruin dance a jig for Mr.
| Patterson when he gets back home
they will merit killing. Ali true sports
men anyway Will commend Mr.. Pat
| terson's law and the Audubon Society
should give him resolution of thanks.
In future pistol and razor toters
had better look out for a new law was
enacted, making the penalty for the
first offense twenty dollars or nothing
and for the second conviction for the
same habit thirty dollars, or impris-
onment for thirty days or both.
Mr.. Freeman, of Mecklenburg. got
his law regulating the speed of auto
mobiles and other ungodly species of
SHlCISS WHICH Traverse Tie IOfbuS VI
| that metropolitan and revolutionary
district, AMI it is said that Mr.. Os-
mond Barringer has had twenty years
added to his chance for a ripe old
age.
Judge Winborne's bill to make the
| title Of en act a part thereof got
through bringing to mind that little
bill of last session over which the
| little brown jug and the Supreme
court had such a tussle with fatal re-
suits to the North Carolina jug, but
great benefit to his brothers in other
States.
Mr. Cowles, of Wilkes, who felt
that some facetious comments in this
department of The News and Obser-
YER yesterday, arose to q question of
! personal privilege in regard TO the
bill introduced by him, granting ply
stefan to practice nlelicine without a
license. He made a kind and cour-
teous explanation. like the gentleman
that he is, and his remarks are glally
given full space.
1t was not intended at all by the
compiler of these lines to even init
mate that Mr.. Cowles was not doing
proper thing in introducing the bill
and still further was it from the
writer's mind to reflect upon his we'll
known sense of appreciation of the
merits of the regulations of the Med-
cal Society.
The principle event of the session
was the report of the Special Commit
tee on House Expenditures to whom
had been referred the resolution en-
quiring into the number of employees.
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