The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-05
MAJOR ISSUES
UNDECIDED
Few Have Been Determin"
ed and Assembly Is
in 18th Week
BY HENRY LESESEE.
The Times News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel


RALEIGH, April 5.--Onc hun
dred and fifteen bills have beer
enacted into law by the genera
assembly during the II weeks q
its existence, but few Of the per
picking issues which confronted
the legislature when it convened
early in January have been set
tied, it is revealed by a survey
of legislative activity as the law
makers enter upon their 1911
week of work.
Four hundred and siXty-threC
bills offered have been of 10,
cal nature. Except for the re
Organization committees bills,
effecting consultations Of gov.
ornamental units, and the admin,
istration-sponsorcd bills to abol'
ish tax penalties, most Of tho
more important pieces of lcgiSIa-
ton that have run their course
come under the head Of "cla#5
legislation.
Outside Of this, the most i'm,
portant definite action taken by
the assembly so far has been OF
two provisions in the tax mach
inery act. There has in recent
years been much agitation for :
{ tax on foreign corporation stock
but this issue was settled when
the house came over to the sen
ate's view that an adValorem tax
on foreign stock is not q Dractl-
cal way of getting at this rove
nue..
Many members of the legiSla.
ture had made a pledge to tho
people back home that they
would fight to put tax on for,
eign corporations. but they
changed their minds after being
shown. that the last year Nortl
Carolina imposed an advaloren
tax on foreign stock it collected
considerably less than 100000
whereas it collects between
$500, 900 and 100000 now OF
six per cent tax on the income
from foreign stocks. The two
houses have also got together on
an unlimited property rcvaIua
ton, to be effected by an actual
:eassessment or by horizontal
reduction.
Considerable Lime has hecu
spent by the assembly in passing
bills regulating" various profcs
sional classes. The cosmctoiog'
lists. the BARRIERS, TIE lawyers
the nurses and the doctors have
all had bills passed regulating
their professions, while there arc
bills pending which would affect
professions ranging from tnbac'
so buyers to undertakerS. Leg,
islation affecting organized Ia,
Dor has also occupied a conspicu'
ous place in Legislative activities
this year.
A bill sponsored by RepreSen,
tative Boyd of Mecklenburg, set,
ting up criminal syndicalism
law in North Carolina quickly
died in committee, as did a doHcr
or more bills which would have
radically changed the workman'S
compensation law, and which
were opposed by representatives
Iof labor. Bills to repeal ths
workman's compensation act en-
tirely also died in committee. A
bill is now pending in the senate
to set up a state unemployment
insurance fund, while bill t.
set up a state fund for the op
Grafton of the wOrkmap's com
tpensation act is now in commit
Itee stage. The latter bill, it il
claimed, by eliminating overhead
costs and competition among the
insurance companies, would pro
vide cheaper insurance rates fol
employers and provide more Sc
curity for the workers. Both thi
bill, and the unemployment in
surance bills, classed as prog
ressive legislation, are modelled
latter laws which have beer
Iadopted in several eastern states
The reapportionment of thu
Legislature on the basis of TIL
1880 census has been a live is
@sue in North Carolina for sew