Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-26

DAoIl DC1OIC CLOCK yesterday
the legislature, which was convened
in adjourned session Tuesday after
room for consideratin OF the statute
revision bill, adjourned without day.
The only work of Importance done
during the session was the passage OF
the revision and the Milwaukee garb-
age bills.
The revision bill as passed was con-
siderably altered from it's first draft
The railroad commissioner will not
supercede village boards and munic-
ipal councils in control of the matter
of placing railway crossing gates, and
the amendment making taxable the
stock OF corporations which pay Ii
cerSe fees was stricken out. The
amendment forbidding the deduction
of the value of bank real estate used
for banking purposes from the value
or bank stock in making up the as
sessment on the latter was, however,
still retained while the struck jury
law and the laws in regard to surety
companies are still in the same shape
as when first arranged by the revisers.
The law making the property of
seml-publlc corporations held in the
shape OF poles, tracks, franchises, etc.,
assessabie as personal property at the
home office of the corporation owning
the property has also been allowed to
stand. The libel law, too, yet has the
amendment Of the revisers. The law
changing the fees for the land office
was, however, returned to it's old form
while very material change was
made to the amendment in regard to
the law fees for filing articles of in
corporation. Thus the minimum fee
is fixed at $25 and it is provided that
this shall be the amount for all cor
poratlons with a capital stock of less
than $4,000, while beyond that
amount it is provided that there shall
be fee charged of 81 per thousand
for every additional $1,000 of capital
stock. This, while a lowering of the
minimum fee, makes a very decided
WV
the future every company with a
$1,000,000 capital stock will have to
pay a fee of $1,000 for incorporating
The changes that were made from the
revisers' bill were made in the inter
ests of harmony, and they say that
they found that to insist on some
changes such as the one making the
stock of corporations paying a license
tee taxable would mean weeks of
weary fighting over the bill
On the whole the committee elm
mated all features of it's first report
that would cause any considerable OPP
position.
An attempt was made to pass the
Davidson sleeping car and express
company taxation bills over the gov
ernor's veto and they did go through
the assembly, but failed in the senate.
The reason given by the latter for de-
Ginning to pass them was that such
action would not make them valid;
that to be valid they would have to be
reintroduce as new business. Ex-
press companies in Wisconsin don't
pay any taxes at all and sleep
ing car companies less than
$1,000. 1t was estimated that if
the Davidson bills became laws
the states income from sleep
ing car and express compa-
MES would be in the neighborhood
Of $4,000 annually. The governor
said that he vetoed these bills because
they failed of proper enactment. AS
semblyman J. o. Davidson of Soldiers
Grove, who as the author of the bills |
fought hard for them last winter, de- |
feating strong LOBBY, says that he
will not be candidate for reelection. |
He has served three terms, he says, |
md doesn't care to return again to the
over house The fight however, for
he passage Of these bills will be car
led on at the next session OF the leg
stature, he says, and he will lend the !!
benefit OF his experience for their sue
,ess. Though he is a pugnacious Nor
vegian, the fact that the railroad lob
lists did not send him passes at the be-
ginning of the last regular session
had no effect on his atti-
ude toward such corporations. The
obbists met him at the Hotel Pfster
n Milwaukee a month before the reg
lar session opened and told him that
hey wouldn't send him passes. After
7ard they made a personal apology
nd urged him to take passes.
Just before final adjournment was
AIKEN the governor submitted a COM ,
lunication to both houses expressing
is qualification at the results of the !
dJourned session. Both Lieut. Gov. :
presiding officer of the senate, 6
nd Speaker Buckstaf of the assembly :
lso said that they were well pleased
18th what had been accomplished.
Hefofe adJourning the legisla-
Ire passed a bill authorizing a ju-