Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-02-14
J. S. sPURcEon, President.

To prevent manufacture and sale
Of adulterated paint. -
To provide for uniform stamping
Of gold and silver articles of mer-
chandise. y.
Holt: To require ever yRcounty to
levy special tax to support one or
more public schools. 80
Mclean: Regarding the Croatan
Normal Schools in Robson.
Buxton: To promote and encour-
age immigration Of trained farmers
and laborers from Saxony in. Ger
many to North Carolina.
Turner: 10 pay the Normal &
Industrial Institute Of Elizabeth City
an unpaid appropriation.
The following general bills were
introduced III the House on Thursday
Blount: For the support of the
Agricultural & Mechanical College at
! Raleigh; also to stimulate high school
instructions in the high schools of
the State. The bill for the college
gives $4,000 annually for support
$4,000 for a mechanical and enoi-
neering building.
Harris: To popide for registra-
ton of conditional sales of railway
equipment and rolling stock.
McCracken,: Regarding tender and
reception Of freight shipments.
Parsons: To exempt the graded
schools of Rockingham from using
text books ordred by the State board
Of education; amending the charter
Of Rockingham; ameding the law re-
garding railway policemen.
Doughton: To protect the forests
IN western North Carolina and also
the States interests in public lands.
McNeilf: To regulate labor in cot
ton mills.
Stephens: To prevent fraud in
packing and selling -four.
The immigration bill was made spe-
cial order for noon next Tuesday,
The following bill passed final
reading Thursday: - ..
The Senate. -"
The Senate took up the. bill making
10 years separation and no issue
cause for divorce it. having passed
second reading. Buxton s amendment
that the bill shall apply only to exist
ing cases was read. Mclean asked
Buxton If he would vote for the bill
IT the amendment was adopted. Brx-
ton replied he would not. Hicks de-
clared he hoped the amendment would
be voted down; that there were peo-
pie in this county and almost every
other county in the State who were
laborlng under the repeal of the sta
tutes two years ago.
Mitchell spoke against the bill and
quoted extracts from the proceedings
Of the National Divorce Congress. He
declared the bill would lower the
sanctity of the marriage relation. He
was a member Of the last legislature
when the State clamored and the
churches demanded all the divorce
laws enacted since 1888. He declar-
ed he believed there were mercenary
motives behind the bill. The South
ern people are the hope Of the land
and In the interest Of good morals
and society in North Carolina and
the country he hoped the Senate
would defeat the bill. Buxton ex-
planned that if the bill should becomes
law his amendment would make il
as little damaging as possible by lin
itlng eases, and this would apply to
very few. He opposed abandonment
for any length Of time as a cause for
divorce. Buxton's amendment was
lost by vote Of 26 to II, and the
bill passed third reading % to q.
Pass Final Reading.
Bills passed final reading as fol-
lows:
70 amend the charter Of Clinton. I
TO allow the commissioner of IN
surance to revoke the license Of any
insurance company. diverting its
funds to political purposes. s g
10 give laborers in the capitol IS
days vacation annually. ~. 81
10 repeal the charter Of. Roaring
River. .ra I 8.
To enlarge the powers of the State
Chemist in regard to the regulation
q foods with an amendment provid-
ing that i'll the appointment Of an In
spector OF drugs, the board Of agri-
culture shall confer with the State
board Of pharmacy.
10 appoint magistrates in Cumber-