Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-02-07

There was another long discussion
on the bill making ten years. sep
aration and no issue, cause for di-
vorce, and it passed second reading.
Buxton offered an amendment that
it apply only to existing cases, say
ing this would limit its operations,
and making it apply to only a very
few.
Mitchell decared that he believed
there were mercenary motives be-
hind the bill.
The Judiciary committee reported
unfavorably the joint resolution to
pay stock certificates Of the old Cape
Fear and Deep River Navigation
Company.
Petitions were presented by Pres
ton for a reformatory and one from
| the American Congress on Divorce
for a uniform divorce law in all
States.
Bills were introduced to give the
Agricultural and Mechanical College
at Raleigh $4,000 annually for sup
port, $4,000 annually for sewerage
and water plant and $4,000 for a
mechanical and engineering building;
to provide for paying election Off
GERS; to require registration Of con-
editional. sales Of railway equipment
and rolling stock; to prevent the es-
| cape of dangerous criminals; to ex-
empt the graded schools Of Rocking
ham from using the prescribed text
| books; to protect forests In western
North Carolina and the State s inter
ests in public lands; to regulate labor
in cotton mills; to prevent fraud III
packing and selling flour.
By vote Of 50 to 81, the House
Thursday passed the Kershaw bill,
providing for board Of examiners to
pass upon the fitness Of railroad tele-
graphers. The bill is redical one,
prohibiting any one Of less than two
years. experience to work as a rail-
road telegrapher in handling trains,
without license from the board,
which is to examine the applicants as
to mental, moral and physical fitness
as we'll as ability. No license. may
be under Is years old. The House
killed Mr.. Kershaw' s other two bills.
|, one requiring the block system on all
!: roads and the other forbidding keep
! ing a railroad telegrapher on duty
. more than hours in "a.
New Bills.
Among the new bills introduced in
the Senate were the following Of gen.
t eral interest:
! Authorizing the running and mark
ing Of the North Carolina and Vir-
ginia State lines.
To assess real estate of railways
? in stock law territory for local bene.
fits.
i Repeating chapter %, acts 1905
regarding Sampson county.
. Extending for two years the tinae
; for settling the State debt.
To prevent manufacture and sale
Of adulterated paint.
To provide for uniform stamping
Of gold and silver articles of mer
chandise.
; Holt: To require every county t.
g levy special tax to support one o.
more public schools.
), Mclean: Regarding the CroaJai
Normal Schools in Robson.
9 Buxton: To promote and encour
: age immigration of trained farmer
: and laborers from Saxony IN Ger
: many to- North Carolina.
= Turner: To pay the Normal &
!. Industrial Institute Of Elizabeth Cit,
! an unpaid appropriation.
f The following general bills 1wer
7 introduced in the House on Thursday
f Blount: For the support Of tn
. Agricultural & Mechanical College a
v Raleigh; also to stimulate high schoo
: instructions in the high schools Q
the State. The bill for the colleg
! gives $4,000 annually for support
q $25, 600 for a mechanical and eng1
e neering building.
s Harris: To povide for registra
s ton Of conditional sales Of rallwa..
equipment and rolling stock.
5 McCracken: Regarding tender an
e reception Of freight shipments.
!. Parsons: To exempt the grade
h Ischools Of Rockingham from usin
: text books ordred by the State boar
. ,of education; amending the charte
q Of Rockingham; ameding the law re
garding railway policemen.