Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-04-27
SPURRIER BILL
WITH LIQUOR TAX
PASSES kENTuCkY HOUSE.
LEStES TWENTY CENT TAX
ON EVERY BARREL.
ONE CENT TAX ON KY. COAL
Will BE Assessed If Senate Adopts
House nessEe-Money Derived, u
Is SaAd, wsa Be Used to Liquidate
State Debt.


By a vote Of "a to 81 the house of
Representatives passed the Spurrier
bill, iesying q tax of 20 cents on each
barred OF beer ale, porter, or other
malt liquor manufactured, received or
possessed, Tor sale, or consumption, In
the state of Kentucky. The house
adopted the amendment offered by
Representative White Ii distributes
hhe money derived from this source in
the following manner:
Thirty per cent to the sinking fund.
TO be used in iiquidating the debt of
the state.
Thirfy-nine per cent to the road
fund.
One per cent TO the State University
fund, and the remaining 80 per cent to
the school fund.
The amendment OF Representative
Price reducing the tax to seven cents
8 gallon, was beaten The house de-
feated amendments of Representative
SPAIN. reducing the license tax to 10
cents q barrel.
In his speech for the bill Represent
atiye SpurrieT said there had been
gigantic liquor lobby here working
against the bill
The house passed the bill of Repre-
sentative Dover, providing a license
tax Of $3.50 on hat, coat and check
room concessions in hotels and res
taurants
RepI eSentatives Hobbs and William
Duffy opposed the bill, contending that
Il is unjust, as it affects only five no.
tells in the state, one in Lexington and
four in Louisville.
Adopting the report of the confer
ence committee. that the house concur
In the senate amendment to the Math-
ers bill, increasing the tax limit on live
stock from one cent to ten cents on
the s1Os. the house passed the bill
with only one dissenting vote.
In the senate the bill of Senator
Huntsman, providing that sheriffs be
paid per cent on the first $4,000 col
lected and 4 per cent on all thereafter
collected for the state, was defeated
Nv the vote of IA to 10.
senator Hiles created a sensation by
seciaring thai the whisky interests are
running the legislature. The occasion
Of his remark was the debate on the
conference report on the Pickett bank
deposit bill
The bin Of Representative Brashear,
giving a title TO persons holding lands
in adverse possession for FIVE years
and paying taxes on them, was passed
by the vote OF Is to Is. The purpose
OF the bill is to quiet the title of thou
sands OF acres of land in Eastern Ken
lucky
tax of 81e cent a ton will be
charged on coal mined in Kentucky IL
the senate adopts the bill of Repre-
sentative Grove, passed by the house
of representatives. The tax derived
from this source will be used to liqui-
date the debt of the state. II is esti-
mated that the coal tax will net the
state $3.50. 600 annually.
Speaker Duffy signed five bills which
have passed the Legislature They are
the Gardner bill, classifying property
for taxation; limiting state tax on live
stock to 10 cents on the 500; provid.
ing for a tax of 81 on the 81 900 of the
capital stock OF building and loan as
sociations in lieu of all other state
taxes, and exempting them from local
taxes. and the two bills of Represent.
etiVes Perry and Duffy, relating to as
sessments in cities of the first class.
Much time was spent by the senate
cnnEidnFinU . c.xhc
the committee on revenue and taxa
ton to the Spurrier bill
Senator Bradley's resolution was
adopted, calling on citizens in the COM
monwealth 20 cultivate every available
spot OF ground for the purpose of en-
larging the production of foodstuffs.
resolution indorsing Representa-
tive w. b. Harvey, of Webster county.
as chaplain for the Kentucky Ma
uonal Guard. was adopted by the sem
ate
The bill of Representative Z. B. Nc.
Clone. OF Powell county, to place
state franchise tax of / per cent of its
market value on all oil produced in
Kentucky, and to permit counties to
levy similar tax of one half of per
cent for county, school or road pur-
poses, was passed by the house of rep
resentatives. by the vote of 65 to 81.
The house. by the vote of 70 to 9,
passed the resolution of Representa-
tive Price appropriating $3.50 to the
ministers of the city who have opened
the sessions with prayer.