The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-25
GAS TAX TO YIELD MILLION THIS YEAR RECORDS INDICATE
First Months Collection To Reach S86,00O Figures of
 State Bureaus Show
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU
 THE AGE-HERALD MOutyOmery Ala AnriI 1i

the legislature in January, will bring into the state and county treasuries more than a million dollars a year. Records of the state auditor, state treasurer and tax commission today indicate that the total remittances for the first year will be s1,032,000.
 The tax commission believes remit tances in the future will be greater. Plans for the collection of the tax were formulated recently The great est consumption of gasoline will come during the summer months, it Is ex- pected.
 Fifty per cent of the total will go into the general fund of the state and the remaining 50 per cent will be dis tributed equally among the 67 coun- ties and may be used only in the con- struction or improvement of the pub lie roads.
 Convict. to Make k S Underwear. 4
 About S5 convicts stationed at the Wetumpka prison will be used in the manufacture of light underwear under contract between the state convict department and the Light Wear Manufacturing company of Montgomery. Roy L. Nolen, associate member of the board of convict super visors, today said 69 women and 16 men had been assigned to the work
 
 been placed al the prison by the com pany.
 The convict department will re- ceive payment based on the number of garments manufactured and Is hopeful that the earnings of each woman in the prison will be above Sl a day.
 In addition to this plant, the state will continue to manufacture its own
  tumpka.
 Financial Survey Begun.
 Members of the recess finance com mittee appointed by the legislatu today began general investigation of financial conditions of the state and of all departments. They met with Governor Brandon in the after noon and received detailed statements prepared by state examiners of pub lie accounts.
 After the financial condition of the state has been established and an in spection made Of the disbursements of the state departments, the recess committee and the state budget com mission will draw revenue bill which will be submitted to the legis- lature at the adjourned session. This recess committee has before it all financial measures introduced at the short sessions. One of the most inn portant proposals is that of Senator George w. Duncan of Limestone and Lauderdale counties. whose bill would establish sewerage tax on all nat ural resources of the state, including lumber turentine, coal, iron, graphite, sand and gravel. This bill was pat termed after the law of Louisiana, which is putting from s2.000, 900 to s4ooO,o0o annually into the Louisiana treasury.
 Members of the recess finance committee who are making the in- vestigations are Senators J. B. Ellis of Dallas, J. M. Foster of Tusca- loosa and J. T Carlton of Marengo and Representatives c. w. Ashcraft Of Lauderdale, Alfred M. Tunstall of Hale, K. E. Cunningham of Mobile and w. D. Graves of Tallapoosa.
 DECISION DUE THURSDAY
 Governor Brandon wfrr announce a decision Thursday on the petition of Dossey Rivers of Mobile county for the commutaton of his death sentence to life imprisonment. Rivers is scheduled to be hanged in the Mobile county jail Fri day for the murder of A. c. Brill. deputy sheriff.
 Governor Brandon today said he is making a close study of the file which was returned to him by the state board of pardons last week with the accommodations that no order of communication be isued. Bart B. Chamberlain, solicitor of Mo- bile county, is opposing the com mutation, but large number of citizens of Mobile county have ap- .pealed to the governor 10 change the sentence, contendin, that Rivers never received the opportunity to learn right from wrong and that ex- tenuating circumstances surround the killing.
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