Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-01-24

favorable report. A third unfavor-
able report was on the bill to define
and punish battery by lawyers, and
yet another on the one requiring
sherlffs to keep a record of processes
for services and to have an official
seal.
Favorable reports were made on
bills:
To prevent the exposure and sale
Of indecent pictures and prohibiting
indecent shows and to prevent the
usury and extortion on mortgages on
household goods, etc.
70 secure the pensioners the
amounts allowed them by pension
boards.
10 compel water companies to sup
ply wholesome drinking water.
70 prohibit the collection of a sum
IN excess Of the regular fare from
passengers who for reasonable cause
do not have tickets.
There was a report without preiu-
dice on the bill prescribing the man
ner IN which passengers should enter
and leave trains. It was stated that
nearly all the railway bills went over
until next Thursday.
House.
The House under the new rule met
at 1880 and as no minister was pres
ent there was no prayer. Several
petitions were introduced for the re-
peal OF the homestead law, the sup
preston OF Mormonism and the abo-
lltlon Of saloons in Morsanton.
Among the bills introduced were
the following:
10 enlarge the powers of the State
board Of pharmacy.
BY Horton: To separate white and
colored persons on street railways.
BY Preston: To encourage immigra-
ton.
B., Galloway: To prevent the waiv-
ING OF bills Of indictment.
.Ry Mangum: To amend the Re-
vlsal as to delays in TRANSPORTING
freight, also requiring railway com
panles to furnish freight cars.
BY Hampton: To amend the revisa)
regarding the clerk Of Currituck
court.
BY Price: To extend the pension
law to certain ex-Confederate soldiers
by Laughinghouse: For the relief
OF prisoners in Jail in Pitt ayaitino
trial.
BY Buchanan: To regulate pay Of
witnesses and jurors in Moore.
BY Mauney: To authorize the cor
roration commission to REQUIRE rail.
ways to install more passenger trains
and make connections.
Reformatory Bill.
just before the close Of the session
mr.. Preston, Of Mecklenburg, asked
leave and was allowed to introduce
out OF order bill providing for re-
formatory and manuel training school
tor criminals and wayward children.
Three hundred copies Of this bill was
ordered printed.
Morganton to Be Dry.
A bill that caused considerable dis
cuss1on was enacted on Thursday.
tas being the measure to prohibit
the sale Of liquor, beer or wine IN
Morganton. Morton, opposing the
bill said he understood Morganton
had voted under the Watts law and
that the people there had said they
preferred saloons. The present pro-
position is that the other part of the
county shall vote Morganton dry, al
though the Watts law gives the Nor
canton people the right to vote on
the question every two years if they
SO desire. The Democratic party is
pledged and committed through the
Watts and the Ward laws to the plan
Of local self government and not to
go any further in these matters. Av-
cry, Of Burke, said the people Of his
county demanded this law, and that
he had petitions signed by l,200 Of
them asking for it, there not being a
single petition against it. The matter
was the one issue IN the late cam
paign, candidates Of both political
parties demanding it. If the bill
were defeated it would mean his .po-
litical and professional death in
Burke. He declared he absolutely be-
lieved the people in the country had