San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-04
BUSINESS MEN
|. OF DALLAS To
URGE ECONOMY
Committee to Place Matters
Before the Leg
islature.
TAX BILL DOUBLED
Resolution Urges Drastic
Cuts i nExpenditures
Of State.
TAX BILL DOUBLED


ing business men Of Dallas were named
Saturday afternoon as committee to
60 TO Austin Monday night, to appear
before the Legislature in an effort to
secure modification Of several proposed
tax laws and to urge program Of
economy in state expenditures.
The committee was appointed by
Nathan Adams, who was chairman Of
the mass meeting at the city hall audi
torium Saturday morning, at which
resolutions were adopted opposing e1-
cessive taxes.
With Mr.. Adams as chairman, the
committee is composed of the following
Mai. III. Thomas, F. d. Horton, Hart
| Willis. C. L. Wakefield, Jack Beall,
Frank NJ. Smith, Schuyler Marshall,
s. B. Perkins, Frank E. Austin, u. b.
Marvin, John L. Orr, Charles Il.
Sanger, o. B. Colquitt, George w.
Briggs, Louis Lipscitz, r. l.. Thorn
ton and Walter Miller.
A meeting of the committee hGt been
| called for 10 80 Monday morning to
lay plans for the campaign at Austin.
The resolutions adopted at Satur-
day morning meetings was in substance
as follows:
individual Pays Taxes.
"To the Legislature of the State OF
! Texas:
ave, the citizens Of Dallas county,
assembled in mass meeting fully APP
| preciate that you are laboring in behalf
| of the people of Texas, that many per-
picking and difficult problems confront
| YOU. and that in meeting them, you are
| governed and actuated by the highest
patriotism and desire to do only that
! which is best for the state and the
| happiness and welfare of people. we
are moved only BY desire and will to
cooperate with you for the good OF
| our state.
"There are now pending before you
many bills levying against the citizens
| of Texas taxes in enormous sums.
Some of the bills are designed to tax
the citizens directly, and others to. tax
| the products Of industries. But it can
not be disputed that any tax levied by
the state is paid by the individual citi-
| zen, whether paid directly to the state
or indirectly through increased prices
of products Some Of the tax bills now
| pending and the amounts to be collect
| ed under them, as estimated by their
advocates are as follows:
Intangible tax bill S4000.00Q.
Estate income tax 100000.
Severance tax on natural resources
of the state S2.500,000.
"Gross production tax Of 3 per cent
on oil, being double the amount here
tofore levied, $2,5O0,00O.
Tax of 2 cents a gallon on all gaso-
line retailed, $5,200000.
| Increased license tax on motor
vehicles, $4,500,O00.
Amusement tax S1,000000.
inheritance tax S3,000,000.
Total, S29,7OO,00O.
| Double Tax Bill.
! "The present revenues of the state
amount to $2S.54S000. The increase
as contemplated before the tax bills,
amounts to $29,700,000. This would
make the total revenues sos, 900
against S2S,54S,000 as at present.
| "Our country and state are passing
| through period of reconstruction fol-
lowing the World War, and we are
burdcned with enormous debts created
for the prosecution of the war. We
are just beginning to recover from a
period of serious business depression.
There is the most urgent necessity at
this time for strict economy in the
administration of our state government
"For the benefit of the individual
citizens of the state, the existing in
| dustries in Texas, some Of which are
developing the natural resources of the
state. and all of which are rapidly in
creasing our taxable values, should be
tostered and encouraged.
Should Encourage Investors.
Investors, both at home and abroad,
should be encouraged to put their
money at work in Texas, and to keep
it at work here, thus further increas-
ing our taxable values and lessening
the burden of taxation upon the in
diyidual citizens. The plain and GER
tain effect Of these tax measures, il
they are enacted into law, will be to
| discourage and restrict Industries and
investment in Texas.
! at is, therefore, resolved that we
| petition the members Of the Senate and
House of Representatives of Texas to
stand for economy at this time, to op-
pose vigorously any and all tax meas.
ures not absolutely necessary for the
actual administration of the state gov.
eminent. and that they do not impose
any unfair burden upon any indus.
tries of the state.
| at is further resolved that a copy
| of this resolution be furnished to each
Of our senator's and representatives and
to each of the daily newspapers Of
Dallas county"
|