Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-03-10
SPECIAL 8-CENT TAX
FINALLY ADOPTED
Conferces Reduce Rate Proposed
for Roads, Schools and
Catawba.
MAKES STATE RATE 18 CENTS
Last-Minute Legislation Com
Pletes Program for State
System of Highways.

The adoption OF an Scent special
tax FOR roads. schools and Catawba, in
ieu OF the Senate I0-ccnt spccial tax
bin rejected by the House. defense
OF the Finance Committee by Senator
t. Lee Tr!nkle which electrified the
senate and the crowd in the gallery
and was approved with long and loud
applause. and the definite reply OF
Senator WcndenburS for his criticism
OF the Finance Committee were the
features OF ;hc afternoon session yes
tcrday in the Senate
The Senate adopted without question
the report 0: the concerees on Senate
bi!! 100, by which an Scent special tax
on all taxable values but money is so
distributed as TO allow cents for
schools, cents for roads and cent
for tuberculosis causes. with the pro-
vision that the House appropriation for
Catawba shall stand. This is in lieu
Of the so-called 10-cent compromise tax
bill! introduced by the Finance Commit
tee as substitute for the proposed
ic-cent lax for schools, the iO-cent tax
for roads and the 3-cent tax for Ca
awba.
senator Cannon designated Senator
Interchangeable criticized the FL
ma nee Committee in Il debate on the
preceding nigh, for extravasancc-as
rot voting and asked the chair TO rule
recorded Senator Wendenburg then
voted Nay" leaving the vote % to
TO adopt the report.
.rnINl.tC
FINANCE COMMITTEE:
Referring 20 The criticism of the Fi-
nance Committee Senator Trinkle said
that he thought the Finance Committee
was severely and unjustly and cruelty
criticized. He said that when he came
10 Richmond. he. like all others,
wanted TO be appointed on the FL
nance Committee. but that at the top
of the things lie had 10 he thankful for
row was the fact that he was not on
that committee. He then said that
though he could not favor wasting his
peoples money. Il was beyond his COM
prehcnsion 70 see how member of the
tcdy who had sat through the session
could criticize the committee that had
iabored day and night like galley
slaves 10 meet the emergencies with the
money in the treasury. while the others
had spent hours in pleasant dreams.
He continued that ne could not have
II 80 out over the State that not one
member OF the Senate not a member
of the committee had arisen 10 his feet
TO express some qualification and ap-
probation for the arduous toll or the
body. Referring 10 money and assail-
ing with terrible force only the prin-
eip!c of greed. he quoted these lines:
Gold. gold. gold;
!: is hard 20 get; it is hard TO hold;
], is hammered and rolled,
Molten and cold;
II IS the cost OF many crime untold;
Cold, gold, gold
and said he was glad the time had
come when men OF wealth had spirit
to grind down in dust and ruin their
the horrors and sadness OF sickness.
that he was glad TO east his vote for a
tuberculosis tax, ard one for roads and
schools as we'll
WENDENnIiRG REST.tTES
HIS FORMER EXPRESSIONS
Then, taking up the price America
must pay for her liberty and Christi
anity and referring TO war as Gods
medicinc chest 10 purity the earth. he
said that when tho end OF it all came,
instead OF criticism. there would he
cheers and hurrahs for those who were
willing to meet the state OF affairs
like men OF courage. and who unlcashcd
their dollars 10 save the liberty and
health and morale of America.
Senator Wcndcnburg replied i'll de-
fcnse of his attitude that he was not
personally opposed TO the causes for
these appropriations and then rca3sertcd
that his criticism was we'll founded.
and got down to figures, as OH the night
cforc. TO show the errors of the
Finance Committee and its injustice in
not letting the other twcntyfour mem
bcrs OF tho Senate know anything
about the bill. and said that he WAS re-
sronsiblc to none hut his constituents.
but that tho germ of extravaEancc was
not juStifablc in State affairs as per-
haps in national affairs. He then re-
newcd his remarks by saying that tho
Finance Committee had gone right in
the teeth OF the Governor when it
should have co-opcratcd with him. 1lc
aid it would be crime against tho
tho next two years.
BAKER DOG BILL
PASSED RI SENATE
The dog bill passed the Senator yes
tcrday morning hy vote Of ol to IL.
That action and conferences between
the Senate and House in respect to
amendments to bills passed. along with
debates on the Sunday law. the pure
meat act and other smaller matters oc-
cupied the time OF the Senate yesterday
morning.
The bill proposing to amend tho
Sabbath law to permit the sale OF
soft drinks. subject to the regulations
of town and city councils and county
boards OF supervisors. the object OF the
bill heing to accommodate soldiers and
sa iors in certain localities and to de-
tain them In these sections to the c1-
ciusion Of more distant wet. cities,
nH- ral IL, ,trI u.