The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-02-22
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
IS NEARING ITS END
.ANv IMPORTANT MEASURES
ARE BEING CROWDED INTO
AM ..
THE REMAINING DAYS.
Under THE CAPITAL DOME
interesting Review Of the Ooines OF
the General Assembly During the
Past Week.-Many Important Bills
Are Introduced In Both Houses.
Raleigh.

Raleigh.
Contending delegations of a hun
dred or more citizens each were here
before the joint committee on coun-
ties. cities and towns, fighting for and
against the bill to create Jarvis county
ont of portions of Johnston, Sampson
and Harnett. The hearing was long
and stormy one, the result being an
unfavorab1e report 13 to z. ]. G. Cliff
ford and E. F. Young, of Dunn, the
proposed county seat, headed the Jar
Wis county delegation. Charles Ross,
col. D. H. Mclean, J. A. Oates, James
n. Pou, and others were the speakers
against the new county.
The joint committee investigating
the State Prison Farm management
recessed to Wednesday with the ex-
pectation of concluding hearings at
that time. Most witnesses at the
last session were by the prison man
agement establishing high character
of officers at the farm stockade, who
have been impeached by the ex-con-
Wet and other testimony. G. P. Bur-
gvvn. prominent merchant and farm
er near the state farm and J. W.
Shaw, rural mail carrier for the state
farm route, were especially notable
Witnesses giving highest commenda-
ton.
The house cleared from the calendar
a large number Of local bills. The
EIs-Gardner bill, empowering any
&0 q
stock for railroads, was notable
statewide bill passed. The senate bill,
by Brenizer to regulate sanitation, bed
rooms and other equipment of hotels
elected long argument and numbers
of representatives wanted to exempt
their counties with the result that the
bill was re-referred to committee.
The House made great progress IN
the consideration Of the revenue bill
the work being done in committee OF
the whole with Representative Brum
nit, of Granville, in the chaiI.
The greater part of session in the
Senate was devoted to the bill OF Sen
ator Jones to take three townships OF
Madison county, including Mars Hill
College. from that county and annex
them to Buncombe. The bill was
voted down "a to II.
The merchant sof the state are es
pecially interested in bill just intro
duced in the House by Grier, of Ire
dell, to regulate the hours of employ
ment of women and girls in mercantile
establishments. It provides that M
female or minors shall be employed II
mercantile establishments, laundr1es
bakeries, hotels, places of amusemen
and the like more than nine hour
per day, except that in cases Of emer
gency hotels and restaurants ma!
work them 10 hours in "A by payln'
double for overtime. No female shal
be permitted to work in any OF tn
establishments named in the act be
fore 6 a. m or after p. m. Viola
ton on the part of an employer o
superintendent is to be a mlsdc
meanor, punishable by fine or I'M
prisOnment.
The Senate passed bill to enlarg
the powers Of electric development
companies so that they can condemn
orchards and dwellings, heretotoc
exceDted, the purpose being to proven
some land owners from retard1ng de
velopment.
The Senate voted Is to IS for tn
passage of the Person bill TO alIo'
Franklin county to elect its boaro G
education and then brought back IN
BurgwIn bill giving the same priv
lege to BERTHE and passed that, sene
ing both to the House.
Senator Allen withdrew the motlo
he made for the recall OF the Brenlzc
bill for inspection and regulation
sanitation in hotels from the HOUSE
where it had been sent AFTER paSS"s
by the Senate.
The salary of the Commissioner
Prohibition is to be $500 and mus
some from revenue derived from III
stamp tax on liquors delivered III I'll
state. Only this revenue can De a.
piled. Promoters Of the Dill estlni~'
that about $4,000 will be raise
through this tax.
Senate bills passed were: Fro"o'
education in Wayne; amend Ia" aS
Pennsylvania records court; perm
fduciaries to invest in state Oonos
amend law as to collecting taxes
Robson; Australian ballot for Brun
wick county.
The House took up the Roberts su
frage bill for Asheville and we
Asheville and a roll call vote was
for and So against. Then three mel
bers changed positions before the
suit was announced but the result W.
not changed. Wright, Of Guilford' q
clined to vote.
Long argument developed strol
opposition to the Senate bill by wa
ron to have "a judicial districts al