The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-25

ton of school buildings in Guilford
county.
S. Il. To authorize the trustees of
Esther Academy TO convey by fee
simple deed all or part of the land
on which the academy was burned.
$. b; TO confer police power on de-
putty sheriffs at Lakewood Park, Dur
ham county and prohibit public
drunkenness.
S. Il. To confer police powers on
deputy sheriffs and constables at East
and. West Durham, in Durham county.
S. Il. TO amend chapter $50, Public
Laws of 1908, relative to Durham
county.
s. Il. TO permit county commission
crs 10 regulate the speed of automo-
biIes and motorcycles on the public
Mecklenburg and New Hanover coun-
ties.
S. Il. To repeal the law regulating
the holding of inquest in Northampton
county.
S. u. For the relief of certain
school teacher i'm Arson county.
II. Il. TO regulate the pay of jurors
i'm Harnett county.
S. Il. To correct n certain grant to
David Jones in Beaufort county.
= II. i. TO prevent the sale of meats
and diseased animals.
IL. T.. TO provide for the leaving of
jurors for Guilford county.
II. r. To prevent the seining in GER
tain creeks and streams in Hartford
county.
S. Il. To amend the charter of the
town of Concord.
S. Il. A resolution TO pay the ex-
penses Of the joint committee visiting
the oyster grounds OF the State.
n - Tn tI1.1I hf. f.b nj In N
of Monroe township may work on the
streets Of the town of Monroe.
H. Il. no regulate the hunting of
wild fowls in certain portions of Cur
rtuck Sound.
H. e. To amend the charter of the
town of Ellington, Harnett county.
s. Il. To amend the charter of the
Carolina Telegraph and Telephone
Company and comforting other pow
ers.
s. B. To repeal the act establishing
auxiliary board of health of Edge
combe county.
H. 3. To regulate the hunting of
'possums in Lincoln and Harnett
counties.
II. b. To re-incorporate the Chowan
Baptist Institute, in. Hereford county.
II. b. To prevent the hunting of
quail in FranklinYille township, Ran
writing, and it in the month of Decem-
Der.
H. B. TO better protect public trav-
cling in Gates county.
II. =. For the relief of the clerk of
the Superior court of Rowan county.
II. B. For the relief of certain wit
nesses in Chatham, Rutherford and
Rowan counties.
S. b. To regulate conditional par
dons The bill had passed the Senate,
and the House attached certain
amendments.
Mr.. Sinclair moved that the Senate
do not concur in the amendment and
the motion prevailed.
Mr.. Sinclair was appointed as the
Senate member Of the conference COM
mittee.
S. B. TO amend the general school
law The bill increases the salary OF
the stenographer in the State Super
intendents office from $500 to $500 a
year, and the salary of the chief clerk
from 81 900 to $1,000 a year. 1t re-
vises the statutes providing for the
filling of vacancies on the county
boards of education, and makes the
terms of Office two. four and six years,
and no active teacher shall be eleigible
to membership on the county boards
of education. The county board shall
bi-annually appropriate not less Than
$500 for the purpose of conducting
summer schools and institutes, and the
public school teachers are required to
attend these schools. The bill con-
templated numerous other changes.
Mr. Mason, of CASTOR, offered an
amendment to section TWO of the bill,
which provided for the election of
members of the Board of Education
for six. four and two years. The
amendment proposed to strike out Sec
ton two.
Mr.. Scales opposed the amendment.
Mr.. Pearson made an excellent
speech in opposition to the amend
ment and said the remedies would not
be given with the omission of the sec
ton to which objection was made.
Mr.. Mason, of Northampton, said
the most important matter before the
people of North Carolina was that of
education, and it must be discussed
above the level of politics and party
lines. No question concerns more the
life of the State and interests of the
schools than the best methods of pro-
viding for education. The frictions
and personalities that arise from the
appointment of the members of educa-
tion tend to retard rather than advance
education, and this section will remove
the evils and lift the question above
politics. He made a strong speech
against the amendment.
Mr.. Bragaw said the new section
places the education board on an indie
pendent plane and he favored it.
Mr.. Alexander favored the amend
ment and said that the very reason
proposed in favor of section two, that
it placed the board on an independ-
ent basis,s is the very reason why il
should not pass. He said the people
were divided on this question, and it
should be left to the people.
Mr.. Boddie said this section will in
sure permanancy to the best school
conditions in a county and remove abb
solute EDITORIAL power from one man.
and the better it will be for education
when this is done.
Mr.. Struggled favored the original
section.
Mr. Eller said in view of theory the
section was correct, but in practice
it would not work so well. His county
was not ready for the removal of the
authority it enjoyed and he could not
vote for it.
Mr.. Scales moved the previous ques-
ton, and the motion carried.
The amendment was put and car
ried by a vote of eighteen to fourteen.