Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-03-23
WHITEHEAD KLUTTz.
Senator from the Twenty-SI1th Senatorial
District.


District.
In Sundays edition of the Ra
leigh News and Observer, it's legis.
lative edition, we find the follow.
ing interesting sketch OF Hon.
Whitehead Kluttz and his services
during the session of the recent
Legislature:
No Senator'sactivities have been
more strenuous than those Of
Whitehead Kluttz. Although pre-.
siding over many sessions of the
Senate, he has spoken in frequent
important debates. A further
heavy burden of work fell upon
him as chairman of the big and
busyIcommittee on Counties, Cities
and Towns, in addition to his work
on such other committees as Judi
ciary, Appropriations and Educa-
ton.
lii spite of all this responsibility
Senator Kluttz has originated and
enacted some important and in
teresting laws. That which pro-
tects human life by means of fire
escapes and other modern precau-
tions against fire in hotels, thea
ters, factories and Ill other places
Of public use and resort is one of
the best of the session. He has
also succeeded in having forbidden
the sale of narcotic drugsor''dope"
except OIL prescription and ill.,
creasing the punishment for vio-
lation Of the act Of 1907 His act
making the giving of worthless
checks prima facle evidence of
fraud where credit or goods areob-
tanned thereby, is generally ap-
proved. The old soldiers at the
Soldiers Home will have their
hearts gladdened and their last
days made happier by his act
providing each of them with suit
or uniform Of Confederate gray
each year. Future legislators will
owe him gratiture for the passage
of a resolution providing for q
modern system of ventilation for
the dangerous and unsanitary
Capitol.
In addition to these laws Sena-
tor Kluttz vigorously opened the
fight for good roads and State aid
thereto. The battle royal of the
session was led by him in the last
two days in his successful fight for
this measure. On the last Satur-
day of the session a tbs vote was
broken by the Lieutenant Cover
against the bill, but On Mon
day Senator Kluttz secured the
passage of a substitute providing
for expert advice and assistance to
counties and towns engaged in
making good roads. The feature
of the contest and its Importance
lie in the fact that Mis is the first
recognition by the State of the
good roads movement which has
heretofore been a county, town.
ship or town proposition. 1t is
undoubtedly the successful open
ing of a great fight to he waged IN
North Carolina for State aid to
great highways which will join the
East to the Piedmont and the
Piedmont to the mountain sec
tions of North Carolina.
The highest honor that can be
bestowed upon a Senator was gr%c-
ed by Mr.. Kluttz, the Senate hav-
ing elected him President Pro
Tempre. He is the youngest man
ever to have held that office.
Mr.. Kluttz was born in Sails
bury September 81, 1881, and is
the son Of Hon. Theo. F.
Kluttz, ex-member of Congress.
He was educated in Church High
School and the University of
North Carolina, and has for many
years been active in public life,
both as newspaper man and law
yer. He was a member of the
Senate of 1907, achieving distinc.
ton at that SESSION as an orator
and wise legislator. There was
not a more versatile member Of
the Senate.
Mr.. Kluttz is a member of the
PrAshvtarlan church.