The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-26
more REVENUE
lis SOUGHT BY
ASSEMBLY men
Legislature. Faces Need of
$2O,OOO,OOO for Next
Biennium
By HENRY LESESNE
The Timcs-News Bur"an
Cir Wall Pr lTut,,l

| RALEIGH, Jan. Z4.-A cOntlnu
ed search for new revenue, rattle
than the enactment of Legislation
by either house of the general as
sembly. will furnish the lion
share of interest in the capital thi
week. Except for one on tw'
measures, the public calendars ar
devoid of controversial bills as tn
assembly gets ready for its thir'
! week, while the joint finance ant
appropriations committee, pressed
| for time in order to report thei
bills by February 6, will bear tn
brunt Of legislative work.
Faced with the task Of finding
$20,00O,00O for the next bienniun
by effecting further economies d
by fixing some new methods Of
taxation, the finance committed
will hold afternoon and night ses
sions every day this week in an eff
fort to conclude its public hear
ings by Saturday, while the ap
preparations committee will also
work overtime to hear the appeals
of state departments and institu-
tions.
While few statewide measures
have been enacted by the present
legislature, the body has accom-
plished far more work than ap-
pears on the surface, due to a
complete reversal of procedure as
compared with former sessions. In
former years, the first few weeks
of the assembly saw a multiplicity
Of local and state bills dumped in
to the hoppers. But no thought
twas given to the all-important
revenue and appropriation meas
ures until late in the session.
This year, under the Moore res
olution. the two revenue commit
tees will have to make their re-
ports by early February. and vir-
tually all bills pertaining to reve-
nue. will not be reported on any
committee until these acts are con-
structed. This is for the reason
that the committees will consider
these measures in the construction
Of the revenue and appropriation
bills. -,
Although the eight bills carrying
out the major recommendations
of the committee on reorganiza-
ton of the state government, pro-
posing a sweeping reorganization
of. the present governmental set
up. are on the senate calendar for
January 80, it is now generally
conceded that they will be refer
red to either the finance or ap-
preparations committee during the
coming week.
There are several reasons for
this. Manv legislators feel that
the heads of the departments af-
fected should be given a chance to
appear before committee. In the
house, Representative Cherry, who
read the reorganization commit
tees report, assured members Of
that body that the department
heads would be heard. Also,
neither the finance nor the appro-
priation committees can complete
their bills until they know with
some definiteness whether or not
the reorganization bills will be
passed. 49,
While majority of members
of the assembly appear to be in
favor. Of most Of the committees
recommendations, they have indi-
Gated that they do not intend to:
be stampeded into the hurried en-
actment of measures of so sweep
ing a nature, and it is an almost
certain bet that the bills will be
thrashed out first, probably be-
fore the finance committee. A de-
termined fight to send the bills to
committee is expected to be
launched early in the week.
Most of the finance committees
time next week will be taken up
with hearing representatives Of
various interests affected by pro-
posed tax increases, but it is like
ly that it will also get down to
work late in the week on the job
of determining what new source
of revenue shall be employed to
balance the budget. By that time,
it may be apparent to the COM
mittee how much can be saved by
further retrenchment and elimina-
ton and what approximate
amount of money is to be raised
by new taxes.
Conceding that the committee
will scrap the suggestions of the
budget commission to divert high
way funds, refund general fund
bond maturities, and accept, on
the other hand, the commissions
recommendations to slice general
fund expenses materially and to
replace the 15-cents property tax,
it will be faced with the problem
of raising between $4,000, 900 and
100000 annually for the next
two years through some new
of taxation. /
The committee has already de-
cided against refunding general
fund bond maturities, which
would amount to $1,150,000 in
1933-34 and $1,73S,000 in. 1884
35 . 1t is also expected that the |
committee will turn thumbs down
on the proposal to divert $4,000
900 annually from the highway |