Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-03-11

iournment for the session may be
possible Monday. Ever and anon
bills Of State interest, or in which
local fights developed, have clogged
the wheels Of legislation in the rapid
grist Of bills passed.
The bill that got through the SEN
ate with the "plumage badly ruff
fed,' in that it had provided that
county boards Of education be auth
orized and directed to purchase sets.
Of the History Of North Carolina"
by Capt. S. A. Ashe for the rural
schools, and was passed merely to
authorize the purchase, came up in
the House and afforded the biggest
fight Of the day, meeting it's Water
loo in the end by vote of SO. to Sc,
the fight against it being led by Rep
resentative Dowd, Of Mecklenburg.
and Speaker Graham. They argued
that history is not orthodox in its
position as to the Mecklenburg Decla-
ration of Independence, in that it
favors May 3lst as the correct date
instead Of May goth, 1776.
The House passed the Senate bill
assuring a $4,000 statue of Wyatt, Of
Edgecomb, first to fall in the civil
war, this statue to be- in the Capitol
Square, Raleigh.
The Senate passed the following
Allow J. Bis Rya to use the index of
the 1905 Revisal in his digest Of de-
cisions Of the Supreme Court.
Regulate the packing and sale Of
fish.
Increase the salary Of the assis-
tant librarian Of the Supreme Court
to $50 per month.
Provide registration OF deaths In
towns Of 1000 and more inhabitants
Provide additional dormitory al
the ~colored Orphan Asylum, Oxford.
Establish colored reformatory
for youthful criminals at Greensboro
carrying no appropriation but merely
giving the institution State sanction.
The vote was 10 to 6.
| The Senate declined to concur in
the ouse amendment to the bill en-
larging the powers Of the State labor
atory, of hygiene, and Senators Phar1
and Manning were named as a con.
ference committee.
The House concurred in Senate
amendments to the appropriations
bill. The bill to increase the ap
preparation to the State board o1
health, putting secretary in tht
| field for all his time, was taken ul
as special order, the appropriation
being changed in committee from
$4,000 to $4,000, the present appro
.priation being $4,000. The bill pass
ed and was sent to the Senate.
Some of the bills passed we're: T,
provide for building the Statesvill,
Air Line Railroad; Senate bill pro
vide for examination and checking O.
books and accounts Of State depart
ments and State institutions by per
sons appointed by the Governo
whenever deemed advisable; S. B.
amend Revisal as to dissolution O
corporations.
Expressions of appreciation o
Speaker Graham as presiding of
fcer, and like tributes to others wer
passed and fittingly responded to.
Murphy, Of Guilford, was recogniz
ed and proceeded in fitting words t
present; to Speaker Graham a hand
some silver service as token of al
fection from the members and clerk
for the services Of Mr.. Graham a
) Il Speaker and for his sterling persona
| worth.
Mr.. Henderson, after a CLOWN
tribute to the Confederate soldie
and the women Of the Confederac,
secured the passage Of his bill admit
ting to pensions those widows MAJ
: RED to veterans between 1865 an
, 1868.