Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-02-25

being ratified by President Pro Tenn.
kluttz when Senator Nimocks rose to
4 question Of parliamentary inquiry
as to the power Of the President Pro
Tenn. to ratify bills. He was int
formed that this matter had been
carefully investigated and that it was
found that there was, ample law for
the President Pro Tenn. to perform
all the functions Of the President ID
the absence of that official, including
the ratification Of bills.
The Solicitors salary bill by Sena-
tors Ormond and Blow, reported fav-
orably during the morning hour with
salary Of $500 specified, was made
special order for next Thursday on
motion of Senator Ormond.
In the House Saturday as ir the
Senate much business was done but
largely Of local interest. The follow
ing are part Of the new bills intro
luced:
Gordon: Issue bonds to carry ont
act of 1907 relative to the care of the
insane, the amount carried being
$5O0,00C.
Gordon: Prevent advertising for
sale and the sale Of articles to pre-
vent conception.
Of any county where an experiment
farm or other station has been estab-
]ished or is about to be established
to aid the Department Of Agriculture
by donating land or otherwise. +
Daily: Amend Chapter 349, Laws
OF 1908, relating to giving and filling
prescriptions.
Braswell: Prevent the indiscrimi-
nate manufacture and sale Of dupli-
cate switchlock keys.
Weaver: Allow foreign executors
in certain cases to convey land de-
| vised to them without first giving
bond in this State.
| Barnes, of Johnston: Amend 1906,
Revisal, relative to the trial of crini-
nal cases.
Doughton: Amend Chapter $780,
Laws Of 1907, relative to the salary
Of the. corporation clerk.
Bolton: Regulate the distribution
Of samples Of patent and proprietary
medicines from house to house.
burlington: Allow the Attorney
General a law clerk.
| burlington (by request): Charter
the Statesyille Air Line Company.
! Mr.. Underwood called up the com.
mittee substitute for his bill to pro-
vide for the electrocution at the State
prison of all felons sentenced to the
death penalty, abolishing hanging in
the State.
| Mr. Perry, Of Bladen, sent forward
an amendment to substitute life i'm.
prisonment at hard labor for electro.
cution. Mr.. Doughton was sustained
on a point of order that the amend.
ment was not germane.
| A. committee amendment was tack.
ed to the bill prohibiting newspapers
from printing anything concerning an
electrocution save the bare fact of thu
execution, but this was withdrawn or
the suggestion Of Messrs. Doughton
Stubbs and Hayes that it would be
impossible to attach any penalty t.
| its violation and therefore the provis
ION could not be enforced, as the con.
stitution freedom of the press could
not, be interfered with.
The, bill was passed on it's readings
with neither discussion nor division
Mr.. Haymore wanted to protest, bu1
ne got to his feet too late. The act
goes into effect from its ratification
but will not apply to any case pend
| ing at date of ratification
| Many private roll-call bills were
passed on second reading.
The following are some of the new
bills offered in the Senate Monday:
Ormond: Amend article 8 Of tn,
constitution relating to corporation
other than municipal.
4 Ormond: Amend Chapter 100, Re
visal, relative to domestic insurance
companies.
Starbuck: Permit judgments OF
|, appeal bonds where bankrupts art
defendant.
ii Doughton: Amend 1907 Revisal re
lative to the annual appropriation fo
, education.
Fry: incorporate Southern Assem-
bly,.
President Kluttz announced to tn
Senate that the Attorney General ha'
furnished ruling that the power AM
4 authority of the President Pro. Ten
| to ratify bills in the absence Of th
| Lieutenant Governor was ample an
sufficient.
Il A resolution was sent forward b
Mr.. Scott that when the Senate ad
iourn it do so in honor Of Georg
| Washington. This was put upon It
immediate passage.