General Assembly Last Week Passed
Many Bills Of State-Wide Importance
Legislature Creates Four New
Judicial Districts, and Passes
Park Bill.
Road Bond Issue Is
Passed In A Hurry
Many Other Important Bills
Passed Or In The Hopper For
Quick Action.
(By M. L. Shipman)
Raleigh, February 28.—Outstand
ing legislative accomplishments dur
ing the we5k was approved by both
branches the State-wide game bill,
the Smith-Hargett highway bill, the
creation of four additional judicial:
districts, final enactment of the Great:
Smoky Park proposal, bill requiring
vehicles driven trr operated upon the
highways of the State to carry light
at night, provide for the construction
of a bridge across the Cape Fear at
Wilmington, change date of motor j
vehicle license from June 30 to De- j
cember 31, bill to prohibit the lending :
of money to bank examiners by State j
hanks and tentative acceptance of the j
revenue bill, the machinery act and j
appropriation bill. The Australian j
Ballot bill met with ignominious de- j
feat in the House and will not be re- j
vived again during the session, for
that body applied a clincher which
prevents, under the rules, considers- j
tion of any bill of State-wide signifi
cance containing the subject matter,
of the Falls measure. More than a j
score of representatives wanted their j
counties exempted from the provisions j
of the bill and in the melee which fol
lowed a motion to table prevailed by
a vote of 58 to 49. The Senate agrees
to extend franchises to bus operators j
from three to six years, but rejected J
the request for permission for a 90
inch bus width proposed in the Wom
ble bill.
A spirited fight occurred in the t
Hou6e on the $30,000,000 Highway
Commission bond issue endorsed by
Governor McLean, but it went through
with a whoop on call of the roll. Rep
resentative Folger, of Surry, offered
an amendment reducing the amount
to $24,000,000, while Graham, of Or
ange, wanted only , $20,000,000 and
called to the attention of the House
the fact that the State debt is rapidly
approaching its constitutional limita
tions, the session having started out
facing a bonded indebtedness of $143,
000,000, to which has been added $5,
000,000 for permanent improvements;
$2,000,000 for the Great Smoky Moun
tain park, and one million and a quar
ter for a Cape Fear bridge. Another
480,000,000 would bring the total to
$181,250,000. Proponents argued that
many counties that had loaned money
to the State Highway Commission
could not be reimbursed if the amount
should be reduced without retarding
the road building program and county
interests walked away with the com
mittee bill on its second and decisive
reading by a vote of 99 to 12. And
the Senate heartily concurs. The
Smith-Hargett highway bill relative
to the location of roads, as amended
?n the Senate and slightly in the
House, was piloted through the latter
body by Pete Murphy by a vote of 78
to 34. The proposed $30,000,000 of
highway bonds is expected to com
plete the program of the construction
of around 5,000 miles of hardsurfaced
highways and to repay “in the neigh
borhood” of $17,000,000 of county
loans.
Only ten of the 109 House members
voting had their names recorded
against the bill carrying appropria
tion of $2,000,000 worth of bonds of
the State for purchase of lands in the
North Carolina and Tennessee moun
tains upon which the Federal govern
ment may establish the Great Smoky
Mountain Park. Western senators
and representatives supported whole
heartedly by their constituents voted
solidly for the measure.
If the House agrees to the bill of
Senator Horton, of Chatham, Confed
erate soldiers and widows will receive
the following pensions: Blind and
maimed $420 annually; disabled, $365;
blind widows, $300; other widows,
$100; ten old servants, $200. The to
tal pension fund under the Horton
bill would be $1,500,000 instead of
firm* if*
Nervous
hot flashes
"COME time ago whan in a
** very nervous, run-down
condition,” says Mrs. Martha
F. Marlow, of Broken Bow,
Okla., "I tried numerous reme
dies to try at least to keep
going, but I could not Iwas
weak and tired—just no good
at alL My back edb*d I
had hot dashes until X was so
very nervous I smothered.«
*1 couldn’t sleep and I was
I.-—-—
$1,200,000 recommended by the Ap
I propriations Committee. For the past
! biennium it has'been one million. An
other bill of the Chatham Senator
! which the House will be called upon
! to okeh would place the names of
1 candidates for congress on the State
ballot.
The House has passed the revenue
act on its final reading and the Sen
ate must do likewise within the next
few days if the Assembly expects to
complete its task by the end of the
week, the date fixed by many members
for final adjournment. A number of
important amendments have been
written into the committee bill which
the Senate will be asked to reject.
One of these is the provision Imposing
a $100,000 privilege tax upon manu-,
facturers of cigarettes and tobacco,
included in the original bill and cut
out in committee. Another would re
quire railroads to pay a franchise tax
of $100,000 in addition to present re
quirement; chain stores are required
in still another amendment to “come
across” with $100 each when there
are six or more operated by one con
cern, and non-resident contractors,
who hid on contracts in this State,
are to be required to pay a license of
$100. A stubborn fight on these
amendments to the bill of the joint
committee on finance is expected in
the Senate. j
Proponents of the Poole anti-evolu
tion resolution have abandoned the
fight for the present and the matter
will not be brought up again during
the session, while the Sedberry bill
making it unlawful to seize liquor
cars was killed in the House commit
tee on propositions and grievances. |
Hundreds of new laws found their
way to the statute books during the
week. Some of the public bills rati
fied are: act to create a Judicial Con
ference and fix time of meeting; to
permit the Daugthers of the American
Revolution to place a tablet in the
rotunda of the Capitol in honor of j
William Hooper, Joseph Hawes and 1
John Penn, signers of the Declaration |
of Independence; change law relative
to county pension boards; limit the'
reward for capture and destruction of
stills and. conviction of operators i
thereof; require all vehicles operated
upon the highways at night to carry!
lights; provide a right of way for the
United States Government for the In-;
land Water Way from Beaufort Inlet
to the Cape Fear River; relative to j
distribution of Supreme Court reports i
and other public documents; provide'
for the construction of a bridge
across the Cape Fear River near Wil- 1
mington; relative to the establish- j
ment of special school taxing dis- [
Daugherty Again!!
mS&
Former
Daugherty
New York
to face re
against the
forced hi9
tricts; permit county libraries to be
established by county commissioners;
erection and maintenance of county
tuberculosis hospitals; xamend law
relative to the enforcement of judg
ments by executions; establish the
“Old North State” as the State’s of
ficial song; change the date for issue
of motor vehicle license from June
30th to December 31st; require the
annual registration of drug stores
and pharmacies; prohibit the lending
of money to bank examiners by State
banks; providing for the taxation,
suits and service, regulation and con-1
trol of the business of co-operative j
non-profit life benefit associations;
amend statute in regard to removal
of graves; repeal sections Consolidat
Atty. - Gen. Hart* M.
> as ne approached the
Federal Court building
tnal for alleged fraud
' government—and which?
resignation.
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ed Statutes starting to crop liens;
empower guardians of idiots, inebri
ates, lunatics, or incompetents to re
new obligations of their wards; re
lating to the authority of the State
Highway Commission as to the loca
tion of State highways; provide for
the acquisitidn of parks and recrea
tion facilities in the Great Smoky
Mountains of the State; withdraw
power from the Governor to fill va
cancies in the office of United States
senators and require selection by
primary vote, and a resolution of as
sent to the purpose of the congress
ional Purnell Act. Local measures
are receiving the “finishing touches”
at a rapid rate and when the financial
bills ar* out of the way there will be
a general exbdps of members for
their homes. %
A bill by Senator Johnson, of
Duplin, and Eiepresentative Haywood,
of Montgomery, which has passed
both brandies of the Assembly, makes
it unlawful for any person,.firm or
corporation to create, organize, fos
ter, aid, abet, or in anywise encour
age or become or remain and con
tinue a member of any secret, oath
bound fraternal society, association,
corporation or assembly in North
Carolina, which requires their mem
bers to conceal their identity by any
method, or permit members to wear
.robes, masks, hoods, or other regalia
; which conceals the identity of- the
'wearer. The senator and representa
tive offering these bills are both
\ klansmen, or have been, it is said, but
are willing to follow , Judge Grady,
; head of the order in the State, who
| recently resigned as Grand Dragon
and “washed his hands” of the or
! ganization in the country as at pres
I ent constituted, witiTtmperial Wizard
Hiram Evans directing policies that
the Grand Dragon of Nerth Carolina
declines to endorse. Many local
klavems, it is reported, have recently
voted to surrender their charters and
withdraw from the National Invisible
Empire.
The Senate and House Judiciary
committee No. 2 have favorably re
ported a bill providing for the creat
ing of a State board of barber exam
iners and requiring a license of all
barbers before they are allowed to
serve the public with razor, “clipper,”
or scissors. Senator Grier, of Iredell,
proposes a bill which provides that
not more than two members of a
single family can be employed in the
executive department, agencies and
business of the State. A workmen’s
compensation bill is having rough
sledding and is likely to meet the
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the Senate proposal to release dele
gates to national conventions when
only one aspirant for president en
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to reconsider is probable. An extra
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along with the general appropriation
bill for maintenance of State educa
tional and penal institutions provi<£
ing for an expenditure of $14,000,000.
next year/and $16,000,000 the year
following. Also the proposal of a
State-wide ad valorem tax for
schools and the Royal idea of a tax
limit for land at $2.60. An additional
prison farm is asked for in a bill au
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bonds and notes. Appropriation for
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