The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-03-13

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resume OF work of a general nature
done by the General Assembly during
a period of one week:
| Senate and House.
Feb. 28-The senate passed the
Brown bill for calling constitutional
convention, the vote being unanimous
and then after discussion passed on
both second and third readings, by
roll call vote, the Doughton bill from
the house for an income amendment
to the constitution
The house had long discussion of
| the McCOin-Mull road bill and the
Stacy substitute from the senate of
tered by Representative Poole as a
substitute for the house bill and then
took recess to 7:30 to take soon
start for threshing out the differences
among members as to this road legis-
lation.
Senator Gray offered in the senate
and Representative Doughton in the
house the Gray-Doughton bill that has
the unanimous Endorsement of the
joint finance committee for making a
fu1l-value assessment OF all real
estate in North Carolina this year and
calling a special session OF the legis-
lature in May or. June next for fixing
a lower tax rate that will correspond
with the increased assessments.
Senate.
March 1.-The Senate worked in
serious fashion for four hours and
sent through mass of legislation.
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The bill guaranteeing to teachers a
minimum salary to teachers anG pro-
viding a county budget system, which
was passed by the House by a unani-
nous vote, went through the Senate
with but one negative vote. Senator
Haymore saw danger to local self
government in having salaries fixed
in Raleigh and opposed the adoption
of the measure.
House.
Ter Republicans and eight Demo
Gratis voted in favor of the bill to pre-
vent railroads from employing litter
ate trainmen, which came to the floor
on a minority report signed by Mr..
Williams and advocated by himself
and Poole. of Montgomery. This hill,
defeated by vote OF SO to 10. evoked
the rankest floor discussion the House
has witnessed. with J. Frank Ray bit
terly attacking the bill and assailing
the motive behind the insistance that
took the bill away from 20 to I'M
favorable report and placed it before
the House for discussion. During his
assault on the bill he numbered at
Poole: est down. don't want to
hear from you"
When Mr.. williams asked him If he
wasn't himself railroad attorney. he
dubbed the minority leader ''a chicken
headed whipper snapper"
Senate and House.
March Ex-Governor Beckett went
before q Joint session of the senate
and house to plead for the enactment
of the Mull-McCoin state highway bill
in preference to any other road meas
ure pending. He declared against any
road bond issue by the state at this
time. insisting that the people should
be heard before such step is taken.
The senate passed a committee
substitute for the Wright resolution,
introduced the second day Of the SEES
sion, for an investigation of fire in
surance rates in North Carolina.
The senate passed the Humphrey
Stevens bill to restrict the sale Of
revolvers, knucks and daggers and
the like, by requiring would-be pur-
chasers to have a permit from the
clerk of the county court.
The house was in committee Of the
whole in the afternoon until o'clock.
out the differences among
members as to the statewide road I
pending. the net outcome
being that the Stacey substitute for
the Scales Stevens bill from the SEN