The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-01-08

elected under this plan as the terms
for which the present commissioners
were elected expire.
Local Town Bills
Some of the bills mentioned above |
were referred to briefly in Thurs
DAVIS Robesonian, as were also the
following bills applying to Lumber
ton: allow town commissioners to
elect chief of police; divide town into
wards; invalidate bond issue OF
$4,000 for electric light, water and
sewerage. #
Other Bills
A number of bills of minor
Importance or Of Importance
only to certain sections, have been
passed. Among these are: Com
bining Bankers and Saddletee school
districts; allow Philadelphus school
district to increase Yevy from Is
to % cents, the lower figure being
not sufficient to provide interest and
sinking fund for bonds in the sum
of $4,000 voted some years ago;
confirm charter of Flora Macdonald
college.
To Move Bodies of Flora MacdOnald's
Children
Mr.. Sellers has a bill to move the
bodies of the children Of Flora Mac
donald from Arson county to the
campus at Flora Macdonald college
at Red Springs.
Compost Bill
Mr.. Oliver has bill of special I'M
portance to farmers. 1t prohibits
tenant OF lessee from moving COM
post or stable manure off premises
without the written consent of the
| landlord.
Change Name of White House Town
ship to Marietta
Mr.. Oliver has a bill to change the
name of White House township to
Marietta.
Another Farmers Bill
Mr.. Sellers will introduce tomor-
row a bill providing that a tenant
! shall not move unless and until the
owner of the land to which he pro-
poses to move assumes responsibility
for any debt he may be due his land
lord.
Committee Assignments
Mr.. Cough has been favored ex-
traordinarily in committee assign
ments. He has been assigned to all
the important committees OF the
Senate. He is chairman of the rail-
roads committee and a member of
others as follows: agriculture; coun-
ties, cities and towns; corporation
commission; finance, the biggest one
in the Senate; commerce, education
distribution of Governors message
insurance, rules, institution for in
sane, expenditures.
House committees have not all
been appointed yet and Messrs. Sci.
lers and Oliver have not learned al
their assignments. So far Mr.. Sci
lers has been assigned to committee
on education, counties, cities anC
towns, drainage, regulation of Liquor
traffic, Federal relation; Mr.. Oil
ver-drainage, emigration.
Page Oliver
Master Hal Oliver, son Of Rep
resentative Oliver, has job here a.
: page in the House. He arrived thi!
afternoon and went on duty at tn,
special session tonight.
House Applauds
When the special message from
Gov. Craig was read in the Hous
tonight advising that the Presiden
of Cuba had become convinced Of tn
: fraudulent nature Of the reconstruc
ton bonds of North Carolina whic]
had been given that republic and t.
collect which Cuba had institute,
suit in the Supreme court of tn
United States, and had rejected same
thus stopping the suit which tn
, State was prepared to fight, tn
House applauded long and heartily
The Way of the Legislator
Messrs. Cough, Sellers and Olive
are convinced that the way of tn
Legislator is hard at times, thong
they smile and don't seem to worr
about it. They, each and severa
\ already have gotten some letter
= from back home telling them straigh
= that they needn't ever, no never, OF
= fer for office again. Nothing dom
at all. Which is sad, you know; bu
q q they do not seem to mind, if so b
they may put in some ticks that the
think are needed while the preser
- light holds out
: Mr.. Cough From (Not Of Yadki
- The Senator from Ysdkin Shove
o Mr.. Cough today copy of the Vac
: kin Ripple, Of Jan. 4, published 6
; Yadkinville, which carried on il
y fist page a 2-column counterfeit pre-
=. sentiment of Senator Cough of Rol
3 eeon, and printed underneath the nj
i TIRE: Crank Cough. former Yae
~ kin county boy who was elected
- the Senate from Robson by 1916
# majority and is PLAYING an impo
- tant part in the doings Of tn;
= body"
- And hanged if it was not goo
~ looking picture, too-better-lookin
u than the blockade preacher Robest
;, sent to the Senate: but then he w;
9 not elected on his looks. Mr.. Gouf
~ says he does not know where T.
~ Ripple got that cut. He left Yadk
ST tho tender q ore Of