The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-16
BOTH HOUSES ADJOURN

BOTH HOUSES ADJOURN Both houses adopted a joint resolution adjourning this afternoon until next We'd resday afternoon at o'clock. This ac- ton was taken in order to give the sen ate, sitting in. committee of the whole, time to go thoroughly into the revenue bill, the impression being that 1t can reach an agreement upon the measure, or at least be ready to make it's report, by the time fixed for the two houses to reconvene
 When the finance and taxation commit tee met at e:3o clock this morning Sec retary Allen of the state equalization board asked that the cup license tax on turpentine extractors, imposed in the original bill, but stricken out by the house, be restored. He declared that un- l less this be done the revenues to be de- l rived from that industry will be nomi- nal and that thousands of gallons Of rosin, now being shipped from south Alabama into Florida, where 1t is dis l tiled, will escape taxation In the orig l inal draft of the bill a license or priv 1 ilege tax of one-fourth of cent per cup ! or box was imposed on extractors of tur- 1 pentine, but the house committee, after hearing arguments against this form of 1 taxation, agreed to and did substitute l a fixed amount based on capacity or stills, and the substitute was adopted l by the house.
 1 The committee made no change In this section as it came from the house. 1 ELLIS AND ACKER PAIRED 1 Senator Ellis of Dallas stated, immedi- ately after the committee met, that he l had agreed to pair with Senator Acker l of Calhoun, who had been called to Bay | St. Louis, Miss, by the serious illness 1 of his wifes mother, and that while ne reserved the right to discuss the revenue bill either in committee or in the sem f,f lfszf 1 visions upon which he and Senator Acker did not agree.
 Sections 15 and 9 and 336 were amended to exempt domestic life insurance com panies from the payment of taxes on their capital stock, and the income tax when they have paid all other taxes re- ouired by law to be paid by them. Chairman Butler moved that the ex- cess profits tax be stricken out, to which all agreed.
 The recording fee on real estate mort gages was reduced from 15 cents hun dred words, straight, to 15 cents hun dred words up to 50o@ words, from 5000 to 10000, 10 cents hundred, and all over l0O OOO0, , cents a hundred words, and the section was further amended to provide that the tax should be Rquired only upon the amount of the actual indebted ness.
 Another amendment provides that Con federate veterans in class l shall receive lsf2 50 d month in quarterly installments during the remainder of their lives, and
 requiring every installment to be paid in full. There are only 5S4S old soldiers
 who will draw this amount.
 The committee amended the bill to provide that trial fee of 8 be taxed in every case filed in the circuit courts
 Of the state, which is to be collected py tthe clerk of the court in the same man
 ner that costs are collected and by him paid into the state treasury. This fec or 1 tax is intended to meet the increased
 salaries of the judges of circuit and su-
 preme courts and the court of appeals
 MILL LICENSE AMENDED
 The sawmill license schedule was amended to increase the annual license
 tax to be paid by mills having more than } 5o 900 feet capacity day. Under the
 bill as it came from the house saw
 mills with more than 5e.o00 feet capacity
 would pay $200 year Under the amend inent the license increases with each 50.
 600 increase in daily capacity
 When the senate convened shortly after 10 o'clock this morning Senator
 Carmichael offered a resolution to the :, affect that the senate at an hour not | named go into the committee of the whole | for the purpose of considering the reve- | nue bill.
 This resolution had been prepared in advance in anticipa ton or fahure on
 the part of the finance and taxation com
 mittee to agree upon report on the
 revenue measure. and in offering the
 resolution Senator Carmichael stated that lit was not in accordance with the agree lment entered into by members of the finance and taxation committee holding lopposite views on certain important feat
 ures of the bill
 Speaking to the resolution, Senator Me Dowell of Barbour stated that the com z n,ittee had been criticised for delaying Its report on the revenue bill. He de
 nied that there had been any unneeessars delay. calling attention to the fact thai the house had spent several da.-s in its ic.usideration, whereas the senate com ,mittee only got it last Monday. ane that it had worked hard on 1t all day Monday and Tuesday and again this n,orning until the senate convened.
 eve have worked hard and there ha' lbeen no intention of delay" he said. 'Ths lcommittee has been harmonious ant laereed upon all but three or four pro iyisions which come back to you withou
 recommendation from the committee. w
 have fought a good fight for our respec
 tive views we have kept the faith witt
 four constituents as we saw it.
 Senator Butler. chairman of the finane
 land taxation committee, reported the bii
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