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WRITER TELLS OF
LEGISLATIVE ACTS
Assembly Goes On Record
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for fit? YctlUclllUll rusipvuc
ment; Chairmen Named
DOWN TO STEADY WORK
By M. L. SHIPMAN
RALEIGH, Jan. 19.?With a definite
sentiment apparent over the
State for revaluation of lands, the
General Assembly has gone on record
as favoring only a postponement
until it can complete its work.
Although Governor Gardner had
recommended a delay of two years,
he yielded to the opular demand
for immediate revaluation. There
is a very strong feeling that revaluation
of lands during the peak
of the war deflation is one of the
causes for the present burdensome
tax situation and that the sooner
the State gets down to rock bottom
the better it will be for all concerned.
There is a feeling, too, that
this is one of the things responsible
for the recent epidemic of bank
failures. Loans made on the basis
of tax values became frozen because
the land cannot be sold for
what it is now carried on the tax
books.
The Legislature has gotten down
to steady work sooner than usual.
Committees for both houses were
named during the past week. Both
presiding officers were fortunate in
having plenty of veterans from
wliich to name chairmen for the
responsible committees, and those
chairmen have been able to dispo"?
promptly of such preliminary
matters as the Neal revaluation
Kill Annt.hfir case of the value of
V**?l
experience was the disposal of the
appropriation of $50,000 for acquiring
the right of way for the
inland waterway between Beaufort
and Wilmington. This was a bitter
dose for the tax reduction devotees,
but as more than a million and a
quarter dollars would have been
tied up without this small appropriation,
it was obviously the wise
thing to do.
The choice committee assignments
are appropriations and finance,
as they fix the fiscal policies
of the State. Senator Frank
Dunlap, serving his fourth term
from Anson county, heads the Senate
finance committee, and Representative
Union L. Spence, of
Mocre, who might now be in Congress
had his health permitted him
to undertake a strenous campaign,
heads the House committee. Though
not so well known as some of their
colleagues, Senator Lee Gravely, of
Rocky Mount, and Representative
R. L. Person, of Roxboro, are both
??~>rioni>oH hiisinpss men and will
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fit well into the chairmenship ol
the appropriations committees. Both
committees on educaton are headed
by able men. Representative A.
D. MacLean in the House and Senator
J. H. Folger in the Senate are
both veterans and able.
Familiar faces about the legislative
halls in past years, who head
House committees include H. G.
Connor, of Wilson, who heads the
committee on public roads; Will
Neal, who heads his old committee
on counties, cities and towns; E.
R Johnson, of Currituck, who pilots
his first love, the committee on
game; A. A. F. Seawell of Lee, who
heads the House committee on
Propositions and Grievances, a
catch all committee, while in the
Senate are such old timers as former
Speaker Harry Grier, who
heads the important Congressional
districts committee; M. K. Blount
of Pitt, who heads Judiciary. There
arc other equally well known men
who have not drawn such important
committee assignments as thej
have devoted their time to other
pursuit, such as W. M. Hendren of
Winston-Salem, a prominent lawyer,
who has one of the best minds
in either House, and Representative
John A. McRae, of Mecklenbure.
who served his first term in
the Legislature 28 years ago and
then devoted a quarter of a century
to the law.
Speaker Willis Smith followed
custom in naming his two defeated
opponents to important committee
chairmanships. In order to accommodate
all the lawyers, it has beer
the custom for years to have twc
judiciary committees, and to put or
these two committees all the lawyer
members. As both of his defeated
opponents are | lawyers
Speaker Smith made Fred Sutton
chairman of one of the judiciary
committees and O. B. Moss chair,
man of the other. This manifesl
diplomacy accounts for the victory
wen by the new Speaker.
While much oratory has
, . ?auuuc taxes
the proposal that has started the
most talk is a bill by Senator Powell
of Whiteville, to require the dis
clxarge from State employ of al
women with husbands making $10C
or more a month. There are a number
of such women on the State
pay roll in Raleigh, and with sc
many single women cut of jobs,
there Is a strong sentiment tnat
they ought to get off the public
pay roll. While that is true, there
is much difference of opinion as to
the wisdom of making a wholesale
Warren too, North Carotin*
cut of ten per cent In all salaiies,
as recommended by Governor
Gardner. This last proposition is
looked upon in many quarters as
looking like a surrender to hysteria.
It is feared that it will lead to general
wage reductions, merchants
see a loss in trade and others think
it is bad advertising for the State.
A vigorous campaign is being con.
ducted against it with teachers and
their friends being heard irom ani
over the State.
While there is a wide difference
of opinion as to the wisdom oi
some of Governor Gardner's re.
commendations in his message to
the General Assembly, it was everywhere
hailed as frank and sincere
document. In his budget message
to the Legislature he recommended
a four million dollar slash in appropriations.
Balancing the budget
is going to be one of the most difficult
jobs of the General Assembly.
Hope has been abandoned for a
Statewide school term of eight
months, and debate now centers
on the proposal for a State supported
school term of six months.
Representative MacLean, the champion
of a universal eight months
teim, is giving his attenton to the
problem of finances he feel that
before that can come there must
be a change in taxing methods.
Senator Folger, who heads the education
committee in the Senate,
it :'n accord with the MacLean piogiam.
It is expected that there will
be close co-ordination between the
two committees.
The Legislaure made quick work
of the passage of the Clarkson resolution
to memoralize the Federal
government to remit up to 20 per
cent of the tobacco taxes to the
states. While it had no opposition,
here was discussion as to the need
of the State levying a similar tax.
This will come up again, and will
be a lively subject. No matter what
the Federal government might do
about remitting tobacco taxes, as
it does now with estate taxes, there
is no possibility that it would do
so in time to relieve the present
situation and what many legislators
are looking for is relief now.
Although no definite proposal*
for a general sales tax is yet before
the General Assembly, there
is already under way a lively fight
against it. The North Carolina Merchants
Association is up in arms
against it. Organized labor opposes
it. Other interests are against it.
It is probably that the proposal willi
be made to tax luxuries such as soft1:
drinks, tobacco, and this naturally
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will incur the opposition of th<
manufacturers. The Legislature 1j
looking for money with which U
reduce land taxes and all proposals
will be scrutinized and studiec
closely.
Prospects of strenous searches foi
new sources oX revenue have brought
to the Capital an army of lobby,
ists Including numerous formei
members of the Legislature. Natur
allj every interest Is anxious tc
avoid having its tax increased, tnu
not being a time in which any interest
feels that it can afford taa
increases, and the hotels are
thronged with men who are busy
building fences to prevent theii
particular Interest from being the
goat.
Senator Lawrence has Introduced
a bill to remove from counties al]
prisoners in Capital cases, his idea
being to prevent lynchings. He
wants to continue the record of a
State without lynchings. The record
was marred last year.
The Legislature paused for a few
minutes from discussing taxes to
hear Mark Sullivan, a Nationally
known syndicate writer, discuss
parliamentary government at a
joint session. While his address was
full of meat, he taked so fast that
many of the legislators had difficulty
in hearing him. They prefer
his writing to his speaking. He addressed
the editors at Chapel Hill.
While practically all attention In
the Capital is now centered on the
Legisature there was considerable
interest in the announcement that
Federal Judge Meekins had ordered
a termination of the receivership
of the Tri-State Tobacco Growers'
Association and a distribution of
$612,732 to the 40,000 members.
Thprp hart hppn a feeline for aulte
a while that it was time for the
receivers, who have been drawing
a thousand dollars a month salary,
ought to finish up their work. It
has taken them five years to do it
F. Scott McBride, general super,
intendent of the Anti-Saloon League
of America, was in Raleigh or
the eleventh anniversary of prohibition
and issued an optimistic
statement as to the outlook. He L
as militant as ever and fired a general
broadside at all Wets.
The Tax Commission of the East
em Carolina Chamber of Commerce,
meeting in Raleigh, called
for taxation of the intangibles ol
foreign corporations the same af
domestic corporations, as propoeec
by Attorney General Brummitt, and
ilso to put a tax on electric power,
rhese will be storm centers in the
Legislature.
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' ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
5 Having qualified as administrator
I of the estate of Prances Jones, deceased.
late of Warren County. N.
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t having claims against the said estate
to present them, properly veri\
fied, to me on or before December
12, 1931. or this notice may be
plead in bar cf recovery. All per>
sons indebted to said estate will
i phase make immediate settlement.
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BT PUBLICATION
i In the Superior Court
North Carolina,
. Warren County.
WARREN COUNTY, Plaintiff
1 VS.
Nannie Carter and husband.
Jn#AnJnnfii Vonnln Ptffhr
, me ucicuuatno,
and husband, are required to take
notice that an action, entitled as
above, has been commenced In the
Superior Court of Warren County,
1 for the purpose of foreclosing the
hen of a certain certificate of tax
i sale, which was executed and delivered
to the plaintiff, Warren
County, by the Sheriff of said
Warren County, N. C.t on June 3,
' 1929, against certain land in War-J
renton Township, Warren County,
North Carolina, listed in the name
of the defendant, Nannie Carter,
as of May 1, 1928, and described
as "33 acres Phoebe Creek," and
the said defendants, Nannie Carter
{and husband, will further take
notice that they are required to ap>
pear at the office of the Clerk of
the Superior Court for the County
of Warren, at the Court House In
Warrenton, N. C., not later than
thirty days after the 23 day of
January, 1931, and answer or demur
to the complaint, filed in said
1 action, or plaintiff will apply to
! the court for the relief demanded
; In the complaint.
This the 30 day of December, 1930
W. K. NEWELL,
Dpy. Clerk of the Superior Court.
JULIUS BANZET,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
. SERVICE OF SUMMONS
BY PUBLICATION
In the Superior Court
1 North Carolina,
5 Warren County.
WARREN COUNTY, Plaintiff
Vs.
L. A. Brown and wife,
| T. W. Brown and Louise
| Brown
r The defendants, L. A. Brown and
J wife, T. W. Brown and Louise
1 Brown, are required to take notice
that an action, entitled as above,
has been commenced in the Superior
Court of Warifen County, for the
purpose of foreclosing the lien of a
certain certificate of tax sale, which
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plaintiff, Warren County, by the
Sheriff of said Warren County, N.
C., on June 3, 1928, against certain
land in Hawtree Township, Warren
County, North Carolina, listed In
the name of the defendant, L. A.
Brown, as of May 1, 1928, and described
as "A lot of land listed for
1928 taxes In the name of L. A.
Brown, containing 75 acres," and
the defendants, L. A. Brown and
wife, T. W. Brown and Louise
Brown, will further take notice that
they are required to appear at the
office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court for the County of Warren,
at the Court House in Warrenton,
N. C., not later than thirty days
xt_ _ no /v# TAniiawv tOQI
aiwsr U1C to uajr Ui w?iiuu*j, AWWA,
'and answer or demur to the complaint,
filed in said action, or plaintiff
will apply to the Court for the
relief demanded in the complaint.
This the 30 day of December, 1930.
W. K. NEWELL,
Dpty. Clerk of the Superior Court
JULIUS BANZET,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
SERVICE OF SUMMONS
BY PUBLICATION
In the Superior Court
North Carolina,
'Warren County.
WARREN COUNTY, Plaintiff
Vs.
W. M. Hasklns and Mary C.
Haskins.
The defendants, W. M. Hasklns
and Mary C. Haskins, are required
to take notice that an action, entitled
as above, has been commenced
in the Superior Court of Warren
County, for the purpose of foreclosing
the lien of a certain cer
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cuted and delivered to the plaintiff,
Warren County, by the Sheriff
of said Warren County, N. C., on
June 3, 1928, against certain land
in Nutbush Township, Warren
County, Notrh Carolina, listed in
the name of Mrs. L. V. Haskins, as
of May 1, 1928, and described as
"100 acres listed in the name of
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al," and the said defendants, W. M. j
Haskins and Mary C. Haskins, wilij
.further take notice that they are
j required to appear at the office of,
i the Clerk of the Superior Court for
the County of Warren, at the Court
| House In Warrenton, N. C., not later
I than thirty days after the 23 day
of January, 1931, and answer or deI
mm fa the comnlaint. filed in said
action, or plaintiff will apply to the
Court for the relief demanded In
the complaint.
This the 30 day of December, 1930.
JOHN D. NEWELL,
Clerk of the Superior Court.
JULIUS BANZET,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
SERVICE OF SUMMONS
BY PUBLICATION
In the Superior Court
North Carolina,
Warren County.
WARREN COUNTY, Plaintiff
Vs.
Pauline Alston.
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required to take notice that^
action, entitled aa above, has u
commenced In the Superior rv
of Warren County, for the pw
of foreclosing the lien of a
certificate of tax sale, which ^
executed and delivered to the dW
tiff, Warren County, by the at,!:
of said Warren County, n c
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the name of the defendant, paJ;B
Alston, as of May 1, 1928,'and?
scribed as "1 lot near the Box
and the said defendant, pa7fB
Alston, will further take notice
she is required to appear at ?
office of the Clerk of the Sunw
Court for the County of tyJjB
at the Court House in Warrem!B
N. C? not later than thirty
after the 23 day of January J*
and answer or demur to the' I
plaint, filed in said action, or I
tiff will apply to the Court for
belief demanded in the compi^B
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