The log cabin Democrat., 1921-03-05
PASS ANOTHER
 CIGARETTE BILL 2-CENT TAX ON CASOI INE Legislation is Now Completed to Put State Penitentiary Upon
 Cash Basis.

gave the house another cigarette bil to pass upon Friday afternoon. Tn, bill is an exact duplicate of the ont passed by the general assembly, ve toed by the governor, repassed by the senate over his veto and came within one vote of passing the house over the governors veto, with the exception ot doubling the license fee. Senators Barnes and Wood opposed the pas sage of the bill as moral issue Senators Caldwell, Johnston and Will son of Union spoke for it. Senator Caldwell stated that he would oppose the measure but for the feature that it places a heavy penalty on 1he sale of cigarettes to minors and he believes the bill to be enforcible while the present cigarette law is not. Senator Caldwell asserted when questioned by Senator Woods, that the surest way to force a man to violate law was to pass one infringing upon his per sonal liberty. Senator Caldwell de- clared that had the Lord not told Adam to eat the apple, he probably would have today been in the Garden of Eden. To this Senator Roddy added that if Adam had seen the ap- pie first, Eve would certainly have been there, for Adam would have left no core. The bill passed, 21 to 7.
 The senate Friday afternoon passed the Jackson bill to place tax of two cents a gallon on gasoline used in motor vehicles, one half of which goes to the county road fund and the other to the state permanent road fund. The senate also passed the Walls bill to regulate the filing and recording of mortgages on chattels installed on lands as fixtures, thereby permitting the manufacturers of ma chinery sold to rice farmers to remove it if not paid for.
 After considerable debate, the sen- ate passed Friday afternoon the Owen bill which extends the authority of the state game warden and gives him police powers. It was shown by those arguing for the bill that game war dens now had to secure peace officer to make arrests and often by the time one was secured, the offender had escaped.
 The senate Fridayafternoon discuss ed for some little time the Vaughan general taxation bill which requires a full value assessment and entirely changes the taxation code of the state The subject was too big for a rush afternoon and further consideration was deferred until Saturday. The Haley bill to prevent the use of nat ural gas for the manufacture of car bon black and the Stewart bill to pay a salary to the secretary of the min- imum wage commission were other things considered but deferred to a later date.
 The new penitentiary board has de- vised and put through the legislature a plan whereby it is believed that the institution will be able to pay accu- mulated oobligations and run here after upon a cash basis. The last of the series of five bills drawn for this purpose was passed yesterday after noon by the house at the request of Mr. Alexander, chairman of the board. The bills provide for a refunding of the state penitentiary indebtedness to the amount of $30O,O00. It is also provided that S18O,000 shall be trans ferred from the permanent school fund to the general revenue fund and then loaned to the state penitentiary fund for the operation of the institu- tion to September 30. 1921, at 5 per cent interest. This amount is appro- priated for the maintenance of the in- stitution until that date and another bill makes an appropriation of $185,- 900 for 1922 and $227,0 for 1923 Still another bill appropriates $36,0OC to pay the interest on the permanent school fund loan.
 The senate and house have passed the usual bill adding names to the Confederate pension rolls of the vari- ous counties It was fought vigor- ously in the house yesterday after noon, but passed by an easy majority It adds 20 names at $l19 each and is made retractive for the year 1920.