The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-13
SENATE MAKES
FRENZIED HUNT
FOR REVENUES
t-Minute Campaign for
Money to Balance State
Budget Launched.
SALES TAX IS REVIVED
Amendments Are Sought to
$3.50 Measure: Invoke
CIoture Rule.

Last minute effort to find new
revenue sources from which to bal
ence budgets and wipe out deficits
anticipated through enactment of
the $3.50 property tax limitation law
is scheduled in the state senate to-
day.
Members of the house, having
contributed an income and intangi-
bles tax, awaited senate action.
Facing, adjournment Monday,
hackers of the retail sales tax re-
newed their drive for passage of
revenue measures as a last resort.
Senator J. Clyde Hoffman's origi-
nal sales tax bill failed of passage
in the senate. but as member of
the special tax committee he is
drafting another one.
Amends S1.5O Bill
Meanwhile, Senator Lee J. Hart
yell (Rep)., Ft. Wayne. has pre-
pared amendments to the $3.50 bill
which will leave a loophole for the
state to raise the l5-cent levy limit
to 20 cents, through appeal to the
state tax board.
Local levy emergency appeals
were provided for in the $3.50 bill.
In voting the Rowley bill through
the house Friday, members declared
that they have added $7000,000 in
T fees. The bill, which came from
the senate, levies of a 50-cent fill
ing fee on each 500 of mortgages.
Senator Alonzo H. Lindley (Rep0 j,
Kingman, secured advancement of
the house income TAX bill to escond
reading in the senate and the in
tangibles tax is ready for passage.
Cloture Rule Invoked
Cloture rule has been invoked for
for the remainder of the session,
with. exception made for these tax
measures. Under the ruling no
senator can talk more than FIVE
minutes in debate and three minutes
in rebuttal
Motion to limit debate was made
by Senator James J. Nejdl (Rep) !,
Whiting, chairman of the senate
rules committee.
The limitation will apply to final
passage of the pari-mutual bill,
which is on third reading, after
minor amendments in the senate
Friday. However, the bill is eX-
pected to raise considerable revenue
through the 500 a day license fee
charged each track where betting
machines are used.
Members of the house Friday
killed the senate home rule" bill,
which would place Jurisdiction over
all offices and salaries in the hands
Of local boards. oVte was SIS to 81.
Lobbyists Are Target
Debate centered around the pres
ence of taxpayer association lobby
lists, who swarmed into the lower
house when the bill was up for pas
sage.
1t had been introduced in the SEN
ate early in the session by Hoff-
man.
An hour of debate in the senate
marked the passing to third reading
of the house bill providing a new
method of financing sewage disposal
plants. Under provisions of the bill.
the construction money will be pro-
vided at per cent by the federal
reconstruction finance corporation
and paid through monthly levy on
sewer users.
It is one of the bills seeking to
; give employment through self
liquidating public works.
Approves Utilities Bill
Senate approval also was voted
for a less drastic municipal utilities
bill than the one now awaiting sig
nature of the Governor. Under this
bill. through senate amendments, the
public-owned plants will remain
under pubic service commission jul
risdiction.
House members are expected TO
refuse to concur in a bill by which
Lindley put all automobile license
plate distribution in the hands of
county assessors
The bill passed by straight G.
o. P party vote in the senate and
is considered blow to the Demo-
cratic secretary of states office
which now has charge of plate dis
g tribution.