Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-02-24
DRY MEASURE
LESS DRASTIC
Virginia Senate Reduces
Penalties for Violation
Of Laws
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MANUFACTURERS MET
MANUFACTURERS MET
Finance Committee of Upper House
Reports Bill Allowing Deductions
Of Certain Loans.


passage OF the Mapp Prohibition bill
IN the Senate, hat material amend,
mcnts we're ,matia, chief Of which was
that vesting jurIes with the power to
sentence yiolators. Penalties also were
rcduced.i Provisions when made Floia-
lions of the law felonias we're chang
4 cd to make violations misde'neanors,
and the maximum fine Was reduced
from 81 900 to SSH, and five years
pSison sentence reduced 70 not less
4 tl,al, six months and rot more than
t. months.
The salary of the Commissioner OF
prohibition was fixed at $1,000
year, and section was adopted
making the appropriation of $4,000 a
year for two years for expenses in
enforcing the laws.
The bill has been set for vote to-
4 day.
1T is understood that an amend
ricnt. will be offered to eliminate the
Commissioners of Prohibition and place
The. duties Of that Office upon the At
torney- General. 1t is said there is a
strong support for the amendment.
The House Yesterday Sefeated the
Senate bill increasing the saIary Of
the State Auditor $1,000 year.
Manufacturers are met half way in
their demand for tax on net capital
instead of the tax as it is now applied
in bill reported by the Senate Fin
ance Committee, which allows them
to deduct from their aggregate of
capital employed in business the face
value Of all loans made within four
months previous to February !.
The measure is known as the West
Addison bill and is, designed to carry
into effect the intent: of, the special
session of 1915, with respect to manu-
facturers capital. The bill passed at
this session. proved. to; he susceptible
of a different construction, ;and the
application of the. law brought
concerted lprotest from the 'manufac-
turcrs of the State, who asked to be
allowed to daduct all bills payable
thus leaving the tax to be applied
upon net capital alone,
The bill now reported is in the ma
tura of a compromise. 1t allows de-
ductions for all loans contracted in
the necessary conduct of business II
such loans were contracted within
four months of the taxing date
February l, The oil also changes
the rate on capital so deemed from 65
cents for the State to 70 cents, leaving
to the localities, as before, the right
to impose an additional 80 cents
Manufacturers capital is otherwise
defined in the new bill exactly as II
was defined in the act passed IN 1918
The committee reported also the
Addison bill, providing for the assess.
.ment and collection of a direct inherl'
tance tax. This is the first leglsla'
tion of the kind ever attempted by
the State.
If the Gayle bill, limiting the col
lection of omitted taxes to 1872 ant
{ the years succeeding is passed, tht
State of Virginia will lose $435,9Oo.S!
. in the two cases of Thomas Fortune
Ryan, of Nelson county, and Mis-:
Marie Marshall, of Williamsburg, thi:
n amount being in addition to the large
sums lost by the county of Nelson ant
I this city of Williamsburg.
The bill prohibits the assessmen
| of omitted taxes prior to the yea
1912 and prohibits the collection o
such taxes as may have bsen alread,
Y assessed. The bill was reported fav
orably by the Senate Committee o.
| Friday night.
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