The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-10

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Hanover, he said it appears, which
have two each now, will lose one
each and have but one apiece.
Back at the conference of Le-
Grand, Morris and Rowe the trio
was discussing the proposal made
during the gubernatorial primary
campaign by the now Governor
elect Broughton to take the sales
tax off the table" The trio X
pressed but one sentiment, 1--WE
wonder where that two and a half
million dollars is coming from"
LeGrand brought out an incon-
sistency in the laws relating to
the custody of children of divorced
couples which he said he intends
to attempt to remedy. AS the law
now reads, he said, when a couple
gets into a legal dispute over the
custody of its children it is re-
CURED that a petition be filed in
superior court in the county of
which the petitioner is a resident.
In the case, he said, where the
petitioner is a nonresident of the
state and the respondent lives in
the state, under law there is no
court in which the petitioner may
file his petition. He said he plans
to introduce a bill which will make
it possible for the petition to be
entered in superior court in the
county in which either the peti-
toner or respondent resides.
"Pet Bill'
Then LeGrand came forth with
his pet bill' which he terms an
'Anti-Fifth Column bill" In it, he
said, he would make it unlawful
for any person by word of mouth
or writing willfully and deliberate
ly to advocate, advise or teach
a doctrine that the government of
the United States, the State of
North Carolina or any political
subdivision should be overthrown
or overturned by force or violence
or by an other unlawful means
and that it shall be unlawful for
any public building in the
state, owned by the state
or any political subdivision of the
state or any department of h e
state or any state institution to be
used by any person for the pur-
pose of advocating, advising or
teaching a doctrine that the gov
eminent should be overthrown by
force or violence or by any other
unlawful means. 2
A need for such a bill became
apparent to him, LeGrand said,
when the University of North Caro-
lima offered use of one of it's build
ings to Earl Browder, head of the
Communist party in the United
tates, an organization which Le-
Grand said advocates overthrow
OF the government by force.
But there was another bill out
lined by LeGrand which will prob
ably cause more discussion in the
state political circles than any yet
mentioned.
That is a bill which LeGrand
says would shorten the sitting of
the general assembly and would
prevent the passage of hastily and
poorly drawn legislation and would
make passage of bills by lobby
lists more difficult.
In this bill LeGrand would re-
quire that no new bills be SUBJ
mitted to the general assembly
after the first four weeks of its
session. That at the end of these
four weeks the general assembly
would recess for a period Of three
weeks, after which it would re-
convene to consider legislation
which had already been intro
duced. During the remainder of
the sitting of the general assem-
bly,, he said, it would be his idea
that no amendments could be sub
mitted except those affecting the
revenue and appropriations bills.
LeGrand pointed out that e
majority of the legislation passed
by the general assembly is passed
in tremendous haste. During the
first 70 days of the last legisla-
ture, he pointed out, only 1872 bills
were passed but in the last IS
no less than 272 bills were
passed.
Cites Its Benefits
LeGrand said passage of his bill
1. Prevent passage of hastily
and poorly drawn legislation.
2. Make it difficult for lobbyists
to rush through unread and un-
comprehended legislation during