Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1920-09-03
PROCEEDINGS OF
THE LEGISLATURE
oENATE REFERS QUESTION OF
REPEATING PRIMARY LAW
TO REFERENDUM VOTE.
PENSIONS PAID ONCE A YEAR
before Adjournment the House Voted
to Table Bill Increasing Salaries
Of State Officers and Employees
Raleigh.

Aug. Ex-senator Gray, Of Forsyth,
when the vote stood 81 to 81, broke
the tie tonight that prevented the pas
sage of bill making divorce easier
in North Carolina The measure was
designed to reduce the numbers OF
years of separation necessary for di.
varce from 10 to seven.
The house killed the salary bills
during the night session and voted fol-
Joint resolution to adjourn the special
session sine die Thursday morning at
10 o'clock.
The senate, by vote Of 3S to 6
passed the revenue act, which now
becomes law, fulfilling the pledge Of
the democratic legislature to uphold
the retaliation act.
The bill to raise the legal rate OF
interest in North Carolina was report
ed unfavorablly and the senate has
voted to put the question of repeating
the statewide primary law to refer
endum vote.
Suffraglsts are charging that the
ants are now busy at the task Of poll
ing the members OF the regular SEES
sion on the speakership. They are
said to be advocating Representative
Greer. 1t is also understood that the
suffragists are equally as lively in
their arguments that he should not
be elected speaker and it is limited
that this question may be an. issue"
on which the women, II they are al
lowed to vote this fall will cast their
ballots for members Of the legislature.
Aug. 25-The senate adopted the
measure providins the machinery for
the registration and voting OF women
upon the ratification of the nineteenth
amendment, passed the bill fixing the
intrastate passenger rates in North
Carolina at three cents per mile.
A bill passed in the house provides
that pensions of Confederate veter
ans shall be paid in December for the
ensuing year instead Of twice a year
as under the provisions of bill enact
ed at the 1919 session The bill now
goes to the upper house for coosidera'
ton.
Aug. 26.-After defeating the Scales
bill providing for the registration and
voting of women in North Carolina
under provisions Of the nineteenth
amendment to the constitution by a
vote of 40 to 3S, the house upon mo-
ton Of Representative Doughton re-
considered and passed the measure
upon its third reading. The vote was
So to %. The bill was Immediately
sent to the senate for concurrence in
the house amendment which restricts
the non-payment Of poll taxes to 1920
and provides that the act shall be in
force from and after legal ratification
of the federal amendment and after
its legality has been contested and
settled
Representative Doughton made 1t
plain that in urging the passage of the
Scales bill the opponents of women
suffrage we're not making any conces-
sion and tf.at in the event certiflca'
ton of the amendment was held up
the measure would be operative.
While Representative Bryant, OF
Durham, was urging the passage OF
the bill Doughton interrupted to ex
plain that opponents Of the Nine
zenith amendment do not admit that
ratification has been legal, but that
Mould the secretary Of state and the
supreme court hold the 36th state had
ratified proper machinery ought to be
provided for women voting in the No
vember election.
Before adjourning the house upon
motion of Redwine OF Union, voted
to table the Warren senate bill, pro
yiding for increasing the salaries OF
all constitutional officers of state and
the bin granting increases to other of.
ficials and minor employees of the
state.