Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-06-02
many OPINIONS
i'm SENATE ON
APPROPRIATION N
Adjournment Taken This
Morning When Senate fails
to Establish Quorum. Cap
ital Cossips on Muddle
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AtHii.Nr itAdS. June -.-lhe senate
adjourned today until Monday after
failing to establish a quorum. The SEN
ators this morning expressed many op-
iaions on the status of the appropria-
tions. and several are urging the leg
islature Ia get down to business and
make the appropriations and revenues
meet.
The task Of cutting the departmen ntal
and eleemosynary appropriation billie to
level with other appropriation reduc-
tions was assigned to subcommittee
by the house appropriations committee.
The eleemosynary budget, il was stat
ed, would probably be cut a million and
the departmental budget by more than
half million.
At'STN. Texas. June 2-Members 81
the farm bloc in the lower branch of the
Texas legislature yesterday adopted a
resolution pledging the bloc to remain
in the state capital -for Christmas un-
less the original appropriation for the
state public school fund Of $6.OO0.O
and the rural aid appropriation Of S..
OOo.0n0 be authorized in, the meanwhile
While the bloc was voting TO stand by
until passage Of the bills carrying these
original figures is secured. new appro-
priation measures reported to the house
cut two millon dollars from the public
school fund The rural aid appropriation
was left S:,.OO0.Ou0 a. originally passed
The house concluded its legislative de-
liberations until Monday after engross-
ing four bills and defeating a fifth. The
ance tax on hides If ur-bearing ami
mails. was defeated when IL was post
poned indefinitely By a vote Of A. to 80.
Two bills by Representative Carpen-
ter relating TO the rendition If property
for taxation We're engrossed. One re-
rendered includes all owned. whole one
requires oath Of tax assessors that they
have checked all personal property and
made an effort 10 have il assessed. The
Downs bin appropriating funds for col
lection of Inheritance taxes also was en-
crossed. as was the Turner bill per
hitting the leasing OF state lands for oil
purposes.
The house appropriations committee
began its work ~ passing on appropria-
tion bills this afternoon. reporting three
of the major bills The emergency
school appropriation was cut from
SG.0OO.000 a vetoed by the governor
10 Si.OO0.Cuo: the rural aid was reduced
from SiW0.G00 a. proposed in the Green
bill 20 S:,.OOO.OOO as passed last ses-
sion. The cleemosynary appropriation
bill was reduced approximately frem the
amounts passed az the last session.
leaving the total for the bill approxi-
matcly $6.G0O.Wo.
AUSTIN, Texas. June Gross re-
ceipt taxes on electric light. power or
water companies. express. interurban
ard cleo ric railway companies would be
increased TO two and three-fourths per
cent under the terms of the Patman
bill passed by the house and pending
in the senate. The measure would in
crease revenues from such companies
approximately 100000 annually. accor-
ding to Representative Patman Of Cass
county. author Of the bill.
The bill Is one OF series of occu-
pa ion and gross receipts tax measures
introduced in the house by Representa-
tive Patman. As originally introduced.
this measure included an increased tax
on telephone companies. This provi-
sion. however. was removed in view Of
the Culp telephone tax bill which in
creases taxes on such companies.