The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-09


 1. The law estsblishins the State Tax Commission. providing for the equalization of tax burdens and re- quiring all properties to contribute u equal proportion. to the support of ths state government. This has added ons hundred million dollars to the d valorem tax values and yields an in. como of es5o.ooo a year. $S0o.0oo oi which goes to the public schools ant eio0.00o to the old soldiers-
 Lawn for Inersasea Revsnus.
 1. Providing tax on the intangible property of the state. which has hfth' erto escaped taxation and which has in creased taxable values over s2o.ooo.oo' per annum.
 2. Increased tax on life and Ire in. surance companies doing business IT the state to the level of taxation main tained in other states. This has re suited in an increase of s1oo.0oo peI annum in revenue.
 g. A license of ten dollars va placed on each foreign corporation do' ing business in Alabama. This new tax yields an estimated revenue or $A' 900 per annun.
 |. An equaiized franchise tax. which is now being contested in the courts and which, if maintained. will add $sb.' 900 per annum to the revenue or the state.
 l. New Code, placing all laws ano the leading decisions of the supreme court in three volumes.
 2. Municipal Code.
 8. A law regulating the employ ment of children in cotton factories and ml.,es, and requiring compulsory education for eight consecutive weeks each year for children thus employed. Also providing for an inspector ana assistant inspector of jails. almshouses and cotton mills. This law has been conceded to be one of the best ana most effective laws in the country for regulation of child labor.
 {. Negotiable Instrument Law.
 6. The Game and Fish Law.
 6. A law providing for refurnish- ing and equipping the various offices of the State Capitol and for beautify- ing and improving the Capitol
 T. Jury Commission law. Lsws for the Promction of Pubiic
 1. Prohibiting the drinking of H. quor on passenger trains.
 3. Local Option.
 8. Statewide prohibition law.
 1. Defining tvagrancy and providing for the punishment thereof.
 5. Prohibiting the display of inde- cent pictures in public places. Laws for Benefft of Confederate vet-
 1. Increased annual appropriation of s25o,0D0. and improved classified tion of pensioners. The increase -ac. cruing to pensioners from improved tax methods Is s10o.oo0 per annum. making the total annual increase for pensions ss50.000.
 2. Placing veterans of 80 years on first class pension roll and providing for restoring names accidentally drop ped from rolls.
 3. Increased appropriations for Sol- diers' Home at Mountain Creek.
 Laws fer Benefit of Schools.
 1. Increased appropriation for pub lie schools Of s350.000 per annum and an increase of sso0,ooo per annum ac- cruins to, public schools from increas- ed tax values.
 I. Appropriating ss7.ooo per annum for erection and repair of rural school houses. Total increase to public schools of s717.000 a year.
 8. Appropriating S2,o00 per annum for maintenance of a high school in each county and establishing e new high school at Ozark.
 |. Increasing appropriation for each of the nine agricultural schools s2.oo0 per annum; appropriating s10.- 900 for rebuilding agricultural school at Wetumpka and s6.000 for rebuild ing agricultural school at Athens.
 5. Appropriating an additional y5,- 900 per annum to each of the four normal schools already established at Troy Liyinssten, Jacksonville, and Florence. Also establishing new nor mai schools at Daphne and Mound Vile and appropriating s2.5oo per an- mum for each.
 6. Appropriating an increase of $11,o00 per annum for maintenance and $200.00o for building of Alabama Girls Industrial School
 [. Appropriating' s50,000 for build- ings and sS.0o0 increase per annum for maintenance of Alabama Industrial School for white boys.
 g. Appropriating an increase of ss.- 900 per annum for maintenance and $256.o00 for buildings of Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
 9. Appropriating an increase of $25,ooo per annum for maintenance and s4oo.o0o for buildings of State Uni versity.
 HpPtoPA vOIOUV per 4nnum for maintenance. and S46. 900 for Med ical College at Mobile.
 II. Providing for census of school children.
 12. Providing for adoption of State Text Books by commission. compos- ed of one member from each congress sional district,
 IS. Appropriating $50, o,ooo for butid- ings of institute for deaf.
 14. Increasing appropriation for support of Alabama Insane Hospital.
 Laws Regulating Railroads.
 1. Reducing passenger rates from 8 cents to 21-2 cents per mile.
 2. Reducing freight rates and fixing the rates on 110 articles of common consumption and use about the same as the rates on such articles in Geor- gia.
 8. Classifying railroad rates and es- tablishing a maximum rate which can not be changed to a higher rate except by order of the Railroad Commission or by the Legislature.
 4. Increasing the powSrs of the Railroad Commission and making 1t one of the most excellent bodies of the kind in the country.
 s. Regulating demurrage charges and providing penalties.
 6. Fixing the measure of damages for lost or damaged freight and provid- ing penalties.
 '. Fixing the principle of valuation