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           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                             #4288-z
                     CAPUS M. WAYNICK PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Capus Waynick, state senator from High Point,
           N.C., was chair of the joint legislative committee
           established in 1936 by the North Carolina General
           Assembly, to consider the 1931 report of the North
           Carolina Constitutional Commission.
               Correspondence of Waynick, Albert Coates, and
           Dillard S. Gardner, concerning revisions to the North
           Carolina Constitution proposed by the Constitutional
           Commission, and a few other items.  The correspondence
           consists largely of letters supporting the proposed
           revisions.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Coates, Albert, 1896- .
   Constitutions, State.
   Gardner, Dillard S.
   North Carolina--Constitution.
   North Carolina Constitutional Commission.
   North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
   Waynick, Capus M.

Size:      24 items (4 folders).

Provenance:    Received from John Sanders of the Institute of
               Government, University of North Carolina at Chapel
               Hill, in October 1981.

Access:        No restrictions.

Related Collections:   SOUTHERN ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM (#4007),
                       Interviews A-332-1 and A-332-2 with Capus
                       M. Waynick.

Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or 
           their descendants, as stipulated by United States
           copyright law.

Table of Contents:
   Description

                           DESCRIPTION

   In 1932, Governor O. Max Gardner transmitted to the
members-elect of the North Carolina General Assembly a report
calling for widespread revisions of the state's constitution. 
This report had been generated by the North Carolina
Constitutional Commission, appointed by Gardner in 1931.  The
General Assembly, in 1933, appointed a joint committee, headed by
Senator Capus M. Waynick of High Point, to consider the report. 
With some changes, the recommendations of the Constitutional
Commission were passed on to the voters of the state for
approval.

   This collection consists of materials about the proposed
revisions gathered by Waynick; Albert Coates of the Law School of
the University of North Carolina; and Dillard S. Gardner,
associate director of UNC's Institute of Government.  For the
most part, these materials are letters with lengthy enclosures
detailing the correspondent's support for the proposed revisions.

Letters from April 1934 also comment on a proposed Institute of
Government monograph about the revisions.  All materials have
been arranged chronologically.  A copy of the 1932 Constitutional
Commission report is also included.

Folder 1   "Report of the North Carolina Constitutional
               Commission," 1932

Folder 2   Waynick, Capus M. to Albert Coates, 18 May 1933
           Parker, John J. to Albert Coates, 10 July 1933
           Waynick, Capus M., speech to North Carolina Press
               Convention, 20 July 1933

Folder 3   Poe, Clarence to Albert Coates, 12 February 1934
           Schenck, Michael to Capus M. Waynick, 1 March 1934
           Waynick, Capus M. to Albert Coates, 3 March 1934
           Craige, Burton to Capus M. Waynick, 6 March 1934
               (two letters)

Folder 4   Craige, Burton to Dillard S. Gardner, 2 April 1934
           Poe, Clarence to Albert Coates, 3 April 1934
           Poe, Clarence to Dillard S. Gardner [3 April 1934]
           Parker, John J. to Dillard S. Gardner, 17 April 1934
           Butler, George E. to Dillard S. Gardner, 20 April 1934
           Parker, John J. to Dillard S. Gardner, 20 April 1934
           Warren, Lindsay C. to Dillard S. Gardner, 24 April
               1934
           Carr, James O. to Dillard S. Gardner, 24 April 1934
           Butler, George E. to Dillard S. Gardner, 24 April 1934
           Craige, Burton to Dillard S. Gardner, 25 April 1934
           Schenck, Michael to Dillard S. Gardner, 26 April 1934
           Schenck, Michael to W.P. Stacey, 28 April 1934
           Poe, Clarence, newspaper article, 29 April 1934
           Craige, Burton to Dillard S. Gardner, 11 May 1934
           Butler, George E. to Dillard S. Gardner, 16 May 1934