Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-01-19
TWO MORE NORMALS
ARE RECOMMENDED
In Report of Senate Educational
Committee - Road Bonds
Cause Discussion

Frankfort, Jan. l9-The Sen
ate Committee on Education
Wednesday unanimously decided
to report favorably Senator Brig
Harris bill providing for two
new normal schools, one IN East
ern. one in Western kenlucky.
Ehe Educational Survey recon-
mended that one II these schools
be located II lie Big S2n4y .al-
lev and the other somewhere i'll
the Purchase, or Western Ken
tucky.. =
The Democratic members OF
the Senate at an informal meet
about agreed TO retain the law
passed two year> ago. creating
the State Boarl OF Charities and
CprreCg3aus.
This boarI. consisting Cf two
women and SIX men. and BIZ
partisan character, serves with
ont pay
Whatever criticism Wa~ de
velupcd az the session. 1t was
said. was directed at some OF
the employees OF the board and
there was no reflection OH any
member of the board itself
The conference did not decide
ON a policy either ON the road
bond bill. or ON taxation aud rev
cuu- measures. II has been >ug-
ge>tcd that al excise tax bill. To
Weld S2.50OUOO a year, for bgIld-
ing roads and maintaining the
system 50 constructed ur now in
operation. NAV be enacted by the
General Assembly. The prupoun-
der, of this plan expected To- de
rive the money from the state
taN on soft drinks. to replace the
recently repealed Federal tax on
the familiar ice cream soda wa
ter. irom sundry increase, oi cN-
iSting special taxes. or from ne"
sources OF revenue. 10 bc li-Cuv-
cred.
There was some discussion. IL
was learned at The conference
concerning the possibility OF ma
king = shift in the present taN
rates. One plan Is to reduce the
state tax rate uu real estate from
forty tO thirty cents uu the SlCJ
and 10 increase the rate on iutan-
gibIc, from ten To- twenty cents
more than the present rate ] hat
the sentiment among the Demo
cratic members seems 10 be only
passive support for the road
bond plan. and 10 let the Cover
nor and the Republicans take the
lead in urging the General As,
hcmjly TO submit the plan to
the people next fall. j. an indica-
ton There are, OF course, op-
poucnt> 90 the submission plan
in both houses and they seem
more numerous in the House.
Then. too. the advocates and ar
poncnt, OF the road bond vote
are not confined t,acilhcr party.
Democratic support Of the
road bonds seems strongest in
Western Kentucky. and in the
cities; the Republican members
from the mountains also are
strong Tor the bill: in Central
Kentucky. the crest Of the oppo-
sition TO the issue seems now to
be located.
Lee Clark. OF Galloway county.
had the honor of passing the sec
ond bill TO be enacted by the
House OF Representatives at this
session. when his drainage bill
passed By the vote 81 s. TO O.
The bill provides that where
3 per cent OF the property own
ers residing in a drainage district
desire to recede from such a pro-
ject. they may do So. 1t isSaid
that excessive drainage fees have
almost bankrupted Western Ken
tucky farmers.
Senator James X. Rash. Mad
isonville. introduced the bill pre-
pared BY the Kentucky Anti-Sa-
loon League. and which IS a re-
enactment OF the state prohibi-
ton law OF 1920. with amend
ments by which concurrent jur-i
isdiction is given to police. mag
isterial and quarterly courts for
fines OF under $500 AMI jail sen
tences not exceeding % days.
This act i designed to make the
State prohibition law enforcible.
as it has been almsot impossible
to obtain convictions under the
existing statutes.
The bill has the active support
OF DR.. Norman 4. Palmer. State
Superintendent Of the Anti-Sa-
loon League. 1t gets away from
the jury trial feature. by which
many violators of the bootleg
ging Law have escaped. In other