The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-24
TAX MEASURE RUNS AGROUND Administration Bill is
 Voted Down. PROVIDES FOR COMPASSION First Expression on Proposed Law
 is Adverse. Franchise Revenue Enactment Amend- cd After Debate-COunty Assess
 ments of Railroad Divided
 According to Mileage.

l According to Mileage. 1 An unexpected snag was struck by the administration leauers in the House l yesterday afternoon in the failure to I muster a majority of those voting to | support the tax commission bill, one of 1 the measures In which, 1t has been rep I resented, the administration is special l iy interested.
 1 Had the friends of the measure been | able to muster single additional vote, ! the bill would have carried. But there | was light attendance at the Saturday | session of the House, and the tax com | mission measure had the misfortune to ] come up at a late hour In the after
 oon. The combination resulted in only 1 sixry- eight votes being cast, out of the | membership of 106. and the bill failed l of majority of those voting. 1 Mir Steaga,l of Dale, one of the pro- nounced supporters of the measure,
 changed hts vote from aye to nay be- | lore the result was announced, and as I soon as 1t had passed, moved recon 1 rideration of the vote. This motion l will come up for consideration within i an hour after the approval of the jour ! nal Monday morning. when the friends ] of the measure express themselves as l confident 1t will be sent on Its way to 1 the Senate along with the other reve- i nue bills. l The various revenue pills were rass- ! ed by the House with the single excep- ! ton. Most of them. indeed. went i through without oposition,, and by prac- i tically unanimous votes. Amendments 1 were proposed to several of the bills, | but. with a single exception, no amend
 ments were adorted to any of them un- less proposed by the recognized friends of the measures
 Franchfses Tax Bill Changed. The single exce~tion to this rule was
 in the case of the Maner Bi1l to tax 1 franchises Mir. Tunstal of Hale ob- ] jected to the manper in which the pro-
 posed tax on the intangible holdings of l corporations was proposed to be divided | among the counties. The bill as re-
 ported by the committee provided that l such assessments were to Dc divided 1 n proportion to the business done. as I evidenced by the rece- ts iu the vari-
 ous counties, but Mir. TunstaH wanted the assessment divided according to mileage. He main Fafned that the larger 1 counties, because they contributed more receipts to the coffers of the railroad companies. should not be permitted to
 secure any larger proportion of the taxes from those companies than the
 amount of property in the counties
 would iustiEy.
 l C0Urled with IniS 3TguU'SnL. aS dD@ 1 n'ied to ~1ilroads and similar corpora 1 lions. Mir. runstaII insisted that where l electric power lines were in two coun- l ties the power perhaps being gener- ated Tn one and used in the other, the enti~, tax should not be given to the ! county which furnished the patrons 1 for the power so generated, but rart ! should be given to the county whose
 water power permitted the generation 1 of the power.
 At first the friends of the measure
 were strenuously opposed to the meas
 ure. but the afternoon recess inter- vened, giving them tire to think over
 the pronosition, and when the subject
 was resumed at the afternoon session.
 the objection was withdrawn upon the
 form of the amendment being slightly
 hcanged.
 Report on Concealed Weapon Law.
 Rev. J. w. Malone of Abbevi le,
 Representative from Henry county
 opened the House with prayer. after
 1t had been called to orde" by Speak- ! CT Martin. The morning roll call showed seventy-six members present.
 As usual, the journal was approved
 without reading
 i Leaves of absence were granted a
 number of the members, usually for
 yesterday, though some were for Mon
 day.
 |
 tee on Rules. House Bill No. POP one
 of the general pension bills. was made
 aa speclal order for yesterday. fol-
 lowing the disposal of House Bill No.
 623.
 On motion of Mir. Haley Of Jeffer-
 son the privileges of the huor re
 granted to Hon. J. B. Brown of Jeff
 erson county.
 The Committee on Revision of Laws
 re orted favorably on the bill to pro-
 hibit and regulate the carrying of
 concealed weapons. and on motion of 1 MT. Pitts of Dallas, chairman of that
 committee 300 copies of the bill were
 The Committee on Commerce and ] Common Carriers reported Senate Bill 1 Nos IF and 2t9 which propose to | outlaw any railroad companies which { may appeal to the federal court from i any act fixing the maximum rates.
 MT. Ballard of Autauga. chairman l of the Temperance Committee. called
 un tho local option hill, House Bill No. i2S. which was pendlng on the i concurrence by the House in the
 Senate amendments. He moved that
 the House concur and after they had
 been read by the clerk. this was done | without debate, by vote of sixty-four
 to nothing.
 Take Up Revenue MenGures. Mir Hoffman of Mobile and Mir Lee | of Houston each asked unanimous con- 1 sent for the consideration of measures l In which they wero interested, but 1 Sneaker Martin who had caDa1 Mir. | BuIger of Tallapoosa to the chair, Ob- tected to any business coming up to | dIsplace or delay the general rNvenue | hiiis which were set for considera- l ton.
 l A Senate resolution for adjournment | from yesterday until Monday morning, and from Tuesday until Thursday of | this week. in order that tho commit | tees of the two Houses might meet | Wednesday. was received and referred 10 the committee on rules. The second ot the revenue meas l ures, House Bill No. 611. was then ! taken up and MT. Goodwin of Mont 1 gomerv offered an amendment exempt Ing foreign corporations whose prln- cipai business is loaning money from 1 inc payment of the general franchise | tax. The purpose. he explained was | to prevent tho rate of interst being
 raised. MT. John Of Jefferson. with
 the remark that he considered the
 mendment injudicioug. moved to lay
 on the table, and this was done
 The amendments proposed by the