Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-03-14
The LEGISLATURE OUT.
Apuropriation Bill and Other Measures Of ths
Last DAYS.

Last Days.
The Legislature finally adjourn
ed at 3 O'Clock Wednesday after
noon.
Among its last acts was the
passage of bill providing for a
special commission to compile,
cellate and revise the public sta
tutes of North Carolina. The
commission is composed of Repre-
sentatives Dalton, Stubs and
Grier and Senators Linn and
Warren.
Sixteen of the acts passed by
the Assembly are in line with the
recommendations in the ipaugur-
al address OF Gov Beckett.
No legislation of consequence
was passed Wednesday, the sea-
sion being held for the ratifca-
ton of bills.
The most exciting incident of
the close of the Legislature was
the discovery Monday evening
that a "sneak' bill had been pu'
through repeating the State wide
primary law. A bill was intro
duced by Senator Hall of Stokes
to include his county. in the
Statewide primary. When the
bill was discovered, after it had
passed, it was labeled a bill to
amend the law but the readiA2
showed that it had repealed the
law. Senator Hall, who is ; r.
publican, had gone home when
the discovery was made, but he
was generally acquitted of any
knowledge of the fraud. 1t is
believed that somebody got hold
of the bill and doctored it after
the Senator introduced it. A bill
was introduced and promptly
passed repeating the ''sneak"
measure and including Stokes in
the primary law; and then, to
make assurance doubly sure. an-
other bill was passed re-euacting
the primary law.
Meatftima q cou mittee was AZ.
pointed 10 Investigate and dis
cover, if possible, the prepetrator
of the fraud,
There was the usual presenta
,tion of gifts 20 presiding officers
and Others. Tuesday night Lieut.,
.Gov Gardrer got a handsome
silver service and Speaker Murphy
got a similar present. The
Speaker was so overcome with
emotion by the kind expressions
of the members that he couldn't
respond and many of his associat,
les were moved to tears. There
were other presents for clerks,
.etc.
The Legislature voted the usual
bonuses to employees. All the
clerks. including clerks to co1-1-
mittees, we're given $50 extra.
and the pages, door-keepers and
others were also given a liberal
extra allowance out of the public
treasury.
The Senate bill to increase the
salary of the corporation commits
sioner from S3,50O to s5 900 was
killed. The House passed the
Senate bills appropriating SIS, 900
for permanent improvement at
the Caswell Training School and
$25, 900 for an industrial home fo1
fallen women. The latter bill
was at Grst defeated but was re
considered. Bills passed: To
create State educational conlnis
sion to investigate and report TO
the next Assembly; to provide for
the use of the property or labor
of husband, and fathers who
abandon wives and children.
Bills passed: To regulate saia-
r1es of secretaries and clerks in
the Governors office and increase
the salary OF the private secretary
to 81, 500; vest in State Board Of
Education the titles of land sold
for taxes; to authorize county ard
municipal reformatories for de-
linquent women; to increase the
limit of compulsory school at
tendance from II to II years.
A bill passed appropriatlng
$25,000 for building purposes and
$500 annually for two years for
the erection of an orthopedlc