Show MINING T INJUN I H HO 0 LOS G Collections by State p 1 vented Until Compan Can Perfect an anto to U U. S. S Supreme RESPITE DESPITE D an nn n adverse on T Judge Tillman D. D J John Johnson of t r tb ft b United States States district court the f fe injunction restraining the sta from rom collecting collecting- the occupational t from twenty four mining 0 compa compu I wl Ich ich arc resisting payment parent i 13 ii in in- effect It will remain n r I during the time refu required rel for per j jI I tion by hy the tile plaintiffs of an ap appeal al I the tle supreme court of the Un Unite States for which sixty days ays are areS are'S lowed Filing liling the appeal w will open oper to stay the collection o of the thc ta tax tar u uthe mitT the case is decided by br the high high- court in the tile land Jn nir J-nir jE jEThe Upheld ld The decision o of Judge vf held the tho occupational tax uw law un which the state slate sought to collect taxes 2 3 per pcr cent o of tho lie net proc prod project of or mines In accordance with tho the 1 i latho act o of 1917 f Tho The present Lc Legislature Is pre re lug Ing to tu pass a C Claw law under which the will bo bu 5 cent of th tho per lien net pr pry c cIn In hula his message c the lie governor 10 men mended lied that tho the tax bo be 3 per cent Naturally collection of any u lax lr jr M vided for I tho the by Legislature this y It will await th the of or the ti no pending Th The mines attacked the he 11 to hi toof of or 1917 7 on the ground that It b im un u us constitutional because It Js is ta atlon and and therefore In violation Jf of U amendment to the tion of or tho ho United States The lion Ion was further made that the tho t t ti violated the commerce clause of t it constitution in that it I sought ought to p pIa a tax on materials in Inte Interstate ble c eon merco and that It w ws was s In of ot the United tat States mineral la a law Judge Johnson ruled against tho thOI Co contentions n to zu t I ons Taxes Tied d Lp Up 3 The present suit ties up tu amounting to approximately O. O 0 which the thu state sought to collect i mu den tho the 1917 law Of Ot this sum sum sum-l ML 1 would under the tho law be fj to the various school districts st state te Having arranged on tho the presupposition that they ther v oe receive their share haro from Crom morn the ta of ot the tho school districts of ot tho the state sute u ar said to bo left in want through t failure to receive recel the anticipated d wish fall tall it Since Sinco tho the supreme court of the ed cd States tates Is la two years behind ml work vork attorneys anticipate that It am ambe be bo some somo time before a final de dell dell' I reached In the meantime It I is C C peeLed that other othel suits will hare filed tiled to prevent collection of C Jim elm occupational taxes levied a against U mining companies |