Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-03-14

! pdSSSu DOlu uOuSCS dS lOIlOWo.
/ $4,000 for agricultural exten-
sion work for 1917, $49,731 fol-
1918; s2O7, 500 for Raleigh hos
pital for insane; S237,500 for
Morganton hospital; $4,000 for
1917. $l25 0OO for 1918 for Hos
pital at Goldsboro. $6S,OO0 for
1917, 70, 800 for 1918 for School
for the Deaf at Morganton; 49,
. 900 annually for Caswell Training
School, $4,000 for 1917, % 500
for 1918 for Stonewall jackson
Training School; $4,000 for 1917,
~, 900 for 1913 for State Sanato.
rum for tuberculosis; 10000
! aunually for the University of
North Carolina; 10000 annually
for East Carolina Teachers train
ing school; 10000 annually for
: Appalachian Training School;
II, ,2)0 annually for Cullowhee
i Normal; y, 500 annually for the
Blind school at Raleigh; 122, 500
annually for A & NJ College;
H. OOO annually for State Nor
anal: 10000 for Oxford orphan
age, white; 5000 for maintenance
and 5000 to pay off Indebtedness
Oxford Orphanage, colored; 49,
SOC annually for Soldiers Home;
2Uo annually for Confederate
\. N1;;,,s7 :, cum at Richmond, Va $50
a.:.-,,aily for CoofHuerate GENE
tery at Raleigh; 2f0 to pay off
Indebtedness on Guilford Battle
ground; 900 annually for negro
A {. NJ College; 10000 annually
for negro State Normal schools
wita 5000 for improvements;
~. 500 annually for State labora
tory of hygiene; 10000 annually
for fisheries commission; $1,000
annually for State Board of
Health.
All appropriation of $40 was
given the Confederate Women's
home at Fayetteville for main
terance and the general pension
bill carrying 1915, 900 was passed.
The H., authorizing railroads
10 give ministers free transporta'
tioa was killed. Bill passed to
res 4:re county boards OF educa-
ton to have accounts audited and
statement published annually.
Bill to consolidate indictments,
aimed to reduce solicitors fees
and preclude witnesses proving
attendance in several cases on the
same day, passed the House by a
close vote. The county commis
sioHers of Caldwell were author
led to employ county manager.
The Senate passed a joint re
solution providing for a conlmis-
sion composed of the Governor
and chairman of the State Tax
Commission and four other mem
Ders to be named By the Govern
or, to investigate aid recommend
to the next General Assembly as
to tax reforms. The commission
! can submit any constitutional
amendment on the subject it
deems wise. The bill passed the
House.
Bills passed: Limit liability of
banks in payment of checks
through error; amend law as to
commitment of patients to State
hospitals; to make blockading a
felony; to make illeg1timate
children legitimate when their
Parents marry, punish desecratlon
of United States flag. to prohibit
the receipt and possession of Ii
quor in Mecklenbury county.
The House passed the S3,ooo,-
ooo bond bill, already passed by
the Senate, 81 to "A. Of the
Republicans present six voted for
the measure. The bill for a con
stitutiona1 amendment for the
| Initiative and referendum failed
in the House, % to IS. The
Senate bill appropriating S15o, 900
for new buildings of the State
! School for the Blind passed, The
Senate defeated a bill from the
House to assign 50 convicts for
con truction of the Asheville-
+! Murphy scenic highway.
Tie Pneumonia Season.