The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-30
PROPOSED REVENUE ! BILL |NDORSED BY LEGISLATORS HERE Members of Recess Commit tees Begin Conferences
 at Tutwiler Hotel EQUALIZATION OF
 TAXES EMPHASIZED Calculated to Raise More Money by Million Dollars Than Any Previous
 Measure-Probe Committee
 to Be Heard Today
 

The proposed revenue hill which tht Legislative recess committee on finance and taxation. has written and unani. mously agreed upon, was favorably re eeived yesterday by the members of the | Investigating committee. and the few | members of the judiciary committee who were present.
 The legislators convened In the Hote Tutwiler yesterday morning There were | among others present. A. H. Carmichael speaker of the house; John B. Weaklcy chairman of the finance and taxation | committee; Henry P. Merritt chairman of the Investigating committed; w. c Davis, chairman of the judiciary com I mittee; W. s. Welch of Jefferson Johr k. Mccain of Clay. George Smith oi Crenshaw, John Ward of Henry. J. NJ Bonner of Camden, J. T. Denson of Greene. A. R. Brindley of Etowah, w. H Key of Franklin, Harry Hartwel oi Mobile, Henry Bradshaw of Lauderdale A M. Tunstall of Hale and Joseph w Green Of Dallas.
 Speaker Carmichael, who is ex-officic member of all the committees. was chosen to preside at the meeting. Sev- eral speeches early in the morning were indulged in. but shortly after convenirs g l the committees got down to real labor.
 Discuss Revenue Bill
 The chief subject of discussion yes terday was the revenue bill. This bill | was written by the members of the recess committee on finance and taxa | x.rbi t,o; It represents the unanimous expression of an idea by the committed The other | legislators who were told of the con
 tents of the bill and to whom was ex- plained the probable effect of the meas ure were agreeably surprised.
 l While the authors of the bill have not made boasts regarding its alleged efficiency, it is learned that its mair
 object is to equallze the burden whtcl
 the people must bear; that while suef is it's object. 1t Is calculated to rais,
 more money by nearly S1,00O,000 thai
 any other bill under which the stat, government has been operated.
 In the afternoon the judiciary commit
 tee explained it's proposed changes in thu method of taxation. It is learned tha
 this method will entail central body Wnlcn snail nave representative bodie,
 in the several counties. The purpose O this method Is to equallze the burden oi | taxation, and it Is claimed that while tn. burden will be capitalized the state vii
 raise more money than 1t has heretofor, raised.
 Probe Committee Today
 Today the Investigating committed it i. | understood. will make known to legisla tors present, who are not members thos, I things with which 1t has been engaged l during the recess period, and in what manner 1t has solved the various problems | which have confronted It. 1t is learned I that this committee will inform the com mittee on taxation that while the lat2t' | has devised a scheme for raising more | revenue. the former has evolved a sys l tenn under which the state governinan might be operated at greatly reduced ex pense.
 W nile the members of the judiciary com
 mittee are not in great number pres
 ont it is thought that Mir. Brindley will be given an opportunity to tell today o l the accomplishments of that committe, As is known, the committee has disagreed within itself, but nevertheless 1t Is said f, | have wrought what will prove to be ar | effective reform in the so-called anti quated court system of the state. MT
 Brndley will report that at the presen time subcommittees of the committee ar,
 working on various phases of the genera
 subject. and that the workingmens com pensation bill will be written and cares for by a committee composed of San Will John of Dallas, Alto V. Lee of Eto | Wah and J C. Milner of Lamar