The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-01-18
WOULD AMEND WEED
COMPACT AS DRAWN
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committee hearings today with a
week OF real work behind it and
many of The. most important IS.
sues scheduled to appear well
crystalized.
In the first full week of its 1887
session, the legislature:
/. Heard Gov. Clyde r. Hoey
deliver his budget message on a
budget that was not really his,
and reserve the right TO make fur
ther comment on the work Of the
advisory commission which drew
up the document.
9. Took the appropriations and
revenue bills and tossed them i'm
mediately TO committees, whose
members then began the usual
process of disSecting them thor
oughly before reporting back on
the floors of the chambers.
3. Received two liquor bills, one
"wet" and one "dry" and thereby
cleared the path for a real fist
swinging battle on the prohibition
issue.
4. Cleared the way for concen-
trated action on major issues later
by pushing along as rapidly as
possible innumerable "locaP bills,
pertaining to a single county, city
or person.
5. Heard Gov. Paul McNutt, re-
cently-retired chief executive OF
Indiana, declare before joint
session Friday that many elective
Offices should be abolished in the
interests of economical and eff
cient government.
Most spectacular issue Of the
week 10 appear in floor delibera-
tions was liquor-but the one that
put the wrinkles in the brows OF
key men in both houses was
money.
The budget and the appropria-
tions bill made no provision for
social security funds, and provi-
sion there must be, as all but a
very few of the legislatures agree.
With several new forms of taxa
ton contained in the revenue bill
10 make up for the loss IN state
income from abolition Of the sales
tax on food and necessities, finan-
cial experts Of the assembly con-
slider il hardly wise to contem-
plate adding still more new forms
of taxation. The income tax, un-
der the new amendment, can be
increased to ten per cent from
the former maximum of six per
cent, but that is not enough.
There must be more money from
somewhere, and many a legislator
would trade his Number One COM
mittee assignment for solution
TO the problem that would satisfy
all concerned.
Fireworks Of the liquor issue
concentrated on two bills intro
duced in the house during the
week, neither of which has a more
than ten in one chance of passing
in it's original form. The first
came from a bloc of dry repre-
sentatives headed by Mrs. Charles
Hutchins of Yancey, only woman
member of the lower body. II pro-
vides a statewide referendum on
liquor with the whole state bound
by the result, and precludes the
plebiscite answer by providing
that "sale and manufacture of in
toxicating beverages shall be pro-
hibited in North Carolina"
The other bill, dropped into the
clerks basket in the house two
days after Mrs. Hutchins'' meas
ure, came from Rep. Ed Hanford
of Alamance, and would make the |
entire state "wet" under state |
supervision. with four distilleries |
operating in four sections Of the
state, under supervision from Ra-
leigh.
That neither Of the measures
would be the one finally adopted
by the legislature when it gets
around to q final showdown on
the liquor question was evident.
The present Is wet counties will
fight to the end against being
forced to submit to the will of the
entire state, which would wipe out
their lucrative county stores, so
Mrs. Hutchins' measure is likely
to find it's way to committee dis
cord.
Hanford's bill, opposed bitterly
by the dry element, is unsatisfac-
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