The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-13
CORPORATION
BILL IS BEING
REVAMPED NOW
Measure Is Also Reported
as Still Being in
:. Hands of Friends
Bv HENRY LESESNE
The Times News Hurca"
Sir Whittier Hotel

Sir WINTER Ittke'
RALEIGH, Feb. 1S.--The reor-
oanization committees bill subst'-
tuting a public utilities commit
sioner for the present corporation
commission, which has been Jug
pled about on the floor OF In .he
Senate like a red hot coal TOR tas
mast three weeks, is now OUT Va
he parent committees hands, anu
his time is being reVamped ty
Senate Judiciary Committee no. j.
which is far from being untrleho-
w. toward the much-debated meas
ure. =, -, o. IN
ferred to some committee other
than Senator Larry Moore's. after
II had passed its second reading IN
the senate, offered an ironic twist
To the contest between the. reor-
oanization committee and the in
surgent bloc headed by Senator
Iohn Sprunt Hill of Durham,
which has bitterly challenged the
leadership of the three senate
members of the reorganization
body-Hanes. Moore, and Mac
Lean. =,
From the very first. when the
reorganization committee made
it's sweeping recommendations for
governmental consolidation, esti-
! mated to save the state over ST.
100000 annually, and then pro-
.ceeded TO dump bills in the senate
hopper carrying out. some OF Its
recommendations, many members
Of the senate fought the commit
tees effort to have the bills put
Immediately on the calendar.
These senators though. that the
bills should be referred back to
some committee for re-hearing.
However, the first batch Of bills
went on the calendar. Later, ono
by one, the more important bills
were referred back to committee,
and, with one exception, the re-
organization committee was suc~
cessful in it's fight to keep the
bills from being referred to any
committee other than itself.
The bill abolishing the; corpora
ton commission was one Of the
first to be taken off the calendar
and sent back to the reorganiza-
ton committee. The committee
gave the commissioners a hearing,
but did not make a single change
in the bill. Then, by a narrow
margin of two votes, the senate
killed the bill. The next day a
motion to reconsider the vote car
ried. The opposition had a chance
to apply a clincher the day be-
fore, but did not.
There naturally followed a
fight over the question of which
committee should get the bill for
a re-hearing when motion TO
re-refer, the bill to committee was
made. The reorganization COM
mittee contended that it had a
right to revise its own bill, while
the other side held that it should
90 to a different committee. The
Three Musketeers," as some Of
the opposing camp like to call
them, won. =. :, .
The reorganization e. committee
] called in all senators who had any
suggestions. about making the bill
more acceptable to the whole SEN
ate body. Several senators showed
up for the hearing. but had no
concrete proposals to make. The
bill went back on the senate cal
endar, virtually UNCHANGED, and
passed it's second reading by q
vote of 80 to is, but its final
reading was delayed until yester-
day.
| Senator Dunagan, who had con-
sistently fought the bill. but who
believes that the present commits
sion is not as perfect a set-up as
j there could be, succeeded in put
ting across a motion to re-refer
the bill to Judiciary No. l, OF
which he is a member. The vote
to; give the judiciary committee q
chance at rewriting the bill was
81 to 81. Many senators who had
voted for the bill, had apparently
done 30 hesitatingly. and wanted
to see it changed, the principal
objection being the fact that the
bill provides for the calling in OF
two superior court judges to sit
with the utilities commissioner in
fact-fnding cases. 900.
1t is believed that the commit.
tee will attempt to do away with
the two superior court judges, but
what else it may do is a matter
of speculation even to the com.
mittee members themselves. How
ever, the committee, apparently
is friendly toward the general
principle of the measure. There
are 16 senators on the committee
Eleven of them voted for the bill
when it came up this week, while
only five opposed it, including
Senator Dunagan.
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