The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1907-02-01
HOUSE WANTS INFORMATION
As to What More Powers Cor
poration Commission Wishes,
BILLS PASSED FINAL READINGS.
To Allow w. ". VI. C. 4. Tn yssue
Bonds--To Improve Efficiency of
JamesWalker Memorial Hospital
To Prevent Non-Residents From
Iakfns Shell Fish I'm Brunswick.
Especial TO The Messenger =,

sSpSNAdL " Inc MESSENGER
Raleigh. January 2s.-The senate.
session at IL O'Clock. Rev. DR.
MeNeely DuBose Offering prayer, clos
ing with the Lords prayer, r~epeated
oy the senators. Tho folio vim hill.
were introduced:
by Buxton, TO authorize III Airy r
refund it's bonded debr; 0y ThorUe 10
increase the power of minority stock.
holders in electirg boards Of 1jrectors
vi corporations; ny E.aa.e, 10 repenl
Section LAS of The Revlsal regarding
tae service Of process On foreign COR
p%Orations.
Bills passed third reading as follows:
10 amend the rcvtsaI regarding water
supplies by requiring good drinkin
water o be furnished under penalty. To
require high schools and colleges hazing
70 De furnished urd. penalty. To re-
qulre high schools anJ colleges having
nifty Or more boarding pupils To hire
a night Waterman. To change the
name of AshepDle. Robson count
Paramount.
The senate concurrei in he resoIu-
ton appropriating $2G.0Jc for the
jamestown Exposition. the house hav-
ing made this imne4iatc'y available
without waiting Cor taxes 10 come in
Senator Bellan:? bill, with a jail
penalty, for parties who ;~en:poTaril"
commit larceny of an automobile. met
with objections as being too severe. 1t
was referred to the committee on Prop.
and Griev. to De CO.'S !ei.l with the
general automobile bill.
To prohibit the waving Of bills in
certain cases. this to be done only by
counsel semploy1u by order Of the
court. Final reaiils ana or.lered Ell
rolled for ratification. To exrned time
for obtaining grants for entry of lands
this gives a year oce than the Reyisal.
Sent 20 the house. To make valid reg
istratlcns of certain Gee.:s, proofs n
, acknowledgements thereof when justice
of the peace did not i"r:OrLl III. legal
duties.
Prio- to adjournment Senator Knit,
| of Rowan, stating i!ias lie saw no he
J cessi.y for a prov:sn i in ali. 4 5cna
tor Graham providiI ~ for passenger
getting on the trains and eff, had Voted
on the previous da7 Il 'a3Ie the Dill
| But recognizing the nee1 Of some leg
islaiO1 concerning TIE height Of foot
stools and the use # these, now move
to C. 'nsider the v)te ~ which IN
bill was tabled. Ta.s was lone amos
unanimously and the bill was re-referr
ed 10 the committee n railroads.
HOUSE,.
Speaker Justice called the house to
order at 1920 and Rev. R. L. Vana
prayed.
Petitions were presented as follows
| By Winborne to protect railway pas
sengers against accidents and untimely
deaths. By Julian to repeal h Home
stead law and enact a garnishnent
lien. Bills ueIa Introduced as fo:-
lows:
By burlington to conea" special
powers upon deputy superior court
clreks. By Manning requiring 1nsur-
ance companies to make deposits with
insurance commissioner.
The following bills passed final read
ing: To amend the revisal regarding
license of attorneys by requiring ap-
| plicants to give certificates OF good
moral character and prove this to the
satisfaction of the courts. TO allow
full pension for loss of an arm n a
leg. To give the corporation commits
sion authority to compel railways to
provide depots or stations in less than
five miles of each other in certain
cases. To prevent non-residents from
taking oysters and clans and terrapin
in Brunswick. To allow the Whining
ton Y. M. G. A. to issue bonds. To i'm
| prove the efficiency of the James
Walker hospital at Wilmington.
LauabinSAnuse sud 1a hCpGi the
luce a bill saying it had been prepared
by the corporation commission in an
swer to the following letter signed by
so members of the house. You are
| requested to inform us what additional
! powers you deem it necessary the leg
islature should confer upon you for
the more efficient discharge of your
| duties and to submit the same in the
shape Of a statute, supplementary to
the law creating you commission.
! Your earliest attention and reply are
respectfully requested"
Laughing house said he hoped the
bill designed gave the commission tn
power TO do something and he hoped
the commissions suggestion as set out
in the bill would enable them so TO
do and that otherwise he sincerely
trusted that two years hence the COM
mission would be abolished.