Raleigh, Feb. 28—A new bill to place the Mecklenburg county rural police force under the county commissioners will be introduced in the house Monday by Speaker Edgar W. Pharr and will receive the support of Senator Hamilton C. Jones in the senate.
The measure, introduced by Representative Julia Alexander and W.R. Matthews to abolish the rural force, will never get out of the house alive.
Speaker Pharr’s bill will transfer control of the force from the sheriff to the county commissioners. The commissioners now appoint the police. Representative Matthews, it was understood, will probably sign the bill.
Miss Alexander could not be reached here tonight for a statement as to her plans for abolishing the force in view of the reaction to the announcement of the bills introduced. She indicated last night that her original intention was to place complete responsibility for law enforcement in the hands of the sheriff. Speaker Pharr’s bill will transfer authority now resting with the sheriff to the county commissioners, and leave only the deputies with that officer.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, March 2, 1925
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