Alleging that the passage of the ordinance now pending before the City Council, proposing a merchants' tax based on the amount of purchases, would work a hardship on them, forty retail grocers of Richmond last night unanimously adopted a resolution, to be presented to the Council, protesting against the proposed ordinance and asking that the city's policy to levy a tax on capital employed in business be continued.
The resolution was adopted in a meeting held in the store of the Richmond Grocery Company. Speeches were made by George Bryan, Councilman Fred H. Powell, Councilman Carter C. Jones, and W. A. Clarke, secretary of the Retail Merchants' Association.
It is pointed out by the grocers in their resolutions that capital invested in their business is turned over more often than that in any other line of merchandise, and that to levy a tax based on purchases would greatly increase taxes on the necessities of life and decrease those on the luxuries. Any deficit in revenue, they suggest, may be met by an additional tax of $1 mill on realty and tangible personal property.
GIVES UP ONE COURT
Indue A. D. Hinton, of Charlottesville, Resigns to Congress
Criminal of James White.
Doubting the constitutionality of presiding over the two courts since Charlottesville has been advanced to the rank of a idly of the first class. 