The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-17
OUSECONS|DERS
INCOME TAX BILL
Measure Made Special
Order for Thursday,
January 20.
LOCAL MATTERS IN SENATE
States Interest in Mattamuskcet
Lake Drainage District
Sold.
Especial to The Tim.s. Dlspatcl, !

special to The Tin.3. Dispatch,
Raleigh. y. C., January l6.-Ths
Ewart bill 10 ratify the Federal con-
stitutional amendment for the incomo
tax came up for its final passage I'm
the House to-day. and was made a spe-
cial order for Thursday. January 2s
SO that members may nave time to con-
slider the measure.
Mr.. McGill OF Cumberland. intro
duced bill to-day TO appropriate
$4,000 for building at the Soldiers.
Home for wives and widows of vet
Grams. and $4,000 for maintenance.
bin by Mr.. Ray. Of Macon. pro.
poses to increase the salary OF the la "
clerk of the Attorney General to 50 coo
| and to designate him as Assistant. Al
rneyGeneral
The House passed the bill to en-
power the State Fair Association TO
hold $4,000 instead OF only $4,000
properly.
The Senate's session Of half an hou,
was devoted to local matters entirely.
bill relative to fishing in Albemarie
SOUND was passed. Adjournment was
as mark of respect to the memory
OF the late Colonel W. j. Hicks.
Democratic members Of the General
Assembly are to hold a caucus to-
morrow night to discuss a general leg
islative policy for the session. An
nouncement Is made that the Joint
Committee on Propositions and Criev-
ances is to give a hearing Wednesday
afternoon on the koonce resolution for
creating a Legislative commission to
investigate the conduct of fire !nsur-
ence companies in North Carolina, this
hearing being at the request of insur-
ancc men opposing 1t.
Speaker Dowd. of the House of.Repre-
sentauves, has announced additional
committees. with the following chair
men: Expenditures of the House
Rryan. chairman; cngrosscd bills
Mitchell, chairman; Federal relations
Rose. chairman; emigration, MoorinE
chairman: manufactures and labor,
Coke. of Randolph; claims. Kirkman.
chairman; election laws. Gay, chair
man; institutions for the blind, Kelly.
chairman.
opnosed by Webb.
Congressman Z. I. Webb is hero
from shelby to oppose the movement
10 reapportion the Ninth and Tenth
Congressional Districts. by taking
Cleveland county from the Ninth and
placing 1t In the Tenth, making tho
latter surer Democratic. This move
ment, however, Will not take form until
after Congress settles the question of
representation, according to the recen,
census figures. Congressman Webb
who lives in Cleveland. will. it is under
stood. make a strong fight against the
proposed change. In the election last
November his majority was 5,a4., while
in the Tenth. James NJ Gudger. Jr.,
Democrat. won over his Republican op
ponent John G. Grant, by only 1880,
Grant having represented the Tenth for
the past two years. The Ninth. as mt
present constituted. consists or Burke. |
Catawba. Cleveland, CASTOR, Lincoln. |
Madison, Mecklenburg. Mitchell and |
fancey. and tho Tenth is composed OF
Bnncombe, Cherokee. Clay. Graham.
Haywood. Henderson. Jackson Nc
Dowell Macon. Polk. rutherford, Swain
and Transylvan!a
me State Board of Education has
sold North Cardinals interest in the |!
Mattamuskeet Lake drainage district, |
Hyde county, for 100000, to the South
ern Land Reclamation Company. which |
was chartered to-day for the purnose |
of undertaking this drainage scheme. |
which is declared by Chief Elliott of |
the United States Bureau of Drainage.
the biggest drainage undertaking in the |
world. This lake. which the state |
owned, is fifteen miles by six miles
with an average depth OF only few |
feet. with black soil underneath. |
which is expected to make Intensely |
fertile farming lands. The drainage
districts include over 100000 acres. halr J
Ct 1t owned by citizens of Hyde. The
southern Reclamation Company as
su!nes the States obligations in the
drainage undertaking, and assumes
100000 of a 100000 bond issue for
the cost of the drainage system, which
involves a system of canals and an
immense pumping plant. to convey tho
water to the neighboring sound. tho
pumps to have capacity for 1I3, 900. 900
gallons OF water per day. The forma-
ton of the drainage district is com
pleted. with j. p. Kerr. of Ashevilie;
j. >. Mann and T. Fl. 3. Gibbs, Of Hyde
county. as the commissioners. The
100000 bonds ire to be issued within
the next sixty days. the work to begin
very soon thereafter. and to be com
pleted probably within eighteen months.
The principal stockholder in the
Southern Land Reclamation Company.
that assumes the obligations Of tho
state in the undertaking. is d. NJ
Graves. of Boston. with other blocks
of stock held by C. \. Webb. j. p Kerr
and W. T. Mason. OF AshevilIe. They
have $3.50. 400 authorized capital and
$4,000 subscribed. In purchasing the
lake bed from the State. the company
not only pays the 100000 for the
10000 acres, but assumes about $4,000
expense that the State Board has been
to in the preliminary work for forming
the drainage district, the deal being
made possible by vcrification of the
drainage cost estimates and the with
| drawal of exceptions by the Roper
Lumber Company. subsidiary corpo-
| ration of the Norfolk and Southern
Railroad Company. that has extensive
! interests in the district.
ARRESTED NEAR wIL.YSGroS.