The record-union., 1897-03-18
SHANAHAN'S INCOME TAX.

Toland, the bill was at once transmitted
to the Senate.
SHANAHAN'S INCOME TAX.
Shanahan called up the two committee
reports on his income tax bill, 936, and
moved the adoption of the minority re-
port. Both reports, together with a
full synopsis of the bill, were printed in
the Record Union of yesterday.
Shanahan called attention to a dispatch
in the same paper from Washington,
stating that the Supreme Court had
been considering the power of States to
tax franchises of corporations and had
decided in the affirmative in two cases,
and general review of the rights of the
States to enact laws of this character
was also promulgated through Justice
Brewer. This was used by Shanahan
as an argument for the immediate pass
age of his bill without the two years of
waiting provided for in the majority re-
port.
Dryden, while in full accord with the
spirit of Shanahan's bill. believed wis
dom dictated the further study of SO i'm
portant a subject
The majority report was adopted.
STATE HIGHWAY BILLS.
From the Senate the four highway
bills came back with sundry Senate
amendments. None of these seemed
hard to take excepting two; one struck
cut the provision that two of the COM
missioners should be civil engineers; the
other killed the provision that when
surveyors were employed one should be
the County Surveyor of the county in
which the work was to be done.
Clark, Chairman of the Committee on
Roads and Highways, opposed these
amendments vigorously and moved that
the House refuse to concur. Price
thought it was too late now to stand out
against the Senate: it might mean the
loss of the bills.
Emmons was averse to sitting down
IDLY and letting the Senate make laws.
He wanted to see some backbone, and
supported Clark's motion claiming that
the resulting free conference could
soon be brought about. The Senate,
he said, was trying to get the House in
just this situation.
Sims advised concurrence. The
amendments were by no means vital.
Let US get all we can now, and in two
years from now the movement viii be
popular enough to get more
On roll-call the House concurred in
all the amendments, and all the bills
were sent to enrolment and the Gov
ernor.
THE BILL CAME BACK
The Assistant Secretary of the Sen
ate appeared on the floor of the
House hearing a yoluminous roll which
was about all the small page could
carry to the Clerks desk. 1t was that
much-mended measure, the county
government bill The Assembly amend
ments had received short shrift in the
Senate, which had promptly rejected
them in a bunch.
Cutter at once moved that the House
refuse to recede, and ask for a Confer
ence Committee. The vote against re-
ceding was unanimous.
In appointing the Conference Com
mittee, the Speaker said he desired to
recognize the different sections of the
State, and named Jones of San Fran
cisco, Valentine of Los Angeles and
Caminetti of Amador. The decision of
the House was at once transmitted to
the appointment on the Conference
Committee of Senators Smith, Gillette
and Price.
SENATE MESSAGES.
The Senate announced:
S. J. r. IL, relating to duty on i'm
ported vines, adopted.
Report of Conference Committe on
A. B. 372 adopted.