Arizona republican., 1913-04-24
MINE TAX BILL
 |S APPROVED
By Vivi Voce Vote Com mittee of Whole Passes Graham Bill On Mine Valuation. Tax Commits sion Bill Also.

The great question of taxation con- vulsed the Arizona house of repre- sentatives for the greater part of yesterday afternoon, and when the smoke had cleared away, the mine owners had won the first battle. Un der the leadership of Graham of Cochise, the bulldog of the house, the committee of the whole approved of house bill 21, the mine taxing bill, and sent the bill on it's way. With the victory, the probability of the acceptance of the Find1ay system of valuation of mines until the next meeting of the legislature is placed in the background.
 This bill arbitrarily places the val nation of mines in relation to their productivity, regardless of the body of ore that may be in sight in the mine, or may be prospective. It de- fines the value of a mine at three times the net proceeds of the mine, plus twelve and half per cent of the gross product This is the bill that was practically agreed upon by the committee of mine owners that met in this city with the State Tax Commission las fall. The mine own ,, CTS decided upon the terms of bill, practically the same as this one, and submitted it to the state tax com mission but the commission preferred rather, in it's report to the govern or and legislature, to submit it's own bill providing, various methods for valuing mines which produced in different classes.
 TTp6ar tbp ,,rOviSionc of tho Craba m bill, which was similar to the Sims | the mines were divided into but two classes, producing and non producing mines Certain set rules are provided whereby the net of a mine may be arrived at. Then for instance if. the
 net proceeds of mine totalled $1,- | 100000; and the gross products of
 the mine totalled $2,000,00O the value 1 of that mine will be twice the net
 or $2000000 added to one eighth of
 the gross S2,000,00O or $25O,000,
 equalling S2,25OOOO
 The arguments waxed fast and fu- riously on the bill. Many of the men | in the house from both mining and agricultural counties thought the val
 ue of the mines could best be meas alred by the value of the stocks on t'change," while others thought the | best value for taxable purposes was
 the gross products also. However
 the proponents of the Graham bill won Tout on viye Voce vOte-y In arriving l at the whole taxable value of the property of a mining company how 1 ever the value of the mine is but a
 part, as the improvements. such as must be valued in addition as real mills smelters, power plants, and such
 property.
 The only difference between this bill and the Tax Commission bill is that the Tax Commission bill called for
 twice the net and thirty-fiv per cent
 of the gross.
 Following the mine tax bill, the bill for increasing the powers of the state
 tax commission, as provided by the
 amendment of the constitution ap-
 proved by the people at the last cleo
 tion, came up and received the same
 favorable treatment as the other bill
 This bill grants specific power to tht
 commission over county and city as. l sessors, over county boards of equali
 zation, county board of supervisors anu all lOcdl DOdTQS or aSSeSSmen
 and levy. This bill was substitut,
 senate bill 3 in the last session, ant
 s. B. 3 in this session. It was passed
 by the house committee of the whol , practically without amendment. |. The house refused to concur in the amendments of the senate to tn, eminent domain Dill" which speci fically provides that no foreign cor
 poration can exercise the rights o 1; eminent domain within the state. 4 conference committee was appointed , In the morning the house had unde
 consideration the three cent fare bill
 but before approving it, decided afte [ a lengthy debate to submit certain , questions to the attorney general Speaker Linney propounded some an, Representative Crofoot the other. I was advanced in favor of the immed fate passage of the bill that it woul4 ], automatically dissolve the injunction that is now existing against the stat preventing the opera ton of the forme three cent fare bill passed by the sec : ond session of this legislature
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