Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-06-05
GOVERNORS BILL CONQUERED
IN BY ASSEMBLY.
DAHL MEASURE ADVANCED
Bill to Tax Cash Surrender Value of
Life Insurance Policies Ordered to
Engrossment-Rai Commit
tee Proposes a Report on Free
transportation.
Madison, June 2.

Madison, June z.
The assembly yesterday morning
unanimously concurred in without de
bate the senate railway rate commits
sion bill. Several minor amend
ments which are intended only to
clear up the language and make more
clear the provisions of the bill, which
had been reported by the committee
on railroads, were adopted without
opposition or q dissenting vote,
Chairman BraddOck OF the railroad
committee explaining that they had
first been submitted to the senate
committee on railroads and that it was
agreed that the senate committee
would accept each and all of them.
Some which were not acceptable to
the senate committee were dropped,
but they were not of primary impOr-
tance because they, like those adopt
ed, did not enter into or effect in any
way the substance of the bill. In
asmuch as the bill which the senate
bill passed was the printed bill and
did contain the word mot" in section
So, over which these was some ex-
pressed anxiety at the time it's Omls-
sion was discovered in the engrossed
bill, no amendment covering this point
was offered. The omission was con-
sidered a clerical error which was sub
| ject to correction without vote of
the senate or assembly.
After the committee amendments
had been adopted, Assemblyman
Cleary introduced an amendment to
make the first commission appointive
and the succeeding members elective.
This was voted down SO to rs. Those
voting for it included the democrats,
the social democrats and stalwart re
pubicans, those favoring it being AS
semblymen Alldridge, Bauer, Berner,
Brockhausen, Brooks, Burdeau,
Cleary, Coffland, Crowley, Curtin, Dur
land, Everett, Hannifin, Hansen, Hart
ing, Frank Johnson, Miller, Page,
Pickart, Potter, Ramsey, Reynolds,
Strehlow, Szymarek and Westfahl.
Life Insurance Tax.
The Dahl insurance tax bill, to tax
the cash surrender value of life poll
cies, was ordered to engrossment after
spirited debate between Assembly,
man Dahl and Assemblyman Crowley.
Assemblyman Cleary's motion to in
definitely postpone was lost by a vote
of 80 to At. he roll call:
For indefinite postponement-Bak-
elk, Bauer, Bletcher, Bohri, Brooks,
Cleary, Coffland, Crowley, Curtin,
Dietrich, Dinsdale, Donald Durland,
Everett, Greenwood, Hamm, Hannifin,
Hansen, Hartung, Heinecke, Hulburt,
Frank Johnson, Ledvina, Leroy, Nc
Kenzie, Metzler, Miller, Norcross,
Page, Pickart, Pierron, Potter, Ram
sey, Reynolds, John Scott, Slight, Sly
narek, Theme, Westfahl-39.
Against indefinite postponement-
Alldridge, Andrew Beedle, Beer, Bell,
Berner, Braddock, Brennan, Brock
hansen, Burdeau, Chandler, Curtis,
D&hle, Ekern, Evans, Fridd, Hagarty,
Eagen Huber, Irvine, Jerdee, Henry
Johnson, Thomas Johnson, Kinney,
McGregor, Meyer, Nelson, Perry, Fred
Peterson, P. H. Peterson, Powell, Ra-
gatz, Roycraft, Saugen, Smoker,
Stevens, Strehlow, .Swenholt, farrell,
Thayer, Thomas, Ties, Turner, Warn
en- Wehrwein. Winch. Lenroot-47.
Mr.. Dahl read from the governors
message to show that the ad valorem
system of taxing life insurance COM
ponies was not practicable and that
the license fee system was unequal
Mr.. Crowley opposed the measure on
the ground that to tax the cash sur
render value would be to tax the re-
serve, which would in the end be tax
ing the policyholder and not the com
pany. To tax the reserve, he said,
would be to impair the contracts. He