The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1909-01-12
LEGISLATURE in SESSION.
What Our Lawmakers Are Doing In
Raleigh.
OUTLINE OF WORK CLAIMS ATTENTION
Our Regular Correspondent Gives
Summary OF Most Important Nat.
terS Prohibition, Trusts, Rail-
roads and Other Items.

roads and Other Items.
Special Correspondence of The Recorder
Raleigh, January 18th
North Carolina Legislature ha
hardly reached the point of get
tingdown to business yet. Plent.
of bills are coming, largely a pri
vate nature, those affecting onl.
small territory, and as the com
mittees are not in working order
and the time so short since any
thing was to do, the calendar o.
the House and Senate have, in ;
manner, nothing on them, anc
when the body meets and a few
more bills are put in and sent tt
the committees, there is nothing
to do but to adjourn for the day
and wait for an accumulation,
when there will be something on
the calendar all the time.
The talk of a short session con-
tinues. and it may really turn out
to be, but as the incoming Gov
ernor will be in the lead for the
next four years, it may be that
there will be a different tune set
after what he has to say takes eff
feet.
TRYING INCREASE OF SALARY.
The Nimocks bill from the Sem
ate side was taken up in that
body Friday and passed its
second and third readings, MAX
ing the salary $4,000 a year, in
stead of $4,000 as now. 1t had
some opposition, but passed that
house early, and came over to
the House Saturday, and went to
the committee on salaries and
fees, where, it is claimed, it will
die a pigeon hole death. This
was the request of Governor
Glenn that this bill be passed be-
fore the inauguration of Mr..
Kitchin. so as to give him the ben
eft of the raise, and the rushing
has been done that this might be
accomplished before the 18th, the
constitution forbidding the pass
age Of a bill affecting the reign
ing Governors salary. The
justice Of the bill is advocated
by some and doubted by others,
and it was always so. If the
State fixes place like the pres
ent Governors mansion. covering
a whole block, and with house
room to burn. it seems that the
Governor ought to have enough
to live half way in keeping with
the place he lives in, and not be
lonesome on one side of the man.
sion. Then the other fellow gets
in his work, saying that no man
has to be Governor by force. That
there is always scramble for the
place, and the honor is so eagerly
sought, the man getting it ought
to be willing to pay the freight,
at least. Their. you have the two
sides, but out of both ought to
come the sober thought that if a
man has to lose a good part Of his.
fortune to be Governor, the best
men in the State will not seek
the place, and only some poll
tician with an axe to grind will
be after looking out the Governor
ship.
Senator Manning, from Dur
ham, takes a place in the front
of the Senate as q legislator, and
will be as prominent in that body
as he was in the House last term.
lie has already introduced bills to
amend Section Is Of Chapter 1918
Of the Revisal, and another to
increase the power of the Attor-
ney Of the State.
Saturday is generally a short
day with legislators, as they
want to go home and see friends
and they do little. Last Satur-
day they were in session about
half an hour for the reason stated
above, nothing to do and some
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