Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-02-18
HIGHWAY SYSTEM
IN HOUSE BILL
Complete New State Road De-
partment Is Provided For
The Legislature

Frankfort, Feb. 1S.-The -Hud-
son minimum wage bill received a
favorable report and while being
read into the calendar, was killed
in the House this morning on a
motion of Representative Bryso,.,
of Covington, to recomm1t. A
motion to reconsider was then
laid on the table and the bill can
not again come up.
Frankfort, KY, February 18.-Bills
providing for raising millions Of dol
lars in revenue and for spending this
revenue were passed by the House
late Tuesday.
The measure of Representative j..
Wood Vance, imposing tax of SO
cents a gallon on whisky, passed the
House, 73 to 4. Members voting
against it were Representative III. c.,
Duffy, johnson Kinnbrough, and ]. NJ.
Knott. 1t is estimated that the bill
will bring into the state treasury be-
tween $17OOO,O00 and $20,0OO,O00
Seventy-fve per cent of this money
will go into the road fund and 25 per
cent into the general fund to pay the
state debt.
The measure, which was passed by
the House 81 to and which is intend
ed to cause such a large expenditure
of money, is the good roads bill, pro-
viding for construction Of a system Of
highways of Approximately 5000
miles.
Under the bill a state highway com
mission is to be formed of four mem
bers, to be appointed by the Governor,
two of whom shall serve for two years
and two for four years. Members arc
to be appointed from four districts
and must be selected from the two
dominant parties.
The chief officer Of the department
is to be state highway engineer,
who will be appointed by the COM
mission. The present Commissioners
of Public Roads is to hold Office until
July 1. The state Highway En-
gipeer viii receive an annual salary
of $4,000.
The bill establishes a primary sys-
TEN of state highways which viii
give to each man thorou2hfare and
which sets out 81 projects for pro
posed road. extending from the Mis-
sissippi River on the north and to the
Tennessee line on tie south.
The second bill to be passed by both
branches of the Legislature was
adopted by the Senate to-day. It was
the bill of Representative Huntsman
prohibiting the use Of advertising
signs similar to railroad warning
signs at railroad crossings.
In the House a revenue-producing
bill was introduced by Representative
Huntsman. Il imposes the following
licenses tax, Hotels, so cents for each
room, minimum tax not less than $40,
trading stamp companies, $3.50: cigar
cites, wholesale dealers or i0bbers, $50
billiard and pool tables, $50 for first
table and S5 for each additional; soft
drinks, $50; leomargarine, SO; rail
road eating houses, SIS; dealers in
patent and proprietary medicine, $25:
restaurants $40; real estate agents,
SO; shooting gallery, s. retail deal
ers in soft drinks and ice cream, $40;
theatres, 10 cents a seat year, min
imum tax SO; gasoline filing stations
SO; garages, $15; garages and gaso-
line filling stations combined, $40 each
each additional tank, 50; automobile
agents, $40.
Democratic members of the House
put the Republican majority squarely
on record as opposed to. reducing the
state tax rate on, and took advan-
tage of the occasion they had made to
drive home the point with quotation
from the Republican state platform.
The occasion presented itself wher
an adverse report was made on the
bill of Representative ]. H. sThomp
son to reduce the tax rate on real es
tate from 40 cents to % cents. A
similar report was made on The
Thompson bill to assess Intangible
property 80 cents and bank deposit.
10 cents for local school purposes, ano
the Humphrey bill to locally tax farm
implements, manufacturing machin
cry an raw material in process o
manufacturing, exempting $500.
The House decline to advance tn,
bills to their first reading.
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