Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-03-01

Guced the bill to take the place Of his
bill amending the State constitution.
1t simply meant either race could sup
PIGMENT its regular public school fund
by q vote CT it's ~oWn-propeTty holders
Tor additional taxation. The previous
question was called on G"anaEl's mo-
ton to refer, and the bill was referred
TO the COMMITTEES On education, which
mean its death.
For Statute to Ransom.
In the Senate, bills were introduced
to prohibit public officials from riding
On passes or mileage books, or ANNALS;
to incorporate the Methodist Protes-
tant College of North Carolina. Bills
passed to allow connvicts to be en-
ployed on the public roads in McDow-
ell; to provide for the payment of rail-
road bonds of Cleveland; to prohibit
the manufacture and sale of liquor at
Yadkinville.
At noon Thursday the bill to punish
barratry came up as the special order.
Mr.. Moore, of CASTOR, said he had been
compelled to bow his head in shame
at the practices Of d%isreputable law
yers in his county, this practice being
a disgrace to the profession, which had
aroused contempt in the minds of the
people; the State Bar Association not
having acted against this class of at
torneys.
In the House, Chairman Robertson,
for the committee on appropriations,
reported on the appropriation bills IA
vorably for $4,000 for a statue Of Gen.
eral Matt Ransom, available after next
November; on the bill relieving the
board of agriculture from paying S10,-
600 annually to the Agricultural and
Mechanical College; on $3.50 for Moore
Mechanical College; on $3.50 for
Moore's Creek Battle Ground, and $3.50
for tablets at the battlefield of Bethel
and Chicamaugua. He reported unfav-
orably upon the bill appropriating $25,-
600 for a hospital for epileptics and
idiots: on the bill increasing by $1,000
the appropriation to the Oxford Orphan
Asylum. The committee had agreed on
a special appropriation Of $500 in adj
dition to the regular one for the Appa-
lachian School, at Boone. Bills were
introduced to amend the road law of
Lincoln county: to create a board Of
prison parole: to incorporate Cornelius;
to charter the Appalachian Electric
Company: to provide for a turnpike
from North Wilkesboro to Boone; to
prevent bird dogs from hunting at large
during the nesting season and breeding
seasons Of birds; to regulate challenges
when a special venire is drawn from
the jury box; to prevent smuggling of
whiskey and other liquors into Ruther-
ford county: to regulate fees Of county
officials in Camden: to amend the act
of 1903, regarding the apportionnent of
school funds in Mecklenbura.
The special order, the Scales reforma-
tory bill, was taken up. the galleries
being filled with ladies, Senator Scales
occupying a seat by Representative
Gordon. of Guilford. Graham, of Gran
Vile. said there were three reform
atory bills and all three should be
referred to the committee on penal in
stitutions. MIR. Green opposed delay,
but the motion to refer was adopted
by a large majority.
In the Senate Saturday the follow
ing bills passed their third readings:
To permit the board of public works
of Tarboro to issue bonds; for the bet
terment of The public roads Of Pitt
county; to form a school district in
Cumberland county; to amend the
charter of the town of Dunn; to au-
thorize the commissioners of Granville
county to refund the Indebtedness of
Oxford Female Academy; to authorize
commissioners of New Hanover coun-
ty to levy special tax; to protect the
game of Surry county; to appropriate
and consolidate the annual %appropria-
ton to the Moore's Creek Battle
ground. The bill was carried without
opposition. Moore, of Fender. author
Of the bill, made a splendid speech.
The committee on appropriation at
tached an amendment reducing the ap-
preparation to $3.50 and Moore asked
that the amendment be voted down.
Scales favored the bill carrying $500
with it.. A bill passed relating to
Pixies school district, in Robson and
Cumberland countless; bill to prohibit
manufacture and sale of liquor within
two miles of Spring Hope graded
school district. Nash county; to abol-
ish all pilotage laws of North Caro-
lima relative to the Cape Fear river;
to amend the charter Of the city of
Fayetteville; to regulate the sale of
concentrated feed stuffs; to regulate
the hunting Of quail and other game
birds in Edgecombe county; relating
to office of treasurer of Henderson
county; to secure compulsory school
attendance in schools at Raleigh,
Wake county; to regulate the appoint
ment and duties of cotton weighers
at Dunn; to amend public road law
of Scotland; to amend prohibition law
Of Cumberland county; to place GER
tain territory in Chatham under stock
law; to incorporate the Methodist
Protestant College; to add to the pres
ent stock law territory in Pitt county;
to provide for turning into the general
fund one-third of the ~dispensary prof
its of Pitt county; to define place and
sale of intoxicating liquors in North
Carolina.
In the House q number of new bills
were introduced. Good progress was
made in committee Of the whole on the
revenue and machinery acts.
Mondays Session.
Bills were introduced in the House
Monday to give pensions to all ex-
C~onfederates worth less than $500: to
change the time of the fifth district
I courts; to incorporate the Yanceyville,
Reidsville & Burlington Railroad; to