The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-24
SECRETARY OF STATE GRIMES
SAYS TOO MUCH is DONE
LAST WEEK OF SESSION.
DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH
Doinqs and Happenings That Mark
the Progress of North Carolina Peo-
CAPITOL.
Raleigh.

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Craig and the general assembly, Sec
rotary of State J. Bryan Grimes in
sists that some method should be
adopted to avoid the rush of. work at
the close of the legislative sessions.
He points out that at the 1913 session
rs per cent of the acts passed had
their final reading and ratification in
the last 10 days of the session and he
marshals figures from previous ses-
sions to show tina the congestion in
| the last days increases with each ses-
sion of the general assembly, making
inevitable much crude legislation and
many inaccuracies.
He urges the consolidation of the
engrossing and = the enrolling depart
ments of the legislature in the inter-
est of economy and accuracy.
The report insists that the state
would have a competent legislative
reference librarian, an officer that
many states in the union have found
! necessary and greatly helpful as a
clearing house for information upon
public AFFAIRS He points that such
an officer would be required to give
condensed, comprehensive, impartial
and accurate information on any sub
5ect on short notice. For the busy
legislator he would have ready the &C
cumulated classified experiments and
entries upon every question of legis-
lation that would be likely to arise.
This officer could also edit the laws
for the state printer, make the annOta
tons and keep the Revisal of 1905 re-
vised to. date and give assistance in
the preparation of bills for the mem
bers of the legislature.
The report expresses special regret
at defeat of those proposed amend
ments to the state constitution de-
signed to curtail the work of the leg
lslature by making unnecessary
three-fourths of the little unimport-
ant acts that now clog the legislative
mill each session. AS illustrations
how there could be consolidation and
elimination of large part of the leg
fslation complained of, he gives fig
ures as to local bills passed the past
four sessions. The figures as to the
1913 session making this, the worst
showing. Acts as to county and town
ship bonds, 81; other bonds, 119;
county commissioners, SO; court stem
ographers, ~; chicken laws, 4; drain
age laws, 20; game and fish laws, 80;
primaries, 16; local courts, 40; road
laws, 1853; stock laws, 18; jurors, Is;
justices of the peace, 10; relative to
cities and towns, 1926; corporations,
20; graded schools and school dis
tricts, 1877; railroads, "a.
North Carolina Crop Report.
The crop reporting board of the
bureau of crop estimates of the De-
partment of Agriculture says that the
cotton crop in North Carolina this
year will amount to $4,000 bales
against 792,545 last year. The price
paid in 1913 in North Carolina was
1875 against SO this year. This means
a total loss of S17,15S,226 to North
Carolina cotton growers this year.
New Manager for Marlborough Hotel.
B. H. Griffin, head of the corpora
ton operating the Marlborough Hotel
here, has decided to assume the act
i've management of the hotel him
self, following the retirement. of J.
T. Matthews as manager to engage in
the hotel business in Charlotte, and
he has made w. H. Plummer assistant
manager in active charge
Slaughter 10000 Pounds Pork.
This was 'hog-killing day" out at
the Central Hospital for Insane here
and DR.. Albert Anderson, superin-
tendent, reports 10000 pounds of the
incest sort CT meat, with another fine
lot of hogs to be killed some time in
the new year ..s-
Some Time Before Decision.
It is expected that it will be some
days yet before Unitd States Attorn-
ey General Gregory will definitely in
dictate to Attorney General Beckett !
whether Or not he will undertake the
suit that Mr.. Beckett is urging him to
bring for the setting aside of the re-
ownership sale and partition of the |
old Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Rail-
road in alleged violation of the order
Of the federal court at the time and
of the Sherman antitrust law. In
fact the Dlan is for Mr. Rickott IN or i