The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1919-03-11

SUGGESTION DEMO.
GRATIS PARTY ANY
THING BUT FAIR.
Raleigh, March 10.-With ad-
journment set for Tuesday noon the
General Assembly found itself la
from which the Senate had elimi-
mated the amendment to place Mr..
Maxwell of the Corporation Com
mission as chairman of the Tax
Commission.
Grier of 1redell opposed anything
that suggested a reflection upon the
Democratic party. He said that
this was done by the Williamson
"Fair Election Law" The vote was
decidedly close, 3S to 40. Grier
said that he was opposed to any
thing which even intimated that the
Democratic party had ever been un-
fair in any election, so did Mr..
Hertford, but Daughton Of Ale
ghany and Bryant of Durham who
said that the Williams bill made the
state safe for Democracy desired to
amend the bill in order to quiet Re-
publican objection.
The Senate passed the Bryant bill
for the election of members of Sdu-
cation, but the epublicans and In
dependents voted against it.
The Senate passed the Brummitt
bill which provided for the sterili-
cation of idiots and passed a bill in
troduced by Long of Halifax and
Mangum of CASTOR providing for an
appropriation of from $4,000 to
$4,000 to take care the Child
Labor law.
Raleigh, March 10.-Twenty
three millions of Federal Govern
ment money for North Carolina
roads in ten years; six months
school terms in every North Carroll
ma district with every teachers sal
ary abundantly raised; four big
statewide health laws governing
the suppression of vice and the cure
of diseases, the malodorour, un-
slightly and disease-spreading priv
les, the inspection of schools and in
creasing the county health appro-
priations; the inauguration of a
statewide warehouse plan whereby
the cotton farmer may hold his crop
and negotiate money on the guaran-
tee that it's storage makes possible;
revaluation Of all property and i'm
position of an income tax-these
bills have been written into law and
give a tabloid history of the 1919
general assembly.
The end is Tuesday, March II, If
things go tonight and tomorrow as
planned. It has been the least par
tisan Of all legislatures and per-
haps the most constructive. 1t has
spent money more literally and
gone further from poverty as its
ideal. It has had the best minority
that ever came here. It is true that
the majority has done no great
amount for the Republicans on
their election law reform. The pri-
mary has been but little improved;
the general election, laws being
worked on today and tonight do not
yield easily to overhauling; the alb
sentee voters act is made more in
elusive rather than more restrict
i've; the state primary remains in
tact. The principle Of absentee vot-
ing and the general satisfaction
with the primary stood in the way
Of repeating either. Representative
Neal Of Mcdowell, democrat, sought
to overthrow the primary and to
employ 1t only in county elections,
but when the House voted there
wasn't voice in favor Of repeal.
Repeal Of the primary was anoth-
er move Of the outsiders who do
not relish the longtenure being built
up here in Raleigh. The primary
is working a hardship, too, upon op-
ponents Of Max Gardner who has
developed terrific momentum in
the race for Governor. It is con-
sidered costly device for the poor
man with political aspiration: but
It does hx limit on expenditures
and those who have tried the pri-
mary plan in Z contest seem to get,
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