Weekly Summary Of Legislative Acts
This is the first of a series of
?weekly summaries of the work of
the 1947 seisioii of the General
Assembly. These summaries are
no* intended as a report of all leg
islation, but are confined to d:s- |
cussions oi matters of general JQ_ |
terest or of major importance. __ i
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The s;:>eed with which the 1947
session of the General Assembly j
apparently organized itself and got ;
ready to do business gave rise to |
some faint hope that the objective '
of Senatev Resolution 2 introduced !
on the first day of Jhe session, |
"Piuiiding??'fr.'P'1 uiljumiiiiiL'iil un*
Monday, March 10, (which would
mean a remarkably short session
of 53 legislative days as against
67 legislative days in 1945), might
be realized or at least approached.
This faint hope received a slight
boost when both House and Senate
committees were named on the
second day, as against the fifth and
sixth days respectively in 1945,
and when the major money bills?
the biennial appropriations bill and
the budget revenue bill?were in
troduced on the fifth day as against
the seventh day in 1945. Also, the
speed with which other .measures
were being presented lent some
encouragement: at the close of The
business on the ninth day, the Sen
ate .was exactly even with the last
Senate on the corresponding day
of the last session with 34 bills in
. the hopper, while the House had
outstripped its predecessor's rec
ord by 50 bills to the 1945 House's
30.
The faint hope raised by these
evidences of a business-like atti
tude was quickly dispelled by the
happenings of the first few days.
It soon became clear that the As
sembly's organization was a tech
nical rather than a smoothly work
ing one, and that, while the seri
'ousness of purpose of the individ
ual members could not be doubted,
the purposes being pursued so se
riously were by no means identi
cal. The Assembly shows promise
of being an exceptionally hard
ceptionally harmonious one.
y-The first sign that "all was not
to be moonlight and roses came
in the House on the first day when
the committee on rules recom
mended the temporary adoption of
the 1945 rules. As was expected.
Representative Umstead of Orange
immediately led a fight to amend
the rules which require two-thirds
Votes instead of simple majorities
to take a bill from a committee
and place it on the calendar or
to take a bill from the unfavorable
calendar and place it on the favor
able calendar when the unfavor
able report of the committee is ac
companied by a minority favorable
report. After 'considerable debate
and much parliamentary maneu
vering, temporary and then per?
manent rules were adopted with
the two-thirds rules intact, and by
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NSV.SPAPER REPORTER Stuart Phister (left) presents medal to guide
cai LJafcy" in Los Angeles. The cat was honored by New York's Gieen
*.ch Vili^e Humane League (or his faithful devotion to his blind
n*:siicss Mis Carolyn Swanson (right). (International Soundvhoto)
Glenville 4-H Club
Has January Meet
The Glenville 4-H club met at
the Glenville school Tuesday with
County Agent M. L. Snipes and
Miss Helen Sossamon, home dem
onstration agent, present for the
meeting.
Children of the 4th, 5th, and 7th
grades presented the program. The
children of the fourth grade gave
rules for the care of the teeth, us
ing posters and paper models to
illustrate.
The fifth and seventh grade
children sang the following folk
songs: "Froggie Went A Court
ing," "The Miller and His Sons,"
and "Billy Boy." Also featured on
the program was a duet, "Barbara
Allen," by Patsy Stiwinter and
JaneTCogginsr^Old Gray Beard,"
by Janet Coggins and "Good Old
Man," by Billy Roe Carver and
David Pruett, Jr.
R. L. Pruett is president of the
club, Mary Henderson, secretary,
and faculty advisors are L. A. Am
nions, Maude M; Hutchinson,
better than a two-thirds vote. This
was regarded as a substantial ad
ministration ' victory, and it may
have seemed at the moment that
the administration had a substan
tial working majority in the House
?a matter which has been in
doubt. The doubt was given some
substance by the determined fight
aver the Supplemental Appropria
tions bill? SB 11, identical to HB
14. That bill as originally drawn
would have provided average in
creases in the pay of teacherj and
other state employes for the last
six months of the current year of
20 per cent for those in the "lower"
brackets (those now making up to
$2,700 per year) and a flat increase
of $45 per month for those now
making from $2,701 to $6,600 per
year, except constitutional offi
cers, the 20 per cent, increase be
ing in accord with Governor Cher
ry's recommendation in his ad
dress to the joint session. Intro
duced in both chambers on Thurs
day, the bill was reported favor
able to both bodies on Friday,
when the Senate immediately
passed its bill and sent it over to
the House for similar speedy ac
tion. The House not only balked,
however, but in the face of a de
termined fight by supporters of
the original bill, adopted an
amendment which raised increases
to 30 per cent on salaries up to
$1,200, and to 25 per cent on sal
aries of $1,201 through $2,700. Back
to the Senate went the bill for a
concurrence in the House amend
ment, but this time the Senate
balked and refused to accept the
Funeral Rites Helcr
For W.H.Phillips|
Funeral services for William
Houston Phillips, 80, who died at
his home in Cowarts Friday, were
held at Catherines Chapel Sunday
morning at 11 o'clock.
Mr. Phillips, a life long resident
of Jackson county and a retired
farmer, had been In ill health for
several months
Surviving are two sons, Thomas
Luther Phillips of Cowarts and
Ernest Phillips of Enka; three
daughters, Mrs. Bergen Adkins of
Ramseytown, Mrs. Eunice Birch
field of Bryson City, and Mrs. Ol
limay Parker of, Cowarts; four
brothers, Allen, Western and Jfan
Phillips, all of Cowarts and S.
Jerome Phillips of Willets; and one
sister, Mrs. Will Snyder of Hazel
wood.
Elaine M. Norton, and Irene S.
Cline. , '
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House amendment. The bill then
went to a conference committee
which brought out a report which,
while allocating the salary in
creases substantially the same
amount of funds which would have
been required by the House
amendment, by and largely main
tained the principal of not more
than a 20 per cent increase. This
report the Senate quickly accepted
but the House rejected, resulting
in the discharge of the conference
committee. At week's end, the
Speaker of the House had reap
pointed an enlarged representation
to a conference committee, the
President of the Senate was ex
| pected to do so Monday, and there
the matter rested. All of which
presages some hard and bitter
skirmishes on many items in the
record breaking biennial appro
priations bill.
In addition to the usual bien- j
nial revenue and appropriations <
bills, the Assembly also received a j
bill to set aside an additional $9,- i
300,000 in its Post War Reserve
Fund, raising that fund to an ap
proximate $30,000,000, and another
bill to transfer $44,501,437 from
the present and expected surplus
to a Permanent Improvements
fund, to be used, subject to cer
tain conditions, for a building pro
gram. The State is dealing in in
creasingly large figures. We set out
below for purposes of comparison ;
the actual appropriations adopted
by the 1945 legislature, including
amounts added by amendments,
and the appropriations called for
by this session's original bill:
GENERAL FUND
1945-46 1946-47 1947-48 1948-49
Legislative $ $ 200,000 $ $ 225,00
Judicial 458,593 458,593^ 507,991 507,991
Executive & Administrative 4,007,419 3,818,953 5,895,446 5,900,126
Educational Institutions 4,938,002 4,593,187 7,041,332 6,961,287
Charitable and Correction- - 1
able Institutions 5,457,342 4,649,810 7,718,556 7,630,381
State Aid and Obligations 5,500,221 5,498,496 8,221,639 8,159,281
Pensions . 266,200 266,200 319,200 279,200
Contingency and Emergency 750,000 750,000 1,000,000 1,000,000
Public Schools 44,346,824 44,620,500 60,530,174 61,353,160
Debt Service 151,858 72,413 66,355
TOTALS $65,876,459 64,928,152 91,234,338 92,082,781
AGRICULTURE FUND
?Department of Agriculture 751,137 751,132 1,014,989 999,334
HIGHWAY AND PUBLIC WORKS FUND
Highway and ^
Public Works * 40,055,020 45,138,290 52,567,745 52,303,245
(Debt Service
1 (Highway Fund/ % 7,576,708 7,441,239 7,278,114 5,612,864
Totals $47,631,728> 52,579,529 59,845,889 57,916,109
GRAND TOTALS $114,259324 11^,258,813 152,095,216 150,998,224
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