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AT THE CAPITOL News of Interest From the Legis lature Now In Session X. L. SHIPMAN. Correspondent Special to Franklin Times Raleigh, March 9.?The 1925 Gener al Assembly goes down In history as one which followed the Governor more than any other in recent years. Other Legislatures have been influ enced by Governors but scarcely to the extent that the one just ended has been led around by Governor McLean. The 1921 and 1923 General Assem blies were led "up the hill" by Gov ernor Morrison and the 1925 body was "led down the hill," in the path of economy, by Governor McLean. And as if to atone for the action of its pre decessors in following Morrison, the present body went even further than any before it had done and gave to the Governor greater powers than any executive in North Carolina has ever had and enacted measures at his bid 'ding which will revolutionise the ad j ministration of the State government. Governor McLean sponsored or en dorsed 23 measures which were pre sented to the Legislature. Most of these were enacted into law as orig inally written, one or two were slight ly amended, but all of any Importance except one, got ehrough during the last two days of the body and those .which came up this week were ex pected to be put across before cd journment Tuesday 'night. | Chief among the Governor's recom mendations were the creation of an executive budget system placing all [ departments and institutions on a 'budget basis and making the Gover nor the head in fact of tho State's fi nancial policies; transferring the 'auto license bureau, and the insur ance department revenue collecting powers to the Revenue department In order to co-ordinate the revenue col lecting agencies of the "State and to eliminate unnecessary employes; creating a state department institu tion out of state prison hitherto op erated as a private corporation; cre ating a State department of conser vation to take over the functions of the economic and geological survey; appointing an official executoner to relieve the warden of State prison of that duty; deposit dally with the State Treasurer of all funds Instead of monthly as heretofore so as to ob viAte to an extent short term financ ing and save Interest; creation of a pardon attorney to assist the Gover nor in investigating clemency cases; an educatonal commission to Investi gate the educational system of the State; a wage Investigation commis sion to go Into the salaries paid State employes,' eliminate useless employ es, bring salaries into line with ac tual work done and establish a stand ard salary scale; a $20,000,000 bond issue tor roads; and other measures of more or less importance. The Governor so recommended a constitutional amendment creating a pardon commission but this was put off last Saturday until the next ses sion after some difficulty over its term arose, the Governor saying he would try out the pardon attorney for the next two years. Other measures which had the Governor's "Okay" were to limit the time in which checks issued by the auditor would be paid by Treasurer; to declare transfer of claims against the state vpid if made beforo actual adjustment and allowance of such claims had been made; to place all charitable state institutions on the same basis and requiring those able to do so to bear the expense of their care; to create a Judicial Conference to study methods of practice and pro cedure; to create an Advisory Com mission to investigate and reptirt on freight rate discrimination; to reduce cost of public printing, and a number of proposals having to do with his program of economy in governmental ! affairs. The outstanding fight of the session developed during last week when Sen ator Seawell of Lee led the move to increase the equalization fund for public schools. -This fight was large ly responsible for the tie-up in the Senate of important legislation neces sitating extra days of the session, al though the failure of the House and Senate conferees to present a satis factory report on the revenue bill amendments also delayed the sine dlo adjournment. Senator Seaweli s fight* for educa tion resulted In the Governor's first1 defeat in the Legislature. Aided by other sympathetc Senators, the Lee ' county orator opposed the action of: the Governor in seeking to have the funds from the control of busses plac ed in the General fund so as to be able to present a balanced budget. The 1 Lee county Senator said education | was more important than a balanced budget for Mr. McLean and declared against the policy of Mv. McLean in allowing education to suffer in order that his balance sheet might be even ed up. The Lee county Senator wr.s victorious and the measure was sent i to the House for concurrence, that1 body having in the meanwhile acced-1 ed to the Governor's request in giv ing' the money into the general fund. | No decision on the difference had been made up to late Monday. Seeing possible defeat of his- meas ure in the House, when the appropri ations bill came up the Lee county Senator again led a fight for Increase of the appropriation for education and the appropriation for the public school equalization iund. These m<W sures were pending before the Senate Friday, Saturday and 'Monday with the oratory of the session being un loosed in their defense and against them. Whatever the outcome the Senator from LCe will go down as the champion of education in the 1925 ses sion. Discussion on the educational sys tem which took place the last part of the week brought forward amend ments to the revenue bill to take away the power of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to set the stand ard for teachers in schools and to fix a salary standard scale. These amend ments would drastically cut the pow ers of the State in education and in the opinion of many would destroy the state educational system. They were pending before the Senate, Mon day. Another fight which occupied con siderable time was that for Confed erate veterans. Both the Senate and House debated at length measures designed to tax auto drivers $2 to $3 a head for the benefit of the remain ing of "the fast thinning line of Grey" and both bills were defeated after 5^me of the most moving oratory of the session. Then the House humped into the breach and overwhelmingly passed a bill to tax motion picture admissions for the benefit of the vet erans and sent it to the Senate where li was on Monday. The chances are that it will die Oiere. The delay in passing the revenue bill came about when the Senate re fused to concur in the conference re port which did away with Its impor tant amendments. These amendments would hare exempted from a tax on judgments and actions in courts all' courts of jurisdiction lower than Su perior Court. This dispute was fi nally settled Monday when the House agreed.to the Senate amendment. The bill to retire Treasurer Iaicy, if he wished it, on 2-3 pay had rough sailing during the week. After be ing defeated in the House, that body on Saturday night reconsidered Its voted 30 to 33 and set H as a special order for reconsideration Monday morning. It was only to finally dis pose of it however, for H was killed and the clincher put. The chief ar gument was that it would set a pre cedent to pensions for State officials. Ratified Bills . The following bills have been duly ratified and sent to the office of the Secretary of State: An act to define anfi regulate group life Insurance; an act authorising the sale of life estates In Capital stock of foreign corporations; an acts to es tablish a highway commission In Wil son county which shall have charge of the construction, improvement and maintenance of the public roads and bridges in Tolsnot township, Wilson 'counts and the State Highway sys torn In Wilson county, for other al lied and relating purposes; to amend If chapter SOJ? of the private laws of 1903 the charter of the town of China Grore; to amend sections 4309, 4310, 613G consolidated statutes relating to 1 Forest firsa; to create a state sinking fund commission, and to provide the duties thereof, and to provide penal, ties; and to repeal or amend certain sections of chapter 188 public laws 1933; to amend the Road !?JW of ,Transylvania county and to provide for a more effective system for the | upkeep of said roads; to validate cer tain bonds in Bladen county; to re establish the office of county treasur er in the county of Watauga; to reg ulate elections in the town of Reids viile and to give privacy to voters while preparing their ballots; to amend the charter of the city of Hickory the same being chapter 68 private laws of 1913; to amend bee tion 1443 of consolidated statutes pre scribing the time for holding the courts of the ISth judicial district in so far as the same relates to Tran bylvanla county; to require the Board < f Education of Stanly county to make and file with the Board of County commissioners of Stanly county an annual itemised statement of receipts and expenditures of said board; to | appoint trustees and fix the title of certain school pJopertv in district one | of Pigeon township, Haywood coun ty; to authorize the working of cer tain prisoners of Stanly county at the J home of the aged and infirm of said .county; to regulate and fix the fees of ? the sheriff of Wilson county; to cm ; power the commissioners of Duplin county to renew certain outstanding notes; to allow the sheriff of Clay county one-half of one per cent for J his services; to amend section 1443 oflhe consolidated statutes of North Carolina, so as to make the January term of Bladen Superior Court for the trial of Civil cases only; to au thorize the Board of Commissioners of McDowell county to invest sinking fund; to repeal chapter 1C8 of the Public local laws extra session 1920, relating to Recorder's court in Union county; to increase the number of members of the Board of Education. of Moore county from three to five; to amend statutes relative to the sal aries of the Mayor and Board of Al dermen of the city of Salisbury; to authorize the Board of Education of Orange county to transfer an amount not to exceed $1500 from the Bond fund of Carrboro School District to the maintenance fund; to amend sec tion 1443 of consolidated statutes and index relating to terms of Court for Yadkin county; to authorize the Road commission of Robeson county to levy a special tax in certain townships for road purposes; to require the reg ister of deeds cf Moore county to certify to the county auditor _ state ment of all conveyances registered in his office; to authorize the Board of Commissioners of Wilson county to install a modern system in the office of the clerk of the superior court and cause a modern up-to-date and com plete index to be made of the records thereof; to prevent the Board of trustees of the Board of Education of the New Bern Graded Schools con tracting indebtedness without the ap proval of the Board of Aldermen of said city; to amend section 1443 of consolidated statutes relative to terms of court in Vance county; to allow justices of the Peace and Mayors of incorporated towns in Union county to sentence persons to jail to be work ed upon the public roads; act relating to the salary and travelling expenses of the superintendent of public in ttruction of?Panuico county: to amend statutes relating to the recorders court of Leaksville township in the county of Rockingham; to reduce the Lumber of members of the Board of education of Haywood county from five members to three; to amend chap ter 108 private laws 1909 relating to the issuance of bonds for improve* mept of sidewalks of the town of Hillsboro and to create a sinking fund for the retirement of said bonds; to authorize and empower the commis sioners of Columbus county to pay premiums on official bonds of certain Cclumbus county officers; to author ize W. V. Allbright. tax collector for the town of Troy, Montgomery coun ty and his successors in office to col lect back taxes; act relating to the validating his acts as clerk to the county auditor of Columbus county said county and providing for his Board of County commissioners of bond; to amend chapter ninety of the private laws of 1917 relative to the schools of Columbus county; to au thorize the Investment of the sinking fund of Fair Bluff supplementary school district Columbus county; to. amend section 2650 of consolidated statutes so as to make the General Municipal election laws applicable to the town of Dunn }- to amend chapter ?05 public local laws of the session of 1917 relating to the appointment of (Treasurer of Hertford county; to re leal statutes relating to the Wayne couhty court; to provide for twelve months service for grand juries In' Hertford county; to validate a bond issue of Apex graded school district in Wake county; act making it unlaw ful for clerks of the superior court, notaries public and magistrates to charge confederate pensioners for taking acknowledgements in connec tion with said pensions; to amend section 329 chapter 126. public laws 1923 so as to prohibit local distribu ting agencies for State adopted text beoks from deducting from the sale price of books purchased a penalty tor return of books; to amend chapter 105 of the consolidated statutes being the Insurance law of the State of North Carolina; to repeal chapter 176 public local laws, session 1928 relative to salaries of public officers in Person county; act authorising the Board of county commissioners of Caswell county to levy a-speclal tax; to amend chapter 448 public looal law, session 1121, relating to election of county commissioners of Ruther ford county; to repeal chapter 164 of public local laws -bf extra session 1921; an act making it unlawful for public authorities or governing bod* (Continued on page throe 1 I Landredths V Garden Seedsi We have a full assortment of this well known and popular brand gar ' . - -CI . . , ? den seeds, fresh froriTthe house. Let us.supply your needs. Also a com plete assortment of flower seeds. Use these generously and beautify your home. BEASLEY BROTHERS Next to Franklin Times Louisburg, N. C. Special Selling of Women's Dress Materials In this display are an unusually attractive selection of new fabrics and patterns, yet we have reduced the prices to a point where it would be poor economy for you to buy the garments ready made. I have just received a new shipment of Dress Ginghams, and Queen Quality Shoes for Ladies, for Spring. Florsheim Shoes for Men. J. C. HARRIS YOUNGS VILLE, N. 0. LET US HAyE YOUR ORDE R FOR GUANO AND AVOID THE RUSH FISH BRAND RED STEER ROBERSON VELVET NITRATE SODA We have them in stock. Blue Ribbon and White House Flour, Oats, Corn, Meal, Feed, Roofing. See us it may mean money in your pooket. QUICK SALES SMALL PROFITS Only one salesman, therefore we have to hurry. THE STAR * Grocery Company / W. PERRY, Mgr. J . S. HOWELL, Pres. Full Line of GARDEN SEED Now ready at our Store Cor ner of Main and Nash streets. Come in and let us make up your planting needs. Our prices are very attractive and our assort ment is complete. When in need of anything in the Grocery or Fresh Meat line come to see us and let us help you to save money. Cash Grocery & Market FHOH1 t70 or M ? LOUI8BUUG, If. C
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