The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-02-12

WORK OF THE LEGISLATURE

WORK OF THE LEGISL LATJRE
Woman Suffrage and ProhibitiOnE
Measures Appear to be .Dead-Bills {
tor Election of County Boards off
Education Asa Seem Dead-Otheri
Work of the Solons at Raleigh II
The bill by Roberts of Buncombe to !
to put the whole of eastern North
Carolina under stock law except,
points cut off from the main land byf
water received unfavorable commit
tee vote Thursday night.
The joint committee on counties,
cities and towns gave unfavorable
report Thursday evening on the bill
to remove the county seat of Ruth
erford from Rutherfordton to Forest
City.
The bill by Rberts of Buncombe to
give, the franchise to women in mu-
nlcipal elections, where the majority
of the voters SO petition, went down
in defeat in the House Friday by a
vte of 40 to 63, after strenuous ar
gument heard by ladies, suffragists
and others, who threnged the gale
ries.
The House received Friday the
! State Anti-Saloon league bill limit
ing receipts Of liquor to two quarts
per year instead of two per month
with unfavorable report from the
liquor traffic committee ard refused,
II to Al, to re-refer when friends Of
the bill pleaded that if re-referred
friends Of the measure could get up
an acceptable bill. The Raleigh cor
respondent of the Wilmington Star
writes his paper that it looks decid-
1 ed1y like there will be no further pro-
:, hibition legislation this session.
/ The Senate threshed out the ques-
ton of allowing individual counties
to elect boards of education and vot-
ed 22 to "a against the Burgwin bill
to allow Bertie county this privilege
The House also voted against the
Page bill to enable any county to
: elect its own school board on peti-
ton of the majority. This vote was
40 to 81.
: Members of the Senate and House
were special guests Friday night Of
the Wake county alumni association
of the A. & M. college for big din.
: i.ner in honor especially of Lieut.. Gov
: ernor O. Max Gardner, alumnus o1
L the college.
The Oates bill as to primary nom
ination of county boards of educa
i tion in the counties and appointment
] by the Governor so as to assure Dem
: ocratic control in all the counties
: was displaced as a special order fo
: Friday and set as a special order fo
r next Thursday.
f The Senate committee on consti
f tutional amendments gave an unfa
e vorable report for the North Caro-
o lima Merchants Association bill t
t amend the constitution to eliminat
j. the homestead and to provide fo
S garnishment of percentages of wage
|, and other incomes for debt The vot
was 5 to 3.
e The Senate bill to raise the ag
:. Of. moral responsibility from 10 t
e IA years and increase the age of con
t sent to 18 years was defeated in til
V House.
IS Fhe House sided with C1evelan
j county in the contest with Caste
n over possession Of Kings Mountai
=, ard passed by roll call vote Of s
to a bill to confirm Cleveland
i possession of this territory throug
il the election 2 years ago that Gas
l. ton contends was fraudulent.
The Senate passed the Warren bf
At dividing the State into two judicis
l. circuits with "a Judges and 20 il
d dicial districts and rotation that WI
r. leave two judges always availabl
if for holding emergency terms, unde
the direction Of the Governor. TF
ID bill was sent to the House.
n The committee having under COZ
le sideration the bill to amend the cro
ID lien system of the State for the r.
a lief of the tenant class, as agree
IN upon by the State Farmers uni,
and Governor Beckett, gave hea
ing Wednesday afternoon and pra
i'll tically agreed on the main featur'
Of the measure, but referred the b
ed to subcommittee to adjust the fe
he, ture designed to prescribe the Gas
IS. price and the percent of addition
of profit a dealer is to be permitted
en- add for furnishing time supplies; L
tn dications are that the bill in .,at s :
he tory adjustment will be reported f
tn vorably.