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ment--refused to back down-by q
large majority.
Thus the Senate and House were al
"loggerheads," }" and it seemed that the
differences could not be adjusted
Monday at noon the session must end.
What could be done7 1t was plain, as
many thought and believed, that the
Senate was under the influence OF
those who didn't want franchises
| taxed.
There were many members Of the
House and perhaps OF the Senate, also,
who sincerely believed that the orig
inal bill, as it left the House about
May 18th, was ell sufficient 1t
covered the whole ground-that 1t
placed a tax "on all property, real
and personal, including all public or
quasi-public franchises owned or held
in any way by any person, persons,
company, association or corporation,
that it hit every franchise in the
State and hit all alIke-and that in
fact this bill needed no amendments
whatever-that In fact the Senate and
the House amendments were in no
way needed.
They proposed on Monday morning
TO make the fight In the House for
the bill as II loft the House. To do
that the vote by which the House on
Saturday night refused to recede from
lts amendments, etc., had to be re-
considered and 1t was reconsidered
by good majority. Then the ques-
tion, "SbaIl the House stand by its
amendment9n
Then the last debate began. 1t was,
II / recollect Alright, about 10 o'clock.
In two hours no legislation could be
done. The end was nigh at hand. The
excitement was intense. In the cor
ridors lobbyists had been busy all the
morning. They called out members
and had talks with them. What was
said don't know, nor shall / even
guess what was said. While the de-
bate was going on Tread over to myself
sections and 4 and asked myself,
Why is it, how Is it, these two sec.
tions are not GOOD enough and strong
enough to bring under taxation be-
tween five hundred and one thousand
millions Of dollars of property which
has never paid dime of taxes? /
ask everyone who reads this letter to
read over for himself sections 1 and 4,
as quoted above, and answer the
question. My opinion is now and has
been all the time that the sections
are broad enough and strong enough,
and the bill as it left the House
ought to have been passed; and II
found by experience to be defective
is could be amended hereafter.
The debate lated an hour or more,
and then the vote was taken on the
question; "Shall the House receds
from Its amendment to the Senate
smendment2" That is, win 1t take
the first step back towards the bill as
1t left the House, with the view of
accepting the bill as it left the House.
Within few minutes before the roll
call began, some members arose and
went out OF the hall.
The roll call was made; the absen-
tees was called again, loud and long;
then the roll call was verified and the
count was made and the vote announce
ed; Yeas 6s; nay a..
This vote to recede was, In fact, to
accept the majority report Of the con-
ference committee, and under the
constitution had to have 72 votes. It
got only So. So the House refused to
recede from its amendment and in 90
doing refused toaceept the majority
report Of the conference committee.
Thus ended the struggle to tax fran
chises and money lenders like Rem
shaw.
Eight votes more would have car
risd the bill. sixty-three votes for
1t and eight more would have made |
seventy-one. Forty seven were
against it-making no men present
out of 14o = 80 absent. OF the AZ
members voting against It, 40 are Re-
publicans and Democrat.
OF the So members who voted for It,
81 are Democrats and two are Pop
uiists. OF the so absent, II are Dem
ocrats and Is Republicans.
Some of the absentees Of both par
ties were sick. Some were present
Saturday morning and left the hall
before the roll was called and while |
cannot tell why they left the hall, yet
/ believe could guess Il I were to try
"real hard" Not a single Republican
voted "yea," and but one Demoornt
voted "nay." Ifeight Republicans had
voted "yea" ell would have been well. |
II absentee Democrats had voted
"yea" all would have been we'll Be-
tween the absentee Democrats and
the solid Republicans, the people of
Missouri fell, were humiliated and
coniured.
Before another election, the record /
viii be published, and n the people
don't call thsir Legislators 10 a reck-
oning, then they don't deserve any
better treatment. q. I. ALLEN.