Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1905-06-17
Tax Commission
to be ReOrganiZed
Lansing, June IL, 1905.

TO give it effect this year, instead OF
next year as the house bill proposed
precisely as was here predicted last
week would be done, and sent it back
TO the house in the shape in when
Governor Warner desired TO have 1t;
and the house then concurred in the
senate amendment, and the act went
TO the governor for his approval. The
senate's action was unanimous on the
final test, in spite Of the powerful
railroad libby that pulled every string
to secure different result; and that
pres sure followed the bill to the house
and was equally insistent there for
the preservation of the bill as it had
originally passed the house; but all In
vain. 1t is high tribute to the
fidelity ard the influence of the gov
ernor, that both in the house and IN
the senate the feature which he de
sired and urged was able finally TO
command undsputed support, and to
secure enactment with the force OF
the united voice of all Of the members.
Now the governor is authorized to
appoint by September /, a new tax
commission OF three members. who
shall succeed to their office on NOvem-
Der l, in place of the present commits
sion.
The senate at the same session,
Tuesday night, also passed the Gal
braith bill, which had come from the
house on Monday, resisting strong
efforts to amend it in way to limit
| it's efficiency; and when it came back
to the house that body concurred IN
the slight amendments of the senate
and it accom- panied the Lowell bill to
the governors Office. BY this bill,
which takes effect in ninety days, the
new tax commission tn be appointed
will he clothed with the authority OF
a state board to equalze between rail-
road assessments and other property;
and that feature, with tax commits
sion OF Governor Warmers own selec-
tion to make the assessments and the
equalizations Of the corporate prop
critics, is not Objectionable TO linn.
The Galbraith bill also, it will be re-
membered, provides for the assessment
of the real and personal properties OF
union depot companies, express com
panies, fast freight lines, ct cetera. or
an adyalorem basis the same as fol
the railroad companies. Both oi
these bills will receive executive ap
proval and will be in full operation or
the first Of November.
The Mckay private bank inspection
bill, which was prepared by the bank
ing commissioner and strongly favor
ed by the governor, got successfull!
through the house after being once de
feated. only to meet death in the sen.
ate, where on the last night OF tn
session, after three hours struggle
it was indefinitely postponed. Th
senate also killed the Cropsey bill TO
/, licensing stationary engineers, b.
striking out all after the enact1n
i. clause. 1t is curious that there shOul
: prevail here method of giving bill
;. ils quietus which is just the revers
> of the method in Congress. where tn
fatal motion is to strike out the en-
. acting clause. Either way is effectiyt
i, when the motion prevails. One othe
bill is to create state examining an
licensing board was done to death !
: the house, that for state veterinaI
board. The Beal-Jerome knight bill
/ originally introduced very early In I'll
, session by Representative Junius
70 Beal of Ann Arbor, passed the hou
,e by tifty-seven to twenty.six, and the
N got safely through the senate, 1t 7
N gulates the sale of narcotics al
n poisons, imposing such restrictions
m should greatly hinder the obtainiI
ts of dope" in drug stores, and the di
ID pensing of intoxicating drinks behiI
the prescription case.
as One measure of great importan
e. got through ut the last minute, t
I'd Heald bill providing for the subm
he sion TO the people next April of t
,r- question, Of calling and holding a &C
rn yention for revision of the constit
"a tion, which was supposed TO have be
killed a fortnight before. IL was ca
ed up by Senator Fyfe not more tn
be than ten minutes before midnigl
NJ Wednesday, and passed. and havi
us already passed the house it OF
AS awaits the executive approval. If
ch proposition shall carry, the next leg
ne lature will provide for the creation
.,v the convention. Numerous propo'
10 amendments rest in the pigeon no
of the two houses and of their co
,er mittess, known in Billdom as the ca