Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-08-03
TAX BILL FINALLY
PASSED BY ASSEMBLY

Atlanta, Aug. AFTER four days OF
arduous toll the net concrete result
of the house travail over tax equaliza-
ton was the Sheppard bill, stripped
of practically everything to give It
force, which was finally passed by a
vote of 107 to SO. And even that mucn
was not accomplished until group o1
valiant men who had fought with un-
faltering courage for state board
from the first, faced about and COM
; PEELED the house to take the amendel
Sheppard bill. Such men as Akin,
Swift, Nunnally, Miller, Fowler, Gull
pepper, Fullbright and others, seeing
that opponents of the Lipscomb bill
were in reality opposed to any tax
legislation, jumped into the breach AMI
literally rammed the Sheppard bill
down their threats
Senate Strips Appropriations.
And while the house was thus agor-
ling the senate was stripping $2So,OO)
from the general appropriations bill.
After the battle had waged all day,
the session being extended to dispose
of the matter, the advocates of real
revision thrusting amendment upol
amendment at the Sheppard bill in an
effort to put meaning into it, only %
/ have every amendment, save the one
of the author to strike out section five
and cut the word personal" before
property, in section six, killed, the tide
of battle turned to adoption of the
Sheppard substitute, as amended. On
this roll call vote it was adopted BY
the close margin of SO to 70. There
upon the issue of passing the bill as
amended by substitute came up.
Demands Roll Call.
A vivi voce vote actually showed on
" So for the Sheppard bill now on its
passage. Quick as a flash, Cover, CT
Crisp, was on his feet and demanded
roll call. which was sustained. Efforts
to cut off three minutes explanation
of votes on both calls was defeated
and many spoke, extending the session
until past 8 o'clock.
Henry Fullbright rang the bell Oh
them when he said: Here we have
the spectacle of men fighting for on
hill against another for close to four
days, and when they get what they
want, they now tuck tail and run 70
cover. 1t is patent to every obserV>
ant man here that the men fighting
for the Sheppard substitute want no
tax revision of any kind whatsoever"
Have Hopes in Senate.
But the real revisionists, expressing
in many cases the conviction that the
senate would restore to the bill some
effectual parts to make it of solid
merit, stood firm and voted with fe"
exceptions for the Sheppard bill. Al
amendment by Mr.. Nunnally, of Floyd,
which would have given the comptrot-
Ter general power to name arbitrator
boards to enforce and bring about
adjustments in the counties, failed By
the narrow margin of sc to 20, the
closest the revisionists came during
the long struggle to getting anything
desirable incorporated in the meas
ure.
Mr.. stovall, of Ebert, who led the
fight on the floor for the Sheppard
substitute for four days, voted against
the bill finally. Substitute bills by
Wright. of Floyd; Wimberly, of Bibb,
and Harris, of Washington, were killed
one after the other.
Senate Still Pruning.
The appropriations committee OF
the senate acted on the appropriations
bill of the house, with the result that
it will go to the senate with the $780,
600 in excess of expected revenue IN
the house bill entirely cut away.