The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-31
MAY REDUCE PAY
OF STATE CLERKS
Matter Brought to Attention Of
North Carolina General
Assembly.
HEARINGS FOR THIS WEEK
Legislature Makes Rapid Pro.
gress in Disposing Of Local
HEARINGS FOR THIS WEEK
Special to The mines. Dlspatch. 1

training school in Western North Caro-
lima in the Ashevllc section. |, car
res All appropriation of $4,000 for
buildings and equipment, conditioned
upon the community whore it Is To-
Gated DlcdginE like amount. 1t also
carries an appropriation of Slc.uvo an
nually for maintenance.
Representative Spainhour. in the
| House. offered a resolution to appoint
a committee Of five to investigate the
pay and duties Of clerks in the State
Offices, and recommend reduction OF
salaries. on the ground that while
| tn Sc clerks arc receiving from $1,000
to $4,000. teachers are being only paid
| $50 to $40 per month, and many col
1 lege professors $500 to $1,000. The
| resolution demands scaling that Will
put the clerks more on a parity with
So teachers. of whom far greater
| equipment is demanded
! The House passed the Joint resolu-
ton by Senator Brown to Investigate
| the Mattamuskect Railroad, I1lkin ana
Allegheny. Statesvlllc Air Line ..ail-
roads. jefferson turnpike
and other matters unfavorably report
cd by the State Board OF Internal I'm
| provcmcnts. EN-Judgc rwart dcclare
| In this discussion that the state has
! evidently lost in the Mattamuskeet
Railroad scheme alone $4,000.
Important Hearings Set
The uniform bill Of lading bin is to
| have its final hearing before the Judi
ciary Committee, No. 9, Tuesday after
noon. This IS the bill for which the
banking interests of the state arc maxi
ing the principal fight and the rail
| roads are strenuously opposing. 1t
would make bills of lading for cotton
absolutely negotiable paper. that can
| be hypothecated by tho holder at viii
| the carrier issuing 1t being liable for
| the cotton j: represents, and for any
fraud that may be prac,!ced in its issu-
| ancc by any agent
| There will Gc hearing by the SEN
ate Committee on Railroads Tuesday
afternoon on the Baggett bill. 1t pro-
| poses to force the railroad companies
| TO pull mileage on the trains. instead
| OF requiring mileage tickets ~ re-
! curing all railroads that refuse this
| concession to sell tickets at n 2-ccnt
rate, instead II 21a cents, allowed an
| der the passenger rate act. under
which 1t is charged that the railroads
have taken advantage OF the state anu
the travelling public in nxacting the
| mileage ticket nuisance" as it is de-
| nominated. The railroad authorities
are to be here in force, It IS said, for
| this hearing.
rroEress OF Legislature.
/ Including to-day, l07 bills have been
1 81
! bly,, as against IS for the same num-
Der of days of the session two years
iago. While a number OF bills OF state
wide application are included among
those ratified during this session. the
great mass of them are local acts THIS
| showing demonstrates that the policy
with which this General Assembly
started out to get rid of local Iegisla-
| ton is being carried out so as to give
| the remaining days OF the session to
the more important State wide legis-
lation.
(, 1t looks as II Raleigh has about
abandoned the idea OF securing COM
mission form OF government from this
! Legislature, unless possibly there Is
the enactment of the Statewide bill
| TO all cities and towns to adopt and
| chahSe their charters at will, subject
to the approval of the Attorney Cen
| eral Of the state as to constitutional
| ity. The Aldermen are moving now
| through a legislative committee to
procure amendments to tho present
| charter that VIII allow the election
| OF Aldermen by the voters of the
| city at large, two from each ward
! The present system is for each ward
TO elect its own representatives on
The Board OF Aldermen. The Alder
men arc also planning to secure tho
right to issue street Improvement
! bonds. Some want $l50O0O; others
want $4,000: and the more progress
sive and daring In such matters are
insisting that not less than 100000
should be provided for the work dur
| ing the next two years.
| Charters by the State.
| Six charters for new corporations
and one amendment changing name
were issued to-day. The Blue Ridge
Land Company, Of Charlotte, author
! lied capital $4,000, TO begin business
with s3soo. The principal incorpor-
ators are g. II. Robinson. +. r. Nc
Ninch and ]. NJ. Harry. The Bladen
| Telephone Company, of EliZabethtown
4 to build and operate telephone lines
in Baden, Columbus, Cumberland,
Brunswick and New Hanover coun-
ties: capital, $4,000: John Mcdowell,
| r. S. White and j. d. Mercer, incor-
porators. The Englehart Granite Com
pany. of Greensboro, to buy and sell
granite and other stone; capital, $780,
000; ". q. Brown, r. D. Douglas and
Clark II. Engiehart, incorporators.
The Capital Buggy Company. OF Hen
derson; capital, $4,000; r. j. Corbitt,
i. L. Shaw and a. G. zollicoTer in
corporators. The Henderson Buggy
Company. Of Henderson; capital, s25.
00O:l r. J. Jones, r. ]. Corbitt and ~.
C, Zollicoffer, incorpo:s.ors. The Mar
guard Social C1uE. 81 Norwood; w NJ.
and J. A. Marquard and H. j. Fcsper-
man, s1ncOrpOTatOTS Inc taIse-Cdlu-
! we'll Construction Company, Of Win
! ston- Salem, changes Its name to the
Ange Construction Company.
Henry w. Miller, assistant to the
president OF tho Southern Railway,
has Informed the Corporation Commits
sion that tho company has completed
arrangements for establishing an
| agency at Pleasant Garden, or,-thc
/ a. & Y. road. eight miles south OF
Greensboro, February II. Heretofore
no agent has boon employed there,
although depot has been built for
several years.
Governor Kitchin will deliver the
/ address of welcome at the annual
Forestry Convention here on Wcdnes-
day Of this week. There will be three
sessions. and an interesting program
will be carried out IT, Includes a
lecture by A. Gaskill. forester of tile
!, state or New Jersey. and addresses