Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-03-09
NEWS AND VIEWS
From The
STATE CAPITAL
BY F. r. BirdsaIl
By F. K. BirdsaH

house some time ago exempting from
ad valorem taxation manufacturers
and enterprises of certain classes for
five years, was amended by the senate
to include a number Of other enter.
prises and utilities. The house has con.
Cured in the senate amendments and
the bill has been sent to the governor
who will doubtless approve it, as it
seems to be a very popular measure.
passing the house with a tremendous
majority and lacking only one vote Of
being unanimous in the senate. This
bill extends exemptions to pipe lines
for oil and gas, and equipment and ap.
planes used in transportation of oil
and artificial gas, crude oil, electricity
for fuel, light and power, ice factories
and electric light plants, cotton fac.
tories, wooden mills, hosiery and rope
factories, all factories for the manu-.
facture Of farming implements, auto
mobiles, buggies, wagons, clothing,
shoes, furniture, cement building tile,
drain tile, brick clay products, glass.
wood veneering plants, paper and pro-
ducts from wood pulp, soap and chemi-
Gals, all creameries and cheese plants,
all factories for canning, pork packing
and cold storage factories, milk con-
densing plants, and preserving food,
all tanneries making leather products
and factories of all kinds operated OK.
clusively by water power, and rail.
roads.
The house bill cutting the salaries
Of Supreme Court judges, circuit
judges, chancellors, state officers and
employees to the bone, Is pending be-
fore the fees and salary committee Of
the senate Many members of the
house are expressing the hope that the
senate will kill the bill, which seems
to have been treated by some members
| Of that body as joke. 1t Is under
stood that lawyers throughout the
state are appealing to Senator Nixon,
chairman Of the fees and salary COM
mittee Of the Senate, and his commit
teemen not only to protect the salaries
Of the judges and chancellors, but are
cooperating with all other interested
persons for the killing of the bill, N
order that new one may be intro
duced which may be regarded as fair
and equitable to all officials and en-
ployees.
There is bill pending in the legis-
lature to repeal the law requiring the
publication of list Of poll tax delin-
Quents by tax collectors of the So
counties. The maximum price for the
publication as provided by the present
law is SIS, and it is learned that in a
number Of the larger counties the
newspapers refused to print the list,
because they would lose money. It is
not known what the fate of the bill to
repeal this law will be, but with the
poll tax delinquent list augmented by
additional women poll tax delinquents,
most Of them colored, as is the case
now with colored tax delinquents, if
the law stands, in all probability news
papers of the larger counties will re-
fuse to print such list and the tax
collectors will have to post the list
as the law specifies where no publica-
tion is made.
Members Of the legislature report
that the white women Of the state as
they learn from their respective homes
are preparing to register pretty gener-
ally. 1t is stated that in Tippah Coun-
ty some LOO white women have al
ready registered. The registration
books are open at all the county sites,
and under the law, county clerks, who
are registrars, after due publication
Of the fact, must take the poll books
and spend day at every polling pre-
cinct in their respective counties four /
months before the congressional cleo
ton this fall in order to give the men
and women an opportunity to register
without having to go to the county
sites.
The. dog bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Mitts of Lee, passed the
house Of representatives by a. majority I
vote, but failed to receive the three
fifths vote Of the members required |
by the constitution on revenue bills. |
The Mitts bill taxes male dogs 800 |
and female dogs $500, and is comment
ed upon as avery meritorious measure. 4
1t was stated during. the discussion |
on the matter that in many localities
there were more dogs than hogs, and |
that mad dogs, according to the state
board of health statistics, were on the |
alarming increase. A motion was
made to reconsider, and Representa-
tive Mitts is hopeful that his bill may
vet pass the house be approved by the
senate, and become a law. = ~ 4
Nothing has been donesget tregtila-
ting the compensation of county offI-
Gals. The senate has passed the fec
bill and sent it to the house. The
house has passed the salary bill and
sent it to the senate, where 1t lies
on the table subject to call. This
matter may have to be thrashed out
ultimately in conference committee.