Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1913-07-23
0vEaaAUliHe OF The OReAnIe LAW.

laltlativs and Referendum Went Through #
Modified Form. To Read Bible IN School.
With twelve big things accom-.
plished and uncommonly good hu.
NOR marking its clcse. the Consti.
tutionsl Comm adj ,urned q,
midnight Thursday. submitting
its report Of ell work accomplish.
cd, says the Raleigh News and Oh.
server.
Az some Of that body's labor,
in Morehead was given a few days
ago. Notifications we're made
necessary in some measures pre-
sented on their third reading and
not . few proportions will hardly
know themselves when they go be-
fore the general assembly. But
one must feel that supurb work
has been done all the same, and
politics has not appeared to creep
in even once.
Mr.. Bailey, representing Wake,
read the report which was sent to
Governor Craig Friday and made
q hne plea for unity. Represen-
tstive Page declared h.msel fdls-
satisfied with me of the measures
~ passed, particularly the inisis.
tive and referendum, which has
been greatly modified. 1t passed
with the provision that eliminat,
ed Constitutional amendments a.
the initiative of the people. A.
it went through. the measure EN-
braces only bills and statutes.
Mr.. Page is an out and out ad-
vocate Of the initiative and refer
sndum and wanted the best one
possible. But he promised 80 be
no troub .e. maker. He was going
to file his disssnt. Mr.. Haymore
looked more seriously at the mat
tar. lie declared that he holds
himself not particularly bound as
. minority party man to make
good the work of q majority party
man.
The debate on the homestead
exemption produced merriment
oil the morning. The amendment
looking to q reduction to 81, 600
for married men and none at all
for single men, was lost.
It was this assurance that rep.
resentatlve Haymore championed
90 passionately. Hr. Haymore's
peroration pictured q steady ex.
odus from North Carolina to other
States which have had the ma.
ehinery in operation 80 long that
they have forgotten it.
"Why, Mr.. Speaker, the Surry
stat esman shouted. II wonder
that this measure of such gigantic
wisdom did not come from Ohio.
I am sorry that 1t didn't Nearly
everything else that We have had
has been brought here from that
State which has more turmoil III
it than any other. But if the Leg.
islatnrs in their gigantic wisdom
passes it, 1 shall have nothing TO
say.
"We are fixing a way to run
North Carolina young men away.
It's . gross discrimination. Let 1t
get ont that North Carolina does
not think enough of its young
men, the States best asset, and
men will leave in droves if they
knew there is no protection for
them when they are unfortunate"
Senator A. D. I'VE, of Rocking.
ham, who spoke for the measure
often, but finally voted against a
change. interrupted to suggest
that . man needn't leave the State
to get the exemption, that he
might remain and marry some
good North Carolina woman. "He
would then have protection," the
Senator said.
"That is all right" retorted
Senator Ward, ''but it takes two
to make Q bargain"
"Oh, no; not with the distin'
guished Senator from R;ckil g.
ham," Representative Haymore
said. as he paid this devilish com >
pliment to the Democratic bach
elor.
Representative Wcoten thought
it we'll enough to reduce the exem
tion from $500 to $1,000 for
married men, but agreed with Mr..
Bailey that there is no reason