The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-27
SOME OPPOSITION
 OVER COUNTY ID TAX AMENDMENT
Election Commissioner Nor ris Declares Many Voters Not Informed as to Mer-
 it's of Measure

Considerable opposition over the county to the amendment that will give certain municipalities the right to increase their tax rate sis being voiced by people who are not sufficiently acquainted with the measure. was the report brought to Sir mingham yesterday by NJ E. Norris. cleo ton commissioner. of Jefferson county. Mr Morris is now making a tour of the cou>sy registering voters in all the pre- cincts
 There is no organized effort to defeat the amendment, according to Mir Morris, who is of the opinion that the people who state they will oppose it's adoption have moi. been made to realize what the amendment means.
 As to the other amendment allowing soldiers to vote, though they were dis franchised for payment of poll tax while in the service during the war, and exempting them from poll tax while theE were in the service and until october, 1925 Mr Morris stated that everywhere people were in favor Of it.
 IMPORTANCE NOT REALIZED
 The importance of both questions has not been sufficiently impressed on the peopl,' stated MT. Morris. and the fact that there will be two matters of which the people will be called upon to vote might cause a little confusion.
 "The people over the county are heartily in favor of the amendment relieving t~e ex-service man. and feel that they owe that much to the man who left everything else during the war
 There has bee ma heavy registration in fthe county, according to Mir. Morris, who stated yesterday that more than f000 cit izens had already registered with him.
 Forty precincts have been coverel by fthe election commissioner up to the present date, but number of the largest precincts are vet to be visited.
 In this list are included: Bessemer Wy lam, Avondale, East Birmingham, Pratt City, East Lake, Fairfield. Woodlawn and West End.
 MT Morris will reach the Bessemer precinct on Monday, December 29, and will be at the courthouse there for three days The other precincts will be cov- cred in the remaining F days and on January IS the election commissioner will return to Birmingham and will open up his office in room III of the county court house.
 OPEN UNTIL MARCH II
 The office. beginning that date, will = open until March Ii for the registra- tion of citizens of Birmingham proper, and also any other voters of the county who failed to register in their own pre~ cints while Mir. Morris was on lis tour of the county.
 Parties who will become 2l years old on or before November ?, 1920, and those over the age who will be in the state two years on or before that time are entitled to qualify and vote in the primary May Il next year.
 In order to register and vote, according to Mir. Norris man must have comednto the county on or before November 2, 1919. and must have lived in his precinct at least six months in order to vote in that precinct
 The heaviest vote ever recorded in the county is the prediction of MT. Morris, who stated that although an exact count has not yet been made of the number that have registered, he estimated that there were already over 4000, which num- Der. he stated, would be sweled consid- erably in the next 15 days.