The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-24
Three Others Are Amended 10
Meet Ideas Of The
Administration
DEPOSITORY BILL
PASSED BY SENATE.
House Spends Most of the Day On
the Revenue Measure, Which Is
Finally Passed-School
Bills Are Passed.

Montgomery, February 23.--(Special)
The governor has signed two of the
railroad bills recently passed by the
legislature and three others have been
amended to meet his ideas. The two
signed are those creating a new rail-
road commission with additional pow
ers and rights, and providing for the
regulation of railroads, providing for
rates and against rebates, along with
details of control These are the two
measures by which the operations of
the railroads are to be controlled One
provides much of the machinery and
the other gives the commission the
power to put 1t into effect.
The bills amended are those provid-
ing for interchangeable mileage fixing
rates on more than 100 commodities
and against rebates or returns in any
way to shippers to control or influence
business. The only change of note in
the rate bill was the interlineation of
a schedule on fertilizers. The others
We're simply clerical except in the re-
bate measure, which is put into ope-
ration on its passage. Other railroad
bills signed SO far are the anti-pass
measure and the 21a cent passenger
fare provision.
The governor also signed the salary
bill by which the wages of most of the
officers of the capitol add sSs'he1p ar q
raised Heads of departments gossto
$4,000 from various sums, except the
department of history, which is s2500.
ha fn OF "a fofo iv pl,,
cery of Birmingham authority to per-
form the full functions of his office at
any time, to provide compensation for
the solicitor of Mobile county and to
have the tax assessor of Franklin
county make one round a year were
also signed by the executive.
The Depository Law.
The senate passed the depository
bill without opposition. Mr.. Lusk
started to offer an amendment to have
national banks excluded, but withdrew
it at once when objection was audibly
made over the house. The bill allows
the state to establish repositories in
the various counties with banks that
deposit a full amount of state bonds
to protect the state.
Other bills were passed by the SEN
ate as follows: Increasing salary OF
the liDraf1an OF supreme court TO SZUUU,
providing for state live stock board to
protect live stock in every way, carry
ing appropriation of $4,000, requiring
teachers in public schools to give thir-
ty days notice of resignation, to al
low court to be held at old courthouse
while new is being erected when seat
of county is moved, this being a gen
eral bill designed to take care of the
situation in Washington county; to
ton of school children, to provide two
secretaries of the supreme court at
$1,000 each, to provide for distribution
of bonds in cases where late changes
are contested, and to reduce the
amount railroads may charge for eX-
cess baggage from IL per cent of the
first-class rate to 10 per cent, with a
minimum of rs.
The bill to increase the salaries of
the secretaries of the supreme court
was fought by Mr.. Lusk, who did not
object to the additional secretary as
much as he did to the additional sal
ary. MIR. Hammers bill to increase the
number of bank examiners to two was
killed by a motion to postpone that
was adopted.
The senate postponed the bill to pro-
vide for cities and towns making i'm
lprovements and otherwise looking
after the interests of it's people, this
being a SORT OIL emergency measure to
tide over until the general municipal
code is passed. 1t passed bill to al
low towns and cities to provide for
drainage where such is not now taken
care of.
Revenue Bills.
The house spent the most of the day
on the revenue bill, about which there
was more or less backing and filling, but
in the end all were adopted as reported
by the committee.
They included requirements for fran
chise taxes upon all foreign corporations,
the levy of tax on solvent credits, ex-
ception where taxed as mortgages. and
providing for taxes for corporations
which enter. The corporation tax runs
from s25 on the first s10O on down to
1-4o of per cent as the amount of capital
increases.
Some clerical changes were made in
the poll tax provisions and provision for
purchasers of tax lands paying advertis-
ing fees was made.
The bill of Representative Maner to tax
Intangible assets of corporations as IL
they were property, went through with
some minor amendments.
The caption of this bill sets out the re-
ourements as follows:
H. b. 74l. by Mr.. Manner with amend
ments)-To make subject to taxation and
10 tax the franchises. intangible prop
erty and assets of every person, associa-
tion. company and corporation engaged
as common carrier in this state in the
business of transporting persons or prop
erty over any railroad, including street
railroads, or in the business of operating
an cars over AMI railroad for the trans
portation of freight or passengers, in
GLIDING sleeping cars, parlor or palace
cars dining cars, chair cars. tank cars.
anu cars of any other kind; engaged
In operating fJr gain any telegraph or
telephone lines or plant or business; or in
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