The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1897-04-29
TAXATION LAWS

TAXATION LAWS
VERY FAIR SHOWING IN THAT d.
RECTloN HAS BEEN MADE,
Though Not All That Was Desired by
Many Legislators-some Parliamentary
Points-Fourth Hospital Bill Finally
Laid to Rest-Tramps Will Work on
Roads - Sensational Episode on the
Divorce Bill-Lynchings Not Approved.
ST. PAUL. April 2O.-[Special. lot
the subjects on which some action was
expected taxation was one of the most
important and it has occupied a great
deal of time, with some result. All OF
the many general tax laws proposed
have not managed to get through their
conflicting principles made that impos-
sible. However, several important
classes of property have been cared for
and legislators can rest content with
their attempts in this line, for every
thing, of course, was not possible OF
accomplishments. That anything was
done is more than those pessimistio
souls who decry all attempts at legisla'
ton would have admitted to be posi-.
BILE. The Reeves bill for a tonnage tax
on mining property has been finally
killed by the senate after stormy ca.
reer. and the house refused to resurrect
another bill by Mr.. Reeves on the same
subject, but did breathe little life into
the jacobson bill for taxation of min.
ing property. Tlis is a somewhat diff
ferent proposition, although aiming at
the same end in a similar manner. As
this bill would need to pass the senate
also, it's passage by the house, if that is
done. would by no means assure its
getting through the senate.
Four important tax laws went
through both houses together, the house
connecting them by punching them'on
the same day for consideration, as q
special order, and the senate following
that example also. These bills
provided for gross earnings tax on
express, sleeping and parlor car, tele'
phone and telegraph companies. The
tax was 2 per cent on express COM
panies and per cent on the others.
Then the house has added one per cent
to the railroad gross earnings tax and
Mr.. jacobson, who introduced the bill,
hopes to get it through the senate be-.
fore adjournment.
Some Parliamentary Points.
Speaker Jones has had several deli
cate points Of parliamentary law to de-
eide and his decisions in number Of
cases have aroused much interest
among the parliamentarians on the
floor of both houses. One of these cases
was on Friday when the Anderson bill
to license peddlers was called up in
| the house to be passed over the
governors veto. It has always been
held heretofore that rs votes were re.
quired in the house for that purpose,
that being two-thirds of the whole
house. Speaker Jones, however, ruled
| that quorum being present and vot-
two.thirds of those so voting consti-
tuted sufficient number to pass over
the veto. He followed the custom in
the national congress, where it is pos
| sible for less than a quorum to pass a
bill, bare quorum voting and ma
jority Of that quorom favoring a meas
| ure. The Minnesota constitution pro-
vides that majority of the members
of the house must favor a bill to pass
it, and the phraseology for passage over
a veto is somewhat similar, so that
there has been ground for argument on
both sides, and the cloak rooms and
Hobbies have heard many disquisitions
on parliamentary procedure in the
last few days.
| The Fourth Hospital Matter.
An the fourth hospital for the insane
did come up again, after all. That is
to say, it tried to come up, but did not
rise very far. A special message from
the governor called attention to the
needs of the hospitals for the insane,
especially and strongly urging an ap-
propriating for building on the Anoka
site. In following out this idea, the
friends of Anoka attempted to amend
the omnibus appropriation bill by add
ing an item of 100000 for the fourth
hospital, but there was scant cere-
mony shown in killing their proposal,
and it is not likely again to have so
good chance to live. Both houses
showed themselves favorable to Hast
ings, and the criticism to which they
have been subjected has not tended to
wean them away from that city's site.
It is almost amusing to see the
back-stiffening manner in which any
Hastings supporter receives sugges-
ton that the fourth hospital being
finally located at Anoka it would be
the generous thing to give them money
to begin work. However gently the
suggestion may be made it is received
with all absence of friendliness that
reminds one of the coolest day on rec.
ord, even in Dakota.
Some warm Anokaites have sug.
gested the possibility of an extra ses.
sion being called to provide an appro-
priation, but the idea is not received
seriously by anyone about the legisla-
ture who keeps informed on such mat.