The Nevada County picayune., 1921-02-10
AUTO TAX MEAS
 URE PASSED
PROVIDES THAT SECRET iRN or STATE SHALL ISSUE AUTO
 LICENSES.

LICENSES.
 Two general bills occupied the House all yesterday and produced much )ra- tory One. by Mir. Smith of Benton, provides for taxation of automobiles and other motor vehicles and wa> tasS- e q, to S
 The other k the familiar Panama I,,cific Exposition bill. which ha> been through four previous legislatures and fp ee before the Supreme court It required two hours and half tp adsn.n i>ter the death blow. 39 to 49. \ vote of twe-thrids of the total members elect or e. was necessary fer passage
 The bill carried all appropriation ot $24.194 to pay claims for money ad- vanced and services rendered ill con Hection with the san Francisco Expo Sftiou in 191J The fight developed 7n tbc Committee of the whole where a motion 10 make an unfavorablc report was lost. 46 to 21 Nearly three hours was consumed in debate over the bill.
 Mir. McHaney of Pulaski gave his tory of the measure since 1913. when thp legislature first refused to make the appropriation In 1915. he said that 9o per cent of those nominated for the legislature promised Governor Hays that they would support the approprl- alton of S4OOOO for the Arkansas ex- hibit at the exposition It failed again in 1915. and in 1919 it received 60 votes in the house and 2S in the Senate, and the Supreme Court held that it was not passed by constitutional majority. Mr. McHaney argued for it's passage as a just obligation. although he admitted that the state was not legally bound to pay it.
 Spurned Bribe, He Says.
 Mr. Belote of Hot Springs county led fhe fight against the bill. He said il had been through four legislatures and twice before the Supreme Court and had been turned down every time
 Mr. Belote said that he had been of fered during the exposition seve- month job at S250 a month if he would shown that Arkansas owes one cent, because representatives of the people have never contracted for or guaran- reed it.
 MT. Herndon of Montgomery and Mr. Dunlop of Clark spoke against the bill. MT. Herring of Bradley said that the ar guments of MT. Belote and MT. Hern- don had convinced him that the debt was just and should be paid.
 Mir. Kennedy of Sebastian also favor cd it as a debt of honor and moral obligation.
 Mir. Dubois of Randolph, opposing the bill. said that half of the people of his county did not know that there was were held such an exposition. and he de n;ed that it had benefited the people.
 Mir. Gregory of Prairie denied that the debt was either legal or moral.
 MT. Johnson of Polk spoke against repudiation as did Mir Alexander of Pulaski. NIT. Wood of Lee spoke for the bill and read the recommendations of Governor Brough's retiring message that the bill should be passed. Reply ing to Mir. DuBois, he said the admis withdraw his opposition. but he replied here was not enough money to buy him; he declared the proposition to be unfair and undemocratic, and that he did not like to see million-dollar cor portations whining about paying back $100 loans, and taxing the widows and orphans and robbing the wards of the charitable institutions to get the money
 Mir. Ebel of Garland, complimenting Mir. Belote for his sincerely of purpose painted in glowing colors the benefits said that had there been no display at San Francisco it would have reflected seriously upon the state. He argue that the claim is based upon honor and justice, and resented the imputation that the patriotic men who had come to the assistance of the state when it was needed were acutated by unfair or selfish purposes
 Mir. Lee of Yell said that he believed in paying honest debts, but there was no contract, even implied and those who incurred the debts did so on their own motion.
 Mir Dickson of Lafayette, speaking for the bill. declared that he knew nothing worse that the repudiating of honest debts.
 Mir. lobe of Hampstead, who was l. lo