The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-03-06
THE TAX BILL is REPORTED
RAILROAD ASSESSMENT meas.
uRE GOES TO SENATE FLOOR.


Upper House Ways and Means Com.
mttee Finally Brings Out Its Bill.
Des Moines. March 1.-The senate
ways and means committee voted yes
terday to report for passage the rail-
way taxation bill drafted by Senators
Junkin, Healy, Lewis and Porter,
with significant amendments offered
by Senator Lewis. With these amend
ments the bill provides that the exc.
cutive council shall determine the
value of the railroad property of Iowa
by taking into consideration "the mar
ket or actual value of the stocks and
bonds of each railway, the gross earn
ings. the. net earnings, the physical
condition of such railway within the
state, the information furnished by
the reports required to be made, to-
sary to secure a just and equitable
CURED exclusive consideration of
stocks and 6-onds.
The present law provides that the
council. in assessing the roads, shall
take into consideration the gross earn
ings land any and all other matters
necessary to enable the. council to
make just and equitable assess
ment."
Senator Crossley proposed in place
of the committee amendment, sub
stitute known to meet with the APP
prevail of Lieutenant Governor John
Herriott, providing that the council
should first find the value of the rail
roads by the stocks and bonds, and.
if this proved inequitable, it should
discover the value of the roads by cap
italizing their net earnings; and. in
case this proved impossible or unfair.
1T should assess the roads on the
basis of all the information secured.
The substitute was voted down. Sen
ators Crossiey and Trewin only vot-
ing for it. The latter was absent
when it was first presented, but voted
for it after reading it.
Senator Trewin suggested an
amendment to make clear provi-
sion of the committee bill on the con
struction of which the railroads and
the subcommittee-Sen Lewis,
Healy, Junkin and Porter-differ.
This provision is as follows, including
the provisions as to the means of dis
covering the value of the railroad
stocks and bonds: "The executive
council shall enter on it's records for
publication the valuation of all the
stocks as thus returned and correct
ed and it's reasons in full for any
variation therefrom." This, however.
was voted down.
Mrs. MacCartney, a widow, i'll and
Respondent. died by her own hand at
Dubuque few days ago. She found
a bottle of carbolic acid and drank
the contents. She leaves four chill
dren grown.
Bob Fitzsimmons, the race horse
which made record of 2:07A last
season, has been sold by Butler Thros.
sci, of Sheffield, his owner, to parties
in Manitoba for $4,000. His ugly and
unpromising appearance when colt
gave him his name. He was offered
for sale for $40 when colt to the
Hotel Hampton, and the offer was
taken as joke.
George Corners. an Iowa Central
trainman, was instantly killed in the
Oskaloosa yards. He was hit by
moving switch engine and knocked
to the ground, breaking his neck He
was married and aged 35 years. He
leaves a widow and two children.
His parents reside in Brooklyn. He
had been in the service of the Iowa
Central seven years.
The solemn silence with which the
ordinance drafted by Archbishop
keane and presented to the Dubuque
council few evenings since was re-
ceived, has occasioned much com.
ment. The refusal of the entire board
of aldermen to even second, the mo-
ton was significant of the failure of
the powerful prelate of the great dio.
cese to make an inroad on the traffic
of liquor.
The officers at Charlton have in
charge an insane man, apparently
about 26 years of age with every ap.
pearance of responsibility. He gives,
the name Of Colonel Mohr and his
residence as Lehigh Valley, Pa. He
got off Burlington west bound train
and wandered down town into the
office of Copeland & Foucher, where
he was taken in charge. He was seen
to have large wallet of money, but
when searched he had but $3.50 and
ticket to Vernal, Utah. He talks in
cessantly of law suit which has been
decided and his parents attempt to
take him back home, and the loss of
$4,000. He is detained in the county
Jail awaiting word from his parents.
The famous "Blairsburg cases"
have been continued over to the next
session of the Hamilton county dis
trict court. These cases are for dam
ages aggregating $4,000. They have
been on the docket for the last two
terms of court. Constable Little of
Webster City captured four escaped re-
form school inmates at Blairsburg last
summer. Certain Blairsburg parties
claimed to have made the capture and,
as there was a reward for the boys,
refused to give them to Little. Lit
tie had these parties arrested for re.
sisting an officer. This brought on
the damage cases. Blairsburg is a
small village. To her the affair mag.
nified itself. The MAYOR of the town