The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-04-26
AMENDED TAX BILL
Passed the Senate by a Vote Of
Twenty to Nine. ..s4s..4
TWO BOARDS OF ASSESSORS
The Bill Puts Railroads, Union Depots
and Station Companies in Special
Classification for Assessing Purposes
Wayne Delegation Divided.

Lansing, Mich, April 24.-By vote
of twenty to nine the senate last night
passed the Chandler ad valorem rail-
road tax bill as amended by the rail-
road committee. The amended bill
calls for the creation of separate
board of assessors and puts railroad,
union depot and station companies in
a special classification for assessing
purpose.
Besides, the bill specifies no partic-
ular method for the board to follow in
determining the average rate to be
applied to railroad property. 1t was
pointed out by Senator High and ad-
mitted by Senator Holmes that II the
bill in it's amended form becomes a
law, the railroads may, and probably
will, attempt to control political party
conventions in this state to the end
that a candidate lor governor will be
nominated and elected who will APP
point pro-railroad men on the state
board of assessors.
The senators lined up on the amend
ed Chandler bill as follows:
Yeas - Atwood, Baird, Bangham,
Cannon, Doherty, Earle, Farr, Fuller.
Goodell, Holmes, Humphrey, Kelly,
McMullen, Moore, Minis, Pierson,
Charles Smith, Cad Smith, Sovereign,
Weeks-20.
Nays = Helme, High, Lockerby.
Loomis. Murfin, Nichols, Palmer, Rob-
son, Schumacher.
Senators Farr and Weeks, who in
the afternoon had voted against con-
curing in the amendments made to
the bill, also swung into line for the
bill. Just before the vote was taken,
Senator Holmes, chairman of the COM
mittee on railroads, said that, person
any. he believed in the specific tax
system for railroads, but he had found
that the sentiment in the railroads
committee and the senate, too, was too
strong for the ad valorem system, and
had voted to report out the amended
Chandler bill. He said there was no
denying the objection raised that the
railroads might seeh TO control state
political conventions with a view to
having a man nominated for governor
who would appoint pro-corporatlon
men on a separate board of assessors,
but he said this might also be true rel
alive to the state tax commission
Senators LO6S6I anu DlSNboi 49,
absent with leave. Senator Westover
was absent without leave.
There was talk in the senate last
night to the effect That conference
committees will be appointed by the
house and senate with view to reach
ing an agreement as TO bill. Speaker
Carton, Rep. Chandler and other prom
inent house members talk as though
the amended chandler bill VIII be
killed IN the house without any con-
ference committee being appointed.
In the senate yesterday afternoon
Senator Atwood was either so excited
or hoarse that he jumbled his words,
and few, if any, understood hall ne
said.
divided Wayne delegation had the
effect in the house of defeating Rep.
Ferry's bill to raise the salaries OF
Wayne county jury commissioners
from $50 to 5000 a year. Reps. Hunt,
republican, and Dupont, democrat,
toasted the jury commissioners OF the
home county Other Detroit and
Wayne county bills may be similarly
treated