The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-13
MORE MONEY FOR PENSIONS.
Bill o Increased Appropriafion-Cof-
ton Growers TO Store Their Crops.
Anti-Jug Law to be Fought I'm the
Legislature.
Special to the Messenge-.)

Messenger Bureau.
Raleigh, y. G., January Il.
There seems to be much favor in the
amount OF pensions The total appro-
priation is now two HUNDRED thousenJ
dollars a year. and under it fourth class
pensioners including widows, get out
little than one dollar a month.
This rs said to be too small a p~ittance.
The Dill introduced by Senator Ode.l.iu-
creasing h appropriation to three
hundred thousand dollars, will receive
a favorable report Georgia pays al
most ten times as much in pensions as
does North Carolina.
Under h new law the agricultural
department regulates cotton seed meal,
just as it does other fertilizers. The
present law requires that such meal
shall contain at least seven and a naf
per cent, which II is now proposed 20
require s per cent. millers admitting
that this is not too nue. to require.
The supreme court will
February 9Th, this being somewhat
later than usual. The court is ask "a
to permit the questions to be asked APP
plicants for license for attorneys to be-
prepared by a committee to be appoint
ed by the state bar association. Here
tofore some of the justices has always
prepared the questions.
The cotton growers of this county
have made arrangements for the So
age OF cotton with the we'll known firm
here, in a very spacious warehouse, ct
a cost of twenty five cents a month
for storage and insurance, n will ienI
as much as five certs per pound for cot
ton stored. The farmers regard this as
very satisfactory.
Gov. Aycock had a busy time yes,er-
day. He is a wonderful man, always
in a good humo~. and with an of ycr
full of people sat at his desk signinS
letters and answering questions right
and left, finding time to give out the
pleasant news hat his little daughter
Louise, who has diphtheria. was getting
well. Talking TO him was Captain
Swift Galloway, big of voice, person
and heart, who is so greatly liked by
every North Carollnian. The governor
told Captain Galloway that he would ne
with him at February term of court
at Snow Hill.
A charter is granted to the Hickory
Ice and Coal Company, capital stock
$50, 900 and to a number of corporations
which do not manufacture anything.
State Auditor Dixon was very happy
today, his report having been printed
and laid upon thu desks of the legisla-
ture. Too often his report gets from
the printers months too late, but this
time it is up to date.
Quite a witty remark was made by
a member of the House today to your
correspondent by Representative A. w.
Graham, about the Asheville distille~v
bill. He said: The little distillerlas
can't be u without cheating the GOV
eminent. The greater distilleries can
be but are not. This is what they say"
1t is quite evident that the anti-:ug
law is going to AVE a whirl among the
legislators. The House will jump in On
it on the Goth. 1t has run the gauntlet
of the Supreme. court. which says 1T is
universal, the bill In hand, with a fav-
orable report, proposes to limit it t.
only four counties, as Hoery of Cleve-
land, who drew the original bill intend
ed to do.
Another bill is before the committee
declaring that the title of an act snan
be part of an act itself, this being &C.
signed evidently to cover such acts as
this, having been drawn by the author
of the present bill limiting the anti-jug
law to four counties.