The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-03-04
SLOW PROGRESS
ON MACHINERY ACT
ALLEN AMENDMENT kuIE1-
SENAT { PASSES REVENUE
BILL ON ROLL CALL VOTE.
DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH
Oo'nos and Happenings That Mark
the Progress Of North Carolina Peo-
pie Gathered Around the State
Canitol.

pie Gathered Around the State
caoitoi.
Raleigh.
consideration of the machinery bill
was resumed in the House and two
hours indulged in on the fourteenth
section, to provide a county assessor
and lister for each township instead
OF the township assessor system that
the present act provides.
Representative Doughton, in SUD-
porting the committee section, was
Dombarded with questions for half an
nour, insisting that, after as thorough
study OF taxation problem as he was
+ capable of, he was satisfied that the
assessor system was the best yet de-
vised. The vote when finally reached
was by roll-caH. It was so for the
Allen amendment and so against it.
Representative Roberts of Bun
combe offered an amendment to pro-
vide for two assessors instead Of one
township assessor. This was voted
down 45 to So
Senator McMichael called up his
amendment to defer the fixing of the
state tax rate until the reassessment
OF property is settled and limit in
crease in revenues to six per cent
over the past two years, the State Tax
Commission to automatically fix the
tax rate as mathematical deduction
as between the, value of the property
assessed and the state tax to be raised.
The amendment was voted on 80 to
II after McMichael had pleaded that
Chairman Travis of the Tax Commits
sion had said that such an amendment
would work in all right with the other
features of the revenue and machin-
cry bills as the Joint committee had
reported them.
The Senate voted down an amend
ment offered by Senator Hobgood to
make the license tax on real estate
dealers SIS instead of $25. The COM
mittee of the whole arose and report
ed progress to the Senate in official
session. An order was made for the
printing of 800 copies of the bill for
race segregation as to land ownership.
Primary Bill Passed by Senate.
The Hobgood-Weaver Primary bill
was passed at 1 o'clock in the morn
ing by the senate by vote of SO to 10
and goes to the house, where another
long and sharp debate and contest
awaits it. The senate voted down
an amendment by Senator Ward to
refer the bill to the people at the next
election.
The senate spent from II o'clock to
nearly 1 o'clock voting on great
number of amendments offered to the
statewide primary bill before the
vote on the main question was reach
ed. The committee amendments
were all adopted but all those offered
since the argument began were voted
down except two, one by Senator NC
Rae of Mecklenburg and the other by
Senator White. The McRae amend
ment provides for the exemption OF
5O-odd counties specified from oper-
alton as to county officers, including
members of the house of representa-
tives. The White amendment pro-
yides that any one of the counties so
exempted may vote themselves un-
der the primary through petition OF
one-fifth of the voters in the county
asking for the election.
An amendment by Johnson of Du-
plin to also exempt large number Of
senatorial districts was lost by a close
vote. The McRae amendment carried
by one majority, "a to rs.
When the amendments were all in
and the main question was ready to
be put there was a demand that the
bill 20 to the committee on appro-
priations, and President Daughtridge
held that this must be the course I'M
less the rules were suspended. The
vote was then on suspension or the
rules and carried. Thereafter the bill
passed SO to 10.
MANY Senate Bills Passed.
Enable Dallas to fund floating
debts; amend the Johnston county
road law as to Banner township; au-
thorize the borrowing of funds for
road improvement in Bailey's Town
ship, Nash county; authorize special
taxes in Jackson county; authorize
bonds by Roxboro; extend the cor
porate limits of Robertsville, Martin
county; authorize special tax in Bruins