Evening star., 1932-07-17
SPENDING RECORD
|SBROKEN IN STATE
Legislature, Guided by Huey
Long, Defeats All Economy
Measures.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW ORLEANS, July Is (N.AN.A).
-Louisiana's citizens. especially taxpay-
ers, are beginning to survey condltlonS
in the State and to anticipate ef1ectS
of the 1882 session of the Legislature,
which has just ended.
Administration majoritles in both
Houses of the General Assembly, fol-
lowing the urging of United States Sen
ator Huey P. Long, voted new taxes,
passed the largest appropriations bill in
the history of the State, killed all meas
ures designed to reduce the cost OF gov
ernment, defeated all bills intended to
decrease salaries Of public Jobholders,
and thrust aside measures drafted to
relieve the taxation burden of owners
Of real estate and automobiles.
The new taxes imposed by the Legis-
1ature are on tobacco, soft drinks, elec-
tricity, insurance premiums, corporation
franchises and chain stores.
s5,O0O,OOO More Spent.
Appropriations made out OF the
States general fund for the next two
years exceed by more than s5000,00
appropriations made out of the same
fund for similar purposes in the past
Among tie specific things the Legisla-
ture did in addition to imposing new
taxes and making the largest appro-
priations in the history of Louisiana
are:
Killed proposed constitutional
amendment to put the State depart
missions on budget system.
Killed proposed constitutional
amendment to put all State employees
under civil service.
Killed bill prohibiting the receiving
of undated designations by the Gov
ernor or any other State official.
Killed a bill making 1t possible to
prosecute election crooks.
Killed bill to curb promiscuous bor-
rowing by the State Board of Liquida-
ton.
Killed Tax Relief Bills.
Killed four constitutional amend
ments designed to give relief to prop
erty taxpayers.
Killed a constitutional amendment to
abolish the property tax on automobiles.
Killed constitutional amendment
and enabling act designed to reduce the
minimum license on automobiles from
SIS to IS.
Passed a bill authorizing the Com
mission Council of the City of New Or
leans to levy a 10 per cent amusement
tax
Passed bill giving Mayor Walrnsley
control of the New Orleans Police De-
partment beyond the expiration OF his
term OF Office.
Passed a bill aimed at the insurance
business of Dudley j. LIE Blanc, mem
Der of the Louisiana Public Service
Commission and unsuccessful candidate
for Governor in the last State election.
Cut Salaries of Foes.
Passed a bill authorizing the Com
mission Council Of New Orleans to re-
duce by 1912 per cent the salaries Of
deputies and clerks in the office Of
Criminal Sheriff George Williams of
Orleans Parish, who broke with the old
regular organization and supported lie
Blanc for Governor.
Killed resolutions designed to compel
heads Of State departments institutions,
boards and commissions to produce
their records, to show their receipts and
expenditures during the past two years,
with lists of employees and the salaries
paid them.
Killed constitutional amendment
proposing to abolish the existing High
way Commission of three members and
to substitute one highway commissioner
at a salary Of $4,000 year. and con-
tanning the provision that no employe
of the highway department be paid
more than $4,000 a year.
Senator Long spent greater part Of
the 60-day session in Baton Rouge. He
participated in the drafting Of the tax
measures and the general appropria-
tions bill, and handled the compromises
on the tax bills.
Copyright 1882, BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc).