The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-02

of the Code relative to removal of
wagons Of towns. judiciary.
BY Empe: To amend section 100
of the Code relative to costs i'm GER
tain eases. applicable to New Han
over county Calendar
The president appointed on the
Conference Committee to consider
With the House the Senate amendment
to the anti-jug bill Senators Vann
Duls. and Stubps
At , O'Clock the Senate adjourned.
Observation-Disclosures DAY.
Speaker Guion called the House to
order at ten O'Clock, Rev. DIR. Marshall
of Christ church, Raleigh. offered
prayer,
Bills Introduced.
The following bills were introduced.
all of them being placed on the calen-
dar
Woodard: TO appoint f. S. Sim
mons. a Justice of the Peace in Beau
fort county.
Halves: To protect fish in Black
river.
Dobson: For relief of T. J. Black
burn.
Dobson: To amend the graded
school charter of Pilot Mountain.
Simpson: To amend the charter of
Monroe and establish fire limits.
Davis: To incorporate the Auery-
Mcdowell Confederate camp.
Grant: TO repeal the law exempt
ing j.. b. Davis from license tax.
Joyner: Resolution for reduction
of acreage in cotton.
Feimster: To amend the Code rela-
tive TO the sale and manufacture of
liquor.
Murphy. Of Buncombe:' To provide
for the payment of costs in the Su-
preme Court
Waddil: TO better regulate the
sale and manufacture of liquor.
Jones: TO. amend the oyster law Of
1903
Bowman. To prevent throwing
saw dust in certain streams in Mitchell
county.
Turner: To prohibit catching fish
in traps in Bear Greek, Lenoir county.
Turner: 10 allow b. l.. Stone to
pcddle without license.
Pitt: To repeal the law Incorporate
ing the auxiliary board of health for
IGdgecombe county.
Mitchell: To incorporate Powell
Vile Methodist church.
Murphy: To place plank flute lines
under same regulations as plank
roads.
Shipman: To increase the number
,of commissioners of Columbus coun-
Ity.
of Arson and Union to survey the
lines between those counties.
Patterson: Resolution that the
House do adjourn March 18th.
Passed Final Reading.
The Omnibus liquor bill. Incorporate
ing many churches and school houses
and protecting them from the sale
or manufacture of liquor within a
radius of from one to three miles.
10 provide for paving the walks of
the capitol grounds
The RedWine bin designed to break
up specializing in witness tickets in
criminal cases and to run out scalpers
by allowing them only ten per cent
advance ON price paid for tickets. pro-
duced such Il storm of confusion and
excitement by members rushing up
amendments eXcmpting their counties.
Action on the bill was dcferred.)
TO regulate the probate of certain
deeds and conyeyances.
TO disburSe an equal amount of
money Der caDita for naval and land
forces for cncampment.
TO place tablets TO North Carolina
troops at Bethel and Chickamauga.
Breeze Over the Normal College.
TO amend the charter OF the State
Normal and Industrial College. The
bill failed to pass by a vote Of 15 10
LEA.
Judge Graham changed his vote
from aye TO no, and then moved to
reconsider the vote by which the bill
VAS defeated. saying the bill had been
recommended by the chairman of the
Committee on Education who was
thoroughly conversant with the needs
of the institution. He was satisfied
the bin had not been understood, for
If II had It would have passed without
opposition. 1t only gave permission
to the State Normal and Industrial
College to charge ten dollars per
month for board. in place of restrict
ing it to eight dollars as the charter
of 1891 did.
Mr.. Murphy. of Buncombe, explain
cd that in 1891 when this price was
fixed, there was no COMPARISON i'm the
price of products then and now. es-
pecially for food, the prices on all
such had greatly increased. 1t was
well known that no boarding house or
hotel could furnish board for the sum
OF eight dollars or even ten dollars
month at present prices. a month
without going out of the business at
a heavy loss. The college had never
charged a penny for board except the
actual cost, but it had no funds with
which to supplement the loss entail
ed at trying to provide board at eight
dollars per month.
Mr.. Ehringhaus advocated the bill
saying that board was already so
much higher at eight dollars a month
in Greensboro. than at Elizabeth City.
was the reason the girls of that sec
tion could not go to the Normal and
Industrial College at Greensboro and
desired one at Elizabeth City He
hoped everybody would vote for the
Elizabeth City school
Mr.. Butler, of Sampson. said that
il for no other reason. tho fact that
President McIyer recommended this
amendment was sufficient. He had
this institution at heart and knew its
needs and had served it With fidelity
and devotion unparalleled. IT was
ridiculous 10 suppose that any one
could get respectable board for a
young lady in any of the cities or