The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-25
Under the Dome

On1er the Dome.
1t was little thought that so small
q matter as the proposed erection Of
q state building on q useless and ugly
corner could evoke SO great an
amount of public interest and be of
such unusual Importance as has the
| bill introduced in the Senate q few
days ago authorizing the construction
Of brick building on the lot situate
at the corner of Salisbury and Nor
gan streets for the object of provid-
ing place for the Keeping and pres
crVation OF important public docu-
n.cntS. But S.nce the News and Oh
server printed a full summary Of the
bill there have been received by the
legislators. State officers and various
revolutionary and Confederate So
cieties, and by this paper, numerous
letters from every part of the State,
petitioning that this house be con
structed without delay. The several
patriotic Women'S organizations of this
city have also for many years been in
terested in this building, and now that
they see it viii probably be built, have
repeWed their interest in it, and have.
since the introduction of the pill, been
actively at work furtherng it. They
oesire, a floor to be used by them for
the safe keeping of invaluable records
and mementoes that cannot be re-
placed, and that are constantly in dam
ger OF being lost or destroyed so long
as they have no safe depository. The
same is true OF the paper and docu-
lGents of the superintendent of Public
instruction, Secretary of State and In
surance Commissioner.
Tomorrow afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock
in the House of Representatives, the
a
will cons der the bill. and besides the
State officers, who will advocate its
passage, a number Of leading women
OF the city and State. representing
many historical associations, will APP
pear before the committees and ask
for its favorable consideration and a
report of their respective bodies re-
commenting its passage.
The men who sell cider must look
out as Representative Harrison, Of
halifax, is after them with sharp
stick. He has introduced a bin re-
curing every merchant who desires to
sell cider at wholesale to pay S100 IL
cense and give bond for $1,000 that
the cider he offers for sale is the pure
product Of apples with not more than
eight per cent. of alcoholic strength,
with no preServative spirit strength
ilaVora
The act is not to apply to persons
selling o. Offering for sale the product
of their own apples, and Mr.. Harrison
says that the bill, if it becomes an act,
VIII help the East wonderfully, as all
kinds of impure stuff are sold as cider
it being of the sort that never had q
speaking acquaintance with an apple.
In the West. where apples are raised
10, a1,r l,a
ditions are as bad as in the East
Mr.. Odell, Senator from Cabarrus.
has an IMP 'rtant bin in the SeIaCc,
which will increase the pension of
Confederate veterans. 1t is to amend
chapter 273 of the Public Laws of
1903, entitled IAN act for the relief of
certain Confederate soldiers, sailors
and Widows
The bill provides that chapter 273
OF the Pubic Laws of 1908. be amend
ed by striking out all of line fourA
teen after the word viz and All of
lines, fifteen. sixteen, seventeen, |
eighteen, nineteen, twenty-onc. TWEEN
ty-two and twenty-three of said sec
ton, and the words twenty dollars"
IN line twenty-.otr and inserting in |
lieu thereof the following:
First. To such as have received a |
wound as renders them totally incom- |
petcnt to perform manual labor in the |
ordinary Nocatons of life, sixty dol |
lars.
Second. To such as have lost leg |
above the knee or ain arm above the |
elbow, forty-five dollars
Third. 10 such as have lost foot /
Or a leg below the knee, or a hand or |
arm below the elbow, or have a leg /
~ arm utterly useless by reason Of I |
wound or permanent injury, thirty
five dollars.
Fourth. To such as have lost an !
eye and the widows of all Other sol !
diers who are now t|rec-fourths dis !
aoled from any cause. to perform |
manual labor, twenty dollars
lie bill ;I!sc provides thai section |
one II chapter 173 Of the Public Laws /
OF 1908, be further amended by |
striking out the word two" in section
one, line twcn;r-nine, and inserting |
the word three III Lieu thereof.
The sub-Finance Committee is
pushing along with it's work of lnaS
ing up the schedule OF ta;Hes and Ii
censes, A hearing is TO be given to
telegraph and telephone people OH the
first Of February. On FIday Of this
week tho merchants are to DC heard
in relation to the Merchants Tax.
date Is to be set for a Tearing for the
hotel men i'm relation IS the Increased I
tax on hotels, while others still arc 10
have dates set for he1ring about otherl
taxes,
There arc two Visitors to Raleigh |
who will absorb much information |
from the General Assembly and take |
it back to their home that it may be
scattered well. There are Mr.. ". Il. |
Westlake, OF /Asheville. president of /
the Citizens Publishing Company, and
Mr.. James III. Game editor Of the |
Ashevile Citizen. They are visitors |
to the Legislature and are being warm /
ly welcomod by their many friends |
among the lawmakers.