The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-07
Legislature Urges This
on Representatives.
APPROPRIATION BILLS
Several Interesting Bills in the House,
One OF Which Would Abolish the
Office of State GeoIogist.
Normal School, for East
ern Caro- ina.
ern CarOila.

speech made in the House yesterday.
the proceedings moving on with clock
like regularity of business. After an
hour and half of steady work
Speaker Guion announced that the
calendar was cleared. and there was
nothing TO do but adjourn. The session.
now passed it's halfway mile post. has
been notable for the absence of To-
Guacity as compared with any session
in the past twenty-five years.
There have been only three or four
speeches making spells. and even then
members seemed to be doing it ap-
parently because they had to and not
from a feeling of enjoyment.
Besides q body of unusually con-
servative men. it is distinctly one of
modest, earnest representatives, ex-
cept of course the inevitable eXcep-
tions. and they are few.
Judge Winborne took plunge yes
terday, and although he did it by re-
quest. he did introduce bill nroviding
for the taxing of every dog in North
Carolina one dollar, and the howling
he will hear in the next few days and
nights will be a plenty to make him
deaf and hydrophobiatic.
The only bills of general Importance
introduced were all relating to appro-
priations. Mr.. Ehringhaus. of Pasquo-
tank introduced a bill for the estan-
lishment of an Eastern North Carolina
normal college for women providing
$25, 900 for necessary buildings and
$4,000 per annum for support.
Major Graham introduced a measure
calling for $4,000 appropriation for
the establishment Of a heat. light and
power plant at the State Agricultural
and Mechanical College.
Later Major Graham had passed
joint resolution providing for special
committee of the Penal Institution
Committee to investigate the feasibility
and cost of big central liUh ting plant
at the State prison. sufficient to light
the capitol and all the State institu-
tions at Raleigh.
Mr. Sentelle's bill for the support
and maintenance of the A. & NJ. Col
lege of Raleigh calls for an annual
appropriation for support OF thirty
five. thousand dollars and q, specific
appropriation of thirty thousand dol
lars for a building to be known as
the laboratory building.
Mr. Warren. of Jones. proposed TO
abolish the office of State Geologist.
which costs the State ten thousand
dollars each year. This bill has been
recommended by the Code Commits
sion.
There We're no bills of general i'm
portance acted on, most of them being
roll call bills providing for bond issues
or levying taxes for graded schools,
and town charter amendments.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS-2 DAY.
Speaer Guion called the House to
order at II O'Clock.
Representative Graham, of Lincoln,
offered prayer.
Bills Introduced
Powers: TO amend the rules of the
| House. Calendar.
Warren: To protect woodcock in
Jones ard Craven county. Calendar
Warren, by request: To abolish the
North Carolina geological survey.
Judiciary.
Graham, of Lincoln: TO provide
the A. and NJ. College light power
and water.
Cofeld: To provide for the elec-
ton of q board of education and a
| superintendent of education for Martin
county. Education.
Owens: To regulate fees of COM
nlissioners of Currituck county. Sal
aries and Fees.
Alley: Requiring county surveyors
to keep record of all surveys. Propo-
siuon and Grievance.
Alley: To require certificates of
surveys attached TO grants to be re-
corded. Proposition and Grievance.
Mcqueen: To amend charter of
Pine Bluff Cities and Towns.
Buchanan: To allow commissioners
OF Clay and Cherokee to hire convicts
from penitentiary to build railway.
Proposition and Grievance.
Buchanan To declare certain ter
litoIy in Clay county under stock law
Agriculture.
Glenn: To appoint justices of the
peace in Buncombe county. Commit
tee on Justices of the Peace.
Glenn: To amend the charter OF
Asheville and authorize an issue of
bonds. Cities and Towns
Sentelle: Tor the support and main
tainance of the A. and M. College.
Education.
Clearinghouse; To allow the Cam
den Ferry Company to build a bridge
across Porquotank river. Roads and
Bridges
birmingham: TO establish the Eas-
tern Carolina Normal College for Wo-
men. Education
Rector: To establish a dispensary
al Hendersonville. Liquor Traffic
Rector: To repeal the law placing
tax on employees of laborers. Prop
osition and Grievance.
Winborne, by request: To encour-
age sheep husbandry by taxing dogs.
Agriculture.
Owens: To regulate the fees of
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