Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1921-01-28
PROCEEDINGS Of
THE LEGISLATURE
APPLICANTS FOR LICENSE TO
MARRY MUST HAVE PASSED
MEDICAL EXAMINATION.
BILL TO REDUCE VALUATIONS
At Last Session Of Assembly, Clerks
and Other Employees drew $4,000
While Senators Received $4,000.
Raleigh.

Jan. ia quarter OF an hour sui.
feed to accomplish the brief business
that came before the House and the
introduction Of new bills brought forth
the proposal from Representative Bel.
lamy, Of New Hanover. that all ap-
plicants for marriage license be sub
jected to medical examination before
the license is granted.
The only distinction made between
the sexes In the measure would be the
exemption OF women from the require
ment as to venereal infections.
A bill designed to permit the state
banks in North Carolina to disregard
the ruling Of the Federal Reserve
board, requiring clearances to be
made at par was introduced in the
Senate.
Jan. 14.-House bill to reduce the
valuation OF property for taxation in
North Carolina and a Senate measure
proposing the abolition Of the state
and county welfare officers featured
the new legislation proposed in the
General Assembly.
New Senate Bills.
8. B. 4S.-by Nash: To repeal the
Act OF 1917. creating the Department
OF Public Welfare.
s. B. ABBY Carlton 10 make It
unlawful to deposit In the mails or
transmit anonymous or threatening
letters.
New House Bill.
II. B. S3--by Murphy: To enable
courts to use probationary powers In
dealing with first time Offenders.
Jan. 15.-Carrying out his program
that Charity ought to begin at home"
Senator McCoin's resolution calls for
the appointment OF committee OF
three Senators to investigate the num-
Der Of clerks, committee clerks, door
keepers, laborers, stenographers
pages, cts, employed by the Senate,
determine how many Of them are nee
.essary. and report TO the presiding Of
ficer.
Senator McCoin declared that the
resolution was prompted by the report
Of the budget commission which
shows that at the last session Sena-
tors drew $4,000, while clerks and
other employees received in excess OF
$4,000.
Partial announcement Of the demo-
cratic road program in todays papers
brought from the republicans In the
lower branch the news that the minor
ity will offer a road bin during the
week fixing the maximum bond issue
for building highways In the state at
two hundred million.
This now overshadwoed all the leg
islation offered In brief sessions OF
the house and senate today.
Unrestrained laughter swept over
the House when the reading clerk
pronounced the title OF a measure
sent forward by Representative Tay-
Tor and Darden. OF Halifax, reading:
IAN act to provide for the reduction
of property values in incorporated !
towns 80 1.3 per cent and In unincorp-
GRATED communities so per cent"
Jan. 1s-The actual sessions Of the
two houses OF the Legislature today
were featured chiefly with the pas.
sage OF the Swain resolution to probe
the activities Of the state architects
Office and the McSwain bill introduc-
ed In the house creating new review.
ing boards for valuations made by the
tax commission under the revaluation
act.
Jan. 19.-The decennfal gerryman-
der Of state senatorial districts, fall
ing into the legislative hopper this
morning. became the dominant poQiti.
cal move OF the sess,on when the
news came from Washington that the
lower branch Of congress had voted
against any increase in its member
ship and blighted the hopes Of not less
than a dozen Tar Heels who have
been picked for the at large" jobs.