The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-02-15

NORk OF THE LEGISLATITRE

Dotate- vide County Audit Bill
Passes House-State Good Roads
Bond Issue Bill Passes House
Bill to Extend Franchise to Won
en-House Votes to Submit Cor
stitutl0nal Amendment to People-j
10 Exempt Farm Home MORTGAGES
=, mr., Gardner offered yesterday in
tne house a bill to extend the fran
cnlse TO women. The bill provides
Tor a special box at the next general
election in which women NAV depositi
their votes and if as manv as SO .OOOI
women vote for suffrage the State
board of elections shall order an
electlon on an amendment to the con-
stltutlon giving women the franchise
Inc House voted yesterday 96 toi
IL for the Stubs bill for a consti-
tutlonal convention to be called. It;
would submit the question to the
people at the next general election.
Inc house passed yesterday the
Beasley bill to exempt farm home
mortgages to $4,000 after receiving
a special message from Gov. Beckett
urging immediate action.
The legislative committee for in
vestlgating charges of bad conditions
at the State farm began it's investi-
gdllOnS yesterday.
The House passed Tuesday the bill
to amend the navigation law for the
port of Wilmington by reducing the
number of licensed pilots from 20 to
Is and to exempt inland waterway
shipping whenever the port becomes
a port of entry for such vessels.
The revenue bill came into the
House Tuesday through Chairman
Doughton of the Finance committee
and 800 couples were ordered print
ed. It is general working over Of
the revenue act in force the past two
years, with only minor changes. Tax
rates are left exactly as in force the
past two years. There are some
changes of only minor importance in
the special taxes scheduled in Section
B ard C.
The Statewide bill directing the
Corporation commission to have books
of county officers examined and to
devise and install uniform system
of accounting for all counties was
passed after Senator Cough renewed
his efforts to have Robson exempt
ed and other counties joined in the
effort. Senator Brenizer explained
that the bill was necessarily State
wide. The measure passed 81 to IL
and was sent to the House.
The Brenizer bill for inspection of
/ hotels as to safety and sanitation,
amended to limit it's application to
! houses of IS or more rooms, passed
, the Senate Tuesday.
! A bill by Murphy passed the House
Tuesday to authorize any county to
bear the expenses of veterans to the
1917 reunion in Washington who are
otherwise unable to attend.
=, The bill to authorize commissioners
: of Robson to provide for the ex-
penses of Confederate veterans to the
reunion in Washington this year pass
ed final reading in the House Tues
: day. Also bill to protect Oakdale
church in this county.
Speaker Murphy laid before the
House Tue-flav the bill by Clark OF
Pitt, providing that the State may
, issue 100000 road bonds semi-annu
ally for counties that vote for roao
bonds, the State bonds to carry pei
| cent and the county subsidiary bonds
5 per cent, that will liquidate the
bonds in the course Of Al years. The
bill passed with only one dissenting
, vote, that Of Llovd, Republican. OF
Orange county, after Clark had ex.
planned it.
M. Doughton offered in the House
; Monday the general State highway
: bill for issuance of bonds for roSr
improvements, county highway com
:, missions and to provide fo rthe de
velopment Of the public roads Of thu
} counties. It provides for road bonds
on vote of the people and also OF
petition where 60 per cent OF tht
l property is represented in petitions
The State Highway commission is tt
7 advise as to bond sales and lay ou
the highways to be improved, bono
issues to carry specification of road;
to be improved ard estimates approx
: ed by the State Highway Commission
as to the cost of proposed improve
ment. County bonds can be issued tt
= absorb township bonds for road i'm
provement. -,
t Workmen's compensation bills O.
2 Brenizer and Jones we're killed by
Joint legislative committee Monda!
night.
: An unusual bill passed the Hous
Z. Monday was one to protect ducks
u geese and swan from aeroplane hunt
a ers. The statement was made IN ar
5 gument for the bill that very recent
i ly a number Of aeroplane traveller
: stopped on the North Carolina eoas
for ten days or more ard playe'
havoc with the duck hunting inter
t ests, stampeding the ducks and put
|. ting land and boat hunters complete
n ly out of business.
: The House passed a bill Monda,
t to allow divorce after 10 years sep
o aration whether there were chlldre7
: from the union or not.
S Senator Charley Jonas Of Lincoln
: ton offered in the Senate Monday
f prohibition bill which seems to b
hone drv. He says he is the autho
of the bill himself, ard none Other
n that it is not the child of the Anti
Saloon league. It would make it un1
n lawful for anybody except a physi
! clan, a hospital OF church to ge
e any liquor at all, and would max