Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-18

amended bill AZ once arises. An effort
may also be made to exempt charitable
and benevolent bc1ucsts from the opera
ton Ot the tax on collat""al inheri
tances.
The fve bills. il is estimated would
produce revenue for two years as fol-
lows:
Hard coal. ~ Per Cent....... 'ls 900 900
Gasoline, I cent a gallon .,...... 4. 300, 900
Bilboards S per ceht on gross ,
lnhcrtances 10 per cent I'LL, 5000, 900
Theatres. rer cent on the gross
receipts ..,.,.....,,.,,,,', l,nO0'OOO
Approximatcly the total of these
would be about S2j .000. 900 or about
Sl2. .OOO. 900 n year.
With the exception Of the hard coal
tax. these revenue raiscrs are In the
hands Of the Senate finance committee
for action tomorrow. II Is expected that
they will bc reported out. The hard
coal tax is on first reading In the
House. 1t Is declared today that despite
predictions Of defeat last week, this
measure will also pass the House and
get over in the supposedly Sproul con =
trollpd Senate. The late amendments
to the bill. providing for a liberal
soaking" Of the new tax on the con.
SumCr, make il moro or less satisfactory
20 the coal operators. At any rate the
coal interests in the House now expect
TO pass the buck 10 Sproul.
Welfare Bill Hearing
\ public hearing is to be held on the
welfare bill tomorrow. Present plans
call for many amendments, one OF which
would limit the powers Of the new de-
partmcut t. inspection only of those
institutions receiving state aid.
The Senate committee on law and
order will act on the Asbury equal
rights" measure aud tho Woncr prchi
hition enforcement bill at session 10 =
morrow. The equal rights bill has
lrasSrd two readings in the Senate and
il il Is reported from committee II will
bc up for final consideration on Wpdncs
day. The Woncr bill Is the admins
tration measure amending the Brooks
license law. which passed the House
last week.
The congressional and judicial rcap-
portioNmcnt measures nrc on the third
reading calendar Of the Senate. The
hill rCapr0rtioninC thu legislative dis
tricts is on second reading In tho Sen d.
ate. Tho rCapporti"nmcut measures
will likely 80 through !hc Senate. but
the congressional ana Legislative meas
urcs are expected to rcCCivr strong on.
position in tho House. The senatorial
rraprortioumcDt bill is expected to- be
introduced in the ScUatc tonight.
School Bills Go slowly
Other school bills Increasing the
length Of school terms. reducing the age
uf compulsory cducntion from eight to
six years and cCntra'iIing control of
all examining boards are slowly wend-
ing their way through the House.
The constitutions convention meas
urcs is ON the third reading calendar
in the House. having passed the Sen
ate None Of the bills passed after to-
night will have to be acted upon by
Governor Sproul until thirty days after
the Legislature ndjuurns. through the
law which provides that he has
thirty days for consideration Of all bills
that reach him ten days prior to the
Adjournment of tho General Assembly
Heads ot state departments have been
warned by Chairman w. j. McCaig.
of the House appropriations committee,
eral elect Lewis and pare down
,hcir requests for funds. 1t has
becu intimated TINT departments will
not be- allowed sums larger than those
appropriated in 1919 for tho conduct Of
their departments during tho next two
years The general appropriation bill
will come out If the House committee in
am"udcd form on Thursday =" it can be
passed finally at Fridays session and
turned over to the Senate for COuSd
Grafton next week. With the exception
Of larger appropriation for schools
and for forest restoration and fire pre-
vCnti0n the amounts are not expected to
exceed those Of two years ago.