The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1925-03-13
M'LEAN IS BOSS
OF THE WORKS
And Supt. Pou Can Continue
to Buy Organdie and Lace
For Convicts.
By X. +. POWELL

legislature that in many re-
spcctS has been epoch making
has gone home where the
members expect TO be applaud
ed for their conduct during tho
past sixty days. Undoubtcd-
" they will be. Every reflex
Of public sentiment, which has
come to Raleigh from the pre-
cincts far and near. indicates
that the State at large liberal
" approves what this general
assembly has done.
1t has been an unusual body in
that it has added little to the bur
dcnS of the tax payers and yet
anomalous as the thing seems, tax
rs in the revenue bill which ii pass
cd have been raised fifty per cent
But then there's a $10,0O0,OOO de
ficit which the Mclean administra'
ton inherited when it came into
power.
Most every move that it has made
has been in the direction of economy
Not all Of them may pan out exact
ly as the governor and the leSis
laturc hope for but many of then
will show q reduction in the opera
ting cost of the State government
1t will take some weeks yet tt
appraisc the work of the law max
crs and il may be months before tl,t
State knows whether, in jealous
effort to inauguratc economies 0i
administration, it has not brought
on conflicts. Safeguards, however
against such mishaps have been at
tempted and when the fiscal year
begins on July | next real, honest
tO-gOOdnesS business administration
will get under way.
Every Measure Adopted
Every single one Of twcnty-thrcC
major measures proposed by Cover
nor Mclean TO the General Assembly
were enacted into law and practi-
cally every one of the number with
out opposition in either branch of
the General Assembly. The one
piece of legislation which His Ex-
ccllrncy mentioned in his inaugural
a bill TO provide for the creation
Of board of pardons, was with
drawn on the governors OWN motion
and against the advice of its cham
piOns in the House. There was Il
flaw in the bill which the governor
did not feel he had time to cure he
fore adjournment and he insisted
on withdrawing il.
III the meantime. however. he cX-
pcCtS much Of the burden of pardon
cases to be taken off his shoulders
by a pardon attorney, the appoint
mcnt of which was authorized by
thc legislature. He declared ycStcr-
day that he had not been able TO
give sufficient consideration TO this
matter TO say who would be ap-
pointed.
In place of Judge J. Lloyd 1lor-
ION. Of Farmvillc, who resigned
while holding court in Wilmington
this week. Governor Mclean prompt
" named Albion Dunn, well known
Grccnvillc lawyer.
Makes Other Appointments
The appointment was made al
most instanter and was followed by
the sending TO the Senate OF the
names of the members Of the en-
larged prison board. Chairman JAS.
A. Lcakc. Of WadcSboro. and Rich
ard VI. Chatham. of Elikin. were rc-
appointed on the prison board and
the new members are Henry k,
Burgwyn. of Jackson; A. Il. White.
of Lulnberton, John NJ. Brewer, Of
Wake Forest, Preston Wilson, Of
Warsaw. and Ben j. Everett, Of
Palmyra.
Governor Mclean said this after
noon that the increased activity Of
the prison made q larger board
necessary to the more business like
1t is his purpose to
ask the chairman TO divide the
board into committees Of two mem
bcrs so that supervision Of the Cen
trail prison, of the two prison farms
and Of the new program for adding
industry at the prison.
Without doubt, hardly, George
Ross Pou will be recommended TO
this board for reappointment as
of the prison. Mr..
Pou has so far withstood all assault
OH the prison without serious hurt
and it is understood that the gov