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Show Ml AUTO OWNERS DECIDE iLO TOmOTESTGirTAX 1 Ci Tli.it fin torn o!i lo owners 01' Salt Lake .1 Ol nre tailing more! than passing interest hi the pruposal of the oily commission f p to levy a city tax on passenger cars ranging from'.") to $10 annually, an-p. an-p. Ptjr.li ii-j to the weight of the car 'to hi! f 11 taxed, was ui:uiiiV-i"d at a meeting- of automobile owners an. I men who are vitally interested in the automobile tramo in Salt Lake ami Utah, last night at the Conimcr.-iul c-lnh. reel While the city commissioners liave lal mi lii-en waiting fur th,, ante owners to nty 1 formally protest bclore taking up the Ih 80.1 matter on next Mori. lay night, il ile-. ile-. Yor vuloiis that a Veritable "howl" ami J7.K ""t il I't'i'test in very likely to lie liear.l. ,7 y At the meeting- last niiit, whieli was ,,'; ilfenileil by between twenty-five aii'l f,7i'( thirty automobile owners, it vas roil-: roil-: y,';'r milere.l advisable to eall a mass meot-teked meot-teked ino ot all the passenger ear owners of f th the city for next Wednesday night at com the Commercial club. It is understood of t !h"1 t,lu '""veuient in to have the back-nen back-nen I "f m:inv members of the l'tah (ioo.l ads association, ami, in all probabil-Intor probabil-Intor ity, the mass meeting will be calle.l in lrey tin) nnmo of this organization. 0 i'in W' JJ' "'Hllf'j wlio was present as the lany representative of the Utah (lood Roads illy . IlHsf''i;ttion, was most emphatic! in his ;hat i demand fur a meeting of the passenger good car owners of the citv to either protest . It the levy of the tax or to at least secure 1 pledge that Die money collected from h rj ;u"" "'ers should be used solely lev i fr necessary street work within the r.l pi citv limits. cont Mr. ICishel, in citing the injustice of st r the proposed city tax, said: lh'-h1 "B-v viltn0 ot the fact that the state Ya Utah collects a personal property tax was nn yoiir automobile and also a" registra- ! Hta tion t'co, you are now forced to pay a mix' double automobile tax to the Btate. If v's' '16 "'so r'c!"ire3 vu to pay a tax, "corf J'00 l,a contributing three ways in Am order that you may drivo your"car I wn around within the city limits. cor " am convinced that on proper rep-sntiitinn rep-sntiitinn of this matter a stay of ft v, actl0n "1!,.y bf hll. anrJ it would ho ad- Am visable, I think, to ask tho city com- i wa missioners to lay tho matter oyer ono larn woek from next 'Motnjay night that tho a o: sentiment of tho Cit 1 1 JO passenger cilr loll-1 owners of the city who arc to pay this s ail tftx may ,ie lprl'iied." way r' Jhel further stated that, in lira ml',., belief, tho tax could be levied within out. tho law as passed by tho last legisla- 4'3( 1re. Thero were others present who ". : ,nk with him, and asserted that iOS it; coull not be legally dono. Jo -M tho conclusion 'the the meeting it late was definitely decided to call tho mass rlo meeting at tho Commercial club for : ' "Wednesday night of next week regard- ,n"' less of any action that tho city eom- nr, mission may tako in the meantime re- yth garding the now automobile tax. thn |