The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-03
Upper Body Like We'll Oiled Machinery. EARLY RECESS NOW MADE
 CERTAINTY BY PASSAGE Clearance of Calendar Removes Doubt of Longer Session. state Tax Commission Measure Is Adopted and Appropriation for Alabama Exhibit at Ex-
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 Every revenue measure endorsed by Governor Conner and passed by the House. was passed by the Senate yes terday without opposition. and with but little discussion. These measures included the general revenue bill the State Tax Commission bill, the bill to assess the franchises and intangible assests of railroad companies and sew eral others.
 Less than an hour was taken in the consideration and passage of these revenue measures, upon which Gov ernor Conner is depending to raise the funds to meet the increased demands upon the Treasury by the numerous appropriation bills which have been passed by the Legislature. The pas sage of the revenue measures was as- suranee that the Legislature would ad- journ for the recess Monday night. There has been some talk that the first session would be still further extended. but this extension depended upon the question as to whether the Senate would or would not pass the revenue measures in which the Governor was interested.
 The Senate proved even more com p1eisant on the revenues than the House. The State Tax Commission bill, which had rather stormy time in the House, was passed in the senate practically without discussion, and the z general revenue bill was subject to but little opposition, although it was passed practically as the House sent It over to tho Senate
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 The bill to appropriate $25,o00 for an Alabama exhibit at tho Jamestown Exposition was passed without oppost- tion.
 The senate's fine work in passing the removed bills was admirable. The bills went through the Senate as machinery built far no other purpose than for the speedy enactment of revenue legislation. There was not a single hitch. An industrious purpose was manifested on tho part of the Senate to get the bills through, and be done with 1t.
 The most important bill of the ser ies was, of course, the general bill. This bill like all the others of the series, was an administration meas ure. It had been prepared by sub committee of the House, after confer ences with the Governor and the Au- ditor. The State affairs had also pas sed upon the bill after its completion. Tn the House. there was considerable discussion of the bill, and some amending in both the committee and the House. The Senate disposed of the measure with greater dispatch.
 The bill Is a general raising of H. cense taxes on the part of the State. The administration is depending upon the bill to furnish large part of the appropriations which have been pas sed by the Legislature. The bill has been jealously watched by the admin istration leaders. and they have not been tolerant of amendments.
 Senator Miller was in charge of the resource bills in the Senate, and they had been made in one lump special orders for yesterday morning. The general revenue bill had. been subject ed to an amendment by the Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation The committee had amended the sec tion of the bill relating to the coun- ty tax on pianos and organs. The amendment was reduction of tho county tax from $10O to $25. It struck a snag, however, in the Senate.
 Reduce Piano licenses. Senator Leith opposed tho amend. ment The original bill, he said, put piano and organ agents on the same footing as sewing machine agents. He could not see any reason why the mar who went around the country selline sewing machines should be charged any more license than the man whc went around selling pianos and or. Eans.
 Senator Miller explained that the amendment was in the interest ot Alabama piano and organ companie; which had established agencies and businesses in various parts of Ala. bama. Te amendment was adopted.
 Senator Jones opposed the form of license charged the cotton mills in the bill The bill fixed flat rate of Sl0O for each cotton mill in the State. This apeared to be unfair to Senator Jones, for it proposed to put the same tax on the small cotton mill as 1t did upon the big mill. He proposed a graduated license tax on cotton mills. running from s1O on a mill capitalized at $20, . 900 to a tax of S150 on mills having a capital stock of $1,O0O, GOO. The amend ment looked fair to the Senate, and it was adopted.
 Senator Strother offered an amend ment to strike out the section which charged q license tax on buyers of witness script. The amendment brought out the closest division dur ing the consideration of the bill. It was beaten by vote of II to 14.
 This having been voted down. the Senate passed the bill without further discussion.
 Tnx Commission Bill Passes. The State Tax Commission bill was +begnext administration measure called, i4 was the same bill which had taken so much of the time of the House. and about which such a strong light had wnged. The bill provides for State rra~ Commission of three members, whose business. under the bill, is to eoualize taxes throughout the state The hoard is superior to the esx ss- sessors and Boards of Revenue of the various counties. Governor Conner had