The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-02-06
SOLONS FACE HEAVY
TASKS In COMMITTEE
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posed changes in the election
laws. One proposal would abol-
ish the second primary altogeth-
er. while another measure spon-
sorcd by the state board of cleo
tons would effect a saving Of
$4,000 in the primaries and
election by cutting costs here
and there. The Murphy-Bowie
bill substituting the old conven-
ton system for the present pri-
mary system is also before the
committee, but it is considered to
have little chance of being in
corporated into the general bill.
A road subcommittee is at
work drafting a substitute for
the Corey drivers license bill,
with the idea of making certain
that it would cost the state little
or nothing to maintain it. The
same committee is rewriting a
measure, originally introduced by
the reorganization committee,
prohibiting any highway con-
struction for the next two years.
, 1t is likely that some provision
will be made in the substitute to
take care of emergency projects.
A public hearing will be held
at 3 o'clock Wednesday after
noon on the various proposals to
abolish or regulate the industrial
commission and the workman's
compensation act. Indications are
that the insurance committee, to
which all such proposals have
been referred, will draft a sub
stitute bill, embodying perhaps a
few features of each bill. .
A subcommittee on education
is studying the question of an
eight-months school term, and
also various proposals to reduce
the number of school districts
and superintendent. An eight
months school term is being
sponsored by Senator MacLean
of Beaufort, author of the six
months school law. State opera
ton of an eight months school
term, Senator MacLean estimates,
would save several million dol
lars in the cost Of operating the
system as at present.
The same subcommittee has
before it number of proposals
to cut costs Of school supervision
by reducing the number of coun-
ty superintendents but the COM
mittee is understood to look with
most favor upon the bill of SEN
ator Ingram, which would do
away with the county superin-
tendents and set up 40 division
superintendent. The Ingram bill,
according to it's author, would
save at least S345,000 q year.
1t appears that q concerted eff
fort will be made to effect
compromise On the bill repeating
the law which requires medical
examination for would-be bene-
diets. This bill was introduced,
along with a bill repeating the
law requiring five days notice of
intention to wed, in an effort to
keep North Carolina couples from
going to South Carolina and Vir-
ginia to be married.
The latter bill has already
passed both houses, but the medi-
cal examination bill is still in the
hands of a senate committee,
where it has been held up for
several weeks. Meanwhile, sew
eral bills of a compromise meas
ure have been offered in the
house, one reducing the cost of
marriage licenses from SIS to So,
and another requiring couples
who go out of the state to be
wed to file a, certificate, costing
$3.50, in the brides home
county.
Welfare and women's organi-
cations are vigorously opposed to
doing away with the medical eX-
animation, and these compromise
bills have been offered with the
hope that the border counties,
which have been getting little
revenue from marriage license
fees in recent years, will find
them acceptable. Proponents of
the compromise bills believe that
they would tend to keep many
North Carolina couples from GO
ing over the border to have the
nuptial knot tied.
More bills are expected during
the week from the reorganization
committee. Many details of the
committees proposal to CONSOLE
date the prison and highway de-
partments have yet to be worked
out before the plan would be in
anything like an acceptable
form. The committee is expect
ed to get to work during the
week on redrafting it's bill SUBJ
stituting a utilities commissioner
for the three-member corporation
commission. The bill was defeat
ed in its original form by the
senate.
Several of the committees rec
concentrations. contained in its
general report to the legislature,
have not yet been embodied into
bills, and it is likely that several
new bills will come from the COM
mittees during the week. The
recommendations of the commit
tee. if all of them are carried
out, are estimated by Henry
Burke, the budget watchdog, to.
save in excess of 100000 an
nually.