The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-20
SENATE FIXES
SCALE OF TAXES
Upper House Passes lvie Bill
for Regulation OF
Automobiles.
PUTS IN SPEED LIMIT
Spirited Argument Ends in De-
feat of Concealed Weapons
Measure,
Especial to The Times-Dispatch.I

regulation OF automobiles. fixing the
SCALE Of taTes at 50 for 2O.horsePpower:
more than d0-horsepower: also motor
| cycles, So; speed limit. ten miles per
hour in business sections and fifteen
| and twenty-five miles on country
roads. dealers to pay $40 registration
san for number to ns used
tion. Municipalities are allowed to
impose additional taxes.
| for carrying. concealed weapons at q
| s25 fine. or thirty days Imprisonment
wa vas, defeated after spirited argument
ing the. six months, minimum chool
term, bill put through the second read
90 to .. IT was sent TO the Senate
The bill by Hall for tax of s. on male
and 81 on female dogs for tho benefit
Of the school fund i'm the counties WAS
discussed. many representatives asking
exemption for counties. 1t WAS re-
compuls 80 s"e sch u attendanee ee bi he
pending deferred special order for
to-day. was ordered printed. and set
The Keiiurn bill to give the Corpora
ton Commission. power to regulate
Se sn sas and ana
nicipally owned, and empowering the
Corporation Commission to require
phone lines. passed and was sent to
! the Senate.
nc rouse Foted 70 nave a special
railroads and other enterprises and
passng iae pendns s fo regu2e
state conyicts to be hired to all coun-
ties wanting them for road work be-
! fore letting them to railroads.
! The joint committee on education
considered substitute for the Senate
! bill that died al the hands of the
committee. to permit women TO serve
toav IL
! trustees and county boards of educa-
! ton The substitute hears the indorse-
ment of the Teachers Assembly. and is
not very different from the bill the
! committee reported unfavorabIv An
amendinnt omttting county boards of
/ education from the list of committees
! and boards on which women might
| serve, was accepted and then the com
mittee voted TO report favorably, two
| Senators opposing and giving notice
! OF minority report Many women
| worked for the bill, including Mrs r.
| r. Gotten. president of the State Fed
/ GRAFTON OF Women's Clubs. Eighty
| three out of eighty-tive womans clubs
/ Of the State sent Endorsements which
| means about 900 women
/ The Statewide stock law bill got
/ rough treatment before the Joint com
mittce on agriculture. and will be re-
! ported unfavorably to Senate and
! House. The vote in the Senate com
! committee D 10 s. The poll was taken
after long hearing from many OPP
| ponents and fewer advocates. The
leading advocate was Hugh McRae of
Wilmington.
! The House passed by q vote of IS
10 - very much amended substitute
bill for the North Carolina child labor
/ bill originally known as the child
] labor committee compromise bill. II
! leaves hours OF labor and age limits
a ,fs,l.t 1,I,-
except for from TO 8 o'clock as en-
bodied in an amendment offered by
kellum. of New Hanover. and adopted
1t leaves out the provision for an in
spector and $500 appropriation there
Tor. and through an amendment by
Stewart. or Mecklenburg, provides
that the county superintendent of
schools shall look after the observ-
ance of the law. It was well after
midnight when the vote was reached,
each side having consumed more than
An hour in discussion in addition 10
statements Of provisions of various
amendments.
Williams. of Buncombe. was in
charge of the supporters of the bin.
and w. Il. Gather OF Catawba for
the opponents, who in the round IN
supported the Stewart amendment
mat Killed the inspection feature The
most spirited speech was by Mr. Dill
lingcr. of CASTOR, who declared in no
ooastful way that he represented more
cotton mills and cotton mill operatives
than any other twenty men on the
floor OF the House. He insisted that
the mill operatives are not asking and
40 not want the proposed legislation
and that it would be a downright in
jury to them. Thousands OF homes
would be broken up and families nut
out of employment and opportunity
made for serious harrassment he said
lie exhibited 5000 signatures to pc
titiohs against the proposed legisla-
tion. speaker Conner and Williams
or Buncombe, made speeches for the
bill without amendment, appealing for
the legislation in the interest of the
women and children and the manhood
ana womanhood of coming generations
Before taking up the special order
the child labor bill, the House passed
great number OF second reading roll
call bills and on final readings the
House bill TO regulate surveys of lands
in Cumberland County, and the House
bill to amend the charter of the Ra-
leigh, Charlotte and Southern Rail
road Company.
The bill by Mr. Page of Moore. TO
authorize counties TO have banks and
trust companies serve as trca surers in
stead OF treasurer officials came up
The committee recommended that the
bill! apply to Moore County and this
-. @''oi''S "''N' 'p'ii'cu NcD.ttc, III
which Speaker Conner asked that IT
be given consideration as state
vice measure. Then the bill passed
second reading with the following
counties added accepting the bill:
Chowan, Union. Forsyth, Moore
Mitchell, Granville. Rowan, ramlico
Wake, Halifax, Robertson. Arson.
TRANSATLANTIC HEREFORD, Madison. Pitt
Montgomery Lenoir. Alexander, Hyde
Warren.
An amendment by Syis:-, saouires
commissioners to adopt i. olution
for this change sixty days before any
primary or convention to nominate