Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-19
SOLICITOR ALTERNATELY
ASKS INVESTIGATION
lie Wants Legislature to Review
Difficulty Between Him and
Judge Frank Carter.
SERIOUS CHARGES ARE MADE
Resolutions Presented I'm House Ac-
cusc Judge of Conduct Calculated
to Bring His High Office Into Dis
repute-Woman Suffrage Debated.

RALEIGH, y. G.. February iS.--Thc
House this morning received Il cornmu
nicntion from Solicitor Charles l.. Aber-
nathy. OF Ncwbcrn. asking that the
Legislature invcstigat" the difficulty
between himself and Judge Frank Car
ter. OF .Ashcvillc. as a result OF which
Judge Carter fined him for contcmpt
and entered orders on the court
records which the solicitor considers
detrimental to his official and moral
integrity
Following the reading OF the COM
munication from Solicitor Abcrncthy.
Il resolution was presented by Repre-
scntativ. Davis, Of Cartcrct County.
providing for an investigation. Com
munications also were read from mem
bcrs of the Ncwbcrn bar and others
protesting against an investigation and
commencing the official conduct OF
Judge Carter.
The communication from solicitor
Alternately. the Davis resolution for in
vcstigation and the petitions from the
bar indorsinE Judge Carter. wer" re-
fcrred TO the House Judiciary Com
mittec No. !.
SERIOUS CHARGES MADE.
AGAINST JUDGE CARTER
Resolutions were presented by Rep
rescn.ative Clark. OF Bladen. providing
for committee of inquiry, five in
number. to be appointed by Speaker
Wootcn, to investigate both Judge Car
ter and Solicitor Alternately The reso-
lutions contain the following special
paragraphs:
Whereas IL is generally known that
the said Honorable Frank Carter. while
acting as judge of the Superior Court
OF North Carolina. has been harsh, OPP
pressive. dictatorial and unjus, to liti-
giants. witnesses, Jurors and attorneys
in his courts. and
Where it has long been publicly
rumo-cd that the said honorable Frank
Carter has been guilty OF acts and
things while holding the high office of
judge OF the Superior Court of North
Carolina. all OF which said acts upon
the part of the said Honorable Frank
Carter. II true, are calculated to bring
the high Office Of the Judge OF the
Superior Court into disrepute and dis
respect among the people of the state,
and which. If not true. in justice 20
said judge ought to b. set at rest"
Scarcely had the sensation in the
House Of Representatives. over the
Judge characterization Alternately in
vestiSation episode abatcd, when the
Senate started an exceptionally spirited
and spicy discussion OF the Iiobgood
woman's suffrage bill, which completely
overshadowed 1t and quickly filled the
Hobbies and galleries with the most in
tcnscly interested spectators. women
throngins the three galleries and APP
plaudinE suffrage advocates most en-
Enthusiastically.
Senator iobgood opened for the bill,
and was followed by Senator Speight
against H. Senator Cohoon spoke for
il and Senator Johnson, OF Dupln,
against il. The vote was on motion
to table and this carried 81 to II, near
ly every Senator making an explanation
Of his vote as the roll was called. The
bill was merely for the question OF
amending the Constitution to allow
equal suffrage to be submitted to the
people ut the next general election.
Speaking for his bill. Senator Hob
good reviewed the progress Of equal
suffrage in this country and abroad. and
said that he cared nothing for the
snccrs in the Senate and was proud to
stand with DR.. T.. X Graham, Chief
Justice Walter Clark. Congressman ].
J. Britt. lridell Meares and Colonel A.
II. Boyden in advocacy of suffrage for
women"
Senator Hobgood introduced "A bill
to-day 10 put women on an equal foot
ing with men in causes for divorce.
Senator White introduced bill to
restrict receipt and transportation OF
liquors to one quart to a shipment and
delivery. Three hundred copies of the
bill We're ordered printed.
The House passed the bill increasing
from $500 10 5000 each the allowances
for the justices of the Supreme Court
for stenoGraphic assistance
The House defeated the Foster bill
to permit physicians licensed elsewhere
to practice in North Carolina without
meeting the requirements of the medi-
cal board. II was charged that this
wonld bring into the State incompetent
physicians.