Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-19
Jefferson Senator Proposes to Increase License Fee
 and Give State $1.
MAGEE AND NEWTON
 LABOR BILL PASSES
Measure Provides for State Labor Agency, and for Regulating Pri. yatr Bureaus-"isonc Dry"
 Prohibition Favorable.

Little Rodk, Jan. 1S.--A bill in- crcasing the state automobile license to $11 per year, giving $10 of the amount to the county in which the tax is collected for use in maintaining improved roads and the remaining $1 to the state highway commission was introduced in the senate today by Greed Caldwell of Jefferson county.
 CaldweIl's Auto Tax Bill.
 Senator Caldwell's bill, which is to amend act No 134 of 1911 and act No. 3o2 of 1913, providing for the reg ulating and collection of license fees
 on motor vehicles, is as follows: "Scction 1. That section 3 of act No. 134 of inc general assembly. ap- proved March 2f, 1911, as amended
 by act No. BOP of the general assem- ! hly, approved March 31. 1919, is here
 by amended by striking out the words
 ten ($1O dollars where appearing therein and substituting therefor the
 words eleven ($1D dollars in lieu thereof.
 "SectiOn 2. That section 24 of act | Mo- 302 of the general assembly. ap- proved March 31, 1913, is hereby amended to read as follows:
 ""The tax collector shall collect the { sum of eleven ($1D dollars from the owner of every motor vehicle defined
 in act No. 134, approved March "A. | 1911, one ($1 dollar of which shall 1 be paid into the state treasury and I credited to the highway improvement 1 fund, and the remaining ten ($10) dol-
 lars shall be paid to the treasurer of the county where the owner resides, | where the fund so raised shall con- stitute a special fund to be expended | by order of the county court of such county solely for the maintenance of hard surface roads therein where
 there are any such roads; if none. | then for the improvement of any cOun- | ty road therein. The collector of | taxes shall be allowed the same com- mission for collecting license fess as
 for the collection of other taxes, and | in addition thereto he shall charge every delinquent owner of any motor
 vehicle a penalty of three dollars, cne-half of which shall go to the col
 lector and the other half to the high- way improvement fund. In case Of the seizure or sale of any motor ve- hcle. the collector shall have the same fees and pay as may be allowed for the seizure, care and sale of other personal property for taxes.
 "Provided, any person believing
 himself aggrieved by the action of any collector, may pay the tax and charges under protest, and the county court shall have power after proper hearing
 to order the return of same, If round that the collection thereof was unjust or improper
 "Section 8. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are here
 by repealed and this act shall take l effect and be in force from and after December 31, 1917."
 Apparently having in mind an ad- journment at noon in order that the Senators might attend the afternoon session of the Good Roads association, the senate spent very busy morning. The first thing considered was the Greenhouse "bone dry" prohibition bill, which was reported by the tenn perande committee that it "do pass Magee.NewtOn Bill Passes. The senate then passed in rapid-fire order the Adamson bills correcting defective conveyances and ack- nowledgements, and requiring non | resident defendants to make answer
 within thirty days; the Davenport bill repeating special road district acts of 1915; the Burgess bill requiring the Iron Mountain to operate through day passenger train through Coal Hill; the Greekmore bill from the house requiring the Frisco to stop it's fast trains at Rudy; the Magee and Newton house bill providing for a free employment bureau .n connection with the state labor department. and 1idensing the private employment bureau; the Hester bill giving county oil inspectors jurisdiction over gaso- line; and the Alexander bill fixing the salary of the stenographer serv- (CnntipnoI frOv,n Do rrn