The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-17
Law Makers Devote Time
to Committee Labors.
"A NEW SALARY BILL
Making the Salaries Of Supreme and
Superior Court Judges $4,000
Which the Introducer Thinks Will
Pass the House With Little
Opposition.

1t was notable at Yesterdays session
of the Legislature that only one bill
each passed the House and Senate.
This fact is indicative of strong and
effective committee work 1t was ex-
pected by many that the session would
be long and laborious, but the Senate
was in session less than twenty-five
minutes, and very few new matters
were introduced, those of most inn
portance being the petition of the
| Western North Carolina conference in
regard to the divorce evil, and the
other being the bill of Mr.. Stringfield
ordering that head stone be placed
at the head of the grave of every de-
ceased Confederate soldier in North
| Carolina.
| 1t is also evident from the number
of liquor bills aIreduy .l1i = -.-~L,
that this General Assembly will break
records in whiskey legislation, and at
present there seems to be no sign
that the demand for new rum laws.
will soon cease.
Senate Eleventh Day.
Lieut.-Gov Winston called the Sem
ate to order at IL o'clock, and Rev.
r. f. Bumpass, of Edenton Street
Methodist Church, offered prayer.
The committee on the daily journal
reported that there We're no correc-
tions TO be made on the journal, which
dispensed with it's reading.
Petition
| Mr.. Turner, of Catawba, sent for
| ward a memorial from the Western
North Carolina Conference relative to
/ the divorce evils. The memorial
stated that the sancitity of marital
relations was threatened by the rapid
| ly increasing number of divorces, and
| The conference prayed for special legiS-
| lation against anti-scriptural divorce
! laws, and asked that all divorce laws
passed since 1883 be repealed. The
memorial was referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
BiIlts-First Reading.
BY Ward, of Craven, S. B.. 116;
relating to homestead laws. Judiciary.
BY Ward, S. b., III; resolution to
adopt additional rules for the Senate.
| Rules.
| BY Eller,-of Forszthe, S. b., lis;
to appoint justice of the peace in
Wilkes county, and allow him to prac-
| tice law. Cities and Towns.
BY Sinclair, S. B., 119; to amend
| Chapter $50 of the Public Laws of
| 1908, q law in regard to the election
/ of trustees for Cross Creek Graded
| School, Cumberland county. Judiciary.
| BY Struggled, of Haywood, s. B.,
! 120; to provide for the registering of
names and the placing of head stones
/ or marks on the graves of deceased
| veterans. The bill provides that the
/ Secretary of State will be directed to
procure for each county in this State. a
| suitable book of records wherein each
can be recorded name and rank, with
a short sketch of every Confederate
soldier, whose name appears upon the
| Roster Of North Carolina troops or
| who has been Confederate soldier
/ from another State and died or lies
buried in this State.
/ The book of records will be sent to
each county and will be kept and pre-
served with other court records by
! the Register of Deeds.
| Each sketch in the book of records
will be of not less than ten lines and
| Will fully give noted events of the
! life which May be increased to one
page, if paid for by friends. There
will be no compensation for the first
| ten lines.
! the direction of the Governor, at his
| earliest convenience, IN conjunction
| with the State Auditor, and by full
correspondence with the sheriffs and
Registers in each county in the State.
ascertain the number of veterans
buried in those counties without monu-
inents and headstones, and will also
ascertain the probable cost to the
State for the placing of marks at each
grave and report the same to the next
| General Assembly.
Calendar.
To incorporate the Durham and
| South Carolina Railway Company. The
| bill passed it's reading, and was the
/! only one on the calendar.
The President announced that the
following names would be added TO
the committees named: Eller chair
man; Bragow, Thorne, Ward Kicks.
Foushee. McCulloch, Everett Duls
and Bryan, to the Committee on Immi-
grafton; Beasley to the Committee on
Education.
Leave of absence was granted to
Mr.. Odell, OF Cabarrus, till Friday.
On motion of Mr. Wright the Sen
ate adjourned till this morning at IL
o'clock The session was less than
twenty-five minutes in length.
THE HOUSE
The House is keeping UP so we'll
with its work that meeting at twelve
O'Clock yesterday it was able to ad-
iourn in less than an hour. having
cleared its docket. So manifest was
the fact that at this stage of the
game, less time is required In legisla-
tive than committee labors. Major
Graham. who had formerly secured
the hour of ten as the time to begin
the session gave notice that he would
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