The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-04

DR.. Picrcc's Pellets Cure Constipation.
H. B. To validate certain state
grants.
H. B. To protect sheep in Haywood
county.
II B. To incorporate the Citizens
Bank and Trust Company of Southern
Pines.
II. b. To repeal the law exempting
a certain person in Wilkes county from
the peddlers' tax.
s. B. TO amend the charter of the
Suburban Electric Company of Char
lotte.
S. B. To extend the time for the or
Iganization of the Raleigh Light and
Traction Company.
II. B. To amend the law relating to
the roads of Mecklenburg county.
II. b. TO incorporate the town of
Coates in Harnett county.
III. Il. To amend the Code in refer
ence to serving papers on an appeal to
the Supreme Court.
II. B. To facilitate and cheaper
factions in real estate, applying only to
HEREFORD county.
S. p. To exempt certain boundaries
from special school tax in Henderson
COUNT.
H. p. TO validate and probate GER
tain deeds and conveyances, not af-
fecting any suit now pending.
The Senate refused TO concur in the
House amendment to the bill to pre-
vent fire waste, and a conference COM
| mittce was appointed, consisting of
Senator Scales on the part of the Sen
ate.
S. b. TO consolidate and revise and
amend the charter of Winston. The
| Senate concurred in the House amend
ment
Message From the Governor.
a message was transmitted by the
| Governor in regard to the work of the
State economic and geological survey.
| He reviewed the work of the United
| States Geological Survey in North
Carolina and urged upon the General
| Assembly the Importance of this work.
II. Il. To change the time for hold
ing the courts of Craven county.
Fl. b. To amend the charter of the
Cullowee High School.
S. B. TO promote the cause of edu-
cation in Rutherford and Cleveland
counties.
Appropriations Bill.
II. y. To MAKE appropriations for
State institutions.
This was the Omnibus Appropriation.
bill. carrying the appropriations for
the various educational and charitable
institutions of the State.
The bill passed its second reading
Mr.. Webb offered an amendment
striking out $4,000 for the hospital
at Morganton and inserting $145,000.
Mr. Webb said the committee had con
sidcred this bin as carefully, cautious
~ and as conScentiouSIy as possible
Yesterday morning he received a let
ter from DR.. Murphy, of the Morgan
ton asylum, saying that without the
increase of $4,000 i'm the appropria-
ton it would be Impossible for the
hospital 10 take care of all the pat
tents now in the hospital. and the new
building for men cannot be opened.
he said it was foolish to erect build
ings and then not to use them for a
lack of means. -Four years ago an
appropriation was made for the erec-
ton of a building for women patients.
and the Legislature in 1903 failed to
make any appropriation to care for
the patients in the new building. There
are in the hospital at Morganton one
thousand and two patients, and there
will be this year one thousand and
twenty-five patients, and the average
cost of each per day thirty-Seven and
one-half cents, including food,
clothing and all other necessities.
Mr.. Pearson offered an amendment
relating to the school for the Deaf
and Dumb at Morganton, inserting
$47,500 instead of SAP, 500.
Mr.. Williams favored the Webb
amendment.
Mr.. Pearson said he had received
a letter from Mr. Goodwin, of the
Deaf and Dumb School at Morganton,
saying that the other State institu-
tions had received exactly what they
asked for. That institution is oper-
ated economically and it is almost abb
solutely necessary for the school to
have the amount asked for Mr.. Pear
son favored the Webb amendment
saying it was not because of his local
pride, but because it was a State insti-
tuition.
Mr.. Arendell. chairman of the Com
mittee on Insane Asylums, favored the
Webb amendment.
AIR. Williams offered an amend-
ment to Mr.. Webbs amendment pro-
Nlding that the provision for the cree
ton OF chemical laboratory at the
University at Chapel Hill be stricken
out
Mr. Foushec eulogized the State
University and said that the president
of hat institution would not ask for
anything that WAS not right and ne
ccssafy.
Mr. Mclean opposed the amend
ments and said Tire Seuaie had better
bc guided by the joint committee and
the action OF the House rather than
the letter received from the heads OF