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PAGE 2 LEGISLATURE FACES TAX BILL Indications Are That It Will Be After Easter Before Solons Return Home STATE SOLONS IN A JAM By M. L. SHIPMAN RALEIGH, March 24.?With the introduction into the House this week of the committee substitute revenue bill, the Legislature finally goes to the mat upon taxation, the most pressing and most controversial problem which it faces. The most optimistic reports indicate it will take at least two weeks to get the revenue bill through. If the Legislature finishes by Easter it will ho Hnincr wpii it is agreed on all *S\, V?WM*0 ... ? _ sides that as soon as the revenue bill is out of the way, the Legislature will go home. Report by the committee into the House constitutes the first reading, the House then goes into a committee of the whole to consider it section by section and with its final adoption it is then put upon its second reading. The Constitution requires that it shall be passed on three separate readings on three separate days. While it is possible to pass the revenue bill through the House on its third reading and send it to the Senate for its first reading, there are some constitutional experts who hold that passage on two readings on the same day violates the constitutional re-' quirement and it is usually custom-! arj to let it go over until the fol-| lowing day for its first reading. I Thus the mere routine or passing a revenue bill requires a solid week. ... Seldom in the history 01 legislatures has there ever been such a jam as this one finds itself on the eve of going to the mat over raising revenue. Not only is the House divided into divergent camps over the advisability of a sales tax, but the Senate threatens to dedlock the revenue bill, if the sales tax feature is included. This unparrelleled jam has resulted in taking the taxation problem to the folks back home. Not only did most of the legislators go home for the week end, but there was a general rush for the Raleigh radio station by speakers. Commissioner of Revenue Alien J. Maxwell took the air Saturday night in opposition to any sales tax, Senator John Hinsdale, r BewA?m?tkSKViti6iflBei~rari>i*Mi rtrvirr S? | 1 I jj ^ ILi nc co 1 ho ! ma ? ^ I ^ I ^ i I Citkens 1 I I There is no suh I Warrenton, North Carolj of Wake, was on the air in an af peal for his bill to tax luxuries, an Jogephus Daniels, editor of th News and Observer, takes the ai I nightly in reviewing legislatioi Governor Gardner took the air i support of the Seawell banking bil For the first time in history th people of the State are hearing di rectly from cne Legislature. After struggling for months wit: the taxation problem, the Hous finance committee finally swim; around to a general sales tax o cne per cent, and a tax of five pe cent on sales of electricity to con sumers. The Senate leaders, headec by Chairman Folger, of the Senati finance committee, remained adam ant against any sales tax, proposing a substitute revenue bill providinf for a ten million dollar equaliza' tion fund for schools in lieu of thi eighteen millions that would be re quired to support a school term o: six months under the MacLean act This would eliminate the nine million dollars that it is estimated ty House leaders would be producec by the general sales tax. The Senate proposal proposes increases ir income taxes for corporations, increases in franchise taxes and inci eases in license taxes, and woulc add three and one-half millions t< the State equalization fund anc would retain the ad valorem taj levy Around the tax Armageddon th< Legislature will battle, and nobodj at the beginning of the fight coulc predict what would be the final result. A statewide ad voloreir school tax was one of the possibilities. Repeal of the MacLean aci and increase of the school equalization fund was another. It appearec doubtful that a general sales ta? cculd be put through, particular!} with the organized opposition to it and. there is also doubt that then will be a tax imposed on electrii mmnanipc other than thf UV1 revenue and franchise taxes. A pro I posal for taxation of foreign stock: i was defeated in House committe< as was a proposal of the Budge Commission to raise $600,000 in th< form of 15 per cent of all net earn ings in excess of ten per cent o assessed valuation of corporations In its delemma over the tax prob lem, the House turned its ugly teetl I upon Governor Gardner and sum ; marily killed his short ballot bills Resentment over his failure h come out for the Maclean act wa, ' responsible for some of the oppo sit:on. This action of the Legisla ture was taken in the face of stroni recommendations by Governo: >AFET ke the life boat, you n TTA11V? QnT7Tn/YC ' 1/ 11CCU. JUUI ^ClVlIlg,^ J unt for a long time. ] w comfortable it is low that no hurricane Iversity can leave : lancially stranded wl u have a growing S ?s Account with us. Your Patronage Will Be Appreciated WWWP?HWWanaWMK Bank & Trust HWMR8QN, N. C. Leading Bank in This stitute for a Savings Bank XMS09WE5#WSS^*^$!?KM?K^ Km%w&:ym?%mamc.mKm&ym ^ TH? i- Gardner also of former Governor d Smith, of New York, and Byrd, of ,e j Virginia, both of whom addressed x the Legislature in favor of the bills, l. The House buried a resolution to n' invite the Governor to address the 1. General Assembly on the Maclean e act. The House also quickly slaughterj ed the Neal bill to abolish the h Statewide primary. This repealer e j has been introduced biennially at g! almost every term of the last Legisf lature for the last ten years by r Representative Neal, of McDowell, - and as regularly killed without se* rimis discussion. The House likewise e killed the Cowe-Day proposal to - amend the Constitution so as to I allow the classification of intangil! blc property for taxation, which was -! turned down by the voters in the 5 j last election, this fact being the -jmain argument used against it. f j The Legislature finally got out of its way the Governor's bill pro viding for submission to the voters ' of a proposal for a Commission to 1 draft amendments to the Consti tution to be passed on finally by 1 the voters. This was a substitute bill for the one calling a Constitu tional Convention, which ran on i. rocks after much opposition devel> j oped to making a new Constitution ^ under present conditions. The House finally passed the Seaj well bill to provide for a State : j banking commissioner after Gov- < r ernor Gardner had taken the air j I in its support. It got tied up in i I Senate red tape, but is expected to l pass, as there has been strong de- < mand for a change in the present ] t system of supervision, which is un- ( der the State Corporation Commis1 sion. Cj The house also passed a bill to r change the licensing of automobiles from n. horse newer basis to weight. 5 This would not change materially ; the amount of fees except for a i few makes, which now claim to be discriminated against under the s present system. A few thousand dols lars would be required for changt ing the system of bookkeeping. The j j bill went to the Senate. -' The Davis bill permitting drug f stores to sell liquor cn doctor's prescriptions did not arouse much - furor in the Capital. There was a i large attendance of prominent peo pie at the House hearing, but no !. strong sentiment developed for its 3 passage. The bill appeared to be s doomed from the beginning, but af ter the Legislature came within a - hair's breadth of passing a bill to I allow horse racing in Buncombe, r opponents took no chances and jiLtaaiJiiiujrwofflKtaoprjimiriiiLTii ;* I mvm&msssmim $j ? I 1 i i i I Y I 1 I R k | I I iay | k ? V I I But I I of i xvm$s | /ou I I len | i % 1 I I I I I I I I ftgagisai | jjjj Section" I I j Account in this | | A f z>s&: WARREN RECORD fcught it to a finish. Despite the tension over the taxation bill, the Legislature has enjoyed its stay in Raleigh. The weather has been ideal, and some of the members have actually gainflesh. When it was suggested that some might have to go home for lack of funds, there was a movement started to open Raleigh homes to them. There was also a moverrent in some of the counties to raise funds with which to keep their representatives here. Thus the movement to rush the Legislature to adjournment died before it hardly got started. It is unusual though * ~ T nnriolafnm for Raleign to nave a igiuviu v | on its hands when the flowers begin to bloom. Raleigh hotels continue to do a rushing business, such a rushing ousiness in fact that the State con- 1 rentiou cf teachers had to be post- 1 poned a month because of lack of .lotel facilities. Not only are there t couple hundred legislators and : jlerks here for the Legislature, but \ here are a thousand or more representatives of various interests who rave eyes on the legislators. The merchants, the power companies, ,he railroads, the tobacco manufacturers. the bus operators, the jetton and furniture factories, and jven the farmers have representatives on the job. The Labor organizations have been represented throughout the session. The "Third House" has by far the largest representation. The Legislature has overshadowed the spring municipal election, but hardly a day passes that a candidate doesn't announce for one of the three jobs of city commission er. The field is full of candidates and the campaign is beginning to warm up. Former Congressman Charles A. Jonas, of Lincolnton, the chief Re publican bellweather of the State, was among the visitors recently to /GIT RID I OF DISEASE > CERMS in nose 1 f mouth and throat 1 f Let Zonite cleanse away the 1 V accumulated secretions, kill M f the germs, prevent disease. ? Highly germicidal. Sooth- M W ing to membranes. % n Opening today n jm _ m Iot tt SMOKED PICr* VEAL CHOPS ? ROUND STEAK CHUCK ROAS1 PORK SAUSAG i SIRLOIN STEA I2P&G, 1 p 2 Guest Ivc Large Golden I CELE I Lettu< | CABE Warren ton, North the Legislature. He let loose a loud'R. J. ] blast against any sales tax. in the Most of the North Carolina Con- officers gressman have dropped in from, stateme time to time on the Legislature. I "We 1 They are interested in the redis- j ous lei trieting bill and also in mending paper i their political fences. The redis- 1 in som< trieting job has been simplified by sending the fact that most of the increase1 come fi in population has been in the Fifth i that th district, so that the new district to '$50,000 which the State is entitled can be1 stateme taken care of by splitting up that' "We district. these 1 contest: Reynolds Has Not Jf thafc . , been m Awarded $50,000 rai we? their st WINSTON-SALEM, March 21.? tions. rh,e appearance of a number of "Appi fake telegrams falsely notifying in- were re dividuals in various sections of the ously a country that they have been award- ters ree ed one of the prizes offered by the of time PROTEC The day-by-day work of a liJ building a business, may be hours time by a fire. Good 1 thing that can't burn, but yo profit you very much if you i tion to carry on. That's when in. [ BE PREP; I CITIZENS INSURANCE 8 R. T. WATSON, President; PAUL Warrenton, N. 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