Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-04
INCOME TAX CUT
MEASURE PASSED
Virginia Senate Approves
BiII-Proposed Auto Ii
CenSe Act ReCommitted.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, February with
two important joint committee hearings
in the afternoon, the Virginia General
Assembly was in session for only a short
period yesterday, the Senate passing the
amended Fuller income tax reduction
bill granting relief to taxpayers of APP
proximately 100000 annually. The
House passed several local measures and
recommitted the Powers bill to revoke
for year the automobile license of a
person convicted of transporting liquor.
Exemptions of single persons were in
creased from 81 900 to 81 $50 under the
amended Fuller income tax reduction
measure passed in the Senate. while the
exemption for married persons or per-
sons with dependents was raised from
$4,000 to $780, Senator r. H. Stubs
OF Middlesex cast the only vote against
the measure.
Fight for Increase.
Senators Robert Gillian of Peters
burg, and Lloyd E. warren of Ports
mouth, led a fight to increase the ex-
emptionS. The two Senators were au-
thorS of measure to raise the State
exemption to the level OF the Federal
exemption, but in the committee hearing
both agreed to a single exemption of
$1,250, while holding out for a married
exemption of $4,000. Senator Fuller, in
debate today, said he was in sympathy
with the move to make the State eX-
emptionS the same as those of the Fed
eral Government, but did not believe it
was practical at the present time.
Both houses adopted a resolution by
Senator Warren providing for a COM
mission of one member of the House,
one member of the Senate and three
members to be named by the governor,
to report on the proper design for the
seal of state. The author stated that
several designs are in use and that the
seals on the doorknobs of the Senate
chamber differ from those on the Senate
stationery. Joint approval was also
given Delegate John B. Dey'S resolution
requesting Virginia Representatives in
Congress to seek to have the Federal
Government construct bridge at Pungo
Ferry in Princess Anne County.
Debate Over Licenses.
The House engaged in a short debate
over advancing on the calendar the bill
to revoke the automobile license for
year of any person convicted of trans
porting a half gallon or more of liquor,
Delegates Powers of Henrico and Jones
of Richmond city seeking to have the
measure favorably reported by the
moral and social welfare committee ad-
vanced. Vivian Page of Norfolk, chair
man of the courts of justice committee,
sought to have the bill sent to his COM
mittee, on the ground that it was de-
fective, being joined in his argument by
Delegate McCauley of Roanoke and
Delegate Mcintyre of Fauquier. After
the lawyers explained that the measure
did not include persons convicted of
being under the influence of "hypnot-
ics,' the House voted to send the bill to
the courts of justice committee.
The House held a special prayer serv-
ice for Delegate Alan Hairless of Mont
gomery. seriously i'll with pneumonia in
a Richmond hospital, and adopted a
resolution of sympathy for Delegate D.
w. Chichester of Stafford, whose father,
Justice r. H. L. Chichester of the Vir-
GINA Supreme Court of Appeals, died
today at Fredericksburg.
New Legislation.
Important new legislation poured into
both houses. Ashton Dovel of Will
liamsburg offered in the House an ex-
pected measure to virtually abolish the