The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-03-11

Of capital offenses and seateaeed 20
death TO be executed By sieetroeu-
ton ~ the States prtson. The bin
| does not apply 10 any person nos nn-
der sentence Of death.
The House btu TO increase the
number Of commissioners OF Nash
county and to appoint Il. c. Glover
and j. A. Williams commissioners.
was passed By the Senate. The rev.
enae bill. as amended. vas passed
by both houses.
The Means pension bin passed
final reading In tn. Senate Friday. IL
provided TAI that all ex-confederate
soldiers and sailors. who have be-
come totally blind since the war.
shall receive. as pension. sIso each
annually: tb( and all ex-Confederate
soldiers and sailors who lost both
feet or one hand and one foot while
in actual service. dnring the war. In
the Confederate army. shall receive.
as a pension one hundred and fifty
dollars each annually.
The House resolution appointing
committee TO investigate the claim
of the Shell Fish Commission against
the State of North Carolina for az
7s7, the committee being Y. T. Or
mond, j. X. Gordon and II. l..
Doughton, was passed by the Senate.
The medical educational Quaiifica-
tion bill came up In the House for
about the fourth time. but 1t again
met with defeat. A bill passed third
reading in the House to appoint a
commission to investigate and report
on the debt OF the Shell Fish Com
mission The debt Is about $4,000.
The following bills passed third
reading In the House Friday after
noon:
To change the time of holding
courts in Sampson County. (This
bill gives more terms of court for
the county.)
To prevent election frauds in New
Hanover County.
To assist INDECENT children of
Rowan County to procure school
books.
To enact primary law for Warren
County.
To prevent throwing glass in pub
lie roads OF Union County.
To settle the debt of the University
to the estate of David l.. Swain.
(Settled at $3,5O0.)
To forbid the sale of narcotic
drugs to certain habitues and to re-
peal certain sections of the act OF
1907.
To provide uniforms for inmates
of the Soldiers Home.
SENATE-FRIDAY NIGHT.
The following bills passed third
reading:
House resolutions increasing the
pay of laborers.
III. B. To protect and preserve the
intregity of the ballot and prevent
election frauds in the county of New
Hanover.
To protect dogs in Catawba county.
Concurrence in Senate amendments
to appropriation bill.
To increase the appropriations of
the State Board Of Health from $2,-
600 to $4,000.
To pay salaries for Pitt county off,
GERS.
To pay sheriffs and other officers
for seizing Illicit distilleries.
IN THE HOUSE.
The following bills passed third
reading:
H. B. To allow he attorney gen.
eral a law clerk
H. r. Joint resolutions to instruct
North Carolina representatives to
ask Congress for an appropriation
for deep water at Southport.
When the bill to pay Sheriffs an
additional fee for capturing block
ade distilleries came up for passing
in the House. Mr.. Mcdonald,
of Cherokee, offered an amend
| ment striking out $4,000 and
inserting $1,000. He made a very
striking speech. declaring he had
heard more tom-foolery and rot here
in the past sixty days than he had
ever heard in Cherokee in the past
sixty years. He declared that IL the
law was made to pay the sheriffs $40
for every still cut up, it would re-
suit in building up graft and fraud
| by substituting old stills worth
1880, putting officers onto the job,
and the county would pay $40 for
nothing.
The amendment was lost.
The bill then passed its third and
final reading and was sent to the
Senate.