The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1901-05-31

REPRESENTATIVE D. VI. FERRY, JR.
hour set for final adjournment the pre-
siding officers will rap the,atm0sphore
and two or three hangers-on to CT
der ut given hour, ana then prompt
ly declare the body adjourned for lack
of Il quorum until the following day
at like hoUr. On the 9TH inst. an
adjournment VII lie taken until the
following day It l. O'Clock. at which
hour each hul.Ho will he declared adj
iourned sine die. and, unless some e2-
igency tl."d makes the calling of Al
extra SESSION necessary is encount-
cred, the work of the present lCgislo-
ture will come 90 an abrupt end.
Prediction FRAT Was Fulfilled.
Another correct prediction was
made last week, so | feel that my
reputation IS Il prophet has net been
completely shattered, after all. This
time | 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
Cussion in either body-practically
none in the senate-when the report
finally came up for consideration.
Some of the members of the lower
house would have been far better sat
isfed with q bill that included Sleep
ing car aud 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 ad 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 bill providing for Il
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 3 per cent. and of tele-
graph companies ut per cent. on
their gross Michigan earnings. The
telephone rate is the same us i'm the
existing law, but the telegraph rate is
an increase Of 1 per cent.
State Tx Commission,
simultaneously with the passage OF
the railroad tax bill the two houses
passed Il bill increasing the number of
members OF the state tax commission
from three to five. and ii is expected
that the governors nominations of
the two additional commissioners will
be sent to the senate today. 1t APP
pears TO be foregone conclusion that
one of the new commissioners will be
eX-State Senator Ira T.. Sayre. of
Flushing, but nothing is definite is
known about the other. In the hope
of having an upper peninsula man OH
the commission Governor Bliss tend.
cred the appointment to Graham
Pope, of Houghton, but after consid-
erng the matter for several days that
gentleman declined to accept the hon
or so II is not at all likely that tho
place will 20 to any one above the
straits of Muckinac. The most active
candidates are ex-Auditor. General
Roscoe ID. Dix, of Berrien Springs,
and City Assessor George C.. Winslow,