The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-26
HOUSE RECEIVES
|. NEW REVENUE BILL
Will Be Considered From Day to
Day Until 1t Passes Final
Reading
JURY MEASURE DISCUSSED
Enforced Physical Connection OF
Competing Telephone Lines
Is Eliminated.
JURY MEASURE DISCUSSED
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Especial TO Tho Times Dispatchl
Ruieigh, n. c.. February 1.-THE House
received to-day through Chairman Williams
OF the Finance Committee, the new revenue
! bill. which il to be taken up in committee Of
! the whole next Thursday. and considered
from day TO day until 1t passes final read
ing and Ia gent over to the Senate for still
further adjustment and enactment. Tho bill
begins with schedule IA, liking Inheritance,
Income. franchise and privilege taxes sener-
any. The reason schedule a. the al valorem
state tax rate. Is left OF H. understood to he
tina, the committee plan for state financcs
includes the creation OF "a State Tax Com
nnd ,ar. nma Gomp,ete ,enssessment Of real
suits to he reported TO the special session OF
the Legislature next fall, when the al va
iorem state tax rate Will be fixed In tho
light OF the results OF the new assessment
The House discussed at considerable length
then suspending this when the hour arrived
for the joint session Cor the election OF trus-
tees OF the state University.
In the Senate, Hobgood Introduced another
legaiized primary bill. 1, defeated the JUS
tice House bill again. except that 1t ex-
cepts county officers from primary nominal
t'ons. Even this WAS included in the com
mittee substitute bill that the House Killed.
The senate passed many public local bills
The Joint Committee on Agriculture deter
mined this afternoon b. vote of seven to
three TO report favoraby the bill TO allow
thIrty instead OF twenty-five pounds for bag
rempieton. OF the Farmers Alliance; Sena.
tor Mclean Representative Weatherspoon
ncnts Of the bill assured tho committee that
IL the bill was passed IL would be imperative
ana cause discrimination against North Car
DINA cotton: that tho present scale OF tare
allowances were worked wide, and manufac-
turers and exporters warned the committee
mat the Legislature could not force tho
North Carolina manufacturers to Increase the
allowance. and that II Is obliged TO be taken
OH the price paid by the manufacturers.
The Senate Committee on Corporations
voted to amend the Keilum House bill put
iing water, gas. electric light and other
pubic utility corporations under the con-
.rni or the Corporation Commission by
eliminating the section to empower the
Corporation Commission TO enforce phy-
ticai connection OF competing telephone lines
ana also amended it to exempt municipality
owned public utilities. The committee was
very much divided on the latter proposition.
but WAS weli-niGh unanimous us to cutting
out enforced physical connection of telc-
phohes General Manager Topieman of the
nome Telephone Company. made the princi-
PIE tax in opposition to physical connection
or telephones, ana withstood effectively n
shtrp cross-questioning by Representative
Justice. II was Mr.. TOpleman's forcible rea-
sohing that procured the elimination OF this
sect AFTER IL had withstood previous hear
ings and passed the House