Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-08-06
ACTPASSEDBY
SENATEATlA.M M.
AFTER BATTLE
Drink Tax Agreement
PLAYS Part, Although
Killed By House
imes-Recorder Bureau,
Kimball House.

J IllltS-htCOIueI ID uIbdu,
| Kimball House
ATLANTA, August with the
last day for the introduction of new
matter, the house spent the entire
morning session today in filiburster-
ing an attempting to override the
calendar presented by the rules COM
mittee. Charges were made that
Speaker Neill had delivered the COM
mittee, lock, stock and barrel, and
only favored measures that had been
placed on the schedule.
Wyatt, of Troup, led the filibust-
er. Eennis, of Baldwin, declared the
fact that the bill carrying the $780,
| 600 deficiency fund for the state sani-
tarium had been left off and the
house had refused to place it on the
, calendar meant that institution would
close in September. -
The Macon capitaI ranovalist as
| serted that Governor Hardwick had
told the rules committee that he
would not stand fON placing the bill
providing for Improvements on the
mansion, and plans are being made to
| present the lease measure before the
house next week.
And the wrangle continued with
few local bills receiving considera-
| ton.
The filibuster against the calendar
| ended at noon in the defeat of the
minority. The program objected to
| was the deficiency appropriation
bills for state institutions, including
Tech, the Academy for the Blind
and the Traing School for Boys.
Acting on the solicition of the gov
ernor an dafter sealing a verbal
| compact that tax of one per cent
per drink and one per cent per bottle
0 nall soft drings will be adopted by
| the senate today, that body last night
| just before l o'clock passed the one
cent gallon gasoline bill by a vote
Of 70 to after long fight in which
half a dozen senators who voted for
the bull, had spoken most vigorously
against it.
In order to prevent the return of
the bill to the house not a single
amendment was allowed to get in, but
the measure was passed exactly as ID
came from the house, including what
ever objectionable features it car
res in order to keep it out of con-
l ference and to it from the certainty
that if it ever got back into posses
sion of the house again it will be
tabled.
At the same time the senate, vot-
ing with the oft repeated declara-
ton during the voting that favorable
votes were being polled solely on the
| agreement that soft drink tax
would be adopted, necessarily had to
| know that the identical proposition
in the general tax bill already has
been proposed and overwhelmingly
/ defeated in the house and there was
! no chance to get it on. In fact the
two principal opponents in the SEN
! ate Of the soft drink tax voted for
! the gasoline tax and both are known
to be unalterably opposed to a soft
drink tax.
Members of the house, however,
are saying that on this proposition
/ the house may one time fool the SEN
ate and go ahead and accept the
soft drink tax, by reconsideration.
The senate committee late Friday
| "lISiuOoI CoHi pItLeu ana recon-
mended for passage, as amended,
the general tax bill carrying between
three-Quarters and one million more
revenue than contained in the meas
ure as it passed the house.
The tax on carbonic acid gas, in
| tended to reach the bottlers of soft
drinks, was cut from the house figure
of four cents per pound pressure to
three cents A cigar tax of one cent
/ on all cigars selling for ten cents
or more was added and an entirely
new compromise section written for
the grand opera tax.
Unable to get into agreement with
| in itself, there was a subcommittee
of five named with instructions to
work out a tax for that business. 1t
wrote into the bill in place of a grand
opera tax one providing for a tax
of five per cent on seat admission
sales on all amusement enterprises
of whatever kind to include concerts,
operas, theaters and picture houses.
| Indicted Governor To