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STRATEGIC MOVES
FOR LIQUOR BILL
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th»> Hill liquoi control bill scored a
victory via strategy when they suo
cA. d«-d in i ('ton ing the bill to the
Senate finance committee. They thus
staved oft what appeared to he de
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feat bv one or two votes lhat is the
opinion s's most observers here.
The hill, j.ievimusly repotted with
out pt ejmiicc" by the senate judicial \
committee No 1 b.v a vote ot 11-t. vsil:
remain for some time in the finance
committe* 1 which is headed by a friend
of the Hill measure. Senator Newman,
o' New Hanover.
Proponents of the bill declare that
•he finance committee will eventually
report favorably the measure. In tact
senators who are in favor of the bill
;re known to have evolved the tecotn
mittaoce to committee plan dm ini:
debate on the bill which lasted sot
more than 2 1-2 hours, during which
five senators spoke for the bill and
five against it It was significant that
eeety one of the five opponents declar
ed no uncertain language that tin;
were Democrats and each denied em
phatically that no, political teas. i ■
were behind their votes. The feat o'
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, - FRIDAY, MARCH 15, o*s
political retaliation try United and
other drye by a wholesale bolt to Re
publican ranks was clearly indicated
in »he opinion of every newsman cov
ering the Senate session. Veiled
threats have been expressed at public
hearings on the beer and Bill bills
T hat dry Democrats will leave t.he :
party if the legislature modifies in
any particular the State’s stringent
dry law. Clearly evident is the fact •
that many legislators are willing to
sacrifice their own opinions and de
sires on the throne of political ad
vancement .
The present unbalanced condition
of the budget as expressed in the re
venue and appropriations bills now
before the lower house is hailed as a
good omen for the Hill bill. The ap
propriations bill exceeds the revenue
bill bv an average of $1,500,000 a year
for the next biennium. Also expect
ed by observers is the removal of
some of the new revenue-raising sec
tions of the revenue bill which will
further throw anticipated income he- j
low expenditures. This reduction is
estimated from $500,000 to $1,000,000,
thus causing the budget to fail of a
balance by at least $2,000,000, perhaps
$2,500,000 or a total for the biennium
of at least $-t.1)00,000.
It is thought by many that the strat- 1
egy to be employed by the Hill bill
advocates will be to bring in the bil 1
with a favorable report at an oppor
tune method as a budget-balancing
proposal. In order to do that the re- i
venue provision of the bill will have to
be re-written because the measure
now provides that the revenue, extep*
for $1,000,000, is to be allocated + o
•he 100 counties for “relief, old age
and unemployment insurance” pur
poses. The bill is estimated conser
vatively to yield $7,200,000 for a abien
nium. and would thus wipe out the
present $4,000,000 deficit facing the
state in the two money bills and leave
more than $3,000,000 over to he used
sot other purposes.
Another factor in favor of the pro
posed strategy is that the legislature
is determined to increase teacher’ * i
salaries by 2.5 per cent, as well as !
other st*ate employees, increase in
sane asylum appropriations, give to
the state university a considerable
financial boost, and rais.e generally all
appropriations. If the free-spenders
are successful in pasing through the
general assembly the increased appro
priations bill, which appears highly
probable, additional revenue must be
raised. Pasage of the appropriations
bill will be the legislature’s mat'.ditto
to itself to do precisely that
When and if that happens will the
strategic moment appear for the lib
erals in the legislature: presentation
of the Hill bill as a quick and sure
way of balancing the budget, despite
the fact tlita most of the liberals do
not advocate modification of the Tur
lington act as a revenue measure, but.
as a solute to the problem of liquor
control. The revenue to that group
is purely secondary. Yet, the offering
of the bill as a revenue measure in.
order to preserve the State’s credit
will undoubtedly strengthen the posi
tion of the bill.
No immediate action by the finance,
committee is anticipated. Proponents <
of the hill will likely await the “stra- <
tegic moment.”
Old Arguments On
Liquor Are Heard
(Continued from i*age One.)
faith in the “mandate’ of the peo
ple in the election on the 18th amend
ment in 1933.
The liberals were quite as rhetori
cal as the drys, joined them in deno
uncing whisky as an evil, but demand
ed that the people of the state “face
the facts" about prohibition. Five
senators spoke on each side, the de
bate being broadcast by radio, be
fore adjournment was precipitated by
the successful move to refer the bill
to a committee.
Newsmen at the senate press table
nodded vigorously smiled broadly at ‘
one another, and said “That’s the
stuff" when Senator Swaringen, of
Concord, declared whisky to he “damn
able and nefarious,” and remarked
further ; hefpre the microphone that
that has been true, in familiar phras
eology,” down through the ages.’*
Qddh enough, not a .single senator
was guilty of saying “down through |
the corridors of time” although news- j
men awaited the phrase. Senator I
Sweringen. who must have been look
ing at youthful Senator Williams, of
Yadkinville, at the time, prefaced
his remark by declaring that he was [
“probably younger than most sen
ators." He criticized the proposal in
the Hill bill to use the revenue de
rived from State liquor stores for re
lief. unemployment and old age in
surance by saying “God forbid that
our State should stoop so low as to |
vote for something that has caused
poverty. ”
So much laughter resulted from the
interrogation by Senator Hill of Sen
ator Steele, of Statesville, that Lieu
tenant-Governor Graham warned the '
packed-to-capacity galleries and lol>-
bies that the chair would not permit
applause. Senator Hill challenged the
Statesville senator’s figures as to ar
rests for drunkenness. “Don’t you
know,” demanded the author of the 1
control bill, “that in Charlotte, the
leading city in ‘dry’ North Carolina..
that arrests for drunkenness have in
creased 100 per cent during the past j
two years?” Senator Steele had made !
his first real speech of the session by
attacking the bill. Previously he had
passed through the legislature a bill
to pay “bonuses" to peace officers in
his county for the apprehension of
bootleggers and illicit stills.
Senator Rivers Johnson placed
himself in what observers thought an
unenviable position when he approv
ed the action of those who vote dry
and drink wet. “I drink myself,” he
said, “and I protest vigorously the I
implication that I am a hypocrite by
doing so.” He explained that he will ]
vote against the bill because the peo
ple in his district “are against the
bill.” |
Most striking of the dry speeches
was made by Senator Horton, of Chat
ham, who said he would vote against,
the bill because he thought the peo
ple expressed their sentiments in the
1933 election. “Only 56 per cent of the
people voted in that election,” he
said, “and I refuse to do for the 44
per cent what they refused to for
themselves. I warn the unalterable
drys, however, that they must real-
ize that the dry law is not enforced,
that they must remove their heads
from the sand and see conditions as
they are. and that they must teach
temperance in the home, the church
and the school.”
Senator Warren, of Alleghany, also
spoke against the bill, declaring that
Thp Hill bill “would not he enforced
any better than the present law."
Senator Hill, who opened the de
bate. told how, in 1933. he “accident
ally ran into a secret meeting of the
executive committee of the United
Dry Forces and was urgently request
ed to join in their deliberations. They
had no money to buy stamps and no
literature worth sending out . Be
ing pressed by this committee \
reluctantly outlined an old-fashioned
campaign against liquor and saloons
...There were to he no further at
tacks on legalized beer and light
wines, and the extreme drys were not
to be allowed to dominate the cam
paign...” He charged that the Unit
ed Drys broke the faith and immedi
ately began anew a campaign of tee
totalism by statute. Ho reiterated
his dryness, hut stressed his liberal
ity of view.
Senator Griffin, of Franklin. Grav
ely of Nash. Powell of Columbus and
.Allsbrook of Halifax joined in speak
ing for the bill. They urged the Sen
ate to "face the facts." charged tha’
“the people of North Carolina don t
want the dry law enforced, and urged
that the people he allowed to vote on
the question because it “is so highly
controversial. ”
Moore To Appi* ove
Reynolds Family’s
Settlement Plan
(Continued from Page One.)
Reynolds II,“ Reynolds’ child D.v his
first wife, the former Anne Cannon.
25 percent to Christopher Smith Rey
nolds, child of his second marriage
to Libby Holipan. the actress; $750.-
000 to Miss Holman and the remaind
er to R. J. Reynolds, Jr., and his sis
ters for establishment of a charitable
foundation.
Attorneys in the litigation agreed
prior to the hearing in Forsyth Su
perior Court that whatever its out
come. the decision would be carried
to the North Carolina Supreme Court.
If the State Supreme Court ap
proves Judge Moore’s decision, a re
view by the Baltimore Circuit Court
will be asked as a protection to the
Safe Deposit and Trust Company of
Baltimore, which holds the estate in
trust. Thus several months will b 2
required before the estate is finally
settled.
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NR A Cannot Serve
Two Ways, Williams
Tells Senate Body
(Continued from Page One.)
Carolina tobacco manufacturer to-ui-
L'ied:
-You can sec-? one end or the
other, but you can’t serve both.”
Williams, in his second appearance
in the Senate NRA inquiry, also
vocated open and free competition be
tween communities, as well as between
industrial units.
He said it was not the function of
NRA to “rebuild the business struc
ture” of the nation.
"We ought to interfere only to the
minimum necessary,” Williams told
the committee, speaking slowly and
deliberately.
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AITKAR ov NKXT MONDAY
Washington. March 15 'API Clar
ence Darrow, old court room jurist
who conducted perhaps the mpst not
ed onslaught on NRA, accepted an in
vitation today to tell a senate inquiry
what to do about the blue eagle.
The Chicago lawyer, now 71- inform
ed the Senate Finance Committee that
he would appear Monday.
Ten months ago. in a report which
brought a furious scrap with Hugh S
Johnson. Darrow told the President
that some NRA codes tended to fos
ter monopoly and crush the -..“little
fellow.” Johnson replied thatPar
row’s. report was “superfical, intem
perate and inaccurate.” ,
Victory Now Near
On Big Relief Bill
(Continued from Page One.)
but Democratic leaders were confi
dent they, too .woulcT be defeated.
Testimony that William B. Shearer
threatened to kill a shipyard official
in a dispute over pay was denied by
the “big navy" advocate with the as
sertion. "I would not threaten, to kill
anybody who owed me money."
He appeared before the Senate
Munitions Committee. n.
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