Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-07-13
COTTON BELT
 GETS INJUNCTION Judge Trieber Says Rail- road Commission Cannot Fix Cost of Clarendon
 Station
PINE BLUFF MAY LOSE
AutOists in Little Rock Refusing to Pay City Tax, Believing State
 Law Protects Them.

Little Rock, Ark, July 12.--In an opinion on the Clarendon depot con troversy, Judge Trieber at St. Louis cided that the Arkansas Railroad Commission had over-reached it's au- thority, and the temporary injunc- tion asked by the Cotton Belt Rail- road was granted.
 The Commission had ordered the road to erect a $12,000 station at Clarendon and the road refused to obey the order The Commission di- rected that suit be brought, and the Cotton Belt applied for the injunction. The hearing was had before Judge Trieber in St. Louis, Assistant Att torney General Rector appearing for the state, and Attorneys West, Brit tain and Hawthorne for the railroad. Testimony was introduced to the eff feet that an adequate brick depot, twice the capacity of the present frame structure, could be built for $Sj800 Judge Trieber, in granting the injunction, declared that while the Commission may have the power to prescribe the kind of depot to be erected it certainly has no power to riI btoI hn arbitrary, unauthorized and uncon- stitutional.
 TaylOr's Successor Named.
 Secretary of State Hodges has ap- pointed a new deputy to succeed Chester w. Taylor, but he will not assume the office until August T. and in the meantime his identity is not being announced.
 Pine Bluff May Lose Tax.
 There is conflict between the cities and the state on the automo- bile tax. But it is the cities that are doing the worrying. The act is not to be in effect until early in August, Dut <SCol Oo ol dutOluODllC oWAOIS dl Q already paying their taxes as pre- scribed by the act of the last Legis- lature for all motor vehicles. The annual tax is 8 for each vehicle, and for this series of numbers and tags is issued that must be prominently displayed on the vehicle.
 The law makes the following pro- vision: No owner of motor vehicle who shall have obtained a certificate from the Secretary of State shall be required to obtain any other license or permits to use and operate same nor shall such owner be required to display upon his motor vehicle any other number than the number of the registration issued by the Secretary of State, or excluded or prohibited or limited in the free use of his said motor vehicle or veh- icles"
 Notwithstanding this provision, the city of Little Rock continues to col- lect the automobile taxes, and an- nounces that it will not stop until forced to do so. Some of the owners are objecting to the payment of the city tax, in addition to the state tax, and it is probable that a test suit will be started to secure determina- tion of the law.
 New Tax Income.
 It is estimated that the new law providing an knnual frarlshiAa tax will yield the state about $100,O00 per annum, of which s4500O is from domestic corporations and $55,000 for the foreign. The Combs act, which this superseded yielded only s55,0O0 year. The new law is much more equitable than the old provid- ing tax of one-twentieth Of one per cent. on the canital stock actually issued and outstanding. The old law provided minimum of s10 tax. what ever the capital. The Tax Commits sion is at present engaged in calcula- ting the amount of tax to be paid by the various corporations. which has been running From ss cents to $25o.