Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-05-21
||TY COUNCIL |vOTES NEW TAX ] ON THEATRES |elegraph, Telephone and 1 Light Poles Assessed. |uT0 OWNERS TO PAY $500 EACH p,eral Steps We're Taken at the Session to Increase the C.iy's
 Revenue.

The absence of Alderman Dalby at
 p meeting of the council last night
 oyed al, ace in the hole for Mayor
 olis when the vote was taken to
 Estain the mayors veto of an ordin-
 nce which provided for the purchase
 street between State and Man
 reet at about Tenth avenue. Five
 ldermen voted not to sustain the
 eto, two voting to sustain it. The
 ecessary two thirds majority was
 bcking however, and the veto stuck.
 When the routine business of the
 Ouncil was disposed of, Alderman
 Clements started the issue with a mo-
 Ion not to sustain the mayors veto.
 Alderman Mcbride countered with an
 lmendment to the motion, providing
 hat the veto be sustained. The lmendment was lost, to 2. The ori- kinal motion was then voted on, re- $ulting in the motion being defeated because of an absence of the two thirds majority.
 Elect Leo Andrews.
 A1houncement was made of the election by the council of Leo. M. Andrews as a member of the board of public affairs. to serve term of two Years. J. A. Mitchell was made tenn porary street commissioner. Pay of Ehe assistant sexton was increased, Rnd after a short discussion, the council voted to increase the police force by the addition of another stock man.
 An ordinance placing special tax M 5 on all automobile owners in the city was adopted, as was an ordinance placing an annual tax of $1 on each te!ephone, telegraph, and light pole Wltnln the corporate limits of the city.
 Theatres Taxed.
 . Considerable discussion arose over me ordinance which was brought in ewing an increased tax on theatres. l'ovlng picture houses, and other 'hows. According to the ordinance. a ax { or $500 a year is to be levied on neatres having an capacity of 300 eats. while $50 additional will be ', fmed for each additional 100 seats. Aaerman Means spoke against the {, stating that the price of ,. to the shows would be rais- U II tne tax were levied, and that the syenue s. sought by the city with this IIolnance would be paid after all by ae people. Mir. Means contended that U ns n,lnlmum \, of $500 was sufficient, aa snat the scale. providing for an aS1ease on Of $50 for each additional .~ seats would provide hardship on U , theatres having large seating ,psclty' s Alderman McGehee spoke {. iavor of the ordinance, saying that T ' nIl'e ot everything else was going '. < moulding the cost of operation to ,v .s clty., Alderman Mcbride spoke sa.nst the ordinance. urging the .s,a ah,mum tax of $500 without the ,ra ,s,e alderman McGibbonv spoke in M sor of the ordinance. MT. McGib- '"v ! 7, argued that the people should o,' sne ones to pay the tax in that lvamsx; pictures were a pleasure, also a.lng ~. the theory that when a man ,d sl1 llto a show it did him no good, ;u ;Ilan e ought to pay for it. Alderman .er smoke in favor of the ordinance. ,at ator z, nolhs suggested to the council ad , da .ne scale be reduced, or that it -. ao',e away with. leaving the mini ,saa sm ,as of $500. The ordinance was
 eu' ionr voting for. three against. 4 Asks For Sewage.
 I D cpmmmunication was read from .. Marnell: asking that his proper h;ss ss Twentieth and Olive street, nnaot 'oa was outside the city limits, be : ' with city sewage. This let orLs was referred to board of public s IA ec investigate with the advice a, sne city attorney.
 ot;a Ht;;aerman McGehee introduced q rasa us.vn providing that the citv en- ,enna oe instructed to survey Eighth nna;.. rsue. and that the mayor appoint a r ,ts.ee w;ta of three aldermen to con- s e '; M,.n the property owners with enta ew of purchase. Alderman Cle- ,at I q introduced a motion providing Ts ssea .me city attorney be instructed res*s sseersaln the city's rights to all pnth s between Sixth avenue and .sta avenue from Main street to , aThe nosn @ motions prevailed.
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