The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-03-01
HOUSE HAS PASSED
GR|ER CUSTER ] |. BILL B
| SENATE BILL TO PLACE AGE OF
CONSENT AT 10 YEARS WAS
DEFEATED. ..-,-s
D0INGs or THE LEGISLATORS
Resume Of the Doinqs Of the Genera!
Assembly During the Past Week
Told in, Brief and Interesting Way
For Our Many Readers.
Raleigh.


Raleigh.
The house passed SO to % the Grier
custer law for the State Anti-SalOon
League forces. The debate continued
probably half an hour, the opponents
of the measure being Grant, of New
Hanover, and others, who believed
there is danger Of prosecution of Off
GERS by some group of five men Of an
opposing faction who might bring
charges just for the humiliation and
embarrassment of the officer, the
custer provisions covering the whole
scope of official duties.
The House defeated the Senate bill
to place the age of consent at 16 years.
The vote was Al to As.
A bill passed providing more ade-
quate rewards for recapture OF felons.
Numbers of local game laws were
passed.
The Senate passed resolution ask
ing the Supreme Court to give On in
formal opinion on the Constitutional
amendment. especially as to it's bear
ing on the extension of corporate lin
it's of cities and towns and whether
the Legislature can continue to pass
bills for specific annexations or must,
include this matter in the general act
for the government of cities and towns
1t was sent to the court by special
Messenger.
Put on Reading.
On motion of Senator Mcleod the
bill to give Sampson county the right
to elect it's board of education was
taken from the unfavorab1e calendar
and put on it's readings. It was lost
on the second, II to 81. Mcleod
claimed that the committee had sent
the bill to the unfavorable calendar
on prophecy" that the committee
had no right to make that the Senate
would not pass it.
President Gardner laid before the
Senate the Stubs resolution from the
House for calling a constitutional con-
4vention as a special order for the day.
It was opposed by Little, of Arson,
as an unnecessary proceeding as the
people wanted no such convention.
The vote was by roll call and it passed
43 to and was ordered enrolled for
ratification.
The Justice bill providing machin-
cry for special school taxes under the
constitutional amendments was pass
ed without opposition. Also a farm
life school bill for Jackson county.
House bills passed final reading as
follows: Repeal Cherokee act as to
Po@o ~ oHeioor0. CTrTay c0no.
missioners to purchase blooded stock;
abolish December term Of Rocking
ham court; repeal act increasing the
membership of the Beaufort County
board of education; relative to killing
shipping and selling veal in Lincoln;
amend the Pender primary law; reg
ulate the House of Correction in For
syth county.
State Farm Investigation.
The joint committee on the inevsti-
cation of. charges against the manage
ment and condition of the state farm
convict camps concluded its public
hearings with a general round UP Of
the case for the prison management
by Superintendent j. s. Mann, In
which he presented through letter and
ordered filed, and otherwise the gen
eral policy Of the prison management
as to treatment of prisoners and the
general policy. The committee pro-
poses to make up it's report to the Leg
islature straightway.
The bill that passed the House for
the relief of dependent families of
state convicts provides that 10 per
cent of the earnings of the convicts
shall be turned over to dependents. It
was amended by Representative OAR
den to apply only to convicts making
good prison records. The bill was by
Sawyer, of Graham.
Speaker Murphy laid before the |
House the Gardner bill for pres1den-
tial suffrage for women and then took |
the floor and in sarcastic speech de- |
nominated it as a constitutional mon |
strocity," and moved to table it. This
was done in short order and by an (
overwhelming vote.
The House passed the bill from the
Senate directing the Corporation Com
mission, with the assistance of expert
accountants, to devise and install thor
oughly modern system of accounting
for the state departments. The Dill
originally included system for the
counties also, but that was eliminated.
There was reconsideration of the
vote by which the Pollock bill pro-
hibiting marriages between the races
on the same basis that controls the
of children in the white
schools was defeated was reconsidered
and the measure was debated at
length. An amendment by Senator
Linn was adopted enabling offspring OF
any marriage in violation Of the act
- inharif uronnrfv An amendment