The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-04
TAX PIPE lines.
They VIII Have to Bear Their
Share of Public Expense.
Governor HOch Signs the New
State Printer Bill.

Pipe lines for oil and gas. which
have heretofore escaped taxation will
have to pay their share in the future.
The house this morning passed Benson's
bill for the taxation of telegraph, tele-
phone, and pipe line companies. The
bill provides that every pipe line
company shall state the length, size
and value of its line lines, its tanks
and the capacity thereof, and all other
property owned by said company or un-
der its management or control, as own
er, lessee or otherwise, and the number
of miles or parts of a mile in each
county, and the size thereof, giving the
diameter of the pipe, together with such
other information as to the character,
location and value of its property of
any kind as the board of appraisers and
assessors may require.
The bill fixes the method of equaliza-
tion of the assessed valuation as fol-
lows:
-''The auditor of state shall deduct
from the total assessed value of the
property of each of said companies in
Kansas the value (aS assessed for tax
atom of any real estate situated in
Kansas and owned by said company
not in connection with its right of way.
The value of the property of said COM
panies in Kansas, after deducting the
assessed value of said real estate be-
fore mentioned, shall be apportioned by
the auditor of state among the several
counties through or into which the
lines of said telegraph, telephone or
pipe line companies run, so that each
company shall be apportioned such part
of the entire valuation as Will equalize
the relative value of the property OF
the company therein In proportion to
the whole value of the property of the
company in the state, and in proportion
that the length OF the lines owned by
the company in the county bears to the
length of the whole lines in the state"
Signs State Printer Bill.
Governor Hoch this morning noti-
fed the house that he has signed the
following house bills:
No 34S, fixing the liability of rail-
road companies in certain cases.
No. 1865, to prevent individual mon
opoly in private corporations.
No. $50, relating to the support of
common schools.
No. 10, requiring that weeds along
high ways be cut.
Sub for No. $50, authorizing county
commissioners to offer rewards.
No 4Os, relating to county boards
of examiners.
No. 500, to prohibit the fraudulent
use of miners check numbers
No. 591, making appropriation for
care of destitute insane.
Sub for No. 235, relating to civil
procedure before justices.
No sos, fixing salary of state print |
er, and making appropriation for
management of the state printing
plant.
Topeka School Fares Well.
The Topeka Industrial institute for
colored boys and girls secures consid-
cradle assistance under the appropria-
ton bill passed by the house and sem
ate. The amounts allowed are as fol-
lows:
To pay mortgage off on farm. s 5000
For maintenance, two years. 5000 |
For purchase of tools, etc.. 1000 /
-..-
Total .-...-.. ......-.--..$ $12 900
Quindaro institute at Kansas City, |
of which w. T. Vernon is principal, /
has been allowed the following
amounts;
Maintenance $1S,0 600
Equipment and library. ...... 1000
Erection of trades building -. 10000
Equipment of trades building. 5000
Heating and Hgh g..-.. $500
Expenses of trustees .-..-. 400
-
AlIaTnan Wins a Fight.
George Al1aman, of Atchison, sue
ceeded in getting the house to tack on
a fat increase to the appropriation for
son. In this fight he was backed up by
Cy Leland, P G. Young, and several
others. The additional amounts allow
ed by the house were as follows:
Repairs on boilers ...............$ 1900
Sewage plant -.....--........-.... 2OO0
New school building ng..-........... $1,000
Total - ..... SIS, 800
When the appropriation bill for the
state university was under discussion,
Speaker Stubbs was so busy in CONVEX
sation with several members that he
failed to vote for the bill.
Bouquet for PringIe.
J. l. Brady in the Lawrence World,
throws the following bouquet to J. 7.
PringIe:
One of the men who has more than
made good in the present legislature is
T. T. Pringle. He has been more viii
fed than any other public man in this
state but he has kept his temper and
abided his time. PrIngle is a strong
man and is always in possession of his
faculties The World never did throw
any rocks at Pringle but since coming
to know him we'll it has come to re-
spect the man as honest and capable.
No man has worked better or more in
teIIigently than Mr.. Pringle."
Temperatures in Large Cftfes-
Chicago, March 4-7 a. m. tempera-
lures: New York. "a; Philadelphia, 81;
Chicago, 2S; Cincinnati 40: Boston, 80;
So; Minneapolis, q; st.
Louis, 46
Weather Indications.
Chicago, March 4.-Forecast for Kan
sas: Probably showers tonight and
variable winds.