The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-03-10
LAST MINUTE BILLS
FLOOD LEGISLATURE
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(C0ntlnueO lroth pake o"e'
to rid the calendar OF a number
of measures.
Today is the final date for the
introduction of new bills, and to-
morrow the legislative body will
90 to Edenton in recognition OF
the meeting there of earlier leg
islatures. After today, legislation
may be passed only on suspension
of rules. i
The free school book bill and
old age and dependent child as
sistance social security measures
were enacted into law Yesterday.
The senate passed and sent to
the house a bill endorsed by the
Democratic executive committee
setting Tuesday instead of Satur-
day as the day for primaries, and
providing a new and uniform reg
istration for the state. Amend
ments were adopted allowing the
registrar to keep registration
books instead Of turning them
over to the clerk of the superior
court, and not to require names
of witnesses to signatures on abb
sentee ballots to be turned over
to election officials.
Meanwhile, the house killed a
bill to change the primaries from
Saturday to Tuesday.
The house sent to the senate
the school machinery act provid-
ing for operation of the eight
months school term, and provid.
ing that the superintendent OF
public instruction would become
q member of the school commits
sion and member of its executive
committee. ,r
The house tabled senate bill
to submit a constitutional amend
mcnt to allow an extension in
terms of sheriffs from two to
four years.
A house committee reported
favorably on a bill directing the
department of agriculture to es-
tablish peanut test farm. :,
Another committee recommend
ed passage of bill to establish
a water policy board to protect
streams from pollution, while the
Bell bill to permit judges to dis
charge grand juries and organize
new ones at any court term was
reported unfavorably.
Senator Balm of Wayne and
others introduced a measure to
increase the salary of the COM
missioner of world war loans from
$4,000 to $4,000 yearly and Sem
ator Larkins of Jones introduced
a bill which would allow pipeline
companies handling petroleum to
run their lines under highways
and railroads.
The house received a joint res
olution endorsing Pr e S / len t
Roosevelt in his attempt to reor-
ganize the United States supreme
court and asking the states con-
gressional delegation to support
the chief executive.
The house of representatives at
q night session enacted into law
measure allowing judges of
criminal courts in North Carolina
to suspend the sentences of Of
tenders, except in capital and life
imprisonment cases.
The house received a favorable
report from the joint calendar
committee on an amended bill for
permanent improvements totaling
$2,32O,000 at state institutions.
The sum would be financed by a
bond issue.
Not included in the measure
was a proposed S675,000 appro-
priation for a new state office
building and improvements to the
supreme court building here.
Members of the committee, how
ever, said such an allotment would
\ be provided in a separate bill.
introduced in the house was a
measure by King of Scotland to
allow divorce from persons who
have been adjudged incurably in.
sane for two years. Another bill
pushed into the Legislative hop
pers would limit the profit on
electricity sold by one, municipal
| ity to another to 10 per cent.
Representative Fenner Of Nash,
chairman of the house agricultur-
al committee and one Of the prin-
cipal sponsors, of tobacco compact
Legislation approved earlier in the
session, introduced a bill designed
to prevent unfair competition in
tobacco warehouses. The measure
provides for practices somewhat
similar to NRA regulations.
A bill to provide for retirement
Of supreme court justices and su-
perior court judges on full pay
after they have reached the ace
Of rs and served continuously for
20 years, was killed.
The house passed and sent to
the senate a bill by Bryant and
Barker of Durham which would
make registrars and judges Of
elections subject to the same pen
alties as elective officers for fail