The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-02-03
PROCEEDINGS OF
THE LEGISLATURE
LEGISLATURE TAKES UP LNOG
HERALDED FIGHT AGAINST
THE CATTLE TICK.
REVISION OF BANKING LAWS
House takes up a Proposed Amend
ment to the Constitution to raise
Per Diem pay Of Members to Sc.
Raleigh.


Jan. 21-Entirely without any pre-
liminary verbal barrage, or drumn
| fire, the loud heralded offensive
against the cattle tick was started il
| the Legislature when tombstone p1
| Fender, by request introduced a meas
ure providing for the determination
Of the creature. All he had to say
about it was that he desired it to &C
to the Committee ON Agriculture.
After passing an even dozen bills
including the Taylor anti-lynching
measure, the senate paved the way fo1
a general exodus from the capital in
preparation for the strenuous week
that is in prospect.
Jan. 22.-Introduction of the bi-en-
MEL statewide tick eradication bill,
passage by the senate of the Taylor
measure to allow motions for removal
Of trial to adjacent counties be made
when the defendant is not in the court
room and setting Of Thursday, Janu-
airy 81, as the date on which hearings
building commissiot1 Investigation
were the outstanding features Of the
days session of the legislature.
Jan. 24.-Legislative f1oodgates were
opened when the House convented
and there poured through a stream Of
measures, ranging from the Cook bill,
repeating State liquor legislation and
substituting therefor the Volstead
law; statewide road law by EVER
cit, Of Durham; revision Of the state
banking laws; proposed amendment
to the constitution raising the pay Of
members of the general assembly from
four to eight dollars per day, and a
proposal to repeal entirely the whole
book Of North Carolina road laws,
Speaker Grier, was back in his seat
and PR sided over the forty minute
session.
After session of twenty minutes,
mostly consumed by Strengthening out
conflicts between committee meetings
the senate adjourned without the pas
sage of a single bill, Senator Gal1ert
carrying out his announced purpose
to object to everything which had not
been erferred to committee.
Jan 25sNew bills introduced were:
8. B. libby Long, OF Alamance:
To permit the State Board of Health
to pay it's secretary a salary Of $4,000
a year.
S. B. 142-by Long, Of Almance:
To increase the salaries Of certain
state offcrse.
8. B. 143-by Mendenhall: To pro-
vide better protection for the public
at railroad crossings.
House Session Brief.
More than half the 40 minutes con-
stunned by the house was devoted to
debate over the re-committing of a
to allow az much as $4,000
per year. The bill was sent back to
the committee for further bordering.
Jan. 26.-Introduction Of bills Civ
ing statutory officers of the state, not
included in the bill which passed the
general assembly before the Inaugural
ton, salary Of $4,000 and raising the
pay Of judges of the supreme and SUI
perior courts by thousand dollars,
together with a bill to fix the salary
of the secretary Of the state board of
health at IS 900 we're the only matters
of general interest before the senate
The bill regarding the secretary Of
the board of health substitutes a
salary Of five thousand dollars for
the presetn salary of three thousand
and fees, which makes the total prac-
ticallv five Thousand
The other bills increase the sal
aries of the commissioner of agricu1-
ture commissioner of labor and print
ing, insurance commissioner and the
members OF the corporation commits