RACE BILL DIES; SCHOOL BILL GASPING
FARMERS
FIGHTING
MERCHANTS
Land Tax vs Sales Tax
For Support Proposed
State Schools
(Special To The Herald)
Raleigh, March 19.—Neither the
school bill nor the highway bill has
created more interest in any one
week than has the Buncombe racing
bill, which has occupied the center
of the stage for the past week and
was finallly given an unfavorable re
port by the Senate Committee Fri
day. •after that committee had pre
viously given it a favorable report.
The entire Senate body also reversed
itself Fridny night, tabling the bill
and putting the “clincher” on it so it
cannot come up again except by a
two-thirds vote.
The bill provided that racing
tracks and devices may be erected
in Buncombe county at a cost ap
proaching a half million dollars to
be rented at $6,000 a day for 36 days
year for horse and dog racing and
operation ow pan-mutual devices—
gambling machines — which church
people and moral forces assailed as
step* toward legalizing gambling
and making Buncombe a “Monte
Carlo of vice and degregation Pro
ponents pointed te the money Bun
combe would receive, saying it would
help bring back that county from
its financial debacle. Women led the
promoter* and formed a formidable
lobby. The House passed the bill
by a heavy margin and the Senate
passed it on second reading, when it
was re-referred to the committee on
Counties, Cities and towns, which
later reversed its position.
“Embattled farmers” descended
upon the General Assembly on last
Thursday by the hundreds and from
all over the State, demanding tax
reduction on land. The Finance com
mittee, which had been through tor
ment in their efforts to find the
$19,600,000 to operate the schools for
six months without an ad valorem
tax, heard them, as it has heard mer
chants and manufacturers who are
opposed to sales or production tax
es. While probably close, doubt is
expressed that a sales tax can be en
acted, although one will be neces
sary to carry out the six months
school plan. The committee is prob
ably approaching, but has by no
means arrived, at a solution of the
problem. It may yet be necessary to
continue the present plan with an
increased Equalizing fund.
While the 70th day is about here,
the General Assembly members are
by no means near their return home.
Most of the important bills are yet
to be threshed out on the floors of
one or both houses. The local gov
ernment bill is passed and out of
*h* way. and is to be printed and
distributed at once. But amendments
are being added to it. The highway
measure has passed both houses, but
conference committees are still try
ing to iron out minor differences.
All of the bills relating to reor
ganization of the government have
made some progress during the week
including those to establish a per
sonnel department, a purchasing
agent, reorganization of the Depart
I ment of agriculture, establishing a
separate banking department, ap
pointment by the Governor of the
members of the Corporation Commis
sion, but time will be required to get
them through. A bill to create a
new department of Labor, making
the Commissioner appointive, and
specifying divisions, is under way.
The Finance and the Appropriations
bills are by no means complete and
will require fully a week after they
are reported out.
Ine bill to provide lor a State in
surance fund for insuring employes
under the Workmen’s Compensation
act was killed in the Senate, but
other bills to amend the Compen
sation act, interpreting and modify
ing it, will probably pass.
The omnibus bill, naming members
of the county boards of education,
has been introduced. It usually
brings out many local fights and ef
forts to turn out boards by other fac
tions. The omnibus bill naming ma
gistrates has not yet made its ap
pearance.
Prognosticators are moving up
their dates for adjournment, most
of them now believing it will be
April 1 before the General Assem
bly can finish its work.
A summary of the activities so far
shows that almost exactly 1,500 bills
have been introduced, 1,050 in the
house and 450 in the Senate. Up to
last Saturday only 460 had been ra
tified, 367 House and 103 Senate
bills. Last week 180 bills were in
troduced and 105 ratified and of
this number 81 were local and 24
were public or general, many of them
resolutions.
Among the public laws ratified the
past week were two relating to coun
ty government, one creating a com
mission for improvement of the laws; 1
providing for spending the $400,000
appropriated in 1927 for a new cen
tral prison; providing for an amend
ment to allow' elections on amend
ments to the constitution to be held
at times other than general elections;
authorizing- declaratory judgments;
requiring tobacco warehouse checks
to be made payable to order; allow
ing county commissioners to estab
li.sh county courts with criminal ju
risdiction; preventing employment of
females under 18 years of age in all
kinds of industrial work at night;
providing for an alternate juror in
certain cases; recording instruments
by photography; requiring reserve
fund and regarding mutuality of B.
& L. Associations; regulating sale
of mixed feed oats and allowing two
preemptory challenges to the defen
dant and one to the State in criminal
trials.
Revaluation, an important matter,
postponed until March 15, has again
been postponed until April 1, while
bills have been introduced postpon
ing it until 1933. This is to precipe
tate another hard fight before the
session ends.
Although an effort was made to
stop introduction of bills after March
10, a resolution to that end having
passed the Senate, except by consent
i-n two-thirds vote, it failed in the
House and they continue to be
thrown into the hopper, but not as
many as formerly. The high peak
was reached March 10, when 51 bills
were introduced in the House and 31
in the Senate.
Among the bills of general inter
Lst introduced last week are the fol
lowing:
Legal: Permit removal of land
from provisions of the ‘Torrans Act’,
to set up methods of acquiring real
Emd personal property, selling it and
conveying title for failure to pay
Laxes; to protect the inchoate right
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of dower and prohibit sale of home
site by husband without written con
sent of th ewife; defining jurisdict
ion of administrators of estates;
making law as to receivers apply to
liquidation of insolvent banks; de
fining rights of receivers; liability
for criminal costs before justices of
the peace; to preserve the fiduciary
powers and liabilities of consolida
ting banks; punishment for fraude
lent disposition of crops; relative to
the right to perform an autopsy on
the human body; authorizing a com
mission to study N. C. laws on pro
perty and inneritance rights ot hus
band and wife; prevent justices of
the peace from trying criminal cases
after 6 p. m.; provide payment of
physician’s hills for a year before
death, and undertakers, out of es
tate of the decedent.
Local Government: To permit re
newal. as well as funding and re
funding notes of counties, cities and
towns and local units; allowing units,
by contract, to anticipate and take
up notes and bonds before maturity,
and permitting levy of a proper tax
to replace needed funds tied up in
faiLng banks; authorizing counties
and road districts to pay costs of
jails and courts; providing for man
ner for settlement of sheriffs, tax
•db'ctcrs: an* homing court clerks
v. use photostatic copies of maps,
a s and blueprints with records of
peek*! pro • .-dings; provide for a
!udy of lis-.ing and assessing pro
perty for t-'xes by the State Tax
Commission: relative to temporary
loans of municipalities; validating
-c-rtain notes of counties.
Motor Vehicles: Provide for me
• hanical or electrical signals to show
left turn, right turn, or stop, as
•veil as hand signals; to make N. C.
motor vehicle laws to conform with
! hose of the National Conference of
street and Highway Safety.
Pensions: Require that pension
rolls be checked with vital statistics
records; create a State retirement
fund for State employees who have
worked 20 years for the State, reach-,
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ed G5 years of age by saving out
three per cent of their earnings;
move up date of marriage of widows
of Confederate veterans from 1899
to 1901, making them eligible for
pensions.
Taxes: Provide for State tax on
mortgages, deeds of trust or other
instruments as a pledge, mortgage
or conveyance in trust of real or
personal property in N. C.
Incorporate the State Association
.'f County Boards of Education.
Name a new board of directors cf
State Industrial Farm Colony for
women.
Regulate age certificates to chil
dren under IS years of age.
Require notice of nonpayment of
insurance premiums before forfei
ture.
Prevent loans to employes of banks
without unanimous approval o f
• ieekholders.
Repeal five-day marriage banns
notice.
Authorize North Carolina to parti
cipate in the International Exposi
tion at Chicago in 1933. appropriat
ing up to 830,000 for the purpose of
displaying North Carolina made pro
ducts and natural resources.
MRS. RACHEL GREEN BUTTS
Mrs. Rachel Green Butts died at
her home near Hawkins Chapel on
Tuesday, March 3, 1931 at 1 p. m.
She was the oldest daughter of
Mrs. Robert Green and was a grand
daughter of the late Mr. Ambrose
Green. She was born on Feb. 2G.
1897. In April, 1917, she was mar
ried to Mr. Bert Butts, who depart
ed this life during the influenza epi
demic of 1919. leaving her with an
infant son, Bert, Jr., who was not two
months old. How tenderly she has
reared this child, until now at 12
.vears of age, is the pride of his
teachers. She was ever a devoted
mother, a kind sister and a loving
and obedient daughter and home will
no longer seem the same since Rach
el has passed on. She was ever ready
lend a helping hand where sick
ness and sorrow abounded.
She was a member of Quankie
Baptist Church and for sometime
was organist there.
The funeral was held in Thursday
March 5, from Hawkins Chapel M.
E. Church. The services were in
charge of Rev. J. E. Kirk of Rose
mary Baptist Church assisted by
Rev. P. E. Bingham of Hawkins
Chapel M. P. Church.
She leaves behind a heartbroken
mother and the following brothers
and sister: Mr. R. E. Green and Miss
Gaynelle Green of Thelma and Mrs.
Herbert Harris of near Enfield. An
other sister, Bessie Green Butts, pre
ceded her to the grave by three
years. Several aunts, two uncles
and a grandmother, Mrs. Mollie Haw
:ins of Rosemary, N. C., who i
her 84th year, also survive.
Amidst a large concourse of sor
owing friends and relatives we laid
her body to rest in the Green ceme
U. oiv at. . J. i
tery nearby the body of her fatner,
under a mound laden with fceaatiftl
floral tributes.
No care up yonder,
There the skies are fair;
No tears up yonder,
Peace everywhere.
*
No voice of weeping,
In that happy land;
No strife up yonder
God is in command.
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