Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-01-23
REPRESENTATIVE PATTON HaN
POURED FOURTH BILL INTO
HOPPER OF INTEREST re
HENDERSON COUNTY.
Many BILLS INTRODUCED


Law, and Other Bills of General In
terest are Observation-Disclosures
Tenth District.
(By Noah NJ. HoIlowell.)
Raleigh,sN. C.-Grist mills, to use
everyday, common country parlance
are sometimes "pecked" when the
large stones become dull and do un-
satisfactory work.
Although the legislative mill. thu
General Assembly Of North Carolina.
has not done enough work at the pre-
sent session to become dull, (properIy
speaking it has just been rubbed up a
llttle) many obstructive matters have
been removed, such as the formal rati-
ncat1on OF the election of the State Of
ncers last November, the election OF
United States Senator F. M. simmons.
the hearing of reports from various
State officers and State institutions.
disposlng of matters incident to the
inauguration Of the governor, ETC., the
law mill started grinding the day after
the inauguration just as if it had un-
dergone careful 'pecking" or sharp
en1ng, This fact was brought out by
the rapid Introduction of bills In both
branches of the legislature, there be-
ing thirty-nine-in the House and nine
teen in the Senate introduced On
Thursday, which showed marked pro
gress along this line as only few
bills had been introduced up to this
time
The machinery is IN fine runnIlE
ardeg now and there is apparently
nothing In sight TO block some real e.
fective legislation of State wide inter-
est. The various committees of the
Senate and House are IN shape to give
matters referred to them utmost con-
sideration, although at this writing
some Of the House committees have
not been appointed. The variOWS
clerks, stenographers, pages, officers,
etc., have famiIarized themselves
with their work and there will be q
strenuous time from now until fnza
adjournment, at which time prohably
1000 acts will have been ratified, o.
say nothing of the hundreds that win
Gle natural death in the hands Of the
committees.
?, Following will be found the sub
stance of the bills introduced ND to
this writing by Representatives and
Senators from the Tenth Congressi0n-
al district, and other bills of State
wide Importance:
Senator S.. w. Lovingood, of Mur-
ply, has introduced another bill OF
Statewide Importance 1t provides
that the rights, powers and privileges
of corporations chartered to build
Toi1 DC rIo ~
cease and the charter shall be revoked
unless operation shall commence with
in IL months after ratification of this
act, the provision being made that tho
work must be completed within years
after March 1. No report has been made
by the committee to which the bill
was referred and before which Sena-
tors Lovingood and w. J. Hannah OF
Waynesville, outlined the advantages
that would accrue if the State had q
law of this kind, while Edward Nor
vile, of Waynesville, who is enrolling
clerk for the General Assembly siren
uously opposed the bill before the COM
mittee, declaring that it would work q
great hardship upon companies that
had been chartered to undertake de-
velopments. Senators Lovingood and
Hannah took the position that the cor
porations buy choice water power and
railroad sites for speculative rselfsh
purposes with no intention of carrying
out the developments.
Senator Zebulon Weaver, of AShe-
Vile, on the day after the inaugura-
ton of Governor Craig, introduced .
bill affecting the work and salary CT
clerks to the governor. Under the eK-
listing law, the executive clerk to the
governor, to which place Governor
Craig has appointed his Junior law
partner, Garland A. Thompson, is en-
titled to $1,000 annually and an allow
ance of $500 is made for stenogra-
pher and $500 is allowed for work done
for the adjutant general. The Weay-
er bill provides that the executive
clerk shall receive not more than $20Oe
and that his duties be combined with
those of the stenographer allowed ana
that no fees be received for work done
for the adjutant general AS the idea
of retrenchment in expenses has been
in evidence at this session of the Gen
eral Assembly, there was some oppO-
sition in the Senate to the bill until 1t
was explained that by combining Ehs
two Offices there was saving Of $1Da,
then the bill was favored by all the
Senators present except Senator =. HI
Bridgers of Henderson, who said that
the clerical services would be cuk
(C0nfiuuad on 5fh PoOo