The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-03-02


To- Increase the SALARY o. The pen-
sion clerk from ssoe 20 sI.eoo.
Sew RlIls.
MeGIil: Joint resolution IN regard
10 dependent widows and wives %
Confederate veterans
billiard Of GuIlford: Relative 90
the establishment Of manual train
lng school for negroes
Tucker: To provide 20 rthe sup
port OF the 4. L Nc. College q Raj
elgh.
Rawis: To make June srd legal
holiday.
Edwards: To provide for election
of Board OF Education for Graham
County.
Green: To punish drunkenness In
justices OF the peace.
Bills Passed Final Reading.
To incorporate the Chimney Rock
and Hickory Nut Gap Turnpike Com
pany.
To fix the salary of Wake County
officers and increase the road fund.
Message From Governor.
A message was received from the
Governor recommending a commits
sion to represent North Carolina at
the Gettysburg celebration July 3rd.
Message relating to bonds Of North
Carolina owned by the United States
Government.
Passed Final Reading.
To appoint a commission and au-
thorize a State bond issue of $780,
900 for State administration build
ing at the Capitol at Raleigh.
To promote road building in the
counties of the State.
This bill provides for counties up
on voting bond issue for roads, to
get the State to issue per cent
bonds, an dtake from the counties
per cent forty-one year bonds to
guarantee the validity of the county
bonds.
To provide farm life schools for
Wayne County.
To provide commission form Of
government for Winston.
Night Session.
The bill introduced by Mr. Rawles,
of Pamlico, to tax dogs in North
Carolina, was first considered.
Mr.. Rawles sent forward an amend
ment, providing that the act should
only be operative when the county
commissioners passed an order put
ting dogs on the tax list. The amend
ment was adopted. The bill then
passed it's several readings without
debate, unanimously.
The Revenue and Machinery Act
was then considered. AS the time
for listing property had been chang
ed from June LIST to May 1st, Messrs.
Mitchell, Kennedy and others claimed
that the guano the farmers had on
their places on May 1st should be ex-
empted from taxation as after the
farmers had sown all their guano by
May 1, and they claimed that taxing
it would be a hardship on the farm
feated and the farmers got it in the
| neck again.
Senate-Wednesday
Senator Baggett asked that his an
THRUST bill. which was reported un-
favorably by the Committee on Ju-
dietary, be taken from the table and
nj od he ic
was granted.
He then moved and insisted that
the bill be made special order for
Friday at 10 o'clock, but this the Sen
ate declined to do.
The following new bills were intro
duced:
Starbuck: Authorize commission
ers of Forsyth County to appropriate
sums for advertising; also establish
| the North Carolina State Board of
Trade.
| Barham: Prevent live stock from
running at large in Wayne County.
Graham: Amend the Revisal rela-
tive to dispositions; also fix liability
of initial carrier in transportation OF
/ freight tcopy or Hepburn act).
/ In the House.
Mr.. Kellum, of New Hanover,
arose to question of personal priv
ilege. He read a notice in the News
and Observer Offering a reward OF
500 for discovery OF BILL. known
as the Wake County Salary Bill, that
was charged to have been stolen from
the files. He said this was a refec-
ton on the clerks and the members
of the House and the editor had been
deceived by some one. for at no time
had the bill been lost, but was in the
files all the time
Houtson: To provide for a vaca-
ton for the stenbgraphers in the
| State Departments.
i Crumpler: To repeal the laws OF