The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-30

is not threat. They will pass the tax on to the consumer and the con- sumner will not be paying cents, but 10 or 20 or % cents. Are you going to make your people pay this tax? Are you going to do this when there is
 another way, the old way, the honest way, the simple way, of raising values? ?
 You do not want to listen to a discus sion of the fundamentals before go | ing into the consideration of the ! sources of revenue"
 l The Vandegraaf amendment was voted down, whereupon he offered three other amendments successively | fixing the valuation at 90 per cent, S0 I per cent and 75 per cent, all of which
 were defeated by the uniform vote oi SC to 13. Amendments striking out the clauses exempting shipbuilding, waterpower and cyanamid plants were l prolific of oratory, in which Repre- | sentative Shaw of Colbert, oppos' g Lynn of Morgan. Clayton of Barbour, 1 Brindlev of Morgan, Carnley of Cof- 1 fee, Edwards of Elmore Tunstall of l Hale and Speaker Merritt took leading g 1 parts. Mir. Shaw contended that not only present companies should have their exemptions continued. but the sections should be retained in tf,e statutes as an inducement to other in- vestcrs to come to Alabama. while 1 Speaker Merritt opposed breaking faith with those who had invested here u--- der the existing law.
 The elimination of the county tax slI- pervisor, a part of the new taxing ma chineryt will necessitate the changing ot all other sections relating to the state tax commission. and district tax courts. Amendments to this effect will be intro- duced and probably passed tomorrow morning.
 ADJOURN AT ' P. M. | It was seven o'clock when the commit tee adjourned tonight, after having been continuously in session seven and hal: hours, with an hour and a half recess fo1 lunch.
 The coal and iron tonnage tax sections coming almost at the end of the volumin- ous revenue bill, may be reached tcmor- row, though that is doubtful unless bet ter progress is made than was made to- day Six of the Jefferson county represen- 1 tatives and State Senator West are op- | posed to the tax. while Representative ] Dickson stands alone among that dele gation in favor of it. He explains as his
 reason for favoring it that he wants
 more money for the schools and that he sees no other way of getting it. Rep 1 resentatives Arnold, Benners, Harrison Hawkins, Ross Truss oppose it. | Some surprise has been expressed here | during the last few days that none oi , the big administration measures have been brought up for consideration, at though some of them were introduce' at the winter session and others two anc | three weeks ago. Among these are th'
 public utilities bill. the highway bil. th'
 convict bill and others. The workmen
 compensation bill came up yeshsrday, bh
 it was fought off and now is on the calen
 dar for the twenty-second legislative day
 It Is now explained that all these m
 portant measures are being withheld To
 llegislative consideration until the revenue
 bill can be gotten out Of the way. IL <
 istated that the administration support
 CTS in the house and in the senate ar'
 | afraid if all these bills or any of then
 are brought up before the revenue pi'
 is finally disposed of, they will ahor' 1 trading opportunities. and to avoid thu possibility the word has gone out tha
 they must be sidetracked for the time being.