The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-24

| were then adopted by vote of sew | enty-two to two, Messrs. Thompson | and Tunstall voting no.
 The bill was then read the third | time and passed by vote of seventy ] three to one, Parker voting no. It's 1 passage was completed In twenty minutes from the time 1t was first taken up.
 To Amend Poll Tax Law.
 House Bill No. SIP. the next of the l revenue bills making minor amend 1 ments in the poll tax law, was passed without debate. after a brief expIana- I ton by JudGe woolf. chai~man of the | Ways and Means Committee, by l vote of sixty-six to nothing. | Chairman Woolf explained that ! House Bill No. SIS the next of the revenue bills. provided only that in the sale Of land for taxes the cost of advertising should be borne pro rata, by the purchasers of the land instead | of by the State. It was passed with | out further debate by vote of sixty. ! two to nothing.
 Chairman woolf pro-osed a substi- ute to House bill No. 614, taxing solv- ent credits Of ali kinds The substi- tute was adopted without discussioon. 1 ther than brief explanations by Mir. | Woo1f and Mir. John by a vote of 5S | to 4. Those voting no were Messrs. | Gutner, Parker. Ssmple and Jenkins. l time. and was passed by a vote of h4 ! 10 5, Messrs. Rice. Sample, Shorrod. l Smith of Franklin and Weaver voting 1 no.
 House b.ll No sf5. levying an admis- sion tax on foreign corporations. sim | liar in graduation to the annual fran ! chise tax. provided in House bill No. 61, was subjected to considerable ques- 1 tioning, but no oposition.
 In response to inquiry by MT. Hoiley | of Jefferson. MT. Mausr of Montgomery l explained 1t was intended to reach for- eign corporations, such as the Singer Sewing Machine Company, the National ] Biscuit Company, and the Armour Pack. , ing Company, which, under the present law, contribute but little to the State. claiming they invested but little menty in their business in this State sGch corporations in .he future would pc compelled to pay s25 CT the first $10N they invested hers s70 on the first $1.000 and so on.
 Thinks suGEe~tIon TmpFacticable.
 Mir Maner did not think the suggestion by Mir Foster to take the capital stock of a company, whether employed in Ala bana or not was practicable. MT. FoS- ter contended 1t would be very difh- cult if not impossible. to arrive at the amount of capital emnloyed by & for- eign corporation In Alabama.
 Mir. Pitts of Dallas feared the bill might not be constitutional because Of some of its provisions but MT. Maner assured him the bill was constitutional
 The committee amendments were ador ted without any dissenting votes. and the bill, upon being read the third time was passed by vote of 6O to E. Messrs. Glover and Tunstall voting no.
 Mir. Long of Butler introduced se- ries of b.Is taxing the express conn panies and similar franchises. They were referred, at the request or MT. Long. to the Committee on Commerce and Common Carriers instead or to the Committee on Ways and Means.
 The Governors message, suggesting Inn amendment to Senate bill No. IS. prohibiting the charging of any higner rate by railroads than that established by law, or refusi N- to accept snip- naent al. that rate, so that the bill should be effective immediately, was received' and on motion of Mir. Long of Butler. the proposed. amendment was concurred in by vote of 54 to 3. Messrs. Foster and Pitts o' C'al;as voting no.
 The message from MT. Conner sug- eesting an amendment to Senate bill No, 1O6, the interchangeable mileage bilI and was likewise concurred m, oy a vote of e2 to 1. MT. Glover voting no.
 Governor's Amendments Pass.
 The same course was followed with the Governors suggested amendments to the maximum rate bill. Senate oiI i No, 16, upon a large number of class flied article. The vote on the adoption of the amendments was 65 to O.
 The next of the revenue bills. House Hill No. TAI. taxing all kinds of fran chises was then taken up The Dill l provides for the subjection to taxation of all intangible property" and as- sets of every kind, of common car riers, including street car lines, sleep ing, parlor, palace, dining or chalr cars. tank cars; of companies own ing or operating telephone or tele- graph lines gas. water electric lights. electric power. steam heat. oil. refrigerated air and similar plants. the operation of wharfs, docks. canal, freight or passenger depots. or any business involving the operation of any public utility
 After committee amendment had been adopted without opposition. MT. Tunsdall of Hale offered an amend ment to strike out of the reports of companies required by the bill the list of all property owned by such companies outside the State Such ex- haustive reports, he said would re- duire from one to three or four months work The Bell Telephone company he maintained, should not be required to submit list of every instrument owned by 1t all over the 1 Tinted States. nor should the big railroad systems he required to Iis' description of each depot on it's line and of all the tools in the various section houses along the line
 Mir. John of Jefferson contended that to make brief description of such property would not be a heavy burden on any corporation.
 Mir. Long of Butler thought ano,ler feature of MT. TrustalTs amend ment was more important than that to which attention had been called. It provided that reports of net earnings of such companies should be confined to business done within the State Would Consider Outside Property. MT Maner l1f Monteomerv. along the same line. contended the various companies had much property in other States which should be consfd- cred fin arriving at tho proper assNss- ment of their property in this Statn.
 Mir. Tunstall supported his proposed amendment with an earnest speech. declaring the bill as drawn permit ted the State Tax Commission to ap- portion the value or such franchisas or intangible property among the counties in proportion to the receipts from each county. rather than in proportion to the mileage.
 After q brief statement by Nr Woolf of Marengo, chairman of the committee. that the bill had heen drawn to conform with other laws ana l N, Ta.N-N