The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-01
IT LOOKS DARK.
The Double Tax May Yet Prevail.
Some Hard Work To Be Done in the
Legislature TO Stop 1t.
1t Would Make Wholesale Litiga-
ton an Easy Matter.
The Comptroller Would Have an
Immense Political Power.
Jobs and Jobbery Would be Given Pre-.
miums--The Work To Be Done in the
Remaining Days OF tho Session
Extra Session Likely.
speclnl plsnnich 10 Tho Anncnl.

special Dispatch TO The Appeal.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 3l.-This Is the
last week Of the Legislatures allotted seventy
five days session. There remains hundred
or more bills to return TO musty pigeon
holes, waste paper baskets and the minds OF
those who drew them. Many of these bills
are important and three of them highly so,
namely: The revenue, assessment and
appropriations. /lhe latter will no doubt be
put through, as'aie m embers are dependent
upon 1t for their salaries therefore II is not
likely to be overlooked.
Then there Is the assessment bill TO which
Incorporated industries look for relief
from double taxation. When Maj. Mike
Burke returned from the Capital to Mem
phis he was interviewed by an ArPEAL rcpor-
ter and expressed himself as decidedly hope.
full of the relief prayed for. Things have
chan ged, and the outlook is so gloomy as To
cause serious apprehension among the friends
OF the measure
learn from sentinels left on guard here by
the Committees sent from the leading cities
of the State, the bill recommended by the
Finance Ways and Means Committees oi
both houses come in such shape that even a
Philadelphia or Memphis lawyer could not
understand II. There was given only the
amendments and IL was necessary to refer 70
TO the original bill OF 1887 TO see the CLASSES
affected. After discussing Il for few min.
utes the House threw IL back upon the Com.
mittce, with instructions TO report n com.
plete bill. Its consideration Is set for Tues
day Tho Comntroller has t,nttcn his worL
In on II, and IL provides that he, instead Of
the Attorney General, shall appoint In eacl
county an attorney to institute proceeding,
and collect back taxes The attorneys per
centage Is also increased 10 -. What great
snap Il is, both for the attorney and Comp
troller, since IL gives the former an assured
handsome income, and the latter strong
| political machine all over the State II Is d
| painful singularity that Tennessee has men
/ In her Legislature who take narrow minded
views Of such important measures as this {,
relieve the States vital industries from
/ double taxation.
In addition 10 the bills mentioned, ther,
| are also the Myers aud Dortch bills, bill
for the rcdistricting Of the Third Congrc
sional District, the bill regulating the prac
| tlco Of medicine, and countless others. What
shall the harvest bol II looks like an cxtr.
session.
| II Is not altogether improbable that a.,
adjournment Of the legislature will be sue
ceedcd by an earnest agitation for n Consti
tutional Convention, with n main object {,
cut down the representation numerically
| Forty good men In the lower house ant
| twenty In the upper, or even less In both, a
an increase OF compensation. ~ NJ 10 gc
good men, Is being quietly talked abou
even now.