The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-01
REVENUE MEASURE ALREADY DRAF TED BY RECESS BODY
First Session To Find Law makers Faced With Many
 Recommendations
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU l
 THE AGE-HERALD Montgomery, Ala, June 30 ]

Montgomery, Ala, June 50 Alabama's legislature will return to Montgomery one week from Tuesday for a session which will continue 34 Legislative days. The first session will find the lawmakers faced with large number of recommendations which will be made by four recess commit tees as a result of investigations made since the short session was concluded in February. The committees which will have their reports ready for sub mission during the early days of the session are those on finance and tax ation, education, agriculture and con- servation.
 Greatest interest will be shown in the report of the committee on fi- nance and taxation, because 1t will carry with 1t a proposal for revenue legislation under which the state will operate during the next four years. The first draft of the bill has been completed by subcommittee of the recess committee, which Is composed of Alfred M. Tunstall of Hale, J. M. Foster of Tuscaloosa and w. D. Graves of Tallapoosa. This bill will be submitted to the entire committee at the final session before te legis- lature meets, which will be held Monday.
 Little Information Given.
 Little information has been given to the public up to this time. but 1t is known the recess committee Will ask the legislature to put the duty or assessing and collecting taxes on the assessors and collectors elected by the people with supervisory power vested in the state tax commission. Under this proposal the tax commission would have authority to review the assessments of the county tax asses convinced that the assessments were either below the proper value or above the proper value.
 No information has been offered re- | garding the assessment and license schedules, but general gossip has been that the recess committee will not propose any radical changes but will he content with the old basis for as- sessment, desiring only to maintain | the revenue HOW coming to the state o O o
 To Urge Millage Tax.
 The committee on education among other things will recommend the adoption of special millage tax Tor the support of public education. This nroposal was made by Governor kilpy | in his final message and by GoVernor Brandon in his first message to the legislature. Several other recom- mendations will be made by the com mittee in the belief that the putting of the suggestions into law will mean the advancement of the state educa- tionally during the next four years The committee on agriculture has | devoted much of the recess to the consideration of plans for the deVel, opnent of agriculture. It has visited other states and has made a study or | the methods of the more advanced
 states with the view of incorporating
 the best of the laws of other states
 with the laws of this state. The com
 mittee will propose complete code
 work of drafting the code was done
 by J. NJ Moore, state commissioner or | agriculture, and secretary or the re-
 cess committee.
 To Recommend Changes.
 ] Little information has been made
 public regarding the work of the re-
 cess committee on conservation which
 was done on the gulf coast. rms
 committee inspected the oyster and
 shrimp industries on the Alabama | coast and Mississippi coast, and visit
 cd various sections of the state i'll
 an effort to obtain information re- | gartlins the needs of the state along | the lines of conservation laws In ad-
 dltion to recommendations regarding | the revision of the shrimp ana OySlcl l laws, the recess committee will pre-
 sent information regarding changes
 which it believes necessary In the
 game and fish laws.
 While leaders of the legislature
 who have expressed themselves hope the work can be completed during the
 last days of July, not many believe the session can be brought to an end until some time in September. The big | fight naturally will be on the revenue law. This year the revenue bill will
 be introduced during the early days of the session and an effort will be
 made to have 1t enacted into law be- l fore other legislation Is taken up.
 However, if past performances are | an indica ton the revenue bill will be among the last ones to reach the desk | of Governor Brandon.
 The 34 legislative days probably
 will consume twice as many calen-
 dar days. Recesses must be taken in | order that the committees may hear
 delegations of citizens who desire to | present arguments for and against
 pending legislation and weekend re- | cesses generally are taken so the
 members may look after their inter l ests back home. In the past an av- 1 craze of three sessions week have
 been held. If this be the practice this
 year, adjournment cannot be taken
 sine die until the middle of Septem- | Der.
 leans, Pensacola and Jacksonville.
 Ninth-Is 1t not that Mobile needs more business men who will give a