The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-01-11
BONNIE ER SEEKS BAN ON SUNDAY MOVIES AND ON BASE BALL.
Proposed Law Would Prohibit Amusements in Mobile and Montgomery-Exemp-
 ton Contested
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU |
 THE AGE-HERALD E


 The first bill introduced in the leg islature of Alabama at it's quadren- nial seeks to prohibit all form of amusement on sunday when admis- sion fees are charged. It was intro dueed in the senate by Senator Bon ner of Wilcox, chairman of the com mittee on temperance, and was re ferred to Senator Bonners commit tee by Lieutenant Governor Miller.
 While the proposed law would ap- ply to the entire state. the particu- lar effect would be to prohibit Sun day baseball and Sunday motion pie ture shows in Mobile and Sunday pie ture shows in Montgomery, The local governments of Mobile and Mont gomery permit baseball and picture shows on Sunday
 Senator Bonner's proposal is that a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500 be imposed for the first of fense with provision that judge or jury may impose hard labor sen tence of not more than six months. On a second conviction, the offender would be fined not less than S100 nor more than $500 and would also be sentenced to hard labor for not less than three months or not more than six months.
 In order to remove the authority of the city governments of Mobile and Montgomery to permit Sunday amuse- ments, the bill especially provides that any section of any commission government law which conflicts with the bills shall be repealed.
 Opposes Exemption.
 r4+fz poses the repeal of section 2069 of the code which provides for the ex- emption of water power development for 10 years from the time work is started. This bill was offered by Senator ]. NJ. Pelham, Sr., of Wash ington, and was referred to the com mittee on finance and taxation. Sen ator Telham also introduced a bill providing for the repeal of the see- tion of the revenue law of 1919 which created the system of tax adjusters.
 The three bills will create three fights in the legislative halls. Agi tation in favor of the repeal of the exemption status and the tax adjus- ter section of the revenue laws has been carried on many months and entered into the campaign which pre- ceded the democratic primary in Au- gust.
 The three issues also came up in the two special sessions of the legis- lature since Governor kilby was n- augurated, but each time forces op- posed to any change in the laws were strong enough to prevent the enact- ment of the proposed legislation
 Proposes Revenue Law.
 Governor Kilby sent to the house of representative a special message containing a proposed revenue bill Fl epared by the governor. state au- ditor and attorney general The con stitution requires the retiring off eials to submit this revenue bill to the legislature during the first week of the session.
 The proposed law would change the taxing machinery from the county tax adjusters up to the state tax commission and would continue ef- fective practically all important pro- visions of the revenue law. Sugges- tions are made for some changes, one proposal being the levying of a tax of two cents a gallon on all gas oline sold in Alaba ma. The proposed law was presented merely for the consideration of the lawmakers and was not formally introduced. It was by Speaker Merrill to the rules committee for such considera- ton $ it might give to it.
 Brandon Legally Elected.
 Carrying out the formality re- quired by the constitution of Ala baua the senate and house in joint session Wednesday declared Judge William W. Brandon of Tuscaloosa legally elected governor of Alabama Since the results of the election were