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North Carolina May Become “Second Reno” Result Bill
Legislature Making
Slow-Sure Progress
Raleigh, Feb. 22.—After a hec
tic struggle for two or three weeks,
the sub-committee of the joint fi
nance committee promised to turn
over Monday afternoon to the full
joint committee a completed rev
enue measure, which, intimations
are, contains a general sales tax,
the eight months State-supported
school term, and, probably, abol
ishing all except a few of the lar
ger special tax school districts.
These intimations leak out of a
well guarded group. Whether the
report will be made public, or the
joint finance committee struggle
with it before it comes to the
open, was not known at this writ
ing.
With this prospect, it is expect
ed that the measure, whatever its
provisions will reach the floor of
the General Assembly some time
this week and will have a week
or more of consideration by the
two houses. Few people now ex
pect a hang up such as was ex
perienced two years ago. If the
general sales tax, or a tax that
partakes of some of the properties
of the general, luxury, selected
commodity, production, or guoss
sales tax, it wlil be opposed, stren
uously. Secretary Willard L.
Dowell, of the State merchants,
says of the general sales tax: “It
shall not pass.”
Many legislators have the same
view, and will fight it out. But
many, normally opposed to a
sales tax, have come to believe it
necessary to balance the budget
and will support it, at least fi
nally, as an emergency measure.
It now seems that a sales tax,
more likely one of the general
sales type, will be proposed, with
belief that it will be enacted after
the battle.
Restlessness of members began
to show itself in the seventh week.
Earlier the two houses would meet
and dispose of the few bills that
had come from the committees in
an hour. The past week has
shown a speeding up of commit
tee work resulting in more bills
for floor action. Facing a cal
endar of 25 bills, the House held
its first night meeting Friday
night, except the Monday night
sessions. The Senate met one day,
reached a calendar with 15 or 20
bills and adjourned to eat. Both
sides are now getting down to
floor work. Sometimes they do
things hastily and have to retract.
Usually they are making progress
slowly and carefully, but making
progress just the same.
Bills introduced during the ses
sion reached about 860 last week,
the week’s introductions number
ing about 125, 35 in the Senate
and 90 in the House. House bills
so far number about 615 and Sen
ate bills near 250. But most of
them are born to die.
So far only 160 bills have been
ratified, 48 Senate and 112 House
bills. The past week saw many
local bills complete the round and
become laws, to the number of 44,
while only seven public bills fin
ished the course last week. The
number of ratified measures will
increase from now on, while the
new bills introduced will dimin
ish rapidly.
One resolution was adopted last
week, requesting the U. S. Con
gress to refrain from further in
vasion of sources of taxation here
tofore left to the State. Because
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' Senate Demands Scalp
David 8. Barry, 75, veteran
•iergeant-at-Arms of the U. S. Senate,
suspended in an unprecedented act!on
by that august body for writing a
magazine article for The New Out
l< in which he said some member*
of Congress took money for their
votes, faces the ire of veteran Sen
ators who still insist upon his com
plete removal.
of the uncertainty as to whether
the representative of this county
to Sweden is an “ambassador” or
a “minister,” the resolution urg
ing the appointment of Mrs. Lil
lie Morehead Mebane, Rockingham
legislator, to that post, now occu
pied by her kinsman, John Motley
Morehead, did not reach the point
of ratification.
Railroad companies will be held
responsible for personal injuries or
acts of railroad policemen, here
tofore exempt because they were
actually named by the Governor,
but recommended by railroad of
ficials. The license charges
plumbing and heating contractors
are changed slightly on the basis
of populations of towns in which
the operate in a new law. Cas
ualty and surety companies are
now required to make deposits
with the State to insure fulfill
ment of their obligations with its
citizens or corporations.
World War veterans are per
mitted an extension of time on
payments of loans of the World
War Veterans Loan Fund of the
State until November 1, 1934.
Teachers will not be required to
attend summer schools for three
years; and blind people will be
permitted to transact business in
the State without paying the li
cense fee, when so recommended
by county commissioners of their
home county, under three new laws
enacted.
The House killed without cere
mony the bill that would allow
baseball on Sunday, by a vote of
84 to 25, while the Senate was en
gaged in the slaughter of the Sen
ator Hinsdale bill to prevent leg
islators from accepting appoint
ment to positions they create or
increase the pay of. Accused of
having feeling from the primary
last year, in which he was a Foun
manager, Hinsdale sent in an
amendment making the measure
effective after 1937. The amend
ment was adopted, but his bill was
killed, overwhelmingly.
Realizing that married women
sometimes have to work, the com
mittee which investigated their
statue in State employment turn
ed down the bill requiring that all
be fired, but adopted a resolution
asking the heads of departments
to weed them out if and as they
can. Firing of 15 or 20 women
employed by Secretary of State
Stacey W. Wade for enrolling bills
caused a flare and feeling of re
sentment, which came out in a pub
lic letter condemning him as a
partisan to sisters or daughters
of influential people. A bill would
take this work from the Secretary
of State and have it done by the
General Assembly.
The beer and wine bill sprang
unexpectedly out of committee
with a favorable report last
week, but the House sent it back
in a hurry for hearings. It would
tax beer and wine, if their sale
should be legalized by Congress.
Representative R. M. Cox suggests
a referendum on the sale of those
beverages. The medicinal liquor
bill is still under consideration.
The House cut still lower the sal
aries of solicitors and sent the bill
back to the Senate, that body
again sending it back with its
original figures. The bill to al
low divorces after two years of
separation, passed by the Senate
and House, will soon be the law.
Measures dealing with reorgan
ization of State government have
been quiet all the past week, not
one having been passed, and lit
tle consideration being given any
of them.
Bills dealing with Workmen’s
compensation fell thick and fast
for a time, after it was found the
act could not be repealed. One
would allow review by the courts
of findings of fact by the Indus
trial Commission. Seven or eight
others would amend as many sec
tions of the act. One bill would
abolish and recreate the N. C. rat
ing and Inspection Bureau to pro
mulgate rules, regulations and
regulations and rates for compen
sation insurance.
A new bill would require the
State to take over and maintain
the transportation system of chil
dren going to public schools.
The election laws would be
amended, second primaries elim
inated, the hours of voting short
ened and other improvements
made in another new bill.
Resolutions introduced would
call upon the Federal government
to return to the States one-half
of the tax levied on tobacco and
tobacco products, in line with the
statement of President S. Clay
Williams, of the R. J. Reynolds
Tobacco Co. before the finance
committee recently that a meas
ure to return one-sixth of the tax
would find support in Congress.
Another commends Representative
E. W. Pou for a speech favoring
plenary power to President-Elect
Roosevelt to reduce the cost of
government; one approves the
purpose of the Century of Prog
ress Exposition in Chigaro June to
November, asking the people of
the State to give moral and fi
nancial co-operation to have the
State represented; still another
set saside the week of March 5-11
as National Business Women’s
Week.
A phase of the railroad-bus and
truck fight is seen in the bill that
would “promote safety of passen
gers on railroads by requiring a
minimum number of employees
and providing qualifications for
employees.”
Of insurance bills, one provides
for regulation of automobile lia
bility insurance rates; another
provides that rates on property for
fire insurance * based on the
value of the property insured.
Tax measures would allow local
governments to refund tax sales
certificates and permit segrega
tion of taxes and release of prop
erty upon payment of taxes.
A new bill, if enacted, would
permit a person convicted of a
felony to begin action for restora
tion of citizenship immediately
after release, instead of waiting
two or three years, as at present.
Judge John H. Harwood is one of
those to whom this measure would
apply.
Related is the bill providing the
machinery for disbarring an attor
ney at law from practice in the
courts after conviction or pleading
guilty or nolo contendere to a fel
ony.
One bill would provide for the
sale, inspection and distribution of
commercial fertilizer; another re
lates to collection of judgments
against irresponsible drivers of
motor vehicles and another re
quires drivers to stop before en
tering main highways.
Merger of two or more char
itable, educational, social, ances
tral, historical, penal or reforma
tory corporations, not under pat
ronage or control of the State, is
permitted in a new bill, providing
the method.
Legal bills introduced the past
week and of general interest fol
low: On grounds for divorce; rel
ative to payment of sums by
clerks of court; prevent challenge
of jurors who have not paid taxes
for preceding two years; permit
permanent proof by record of ser
vice of notice by summons by pub
lication; changes in civil jurisdic
tion of recorder’s courts; change
as to contracts and bonds of con
tractors for constructing public
buildings; amendment as to claims
of third persons in claim and de
livery proceedings; fixing time at
which action may be brought to
recover from a party purchasing
a crop on which there is a lien;
amendment as to capital crimes;
require clerks of court to deduct
judgments upon recognizances be
ing forfeited; arriendment as to
devolution of power of sale in
mortgage or deed of trust upon
the death of mortgager or trustee.
Mrs. W. O. Sheffield is visiting
relatives in Richmond, Va.
Notice
Under the powers of a deed of
trust from L. F. Rook to the
undersigned trustee, dated Janu
ary 29, 1931, to secure the pay
ment of a note therein described,
and recorded in book 408, p, 518,
office of Register of Deeds of Hal
ifax County, N. C., default having
been made in its payment, and at
request of the holder, the under
signed trustee will, on March 11th
1933, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon
in front of the Bank of Littleton
in Littleton, N. C., sell to the high
est bidder for cash two tracts of
land, lying and being in Roanoke
Rapids Township and Littleton
township, respectively, state of
North Carolina, Halifax County:
First Tract: Contains (40) acres,
in Roanoke Rapids township, said
state and county, and is bounded
on the north by Chocoyotte Creek;
on the east by the land of Mrs.
•James Hockaday; on the south by
the land of Mrs. Laura Robinson;
on the west by the land of Paul
Vincent, same being a part of the
Johnston tract.
Second Tract: Contains (48)
acres, more or less, in Littleton
township, said State and county,
situated on the public road to
Brinkleyville and on Deep Creek,
being the identical land described
in a deed from Geo. L. Hayes and
wife, to L. P. Rook, dated October
11, 1919, and is recorded in book
311, p, 209, public Registry of
Halifax County, North Carolina, to
which book and page reference is
hereby had and made a part of this
description.
This 7th day of February, 1933.
J. M. PICOT,
Trustee.
4t-Mch-2-Lit. F&G Co.
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