The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-01-12
Senator McRae Introduces Bill
To Establish Home For
Fallen Women
MIR PAGE GELS BUSY
representative From Moore
Not FavorabIy Impressed
With State Furnishing Con-
victS To Build Railroads
Taking Stock in Payment
For Their Labor

F0r lhelr LABOR
Il took h House exactly thirty
minutes yesterday to decide the
question Of the adjustment of the
boxes placed near the Speakers desk
Tor the receptacle Of bills but having
got this seemingly important matter
out Of the way business rushed off
with a vim and when adjournment
was taken some two hours afterwards
& good many bills had been started on
their journey toward becoming incor-
porated into the laws of the State.
Representative Page Busy.
representative Page introduced five
separate bills the aim of which is to
prevent the hiring out OF convicts to
railroads in State, taking as pay for
their services, stock in said roads
upon which il is claimed the State will
never realize. Two Of the bills in
troduced by Mr.. Page takes away the
cnarter of the Matamuskeet Railway
and that ~highsounding corporation
known as the South Atlantic T%ranscon-
t~iucutal Railroad. The other
three roads will have to pay for the
services of the convicts in cash If Mr..
Pages bill gets through, at h rate
Of one dollar per day.
Mr.. Page does not believe in the
junketing trips heretofore made by
legislative committees to Morganton,
Goldsboro and other points where the
state Institutions are located and in
troduced u resolution to abolish these
trips.
Mr.. Hutchinson OF Mecklenburg
does not see the necessity Of kissing
the Bible when taking the oath in
court where n is liable to kiss a
miCrobe, and for that reason has a
bill before the House abolishing this
time-worn custom.
Another bill introduced yesterday
was by Mr.. Loughinghouse to create q
State purchasing agent. 1t is under.
stood that this official would buy al
the supplies for the penitentiary
asylums. hospitals and anything else
needed by the State. This State pur
chasing agent was a dream of formel
Governor Glenn and he recommended
some TO the LEGISLATURE while he wa,
Governor but that body did not tax,
Kindly to the suggestion, deeming j
best to let each institution buy it's ow1
supplies.
Home For Fallen Women.
Senator John A. McRae Of Mecklen
burg launched the first bill Of tn
General Assembly yesterday looking
toward the care OF the fallen wome
81 The state. Senator McRae's bill
would establish a North Carolin
Home Of Refuge by the appropriate
on $1,000 now n the annual appro
Irlatlon thereafter of $500 for moin
t~euance.
Nhlle there ave been other meas
Ures proposed from various parts &
the state looking toward this sam
end, this particular bill had it's origi
an q sermon preached just about l
months & in the Second Presby
terrain church Of Charlotte by DR.. 4
n ~McGheachy. Immediately after tn
sermon in which the preacher dea
with the problem Of the fallen woma
the leading members Of the churc
met and determined to launch
movement having as it's aim no less q
OBJECT than the establishment Of
state reformatory or refuge home f.
thc women Of the State who ha'
peen outlawed by the rigorous rul
81 society.
The movement was taken up by II
minister's of Charlotte, by the press
mat city IND other cities, Govern
Cfalg sent a telegram Of commend
uoh TO the movement, DR.. Claren
zoe, president Of the Conference +
social Service. also commended
Board Of Managers.
he bill as presented by Senat
Nici,ae yesterday calls for the a
p"lntment Of a board Of manage
one OF them being q physician OF
ietst ten years practice, three OF the
oeihs women and the remaining me-
'norS men. This board shall be appoint
ny the Governor and the offices sh
De Tor not less than two years and I
more than four.
To his home should be sent WON
"h" are habitual d~runkards, or co
mon prostitutes, who are not insa
"ho who have no physical disqual
S'lion. and they should not be s.
1er any definite term. The jud,
Vi the superior court, the recorde
."9ets, and the police courts Of cit
ana all courts above the magistrat
uoUrt hall have power to commit
woman to this home.