The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1913-01-30
WITH THE LEGISLATORS.
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of Friday so it could proceed with
business. Senator Jones introduced
bill by request to provide extra
clerical help for the Supreme Court
reported, and then spoke against the
! bill when it came up for passage. He
said he had introduced it by request
and had reserved the right to oppose
it. An amendment by the Committee
| on Judiciary No. l reduced the
amount asked from $3.50 to $500 an
| nually.
Jones made a speech for economy
and business methods in State affairs.
He declared that the State Treasur-
er's report was misleading as to the
/ financial conditions.
| States Warrants Have to be Discount
ed at Bank.
Money had been appropriated for
! State institutions when it was not in
| the treasury, and he had been inform
ed that the auditor would issue his
warrant to an institution and it
would be discounted at the bank.
/ ! N
! to live beyond his means, and if a
! State did so, bankruptcy would sure
! ly come to it. He understood that
/ other State departments were going
/ to ask for more money, and the Gen
eral Assembly ought not to go into
the increasing of expenditures with
out knowing how much it was going
to have The last Legislature had in
creased the salary of the reporter
from $3.50 to $500. He moved
the bill go to the Appropriations
Committee.
The chair referred the bill to the
4 Appropriations Committee under the
ID; rule.
The joint resolution asking for the
passage of the Webb-Kenyon liquor
! bill by Congress came from the House
and was referred to the Committee
on Federal Relations, upon the re-
quest of several Senators to have it
examined.
The bill relative to liability of COM
mon carriers to employees, applying
the act of Congress to intra-State en-
ployes, came up with a favorable re-
port from Committee on Judiciary
No. 2 and was passed. Senator Ma
son vigorously opposed the measure.
Monday.
When the resolution came up in
the Senate Monday that body voted to
strike out the expression, whereas
the protection of the liquor traffic
| makes the United States an ally OF
the Houor criminals" from the joint
resolution, as it had passed the House
urging Congress to pass the Webb
KENYON bill to abolish the shipment
of liquor into prohibition territory.
The Senate eliminated this expression
on recommendation of the Committee
on Federal Relations, and sent the
amended resolution to the House for
concurrence.
Monday proved to be another good
dav for the pie hunters. The Senate
voted that clerks be provided for the
Committee on Appropriations and Jul
dietary Committee No. 2. Mr.. Wade
Wishart. of Robson County, gets the
clerkship to the Appropriations Com
mittee.
, The longest discussion in the House
was on the Kellum bill for extend
ing the age limit of consent on the
, part of a girl from IA to Ii years
, In the end it received reference to
committee, with amendment by
) Doughton for marriage of parties tc
, stop prosecution, in which case costs
shall be paid by the defendant. In
dications are that the bill will pass.
The most important bills intro
duced in the House were by Hay
more, to require express and railroad
\ companies to provide for more speedy
settlement of small claims by pa
e irons; by Ray, to empower women Il
q recover in their own right for dam
! aaes for personal injuries, to regu
D lat> waterpower and electric light
! ingN mpanies.
8 Tw, Hills amending the State Con
n stitutiol were offered in the Senate
: both much to the same effect. Tn
Ivie bill would relieve the Genera