Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-08-20
HOUSE COMMITTEE
REPORTS OUT BILL
PROVIDING FOR TAX
Demand to Be Made for
Division Between State
and County Roads.
MEASURE COMES TO FLOOR
WITHOUT RECOMMEN
One Faction Insists 1t Is Time
Taxpayers Are Given
Consideration.
COMMISSIONER OPPOSES PLAN
Informs Assemblymcn Federal Aid
Can Only BE Used on Highways
Controlled by Commonwealth.

Advocates OF l5-cent levy on gem
eral property for the construction only
OF roads embraced in the State high
way system, and certified to the gov
ernment as projects for Federal. aid,
Won the first tilt with the opposition
yesterday afternoon. when the House
Committee on Finance reported out by
a vote OF 10 to 4. the bill designed
to carry their idea into effect
/ The measure. which has the strong
/ Endorsement OF State Highway COM
missioner George Pa Coleman, Will go
/ to the noor OF THE House without
recommendation. but unnmended in any
! way from the form in which it came
/ from the hands of the Legislative COM
mittec of the Virginia Good Roads AS
! Sociation.
/ With differences Of opinion in the
I matter OF creating and defining the
/ duties OF the highway commission
/ practically eliminated. so far as it's
salient features are concerned. the line
/ OF cleavage seems now to have shifted.
! in both Senate and House, to the tax
problem. in its relation to the State
fand county roads.
ponents OF the proposition that the
special session was called for single
| purpose. and that is to put machinery
in motion for building in Virginia
system OF State highways already
mapped out and forming the basis for
a great forward movement for better
at the present time paramount in i'm
io't"'cc'
| Want County Roads Improved.
On the other, there stands just as
strnnr,h wbo bnii.ra that nnu, i .hs
time to look after the taxpayers. who
live away from the State road system.
nortion of ihs - n,omar ,nn riid IfnerouS pro-
tax legislation for use upon the county
roads or feeders"
II is proposed that funds for c5unty
two -one division of the levy on
general propert, 10 cents going to
the counties and from a 100 ner cent
Increase of the automobile license tax.
- per cent going to the construction
ccnt cninr 70 Ihs rnurtv ..Teaaars pet
state Highway Commissioner Cole
man is opposed 10 iniectins the cormtv
nrohInm inio the considnrstinn ~ ths
E.', ,h ,eso ne so, . .ioh OIL the
..This -ssssS ssssinn "a a. th nas i'me,
~ H. "cI,n,sn Iins !rs,"ruay al'ernoon neiore
me me house Committee on Finance;
.o 10 ,ne r i,e"o,hg Oh feaeral asd for state
OF the hody the hirhwav 'ekl der,rtnsant Ssaph
nronoses TO recommend that ,hn co,,n,v
roads, not only be given the sSoo. ono
which we We term state aid. M but but also tsc''tSe the
GI %SVy,"vT ",i.'h th orr IharIiy Woulo De SET
~ vi"
In ronlv m Thomas w ozlin D.,s-
gate from Innenhnrer Co,,ntx nnd ona
Of the chief proponents in the House
OF A bill TO give the countries : ranfs
of the Is suggested to meet the GOV
ernment appropriations. Mr. Coleman
declared that the Federal aid monew
can he used only on the state system
Of roads which have hean cert ifad ~
the Bureau OF Roads as proiects ~
Mr.. Ozlin declared himself unsatis6ed
with the cxplanation and indicated
that he and the thirty other deiesates
associated with him would carry the
fight TO the foor of the House -rhe
committee. however. seems not to have
taken very strongly to the Ozlin pro-
Xii anI nIlotr,5 eu vi 'ne other
be passed by ~
Mr. Coleman told tho committees .h,+
he would have 10 be given s750.000 at
the special session. over and above
that needed actually to meet the Fed
era! aid, for the overhead expenditures
OF the department. freight on ma
chlnerE Tor road construction and for
rvSur' i'tih arins certain roads in the State
t, H!Sn could De mendsd much more
tr lotto