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YOUNG LAWYERS
WROTETHE BILL
Bridges and Curry Make
Public Statement as to
Their Purposes.
The authors of the Fisher bill, or
the mystery bill, or, as it is more
severally called "the sneak bill," in
troduced in a clandestine manner in
-1 o recent special session of the Legis
'i'ture and designed to give. -Commis-'"--ner
Huneycutt plenary powers in his
opartment were E.. B. Bridges
,V, E. JIcA. Curry, two young
"'nrvors. according to a statement
vVch thev have prepared and submit
i1 for introduction to the pubiiu
t rough the newspapers.
"'Mr Curry volunteered during Fri
...'v to tell a representative of The
Vnvs in confidence about .the matter,
the information was not accepted
tlvs basis and Mr. Curry withheld'
except with the understanding that
iv'nuhi be treated as confidential.
" The bill was written, the statement
-.-.ends, to remedy a condition which
' ov allege to exist in the police ue
i '-"'ment bv which a few lawyers .at
'.thecal bar are having a monopoly of
Xr practice in the city courts. A few
oVnien are charged with bringing
!. V-V 'aat sort of a monopoly enjoyed
tew and denied, the statement in
o a majority of Charlotc-j
"no ill will is harbore'd against Chief
( the voung men say in tneir siate-
,V--t but merely against the system in
V'.--;- at the ctiy hall.
f .u. bill was written,, according lo
.. tio"S. in response to a resolution
V-','.'.Vc,i bv a little group of lawyers
V:. ecks ago as stated in The News
t-,'.;av when )t was contended that
"top should be taken to break up
" 'vs,,.m i,s- which court cases are
,'".'v .newn'to a few of the favorites
, ' p,iieomen. Messrs. Curry and
. ",.-.,-.! m-nHi-med as beins mem-
T tvV utile warty -tJaat held what
, Vs termed at the Law Building "an
,;;.z ition meeting. There were lour
.".';". , in that meetinar.
0 t-'. v.m-s of the bill are both
.-. v. v attorneys, having been admitted
, p'-a.-tk-e here within comparatively
m',Mtin Mr. Bridges was aso.
."ted with Mr. Huneycutt in his car.i-
v,, -n for commissioner oi .puonc sAie-'","-i..
Pin-fv has had no political
0 n.-Vti'ws of any sort locally since
!i,Tr a few weeks ago, upon
"'..,.M'ti.-,n nf his law course at tho
r, tv of " -th Carolina, after
;...'i.,,ti,vi at Davidson.
s "vaV pointed out Saturday that it
.,..--int snrnrisinsr that Mr.
' I. ... ' . not take into his conndencs
v. "this "matter Representative Edgar
I'on-r whose law partner ne u
,-' T',.,,.,' anvn that he never heard
:'.lS6stion of the bill and knew
4t n'-til lie learned that it
' enfeil:ed in the Senate. It passed
. House, of which Mr. Fharr is a
' ' - t ii i-.se times but in the rush
""c'-r.p.ection with the introduction of
,:,,!,iJ ,,f l.ills toward the closing
.. V.".-.',,-- the House, it escaped the de-
. of all three local rcpresenta-
n?F STATEMENT.
t- .. statement issued by Messrs.
1 . and Curry is as follows:
... thy undersigned, aesire xo
the following statement, rela-
ihe rectnt . lull .introduced in
! - -:?iture old which, was. fs!n-.-
' ' zr. e all commissioners of pub
hv r.T.'tv in the state full control
tiifi respective depart merits.
-First: We assume full responsi-
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bilityl for the drawing and introduc
tion of the mespore m th legislature
to have the some made a law, and
we have no apoligies to make to
enyone fcr our action. Ou regret
is that the bill met defeat in the sen
ate, after having been passed by the
house.
"Second: Our purpoce in the bill
was td give eacli commissioner of
public safety an opportunity to
handle his office and perform the
duty imposed upon him by the vote
of the people. In the recent city
election the commissioner of pub:ic
safety received a handsome majority
ever the Icormer incumbent of that
office, thereby indicating that the
1-ublic desired a change in tho ad
ministration of that department, und
the same was true in the other de
partments. However, since the elec
tion, both the commissioner r of
finance and the commissioner of jub
ic works have made changes, such
as they d'-sired. in their respective
departments; the commissioner of fl
rance replacing the city attorney under
the former adn inistration; the com
missioner of public works putting in
a new city eyrint er, and of their action
w? have no crit:c;sm to make. 1-ut
when the commissioner of putlic
safety desired to make a change in his
department, which he considered for
the best interests of the city, he was
at once blocked and his hands tied by
the overriding vole of the other two
tommissToners.
"Third: It would seem -that a com
missioner elected by the popular vote
cf the people to tie office and held
lesponsible and accountable to tha pub
lic for the proper 'conduct of his de
lartment s.iould have some voice in
that department. it ,was to remedy
such a. condition ?s the above that thf
proposed bill wts drawn. We feel
that all fair-m.inc'cd and unpiejudiced
citizens will at once see the logic of
LUch argument. Again, those famibar
with the law governing the city' com
mission form cf government, I.t.ow
that both the commissioner of finance
and commissioner of public works have
full authority in their immediate de
partments, but this authority is de
nied to the corrrr. issioner of public
sjafety. In our city the commissioner
of public safety, since the last city
election has had no say-so in his de
partment, dve to be fact that the other
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two commissioners have overr'dden !
him by tl eir vote. Then, how, may j
we ask a thinking ' public, , can this !
commissioner account to the poojjle
Avho elected him to the office, vhen
others stated in il.e .way of his dcing
h:s duty a best he knows it? Had
not the people confidence- in the n.an
they elected' they would -have emoted
Lome, other. Again, if this depart
ment of public scfety is to be a mere
ligure-head and to be operated by
the other two commissioners, then
we protest that the people's money
is benig uselessly spent.
"Fourth: It is a well known fact
about tha city that an air-tight com
bination exists in our present police
force to see that all criminal cct.rt
iractice in the recorder's court, and
otherwise, that can be manipulated
by this ring of certain policemen, i
confined to a few lawyers of the bar.
Ihe proposed . bill rimed-to break up
cuch a system end let every attor
ney have free course, standing oh
l is own merit, in this pctice. Every
attorney at our lar is familiar with
this condition. This condition is the
natural outcome o the commission
er of public satety having no voice
in the maragement of his . depart
ment, and would have been rem
edied by the-bill placing the direct
lesoonsibiliiy upon one man for tuch
a condition, in his department.
"Fifth, We expect unfair imd
prejudiced criticism from thoso who
endorse such -conditions in our city
government. The bill cannot no at
tackeo. from the standpoint of being
i-nconstitu-.ional; that is, u it is
constitutional to give the other two
commissioners the same power and
which they now have under the lav.
Why not give the commissioner of
1 ublic safety such control that he tan
account to the people who put iiim
in office ' the same as the other two
commissioners? Eut under the pres
ent law both the other commission
ers have made all the changes that
they desire in 1heir respective do-l-artments
and lave gci.e further.;
they have tied the hands , of the com
missioner of public safety and assumed
lull contrc-1 ever bis department. This
is not fair to the incumbent or tne
office, and we feel confident that &11
fair-minded citizens will at once see
the justice, logic and common sense
of the proposed bill and regret its
ilailute in tne senate after having pas
sed the house.
"Sixth: We desire to state 'hat
none of 'the county representatives
j had anything to do with this bil'v
I since is was sent out of the county
I for introdrction, as Ave did not wish
' to place our rer resentatives ira an
i embarrassing petition politically.
1 "Seventh: It is not customary,
r.s all informed persors well ken,
in introducing measures in-ihe leg
islature, to which there is provable
; opposition, to prociaim the same
"from the house top." This bur was
introduced in the house, read there
several times, before that body and
passed, the same as are all hills and
measure 3. Neither of the two under
signed went to Kaleigh in behalf "of
the bill, but left the same to stand
or fall on its merits
''Eighth: There was nothing r.re
Eona! in our action, since one of the
vnd&rsigned (E. B. Bridges) devoted
considerable time and work in the
campaigns of all three of the present
commissioners. Nor has either of
the undersigned any ill will or feel
ing against Chief Orr. Our sole pur
pose was to set right a defect in our
law as we view it and give an of
ficial elected by the people some
chance to conduct that office in
which the people placed him; that
is, give the commissioner of public
safety the same rights as the other
two commissioners now have anu
no more. No right thinking citizen
can crticise such a measure when
Le fully understands its purpose.
"This statement has not been made
sooner, due to the fact that in mak
ing the statement we desired to ex
plain the object and purpose of the
same. Again, we say that we have
no apology to make to anyone and
express our regret that the measure
failed to pass the senate, after
having been passed by the house.
"This the 23rd day of December,
1921."
(Signed) "E. B. BRIDGES,
1. IV.icA. CURKIU
GREAT WIRELESS TO
BE ERECTED IN CHINA
Shanghai, Dec. 24. Commercial in
terests of Shanghai and of China gen
erally are locking forward hopefully
to the opening fit radio communica
tion between Shanghai and America,
to be brought about by the erection in
Shanghai in the next two years of a
wireless station which it is said will
be second to none in the world. The
building of this statiou and of a
general radio system for the interior
of China is to be carried out by an
American concern, the Federal Tele
graph Company, under agreements
lately concluded at Washington be
tween the United States and China.
According to plans announced in
Shanghai the station to be erected
here will have six towers each 1,006
feet in height and will have mechanical
equipment equal in power to the great
radio station at Bordeaux, France. The
system that is to give wireless com
munlcation through the interior of
China will include stations to be built
at Harbin, Peking and Canton. R. R
Beal, who is engineer in chief of tha
company is in China carrying forward
work of preparation for the erection
of the various stations' and a consider
able portion of the equipment to be
used is in process of manufacture in
America.
In addition to the ordinary com
mercial service to be provided through
the Shanghai overseas station, it is said
that a news service from the United
States which in the past China sadly
lacked is to be supplied.
KINGS MOUNTAIN HAD
A ONE-POINT MARGIN
Kings Mountain, Dec. 24. A field
goal by Ware in the last minute of
play capped Kings Mountain's des
perate last-half rally and gave the lo
cal High school quintette a. one-point
win over" the Belmont High" five here
in one of the prettiest game seen on
the local floor. The score was 31 to
30. Belmont led at the end of the first
half.
Belmont (30) Position Kings Mt. (31)
Lepin (6) L-F Ware (13)
Brown (8) .. .. RF .... Matthews (14)
Hand (2) C McGill (2)
Garrison RG Stowe
Brown (14) . . . . L.G .... Saunders (2)
DEKITA WINS TWO GAMES.
Derita, Dec. 24. Derita pried off the
lid in both boys and girls' sections of
the County Basketball League Friday
with victories The boys' team defeat
ed Cornelius 29 to 23 and the girls'
team defeated Cornelius 11 to 9.
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