The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-03-10
Especial to The Messenger.)

ICdieiSH, ~. u, Mafcn
met at 9 o'clock, Senator Jones of
Johnston offered prayer.
NEW BILLS.
Two new bills were introduced, one
by Webb, to amend the act to submit
to the voters of Asheviile the ques-
ton of establishing a dispensary, the
barrus road law. Both these imme-
diately passed.
PASSAGE OF BILLS.
Other bills which passed were to
protect public buildings and highways.
To provide for compensation for
clerk of Beaufort county.
To pay the travelling expense of the
clerk, pages and employees of the
House and Senate.
To settle the South Dakota .juGg-
ment and the Schafer Brothers bonds;
there being only 33 Senators present.
To build graded schoal at Ashe-
boro.
To change boundary of the Sanford
graded school district.
To incorporate Richlands.
To amend Pittsboro charter and that
of Nayodan.
To establish a graded school in War
rem county, ~Fdgecombe and Nash.
To incorporate the Wautauga rail-
way.
To amend the law regarding res
toration of citizenship to certain con-
victs.
To allow J. T. Cannady Of Onslow
to give magic lantern exhibition with
put license.
To amend the acts of 1908 regard
ing water sheds, requiring inspection
of these. by making it apply ID flu
ture companies as we'll as those o
chartered.
To provide for the sale of contin-
gent remainders.
To protect the real estate of chill
dren whose fathers are dead and
mothers insans.
To amend the primary election law
of New Hanover.
The bill to create q state board Of
BARRIERS was tabled.
Bill passed to Incorporate F;ngle-
hard.
To amend the code by placing GER
tain misdemeanors in the jurisdiction
of magistrates in Lincoln and Moore
was tabled.
Bills passed to require railway COM
panies to deliver freight with reas-
onable promptness; the House amend
ment providing that forfeiture should
49, o-oool %1;rf1- 1a~7S hniI,r concur
red in.
Williams asked unanimous consent
to introduce a bill out of order re-
pealing the act relieving Treasurer
Logan of Yadkin county from paying
money, county funds. lost by the fore
ing Of a safe; the bill passed. at once.
Other bills which passed We're:
To incorporate the Eastern North
Carolina State Normal institute at
Elizabeth City. but on third readings
it was referred to the committee on
education which meant it's death.
SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY.
The bill 20 establish a school OF
technology at Spray came up and
Burton of Rockingham champloned
it. saying it had 4 favorable report
from two committees of the House and
had passed that body with but two
dissenting votes.and a received the
especial commentator of the gov
ernor. He said that the schools would
be We'll and literally equipped by pri-
waite b~enefaction aud hat all that was
asked was for the state to appropr1-
ate $1,000 a year to it. that citizens
of Spray would contribute $20.hc0 for
the lands and buildings. He SAID
there was 40 injustice in the bill. He
the action of he Senate
in appropriatiEg money to the James
town exposition, a large amount to
the bureau of immigration. and yet
when this bill came up there was OPP
position which was unjust and unfair.
Vann said he could see no consistcn-
cy in the action if the Senate failed
to pass this bill. Eller said four mil
lion dollars had been invested at Spray
where nine mills are daily in operation
and the efforts were now being made
to harness the Dan rier and other
streams in that county: that no boy
would be too illiterate or too poor to
enter that school and gain its advan-
tages and that free tuition should be
/ guaranteed and also employment with
(which to pay their board; that the
ehool would not injure any other
Rstate institution. Foushee aid the
Question was not a local n but at
.fected every Senator present; he OPP
posed the bill as bad policy. saying
that six years ago a proposition was
made the state for the establishment
of a textile school at Charlotte but
that the Legislature after considering