The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
KILBY OR LAWRENCE?

bers to elect as between him and Dr. Brooks Lawrence. Tt is a question of whether Brooks Lawrence or I am the bigger man. is the way he is said to have put it to them.
 The result was renewal of a sufficient number of pledges. to assure the retention of the coal and iron ore tonnage tax ir
 the bill, the former at cents a ton and the latter at 3 cents.
 The good roads programme worked out by State Highway Engineer Keller and federal engineers is in jeopardy. The house in committee of the whole amend ed the clauses relating to the automobile license tax so as to provide that only fifty per cent of the tax shall go to the state in the event the state highway bond issue is defeated. and that it is then to be divided equally among the 76 counties This division seemed to tickle the mem bers from the smaller counties who saw a vision of large funds flowing into their counties from Jefferson Montgomery. Mo bile and others where there are large numbers of machines. The other fifty Der cent would be divided half and half between the municipalities and the coun- ties.
 When the committee had by the decis- i've vote of 5S to 8 refused to strike out the coal and iron ore tonnage tax, Judge Murphree offered an amendment 1evying
 
 feet on lumber cut in the state and ter cents per thousand feet of logs cut in
 the state and shipped out.
 MT Long of Butler opposed the amend ment and was followed by Mir Gillis of
 Fillmore, an ordent advocate of the coal and iron tonnage tax, stating that the
 smoke from eleven small sawmills could
 be seen from his home and that to levy this proposed tax upon their output would Nn nal fhnr tn eb11t Ia dc fervent appeal to the members not to pick out lumber and logs for taxation, declaring it was discriminatory and un- just, thereby adopting the same argu- ment made by the opponents of the coal and iron tonnage tax. He had, unfortu- nately, taken part in the debate on the coal and iron tax, demanding that they
 be taxed, asserting that such a tax would be just and fair and no discrimination. , During his impassioned appeal the house was in a uproar of laughter at the in consistence attitude he had taken which. however, he did not seem to realize FIGHT PEANUT TAX MT. Murphree finally withdrew his | amendment whereupon Mir. Van de Graf of Tuscaloosa offered an amendment levy ing tax to ten cents a bushel on peanuts grown in the state. Some of the admins | tration leaders who have been most in- sistent upon the inclusion of a tax on l coal and iron ore come from counties l that raise large quantities of peanuts. The amendment brought out protests from | these and was voted down. A license tax | of fifty dollars year was levied against wholesalers of soft drinks other than bottlers. The tax on bottlers was chang ed from one-fourth of one cent bottle
 and based on gas tank power, beginning
 with $50 a foot of power and ranging up I to $575
 1 The chapters in the code of 1907 and the acts of 1915 exempting waterpower com
 panies, shipbuilding plants and cynamide companies were repealed. The amend :.
 ment repeating these provisions gave rise l to as much debate as was permitted un- ! der the rules announced shortly there- | tofore by the speaker which limited 1 each person to one minute.
 | license tax of $50 is levied on pack l ing houses.
 l The income provisions were amended
 to exempt the income derived from lands
 upon which ad valorem taxes are paid. | The bill will go to the senate when if meets next Tuesday if the plans of the administration go through. The house Twas held in session until almost o'clock
 tonight in order that they might pass the
 bill and get it on it's way to the other l side of the capitol
 WARRIOR BILL PASSED