The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1899-06-14
ARE STILL At Variance.
Deadlock Between the Senate and
House Over the Various Tax
alton Measures.
DATE OF ADJOURNMENT STILL AFFAIR OFF
GOV. Pingree yetoes the bill To Per-
nit Mining Companies To CONSOLE
date-His ReasOns-The Measure
for Extra Pay for Michigan SOL
diers Is Killed.
Especial Correspondence.l

Especial Correspondence
Lansing. June 12.-Another attempt
TO induce the house TO fix date Tor
final adjournment before the senate
acts upon the taxation bills now pend
ing failed Thursday, the former body
indefinitely postponing action on res
olution naming June "a as the date.
The differences between the two houses
over taxation measures appear TO IN
crease rather than diminish, neither
side showing any disposition to yield.
Thursday the house refused TO concur
In the senate amendments making the
rate three per cent. OF the Michigan
earnings of express, telegraph and tele-
phone companies, but will insist on its
five per cent. rate on express compa-
MES. The senate taxation committee
has decided to adhere to the recent ac-
ton of the senate in making the in
crease in the railroad tax only $780,
600. and has amended the house bill
making the increase 100000. The beet
sugar appropriation bill has been re-
called from the governor and Will be
amended so as TO limit the amount TO
be paid any factory in any year to
$4,000.
Gov. Pingree sent a message to the
legislature vetoing the bill permit
ting mining companies to consolidate
and increase their capital from $780,
600 to $5,00O000. The reasons given for
the veto are that there is no necessity
for increasing the capital limit; that
it is against public policy to do so; that
such increase is sought for the sole
purpose of stock speculation and in
furious consolidation; that the inter
ests of thousands of minority stock
holders should be protected, and that
the mining industries of Michigan
should be preserved to the people, and
not surrendered to the monopolies and
trusts. The governor takes the ground
that in permitting corporations 20 or
ganize without compelling them to
make their stock represent its face
value the state is party 10 conspiracy
to defraud, and guilty, if not legally
responsible for the losses incurred by
innocent persons who make invest
ments, relying on the fact that the
state has approved the articles of in
corporation. He cites the fact that
during the past year there have been
incorporated in Michigan Is mining
corporations with an authorized aggre-
gate capital of S36, 500, 900. whereas the
capital paid in was less than One-siNth
that sum, while four of these corpora
tions state in their articles that moth
ing has actually been paid in, either
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pass the bill over the veto failed.
The governor and several others who
conceived the plan to appropriate APP
proximately S1,000,000 for the state
troops who saw service are much
grieved because the farmers in the
house thwarted it. This proposition
took the form of an appropriation TO
pay each Michigan soldier in the Span
ish-American war additional compen-
sation at the rate of As cents day for
the full term of his service. None of
the soldiers asked for the appropria-
ton, although all would naturally be
pleased TO profit by it, Just why Mich
igan should make the proposed pay
ment TO federal troops was not stated,
nor was it claimed that the soldiers
were asking for il. When the bill came
up for final passage it received only
81 votes, or Is less than the number
necessary for its passage. Then a mo-
ton to reconsider the vote was tabled
and the bill killed beyond resurrection
at this session. The lowest estimate
of the amount necessary TO carry out
the provisions of the bill was $4,000.
The house has adopted the confer
ence committees report on the med
ical registration bill, thus leaving the
Christian Scientists without recogni-
ton so far as this law is concerned. This
will end the fight.
The senate has concurred in the
house amendment cutting $4,000 from
the mining school appropriation bill,
and this bill will go.
The senate fish and game committee
reported bill providing that no hunt
er shall kill more than three deer dur
ing a season. Each person is limited to
the shipment of three and must make
affidavit that he killed them himself.
A nonresident will be allowed to ship
but one outside of the state.
Inc senate alIdlTS cOHllnltlcc ldNoI-
ably reported out the Gustin commerce
bill, which applies the principles of the
interstate commerce law TO Michigan.
Gov. Pingree has picked out the men
whom he will name for three of the
newly-created state boards or commits
sions. The following have been named:
Board Of examiners under the BARRIERS
license act-Charles Rieger, of Detroit, for
three years: II. M. Fillmore, of Lansing.
for two years; John Wesley Vaughn
(colored, of Niles, for one year.
Library commissioner. ID. Aitken, OF
Flint; Cyrus G.. Luce of Coldwater; T. +.
Hall, of Crosse Pointe. Wayne county, and
Charles G.. Hackley, Of Muskegon.
Forestry commissioner. w. Garfield, OF
Grand Rapids, and Arthur Hill, Of Saginaw.
JASON.
Mob Attacks Policeman.