Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1911 — Federal Tax on Automobiles Urged by Senator Simmons. [ARTICLE]

Federal Tax on Automobiles Urged by Senator Simmons.

Estimating that one out of five of the 500,000 automobiles in use in the country is employed in interstate travel, Senator Simmons, of North Carolina expressed the opinion in a speech in the senate that a million dollars annually can be raised for tire improvement of wagon roads by imposing a license fee of 610 on such machines. He also prophesied that the improvement of the roads would have the effect of greatly increasing automobile travel and therefore of enhancing the fund. The proposition for an interstate tax on automobiles is embraced in a bill of which the North Carolina senator is the author and which proposes the appropriation of 61,000,000 annually for the benefit of the roads on which the rural mails are carried.