The gold leaf., 1911-01-26
GOV. KITCHENS MESSAGE TO
THE LEGISLATURE
Recommendation Made by Governor
to North Carolina Legislature
Wants Sale Of Near-Beer Prohibited
and House Passes Such Bill.


Wants Sale Of Near-Beer Prohibited
and House Passes Such Bill.
Richmond Times Dispatch
Tn. Governors message deals force
fully with "a great variety OF matters
Of the greatest public interest. He
saws that two years is too short a
period to measure the effect OF such a
reform movement as prohibition.
Little more than planting the seed
OF temperance for development
through coming generations has been
attained. Yet, he says, the results
Justify it's adoption, through mar ked
diminutiOn in crime, as shown by the
reports of the attnrney-general.
Morality, industry and frugality ha7 7e
been increased, and politics and gov
ernment relieved Of their most cor
rupting influence He urges that the
near-bppr saloons be prohibited, and
that if this cannot be done, that the
holding Of IL Federal license to sell
intuX.cants shall forfeit nearbeer
license, He disapprOves a PROPOSE
tion to tax the capital stock of banks
on the ground that the tax can only
apply to State banks, and that this
would have the effect of forcing all
banks to become national banks to
avoid being at n disadvantage in
competition with the present national
banks. He discusses this proposition
at length.
He recommends an increase OF the
appropriation to the State Board Of
Health to $4,000, and that pro-
vision be made for gathering vital
statistics in towns OF 800 and more
inhabitants.
Treating drainage and rocks, he
recommends an increase in the APP
preparation for the State Geological
Survey to $15, 900, and that an ad
ditional of $4,000 be appropriated
for the better promotion of good
roads under the direction of a Good
Roads Commission, the creation Os
which he advocates; that central
highway from Morrhpad to Marshall
be encouraged by authorizing each
county to appropriate $40 per mile
for section of this road within its
border, IL general law authorizing
any county TO vote road bonds.
TRUST LEGISLATION.
Concerning trust legislation, he
recommends the enlargement OF the
scope Of the present law, making acts
intended to destroy competition and
create monopoly criminal; by adding
certain other subsectiOns to section
! of chapter 21S, acts of 1907, and
experience suggests the necessity OF
amending in other respects to render
it more effective He fears ill-advised
declaration that the present law is
Ineffective have discouraged efforts
to enforce it, Yet the law is fOrceful
and enforceable, but there should be
Inducements provided to directly en-
courage prosecutions under it. He
would have an amendment that will
include rates and tolls, such as ex-
press charges and telephone calls. He
recommends amendments to subsec-
tiOns ''g" and "h' that will strength
Ell them, in conformity with the two
most important sections OF the Fed
eral antitrust law. He recommends
that the use OF coupons in packages
be prohibited; that Independent con-
Germs be given the preference in pur-
chasing supplies for State institu-
tiOns, and that the Governor be en-
powered To employ counsel to aid
the solicitors in prosecutions under
the antitrust law.
lie recommends, too, that 40 per
cent. of the fines collected through
any prosecutions be paid to the
solicitor, special counsel and private
prosecutors, in such proportion as
the trial Judge may decree; also that
private prosecutors may recover
500 per day for violations OF the
antitrust law, and that any person
or corporation damaged by trust
methods may recover three times
actual damages.
concerning water power, he saws
many water power plants are becom-
ing the property of syndicates that
are selling the public power and
lights. tie wants these placed under
the jurisdiction OF the Corporation
Commission for regulation, as rail
roads are
PRIMARY ELECTION LAW.
The Governor recommends a pro-
perly safeguarded primary election
law, one that will provide for the
nomination OF all State and district
officers, Representatives and Sena-
tors in Congress, to be held on the
same day for all parties by the same
officers, at the State expense
n
ment prohibiting the General Assem-
bly, from granting corporate power
by special act, except to charitable,
penal, educational, refOrmatory and
such like institutions that will re-
main under the control of the State;
cutting out of the legislation by the
General Assembly a long list of minor
legislation that now floods and over
runs the calendars OF the two legisla-
tive branches; an amendment con-
ierrlng veto power on the Governor
and amending Section 13, Article I,
striking out rebellion" and insert
ing 1.-The Confederacy, in the War
between the States"
The ratification of the proposed
amendment to the Federal Constitu.
tion providing Federal income tax
Is recommended. He asks that the
Governor be authorized to pay 5000
per year toward maintenance of the
National Conference of Governors
that the Governors salary be
fixed at $4,000: that the State
be redistricted, and two circuits
created. The Constitution should
be amended to increase the mum
Der of Supreme Court judges; increase
directorate OF State Schools for Dea
from seven to nine; that trustee:
OF the Tuberculosis Sanatoriam b,
appointed by the Governor; that
child labor under fourteen in facto
ries be prohibited; that a weeks work