The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1901-05-31

REPRESENTA- ID. NJ. FERRY, JR.
hour set for final adjournment the pre-.
siding officers will rap the atmosphere
and two or three hangCrS-on TO or
der at a given hour, and then prompt
ly declare the body adjourned for lack
of a quorum until the following day
at Il like hour. On the 9th inst. an
adjournment will be taken until the
following day at u o'clock, at which
Nhour each house will be declared adj
journed sine die. and, unless some eX-
igency which makes the calling of an
extra session necessary is encount.
cred, the work of the present legiSla-
ture will come to an abrupt end.
Prediction That Was Fulfilled.
Another correct prediction was
made last week, so | feel that my
reputation as n prophet has not been
completely shattered, after all. This
time l was right in predicting that
the two houses would eventually
adopt the report of the conference
committee on the so-called railroad
tax bill. There was very little dis
cusson i'm either body-practically
none in the senate-when the report
finally came up for consideration.
house would have been far better sat
isfied with a bill that included sleep
ing car and telegraph and telephone
companies but they voted for the con-
ference compromise measure, as they
deemed it the best that could he had.
About nineteen, however, refused to
be comforted. They preferred moth
ing to what the conference commit
tees had prepared for them, and,
therefore, voted against the bill. AS
presented to the governor for his sig
nature, which will doubtless be at
tached to it, the bill provides for tax
ing on an al valOrem basis railroad
and union depot and station compa
MES, fast freight, refrigerator car and
car loaning companies.
Taxes on Other Corporations.
The corporations eliminated from
the bill as originally passed by the
house are sleeping car, telephone and
telegraph companies. The first named
paid the state Of Michigan the mu-
nificent sum Of $50. Following the
disposition of the railroad tax bill the
house passed a bill providing for a
specific tax of per cent on the gross
Michigan earnings of sleeping car
companies, and another measure fix
ing the specific tax rate of telephone
companies at per cent and of tele-
graph companies at per cent. on
their gross Michigan earnings. The
telephone rate is the same as in the
existing law, but the telegraph rate is
an increase of per cent.
State Tax Commission,
simultaneously with the passage OF
the railroad tax bill the two houses
passed n bill increasing the number of
members Of the state tax commission
from three to five, and it is expected
that the governors nominations of
the two additional commissioners will
be sent to the senate today. 1t APP
pears to be a foregone conclusion that
one Of the new commissioners will be
eX-State Senator Ira Il. Sayre, of
Flushing, but nothing is definite is
known about the other. In the hope
of having an upper peninsula man on
the commission Governor Bliss tend
cred the appointment to Graham
Z. Pope. of Houghton, but after consid-
ering the matter for several days that
gentleman declined to accept the hon
or. so it is not at all likely that the
place Will go to any one above the
straits Of Mackinac. The most active
candidates are ex-Auditor General
Roscoe ID. Dix, of Berrien Springs,
and City Assessor George G. Winslow,