Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-03-13
Capital Gossip
BY HENRY AVERILL AND
LYNN NISBET
Daily Dispatch Bureau
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, March Ex-senator Edgar
H. Balm, of Wayne, a Baptist deacon,
was called upon by Governor Horton
to open the short Saturday morning
session of the Senate with prayer.
The chaplain and long since gone
home, and the senators were tired
after ten hours strenuous work on the
revenue bill. Also they were proud
of the record they had set, and the
main petitions in the Balm invocation
were that what they had done might
prove pleasing to the Lord, and Ito
the people back home"
At that same session, converting
actually at 1925 a. M, but theoreti-
cally and legislatively at 1905 a. m,
the senator from Burke made his
usual report to the effect that 'yOur
committee on the journal has care
fully examined the same and found
it to be correct. l move that its read
ing be dispensed with" Which was a
proper motion in view Of the fact that
the journal had not been written and
so could not be read. The previous
session had been adjourned five
minutes before.
With Austin of Ashe and Prince
of Henderson able to outvote tWo-to-
one Lumpkin of Franklin, the cleo
ton law reform bills passed by the
House have some rough shedding
ahead in the Senate subcommittee.
The far western counties have all
along contended for the status quo
in absentee voting, and while Mr..
Lumpkin is hard fighter and in this
case has a cause into which he puts
his heart, he doesn't hope to salvage
a great deal of reform out of the Sen
ate committees.
The General Assembly is still try
ing to find out what newspaper is.
The bill defining papers in which
legal advertising may be printed has
been recalled from the house twice
after passing the senate through the
route of being twice re-referred to
committee.
George MCNEIL, of Fayetteville,
who as a member of the longdraWn
1885 Senate had to climb the Capitol
stairs several times a day, and who
has been a frequent visitor at this
session in connection with election
law reforms, suggests that the stair
way in the eastern wing of the Capt.
toll building be replaced by a modern
elevator. Mr.. Mcneil thinks the adj
ded convenience would more than
commensurate for any loss in architec-
tual beauty
AS the 1889 General Assembly APP
breaches the closing days, George
Uzzell. representative from Rowan,
is speeding up his campaign for
speakership of the next House. Serv-
inc as chairman Of the committee of
the whole during revenue bill consid-
Grafton, Mr.. Uzzell got some practice
which will help him if he wins the
next speakership. Although several
other Westerners are surveying pros
poets, to date Uzzell is the only avow-
ed candidate.
Republicans in the legislature are
becoming very Watchful. They have
had two or three "below the belt'
ticks struck at them during the ses-
sion and they know that in the rush
of the closing hours others may be
attempted. T'other day Senator Bow
ers wasn't paying much attention to
the proceedings, but he heard the
reading clerk pronounce avery"
That's Brewers county and he got
busy at once, had the reading held
up until he could find out what it
meant. When he discovered that it
J WAS lust some other county wanting