PKIDAY, MARCH I4«k. I*l*.
THE BREVARD NEWS, BREVARD, N. C.
NEWS FROM
THE CAPITAL.
Raleigh, March 11, 1919.—The Gen
eral assembly of North Carolina has
completed its work and< nearly every
member is now on his way back
liome. ' On the whole, it has been a
progressive body, but reactionaries
were by no means strangers in either
branch and their presence was often
felt when attempts were made to put
across progressive measures of any
kind. They tried to beat the income
tax amendment in the Senate and
failed, but they did succeed in pre
venting the enactment of adequate
child labor legislation. However, the
labor bill known a^ the Neill substi
tute for the administration measure
offered by the Departmei^t of Labor
and Printing contains some strong
features in harmony with a number of
provisions of the Connor-Saunders
members, with a few from the east,
knocked the thing into smithereens
in less than no time. Republicans
got nasty and had a few things to say
a^out a certain brand of local self-
50vernment, but their attitude only
added fuel to * the fire. During the
debaj;e Frank Ray called Republican
Leader Williams a “sap-headed whip-
per snapper” and told him how the
republicans managed the schools
when the fusionists were in power.
This settled the fate of the bill. It
went down by a vote of thirty to six
ty-six. The House voted for a State
system and adopted the primary plan
of selecting nominees in all the coun
ties, with no change in plan of elect
ing by the General Assembly.
STATE APPROPRIATIONS.
The State’s charitable, penal and
educational institutions have fared
Vv'ell at the hands of the General As
sembly, as the following appropria
tions will show.
bill and is an improvement over the I Central Hospital, Raleigh $292,800
spineless make-shift now on the sta-,State Hospital, Morganton,.$400,000
tute books.
Some of the legislators have gone
home feeling proud of their record;;
others do not feci so good over the
result of thcIr aotivites. The repres
entative of Il-'iidorson is not the only
one who has had troubles over local 1 Stonewall Jackson Training
State Hospital, Colored,
Goldsboro, $173,500
Deaf and Dumb School, Mor
ganton, 80,000
Caswell Training School,
Kingston,. . $125,000
matK'rs. Doi:t'ns of others kept his
company until the gavel fell for the
la?t time an(i ihoy turned their faces
homeward for a season of rest. The
last few (lays were nerve-racking in
the extreme for those who had to be
constantly on vigil in the interest of
safety for themselves and the people
by knocking innocent little bills (on
School $ 27,890
State Sanitarium for Tuber
culosis, Sanitorium $ 99,000
University of North Carolina$235,000
E. Carolina Training School $ 65,000
Appalachian Training School
Boone $ 26,000
Cullowhee Normal and In
dustrial School $ 16,000
their faces), which are often loaded { State School for the Blind $ 87,000
with dynamite. Many went home State College of Agriculture
with a feeling of disgust towards all smd Engineering $150,000
kinds of legislation and declaring they XoxmrJ. and Industrial Col. $315,000.
will never again return as a member | Oxford Orphai. Asylum . . .$ 20,000
of either tii^ Senate or the House. i Oxford Orphan Asyl. (col) $ 11,000
The two branc-hes of the Assembly
rinully 'vot together on a State High
way measure by the adoptivMi of the
House bill designated as tlie Pharr-
IMatthews bill with some amendments
enered by the Senate. The House
promply concurred in the Senate
amendment and made possible the en
actment of a good roads law that
will assure for North Carolina her
Soldiers’ Home, Kaleigii ...$ 45,000
Confederate iMuseum $ 400
Confederate Cemetery .... $ 500
Cherokee Indian Normal
School $ 4,850
Colored Agricultural School $ 20,000
State Normal School for Ne
groes, Winston $ 35,000
North Carolina State Board
of Health $ 84,725
quota of n”.y Federal aid which may } "onfcderate Wonic n’.s Home $ 10,000
now or hereafter become available. North Carolina Orthopedic
The bill provides for the issuance of
short-term notes by the State ;o .he
amount of something like a ...iilio i
dollars a year, if nece:=sary to meet
Federal demands and hold safe in in
terest of State anil countie:;. Neither
house apperas to be satisfied with the
bill, but the point is made that it
will answer all right as a temporary
measure. An extra 2e:;sion of the
Legislature is to be held a year hence
for the purpose of adjusting the tax
rates under the new valuation scheme
and the highway bill may also be
strengthened it the necessity de
mands.
Hospital $ 15,000
State Board of Charities and
rublic Welfare $ 30,000
State Home and Industrial
School for Girls $ 40,000
North Carolina Economic
and Geological Survey . . $ 40,000
Agricultural Extens’n Work $226,061
No Suffrage Legislation
The ladies.failed completely to per-
j^uade the members of tiiis General
Assembly that it would be the part
of wisdom to give them the ballot,
even in modified form. They decid
ed to await the coming of the Federal
amendment for a general campaign
on the issue of equal suffrage with
men in all elections and concluded
to try the experiment in modified
form. A bill allowing women to vote
in municipal elections in cities of 5,-
000 population and upwards was in
troduced in the Senate and passed
that body by a 2 to 1 vote. Elated
by this initial success the “girls”
stormed the House and v/cli nigh
captured it, too.
for, and 54 against and the bill was
dead. It was argued with some force
that the proposition discriminated
against the country women and, fur
thermore, that fundamental questions
should be submitted to a vote of the
people. The fight in the House was
fast and furious and a record at
tendance of members and visitors
witnessed it.
Now Members of School Boards
The omnibus bili carrying mem-
members of the new boards of ed
ucation in the various counties car
ries the names of republicans in re
publican counties for the fir.st time
in many years. Democratic legis
latures for the past several years have
given members of the minority almost
anything they have asked for in the
matter of local legislation, but this
is the first time representation has
been allowed on school boards. It
is demagogery gone to seed, (for no
such requirement is applied in dem
ocratic counties), in the view of those
who believe in consistency. Hender
son and Polk draw' each a republican
this year and if the process of evo
lution shall continue past the session
of the General Assembly two years
hence—and republicans represent
them—their boards of education will
consist of two republicans and one
dcinocrat. Then we shall have a
‘beauLifur’ State system. Tvar.syl-
The vote was 49 1 mania's new board will contain the
‘ names of Edwin Poor and Fielding
Paxton, in addition to the hold-over.
Mr. Poor succeeds himself and Mr.
Paxton continues as the successor of
Mr. J- M. Southern, whose death last
summer created a vacancy on
board which Mr. Paxton has been
filling through appointment of the
other members. Representative Ly-
day encountered no difficulty in get
ting a bo&rd composed of democrats.
School Board Bill Failed
- Senator Warren’s bill providing the
election of school boards by the peo
ple wiks turned down with a whoop
in the House. Ray of Macon, Gard-
jier of Yancy,,;j§od other western
Representative Jackson of He ider-
son asked that this county be exempt
ed from the provisions of the state
wide primary law in so far as it re
lates to nominations for county can-
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BREVARD, N. C.
Notice To Taxpayers:
Unless you want to see your property advertised for sale in
the Brevard News and see your name in the paper, you had
better come into my office in the Court House, Brevard, N. C.,
and pay your tax before the 1st Monday in April, 1919. I am
going to advertise all unpaid taxes on real estate to sell the 1st
Monday in May, 1919. And I or my Deputy will be around after
all personal property when the taxes are unpaid.
If you want to save yourself trouble, ^n^^|Tra8sment and
cost come and see me, because I MEAN BUSINESS
February 17th, 1919.
COS PAXTOl
Sheriff & Tax ColWtor.