Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-02-14
DELEGATES REPORT
MEASURE TO HOUSE HOUSE
| WITH ENDORSEMENT
Creates New Commission
to Take Place of
the Old.
is SPONSORED BY BYRD
AND THOMAS W. OZLIN /.
Supported by Governor
Trinkle, Carrying Out Plan
of Reorganization.
PASS ny BOND ISSUE PROPOSAL
rInn to Issue s1:.oo0.ooo Receive.
| Setback In Committce-BriEht
| Make. Plea.
ASS ny noND ISSUE PROPOSAL
Plan to Issue s1:.ooo.ooo Receives
Setback In Conrnittce-BriEht
Makes Plea.

unanimous approval OF the Ozlin.
BYRD bill abolishing the present State
Highway Commission and creating.
a new highway commission, was civ.
en- by the Committee on Roads ana
Inland Navigation at the meeting
yesterday afternoon, and the meas-
ure will be reported favorably to
inc House Of Delegates this morn
ihs. Ihis measure has the Indorse-
meht OF Governor TrInkle, carrying
out his reorganization plan.
The committee also reported favor.
ably the Bright bill providing that
Primary Road No. be designated
as the Jefferson Davis Highway"
and reported out OF committee n wide-
tire bill, which calls for tires air
inches wide on wagons or other ye-
hicles carrying four-ton load upon
Tue Improved highways of the State.
me committee also reported favor
ABLY on bin designed to place a tax
upon every wagon used in hauling
cross-ties and logs and products OF
sawmills. s3y.}i d {
Bond Issue Passed ny.
Delegate T. C. Commins, chairman
of the House Roads Committee. cast
the vote which caused the wright
Brown bill. calling for n bond issue
OF *l2'0Oo.oo0 for highways. to be-
passed by indefinitely. The vote, with
several members absent. was 4 to 4.
ana the chairman cast the negative
vote against the measure Delepate
j. Fu.mer Bright appealed for the
reporting out of the measure, but his
words were lost upon the committee.
The House Finance Committee read
committee substitute offered for the
Pratt tax equalization bill, and after
n discussion reported II out of com ;
mittee. The bill creates n State Tax
Commission and aholishes the present
State Tax Board. The three memberai
or the commission arc to be appointed
by the Governor, first for one. two
and three years. and at the expIrationi.
OF these terms the appointments are
10 ne Tor terms OF six years. The
sa larry OF the commissioners is fixed
AT $4.50o each per year. Among the
duties or the commission Will be tho
raising and lowering OF assessed
values In any city or town and sets
up the machinery for the function
Ing OF tho commission. The sum ot
100000 for each OF tho two wear.
Is appropriated. The bill provides
that lots in cities and lands in the
country shall be placed in classes.
delegate Pratt. who fathered the
original bill and whose bill the sub
stttute Celebrates. says two thirds OF
the states of the Union now have tax
equalization laws.
No Action ON Richards Measure.
The House Finance committea
passed by temporarily the Richards
bill exempting carnival companies
ana other organizations giving en-
tertainments for the benefit Of voi-
ohteer hre departments from the
State tax.
Regulation OF public dance halls
and pavilions is provided for In a
Dill renorted out by the House Fi-e
nance C.'nmittee yesterday. The
measure provides fer a $40 fee for
the operation OF each dance hall, and
exempts dances given by fraternai.
benevolent or charity societies, and
hre organizations. The licenses ara
revokable any time within ten daya
on notice that the hall Is Injurious
to the public health. morals or public
welfare. The dance hall regulation
Dill originates from Arlington County.
where parties from Washington have
caused considerable disturbances. IL
Is coincident that the many bills for
the divorce laws of the
state come from Alexandria, situated
In Arlington County.