The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-03-06

Gold-Amend the North Carolina
zen law. Amend the 1917 vital sta
tistics law.
In the last hour. of the late after
noon session the house first amended
the Everett bill to regulate the con-
Ierflng of degrees by colleges and
then tabled the measure. The amend
ment was by Williams, of Cabarrus,
to cut out the endowment feature,
Williams making the plea that the bill
would create something of an aris-
tocracy in educational degrees.
A bill to raise the pay of members
OF the county boards of pensions to
"a a. day was much discussed and
then amended to apply only to Robe
son.
House and Senate.
Feb. 25.--The senate completed the
consideration of the revenue bill in
committee of the whole today, max
ing few changes in the bill as it came
from the house. The tax on dealers
in revolvers was cut to $25 with the
tax on cartridge dealers one-fourth.
An amendment by Long Of Halifax to
strike out the sections providing the
Acome tax was voted down.
The senate killed the Statewide
Audubon bill providing State game
laws and game warden.
The house killed the bill to annex
Williams township, Chatham county,
to Durham county.
Bills were introduced by Sellers to
create two new counties out of Robe
son, one to be known as Liberty coun-
ty with st. Pauls as county seat, and
the other as Lafayette with Rowland
as county seat.
Representative Null, for the special
committee of the house appointed to
draft State highway bill that the
legislature can get together on and
make sure of full participation in fed
eral aid road funds the next two
years, introduced the committee bill.
It provides that automobile license
taxes shall be 50 to $40, according to
horsepower, and license for trucks
$40 to 800, with $40 per ton for trail
ers
The senate passed the Stacy bill to
require counties to establish Juvenile
courts with the clerk of the court as
judge.
The Senate.
Feb. 26.-The senate passed On final
reading without discussion the War
rep bill for popular election of county
school boards.
Senator Long, of Montgomery, in
troduced bill to require registrars
of election to furnish official lists of
those registered in their precincts to
the candidates for office of all parties.
In committee of the whole. the SEN
ate amended the revenue bill to i'm
pose a tax of $3.50 for amusement
parks where admissions are charged,
excepting baseball parks.
The House.
The house entered into a strenuous
discussion of the child labor bills, the
Saunders bill and the Neal substitute.
that differed mainly in point of COM
position of the commission to enforce
the child labor law, the Saunders bill
having the state commi ssioner OF Ia
Dor as the enforcing official and the
Neal substitute the commissioner Of
public welfare.
In the end the Neal substitute was
adopted by a large majority and
were voted down to in
corporate the eight-hour day and sub
stitute the commissioner of labor for
the commissioner Of public welfare
The Senate.
Feb 27-The senate took up the
health bills that had been pending as
requested by the state department of
health and all six of them were pass
ed with only minor amendments.
The last of these measures is that
recurring health certificates for the
issuance of marriage licenses. 1t pro-
hibits the granting Of licenses to per-
sons drunk or under the influence of
drugs and requires a cert fcote CT
health, particularly of freedom from
venereal diseases, before a marriage
license can be issued.
The House.
The house defeated, by a vote OF
81 to AZ, the bill by Matthews of Ber-
tie to divide the State into Ave cir
cults for superior court judges instead
of the present system Of rotating in
10 districts.
The house also had its Knockout
drops" for bills to increase the sal
aries of the assistant attorney general
and the supreme court reporter.
Gardner, of Yancey, in leading the
opposition, said he would oppose all
salary increases until what he con-
sidered adequate provision has been
made for the old Confederate soldiers.