The Minneapolis journal., 1902-02-20
Minnesota Legislature
FOR AN INCOME TAX
House Judiciary Committee So Pro-
vides by an Amendment.
PROGRESS MADE ON THE TAX BILL
Time OF Listing Changed Back to
May 1.-The 1900 Exemption
. Approved. IS

The judiciary committee of the house
has practicallt made up Its mind on the
constitutions amendments, and Messrs.
Dunn and Roberts have been charged with
preparing a draft according to the ideas
of the majority.
The decision follows more closely the
line suggested by Mr.. Dunn Of Ramsey
than the draft submitted by the tax COM
mission. It makes taxes uniform on all
classes, and retains the state as the unit
In selecting classes. An income tax is
specifically provided for, and a registry
fee is expected on mortgages, in lieu Of
other taxes. The tenor Of the amend
ments will be to limit the power of the
legislature to make exemptions.
House Progress Yesterday. -,
Considerable progress was made on the
tax bill by the house yesterday afternoon,
Twenty sections were covered, two of
them being laid over until to-day to con-
slider amendments relating to definitions.
The date Of listing was changed from
April l back to May l, the date now in
vogue, without opposition:
Mr.. Laybourn created CONSERVATION
among the friends of the bill by moving
to consider it section by section. Mr..
Jacobson called on friends of the bill
to oppose the proposition. He said it
would be entirely possible to muster votes
enough to beat single section, and thus
kill the bill In many cases an amend
ment to one section carries with it
changes in several others. Mr.. Laybourn
said his motion was made in good faith,
and friends of the bill need !. not be
alarm ed. He had no Intention of having
sections voted on finally, but merely taken
UP for purpose Of amendment. Speaker
Dowling suggested that when a section
was amended which carried with 1T
amendments to other. sections. the vote
should settle all the amendments at once
This was agreed to by ALL, and the
work proceeded in tolerable harmony.
The Vote Raising Exemption.
The vote on the Nyquist amendment
placing the. exemption at 5000 was 70 to
81, as follows: ~. 81
AYEs-Aanenson, Anderson, Armstrong, G.
voiksA Viii Aztrong Rhr J. a. Bartsa1 Bean Be
Bush, Cooke, Cumming, Dealy, Demin'g, Dob,
pm, Dorsey, Dunn, Feeney Gainey, Gandrud,
Hefey Hlsa es HnrshJ aSaJn dSsna
Lane, Laybourn, Iemke, Mallory, Mark,
Miller, Morris, Nelson, W., Neubauer Nor
man. Moves. Nyquist, ocobock, oppegaard,
geng. Scherf, Schultz, Schwarg, Sikorski,
Smith Stevenson, M1s Sites, Sweet Umand
NAYs--Alley, Benson, Burns, Grass, Hau-
gen, >Haugland, Hillary, Hillmond, Hinton,
Holm, Hunt, Jacobson, Johnsrud, Larson,
Lee Lonmen, Manood, Morley, Nelson, H.
k. Nichols, Nolan, Ofsthun, Rapp,J Ryan,
Sander, Stark, Swanson, Torson. Won Wald,
Ward Wlcox-31.
| A glance at the vote shows that the
Hennepin members voted solidly for the
5000 exemption. ~ sf'-r>
Mr. Laybourn sent UP three amendments
to provide specifically against the tax
alton of grain in elevators stored for ship
ment The. same point was covered in a
different way in the Wallace amendments,
which were read from the clerks desk,
and the question was deferred until to-
day, lin order to get the various amend
ments printed. >..:, -