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NEW BILLS POUR INTO LEGISLATIVE HOPPER ruairuiNU PROPERTY REVALUING Proposed Salary Cut, Sales Tax, Other Ques tions Loom (Special To The Herald) Raleigh, Jan. 22.—Revaluation of property, machinery for which has been set up in many counties is in operation, will be postponed at least until March 15, acording to action taken by both houses of the General Assembly which devoted the last two or three days of its session to this subject. Althuogh revaluation probably has been the most important matter up. consideration has been given to the reduction of salaries 10 per cent of all state and county and municipal employees, a Constitutional conven-, A CLEAN STEERING WHEEL When yon take your car from this better repair shop you can take your place behind the steering wheel with perfect confidence. For you know the work is efficient. And you know we never leave a bit of dirt or grease on the jobs we do That’s just one of the many reasons yon will like this complete auto service. 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Three bills on revaluation, in view of the four-year revaluation law, were introduced, one to postpone it for tw oyears, another to allow coun ties so desiring to keep their present assesments and another to postpone the revaluation until the present Gen eral Assembly gets further along on its own fiscal policy. The House passed the Neal bill postponing until April 1, but the Senate changed it Friday to March 15, and the House is expected to concur when it re convenes this week. The arguments of many, including th eN. C. Tax Relief Association, is that values were inflated at the last property assessment four years ago, the reply to which is that they are depressed now, and if the valuation were too high then, they will be too low now. It is argued that the ma chinery is ready to go on with the revaluation work now and that to stop it, even temporarily, will he expensive, to which the answer that the machinery apparently is too cost ly anyway and may be reduced. Many inequalities exist now that should be evened up and much per sonal property should be uncovered, enough to reduce the tax on real es tate, proponents of revaluation say. Governor Gardner states that a re valuation now which would reduce the taxable valuation to anything like like the figures sought by many would endanger the bonds outstand ing against practically every unit and make harder refunding some of the bonds which are falling due and which the units will be unable to pay during the next few years. He pro posed the two-year postponement. The 10 per cent salary cut, pro posed by Governor Gardner and in cluded in the budget’s general appro priation bill, presented last week, is meeting with some opposition, large CBu// tfiif N E W WESTINGHOUSE E L E C T H I C HE FHIGEHATOH NOW! because it’s always Summer time in your kitchen! REGARDLESS of the temperature out side, it is always Summer time in your kitchen. 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Opposition is expressed by State employees in Raleigh and elsewhere, teachers and city and county employes, all of whom would be included, unless their remuneration had been cut to that extent within a year or they receive less than $50 a month, the cut to be come effective next July 1 and for two years only. The Constitutional Convention pro posal fo the Governor is before the General Assembly in the form of a bill introduced by Representative Victor V. Young Durham, providing that the proposal be submitted to the people at the next general election. November 3, 1923. the delegates to be elected in the same manner and the same number as members of the House; of Representatives, 120, to meet in the House of Representa tives at noon on Wednesday after the first Monday in May. 1933, remain in session not exceeding 30 days for receiving suggestions, adjourn for 60 days and reconvene, the total time in session not to exceed GO days. Ap parently the proposal is meeting wi^h favor, the legislators realizing the in adequacy of the amendment-laden constitution adopted in 1868. While the Educational Commis sion’s report, calling for an eight months’ school term, elimination of many charter districts and consoli dation fo control and purchases to effect economy, is receiving com mendation. a trend is seen toward the State taking over and operating the six month constitutional term now provided. A bill to that effect has been introduced and many think this can and will be done, while oth ers believe the State should meet the cost of the eight months term. The State operating the six months term may be a compromise measure, if he eight-month term bill fails of pas sage. The sales tax, long feared by the merchants of the state, hit the Gen al Assembly square in the face at the brief session Saturday, when one bill, introduced in both houses, would seek to raise revenue for the six months school term by a gross in come sales tax. based on the West Virgini alaw, and another introduced in the House, would place a tax on gross retail sales for the same pur pose. A third bill, based on the South Carolina law, was promised for for Monday night. ine nrfit Dili, introduced simul taneously in both houses by the Har nett County legislators, Senator Bit tette and Representative Young, places a tax colectable quarterly and within a month, on mining, quarry ing, timber operations, manufactur ing, real estate dealing, wholesalers, jobbers, banks, steam and street railways, telegraph,, telephone, ex press, elcetric light and other public service corporations, contractors, all kinds of amusements, all professions, and any other buiness not included in the list, at rates ranging from l-20th of 1 per cent to 1 per cent. It exempts mutual savings banks and Building and Loan Associations, edu cational, charitable, religious, fra ternal, labor, agricultural and com munity trade or commerce bodies, organized for mutual benefit and not operated for profit. The second, introduced in the House by Representative Day of On slow county, would require every re tail merchant to pay a graduated annual gross sales tax, ranging from l-20th of 1 per cent for annual sales up to $400,000 to 1 per cent on annual sales above $900,000, the tax not to be in lieu of any special State license or occupational tax. Both have as their objects raising funds for state operation of schools and removing the county or ad va lorem tax for that purpose. Retail trade organizations are al ready, have been for some time, in fact, lining up their forces to oppose such measures, and lobby activities will be greatly increased during the coming weeks of the session as a re sult of these bills. The special judge act, now in ef* feet has been introduced again, pro viding tha tthe Governor shall ap point four special judges, two from the east and two from the west, and may, if necessity exists, appoint two others, one from the east, the other from the west, to assist the 20 re gular judges of the Superior Court. The Guilford County clerk inci dent, in which W. M. Gant was sen tenced for using funds from Confed erate veterans pension checks, is duobtless responsible for the bill which requires the State Auditor to l'urnish annually lists of all pension ers to the Bureau of Vital Statistics and to check the pension rolls with the register of vital statistics “to prevent wrongful collection of pen sions.” A move to prevent mob violence is seen in a bill which would require that a person charged with a capital crime or attempted rape be confined in a jail of another county than the one in which the alleged crime was committed or in the State penitenti ary. Two worthless check law amend ments have been introduced, one lim iting the punishment for issuing a worthless check no tover $50 to a fine of $50 or imprisonment for not more than 30 days, and another to make it unlawful for the officers is suing or serving warrants to act as collecting agents for the payee nam ed in the check. A bill to better safeguard city and county funds deposited in banks or ther depositories, by requiring a surety bond, ro Government, State, city or county bonds, or other secu rity approved by the State Sinking Fund Commission as collateral, has been dropped into the hopper. An illegal punch board or slot ma chine is defined in a bill introduced as one which does not produce or give to the person putting in coins a return in market value every time a coin is placed in it. The General Assembly which is now getting down to business, turn ed aside Monday night to celebrate the anniversaries of the births of Generals Robert E. Lee and “Stone wall” Jackson. 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