Americus times-recorder., 1923-04-05
EVANS SOLON WOULD
KILL OLD MOTOR LAWS
AND SUBSTITUTE NEW
Has Measure to Tax Cars By
Weight - Must Dim
Lights
COUNTY TO HANDLE TAGS
Overhaul Judicial System-Fav-
ors Abolishing Tax Equaliz-
ing System
COUNTY TO HANDLE TAGS


kill the existing motor vehicle law
and place on the statutes an entire
ly new one, causing vehicles to be
taxed according to their weight in
stead of their horse power, requir-
ing all vehicles to carry lights, re-
gulating the speed Of vehicles and
causing them to dim their lights at
night, and distributing license tags
through county officials instead of
the secretary of state, will be favored
at the coming term of the legisla-
ture by B. G. Tippins, president of
the First National bank of this city
and legislator from this county, he
has announced.
Il think the old law should be
killed and new one made" Mr..
lippins says. "We should tax our
vehicles By weight instead Of horse
power and the present tax is too high
and should be lowered. All vehicles
Of. any description should be forced
S0 carry lights when travelling pub
Vie highway at night and laws should
lbe made and enforced as to the
specd~of passing vehicles, dimmipg
of lights, etc.
License tags should be furnish
ed to some county official in each
county to be sold rather than force
the users to order from the secre-
tary of state director"
Mr., Tippins will probably advocate
q general oyerhauling Of our ju-
dicial SYSTEM" he declares. "We
have entirely too many courts and
their efficiency is sadly lacking and
extremely expensive for our state"
he says.
Il believe that we should have
only three courts with the exception
of the larger cities and they should
be: Justice courts as the lowest with
jurisdiction over misdemeanor and
petty criminal cases as well as suits
up to probably five hundred or a
,Ao11and dollars and that such a JUS
tice court should open every day if
need be-"
Gan appeal for such court
should be superior court and only
from there to a state supreme court,
making thereby only three courts,
justice, superior and supreme. These
courts; properly differed should be
able to handle our judicial business
expediently and economically"
Mr.. Tippins declares he does mot
look with favor at this time on the
proposed tax of two cents a gallon
on gasoline as / believe that motor
vehicles and gas using engines are
no longer luxury but have become
almost indispensable to our every
day life and as such, the users of
gasoline should not be taxed beyond
those of any other product, such as
coal"
Mr.. Tippins would support any
method of taxation that would prove
efficient and equitable, he states but
declares that 4 am unalterably OPP
posed to freak or class taxation and
believe that there should be some
method found to levy taxes from a
standpoint Of equity rather than pick
on any particular class Of trade, in
dustry or property.
Il also believe that we need re-
lief from county and municipal tax
levy and there should be limit to
levy from these sources by making
a certain number Of mills the maxi
mum amount that could be levied by
any county or municipality in this
state"
The present tax equalization sys-
tenn will be bolished, he believes,
stating that he will favor such a
move if something else is found that
will be better,
Regarding the state highway de-
partment, Mr.. Tippins believes that
t If any effort is made against it, the
move will be toward cutting out
unnecessary expenses and getting
more results from the dollars spent" "
He declares he would favor such a
move but viii probably oppose any
I bill to abolish that department as a
whole"
The capital removal problems will
q