The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-03-08

was CaDIed after numerous amend.
ments were offered. The vote was by
roll call, 48 to 81, the demand for roll
call being by Representative Brum-
NETT.
House bills passed final reading in
the following order: Amend the drain
age law as to establishing districts;
bonds for school in Raeford; amend
light bill for Youngsville; road i'm
prOvement in Jerusalem township.
Davie county; amend Carrboro char
ter; provide for agricultural dis
! tricts; Shelby school bonds; Jackson
county farm life school; increase
Shelby school bonds; Jackson county
farm life school; increase Shelby
school fund; bonds for Forsyth coun.
ty; graded school bonds for Kinston;
audit Gates school funds; teaching
agriculture and home economics in
rural schools; define stock in Robe
son county; prohibit trespass on au'
tomobiles (sent to the Senate by spe-
cial messenger); amend law as to
finance committee in Polk.
The debate on the Turner bill to
| regulate management Of state pris.
| oners was the feature in the Senate.
Senator Turner spoke at length, adj
vocating his bill and said, among other
things, that the present system was
disgrace to the civilization of the
state and that, when the investiga-
ting committee made it's report the
people of the state would demand
action. The bill provides for sanitary
quarters. It would eliminate altogeth-
er corporal punishment. It divides the
prisoners into three classes and is, &C
cording to Senator Turner, modelled
after advanced methods Of convict
management. The bill passed by a
safe majority but went over one day
on objection from Senator Burgwyn,
who wanted to await the report Of the
investigating committee.
The Roberts bill for the Aurstaliau
ballot in the county of Buncombe
aroused the house to forensic battle.
It went through, however,
The house took under considera-
ton and finally passed by a good ma
jority the statewide bill for the GER
LITIGATION of first grade teachers
through a state board of examiners,
six in number-three men and three
women-who are to be also the con-
ductors of the teachers Institutes and
carrying an appropriation of $4,000
for the maintenance of the depart
ment
Senator Holderness, chairman of the
committee on appropriations, introduce
ed bill to provide a 100000 bond
issue to provide for permanent i'm
provements to state institutions, anu
$500, 900 of the issue to constitute
permanent loan fund for aiding in the
construction of buildings for element
airy and high school buildings through
out the state.
The house passed the bill to provide
tax levies by the counties to pay debts;
issue bonds for roads and maintenance
and improvements of roads in the
several counties; authorize Kinston tc
issue school bonds; enable cities and
towns to levy school taxes; amend
the law was to planting oysters; make
permanent marriage and family re-
cords; salaries for Pitt officers; auth
orize suspension of work on Atlantic
& Northern Railway five years; regu-
lete Washington town primaries;
amend BERTHE primary law; terms Of
court for BERTHE.
The Senate took up the Murphy
boiler inspection bill which had pass
ed the house providing for one inspec-
tor to work under the direction of the
State Commissioner of Labor and had
been amended in the senate commit
tee to provide for six inspectors. Sen
ator Linney, of Rowan, advocated and
explained the bill. Senator Cough
thought there was a joker somewhere
and suspected it was making a lot of
new and needless jobs for somebody. !
There was a roll-call vote and the |
bill was killed on second reading 16
to 49,
There were great numbers of mer-
chants in the Hobbies interested in the |
action the house would take on the
clause of the revenue bill that impOs-
ed a tax on the use of coupons and !
trading stamps in stores. The mar.
chants had wanted q prohibitive tax
on these "evil practices" but they re-
garded the clause the committee had
put in the revenue bill as merely a
revenue raiser for the larger mer-
chants using them to continue the
coupons or trading stamps. The pro-
posed tax was SIS for towns of $500
and 81 for each thousand
additional population.
The Senate received from Chief
Justice Walter Clark special state"
ment in response to the resolution OF
the Senate asking a ruling as to
whether the constitutional amend
ments took from the Legislature the
rights to pass bills involving extern
sion of corporate limits of cities and