The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-17
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sufficient as lands have already been
| offered as sites for the schools.
| Mr. Turner offered an amendment
changing the word Industrial TO
training in the. title of the bill, and
| the amendment was accepted by Mr..
| Scales.
| Mr.. Burton offered an amendment
which provides that the words and fig
ures fifty thousand dollars be
| stricken out and inserting ten thous-
and dollars
Mr.. Mclean opposed the amend
| ment, and hoped 1t would fail. The
! prison had offered this amount and it
| should be accepted. If the reforma-
| tory was TO be established an amount
| should be allowed that would give
| the institution a chance TO succeed
| and do some good.
| Mr.. Burton said this money belongs
| to the State, and not to the prison,
it is an experiment, and he offered
| his amendment simply to ensure the
| passage of the bill. The bill, if passed,
would run up the costs of the judicial
| system by appeals, and wave of SEN
| timent should not cause the General
| Assembly to pass an act that it will
sometime regret. The delinquent chill
| dren should be placed on q pedestal
| that the poor children of the State
| do not possess. This bill says that the
| criminal youth is not q criminal, but
! places upon him a glamor by ex-
Guiding other prisoners, and a man
| tie is thrown around him 10 shield
| him from the public gaze, and say he
| is not a criminal hus he is. VI savs
| vuleu, pdtoieu " POI Ioneu, ola tua.de
evenpt from the strict construction &c
| the law. / do not think we should
lile.ke these large u,scrilnillatlohs
among the criminals of the State. And
| yet the Taxpayers of the State would
| be compelled to pay them money for
| the support OF these criminals. IN
| its insipiency 50 much should not
| be given to these criminals. The in
sane, deaf, dumb blind, and others
afflicted by God, are crying for help.
| The State cannot contribute what is
| commensurate to their needs. But
| when all these appropriations are
made the State is crippling itself to
aid the really needy No man can
say what money will come from the
| revised revenue bill, no man can say
| what demands viii be made by the
| government, and it is unwise and
wrong that we should erect this great
! building for these criminals. | have
done what conceive to be for the best
| interests of the State. When the SEN
timental wave subsidies we come TO
earth again, and the Legislature
should act cody and seriously lest it
shall later rue this act. The next
| year an increase of $4,000 will be
asked. and this is but the beginning of
!, ii, and therefore | offer this amend
ment that the thing may prove worthy
before nc give 1t too much money.
Mr.. Turner opposed the Burton
amendment, and said that State
builds no greater monuments than her
educational institutions and the great
| est value of this state is in its chill
| dren. Ten thousand dollars is an alb
surd amount to donate TO this jnstltu-
ton, and If the State is TO go into this
! matter at ALL let it be SO that what Il
does let it do il we'll
Mr.. Fleming offered al amendment
making the amendment $4,000 in
stead of $500 In explaining his
amendment, Mr.. Fleming said this is
out an experiment and $4,000 Is a
sufficient amount to be Invested TO as
certain whether the experiment viii
prove beneficial, aud work out the
needs for which it is established. and
This amount will give the idea a
good trial.
Mr. Williams said he saw nothing