The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1909-03-11
WITH N. G.. LAWMAKERS
Doings of the State Legislature Con-
dsnsed-Interesting Items from
Day to Day.

Day to Day.
The revenue bill wa complete
Friday in the Senate and passed final
reading with some few sections re-
served for adjustment through con-
ference committees on differences be-
tween the Senate and the. House on
their provisions. For instance, the
sections fixing taxation on express,
telegraph and telephone companies
we're reserved because the Senate
will not agree to the increase made
against these corporations by the
House, which also added a provision
that towns be allowed to require To-
cal license taxes. The section taxing
manufacturers and dealers in cigar
cites is also held up because the
Senate excerpts to the tax Of $1,000
on makers of 100000, 900 and more as
compared with the low present law
tax against those handling less guam
titles. 1t is feared that this dis
crepancy would have the effect of
knocking out the entire section as
discriminatory.
A bill passed final reading in the
Senate to make April 18th legal holt
day on account of Halifax resolu-
tions.
The bill to appropriate $1,000 to-
ward a statute to Henry L. Wyatt
came up as a special order. The bill
provides that this appropriation
shall be available when a like amount
shall have been raised from other
sources, the monument to be in Cap
itol Square. It developed that $4,000
is already in hand from popular con-
tributions through the Selma Chap
ter, Daughters of the Confederacy.
There were only three votes against
it on second reading and the passage
on final reading was unanimous.
The adoption of Ashes Hosiery
for North Carolina schools was at
tended with protest. Speakr Ora
ham spoke for Mr.. Dowd's motion,
saying that the act would necessitate
the changing of the State flag and
he would say to the patriots of
Mecklenburg that they declared their
independence on May goth, IT'S. He
spoke with feeling against disturbing
the best historical traditions. The
motion to reconsider the vote was
carried.
Mr.. Doughton's bill heretofore
passed in the Senate to make the
pensions appropriation $45O,O0o and
the school appropriation $125,O00
passed without a dissenting vote.
Among the bills passed on final
reading we're:
S. B., amend Revisal as to uttering
forged papers; S. B., requiring clerks
of courts to make reports to Attor-
ney General: S. B., amend Revisal
as to advertising property for public
sale; S. B., amend the Revisal as to
docketing judgments, requiring de
scription of land, if given in plead
ings to be written In the judgment;
] S. B., amend Revisal relating to mar
, rage ceremony; S. B., amend the
Revisal as to holding inquests; S. B.,
provide suitable sanitary surround.
: ings for State institutions; S. B., ex-
tend the time for settling the State
debt; S. B., relative to the settlement
of certain outstanding western North
, Carolina railroad construction bonds
of the South Dakota suit class; sub
: stitute Senate bill amend the Revlsal
relative to the State laboratory of
I hygiene graduates tax for license
fee for analysis of water sold FOL
drinking purposes now $50, bill pro-
vides. graduated tax $15 to $50; S. B.,
v allow registers of deeds to appoint
deputies; S. B., provide fire escapes
4 and protect human life; S. B., auth
n orize the purchase of Ashes History
of North Carolina in rural schools
S. B., make the giving of WORTHLESS:
! checks or drafts prima facie evidence
\ of intent to defraud; S. B., authorize
= county commissioners to offer re
wards in certain cases; S. B., forblC
: the sale of narcotic drugs to certain
!; habitues; authorize furnishing o
Confederate uniforms to the inmate
of the Soldiers Home; provide dor
mitory for Colored Orphan Asylum
Oxford.
pc Fast and furious is the pace of til
h North Carolina General Assembly ]
the rush to clear the calendars
~ that there can be final adjournmer
=, at the earliest possible minute
~ morning, afternoon and evening Sc
sions icing the order Saturday.
to The evening sssion was continue
to nearly midnight in order that a.
I'd journment for the session may
an possible Monday. Ever and anc
he bills. of State interest, or / who
local fights developed, have clogge
the wheels of legislation in the rap
grist of bills passed.
The bill that got through the Sc
e1 ate with the "plumage badly ru
fed" in that it had provided tn
~ county boards of education be aut
orized and directed to purchase Sc
he of the History of North Carolina
of by Capt. S. A. Ashe for the run
schools, and was passed merely
asst authorize the purchase, came up
,as the House and afforded the bigge
sh- fight of the day, meeting its Wate
loo in the end by a vote of 80 to
lu- the fight against it being led by Re
ate resentative Dowd, of Mecklenbul
ing and Speaker Graham. They argu
that history is not orthodox in
lie. position as to the Mecklenburg Dec
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