Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-23
A BOYER BILL FIGHT.
BOTH HOUSES HAVE A HOT TIME OVER
THIS TAX MEASURE.
The Increase From Five to Six Mills Re
tanned by a pte of 80 to 1s-Fina1
Vote on the Bin in the House.

The Increase From Five to Six Mills Re-
tanned by Npte of go to 1s-Final
Vote on the Bin in the House.
HARRISBURG, May 22.-Both Houses
had it hot and heavy over the Boyer bill
again to-day. In the Senate this morning
Senator Grady moved to reconsider the vote
by which last night the tax on capital stock
was raised from mills to 6. The recon-
sideration was granted, but when it came
to striking out the amendment, the op-
ponents of the increase ran against
snag. Senator Packer made a strong
speech in favor of the increase, and Senator
Hall, OF Elk, the young Democrat who is
coming to the front as a leader, served
notice upon the majority that unless they
would consent to bill which would really
afford the relief they had promised the peo-
pie, there were enough Democratic Senators
who would join with the Republican con-
tingent favoring the Taggart bill to substi-
tute that measure for the pending bill.
The roll was called and the increase re-
tained in the bill by vote of 90 to Is.
Messrs Critchfeld, Finn, ,McCreary, ,Mylin,
Newell, Packer, Robbins, Robinson, Show
alter, Smith, of Lancaster; Williamson and
Wood, Republicans; and Brandt, Brown,
Dunlap, Green, Hall, Hines, Larbach,
Lloyd, Logan, Mcdonald, Markley, Meek,
MONAGHAN, Rapsher, Rooney, Sloan and
Ross, Democrats, voted yea, and Messrs.
Bates, Becker, Crawford, Grouse, Grady,
Harlan, Keefer, Lemon, Mehard, Mech,
Osbourn, Porter, Smith, of Philadelphia;
Steel, Thomas, Thompson, Upperman and
Penrose. Republicans voted nay. At
tempts were made by Senator Grady to eS-
empt the capital stock of insurance COM
panies from the operations of the bill, but
they were voted down, and the further con-
present. This was done so that the House
Boyer bill, which passed finally to-day, can
be substituted on second reading.
The Senate Finance9 Committee met to-
night and reported this bill affirmatively,
and it was read a first time. 1t was then
recommitted and they at once reduced the
rate to mills and exempted insurance
companies Thus to-day's fight will be
fought over again, but as 90 Senators voted
for the 6-mill tax to-day, some lively mis-
sionary work must be done by the corpora
tions if it is not inserted again.
The final vote on the Boyer bill in the
House was made interesting by the fact that
when a Democratic member from Mr.. Tag
SdrJ own county moved TO SUBSTITUTE the
Taggart bill, the redoubtable Granger moved
the previous question and voted squarely
against the substitution. Mr.. Fow en-
deavored to insert some amendments, where
upon M. Taggart charged that they had
been prepared by the agents of the
Pennsylvania Railroad and were offered at
its instigation. The Granger leader recog-
nizes that his bill can't be passed and with
ightforwardness proposes
to do the next best thing. The corporations,
and especially the Pennsylvania Railroad,
are up in arms against the increase to
mills, and say they would prefer the orig
inal Taggart bill. If the Boyer bill be-
comes law, they propose to fight it to the
court of last resort. But this may only be
a big bluff.