Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1906-09-14

state senate after an exceedingly Wig
orous campaign and served from 1885,
to 1901 and hts record in this seesio,
was but q duplicate of the proceeding
one when he served as q member o.
the same body. There were two i'm
portant measures that came up for con
sideration during this session of tn,
senate. One was Senate File No. 2!
the title and proceedings of which arr
as follows:
Session on February 24th, 1899.
A bill for an act to amend Section
20 Of Chapter 10 of the General Laws
of 1887. as amended by Chapter 1Of
of General Laws of 1891, being On
act to regulate common Carriers and
creating the Board of Railroad and
Warehe use Commissioners.
This bill came up for consideration,
and after the railroad lawyers in the
senate haa exhausted every parlia-
mentsry trick for delay, this bill came
up for its final passage.
This was bill to enlarge and ex-
tend the powers of the Railroad Com
missioner. Mr.. Buckmao, true to his
instincts, voted with II other senators
known as the railroad senators against
the bill. The next was Senate File No.
25 in which the following proceedings
were had:
Session of 1899.
A bill for an act providing for taxa
tlon Of railroad companies in this
state, and to repeal all acts and parts
of acts inconsistent herewith, and tc
provide for the submission of this act
to the people of this state for their ap-
prevail or rejection.
PROCEEDINGS
After the usual preliminary proceed
ings on March ~, 1899, the Judiciary
Committee made report recommend:
ing that the bill be Indefinitely post
poned,' which meant. if adopted,
that the state senate refused the PEG.
pie the right Of expressing their opin.
ion on this matter.
On March 20, 1899 the matter came
up for consideration on the question
in the following form: ''Shall the re.
port Of the Judiciary Committee be
adopted1" and there were ayes 81,
nays 80.
House File No. 26 was what is
known as the Gross Earnings Tax
Bill which provided that tho gross
earnings tax from the railroads of this
state should be increased from 8 to (
per cent and provided for the submis
sion Of the same to the people fol
their ratification In the ensuing cleo
tion. This was practically the same
amendment that was adopted in thu
Legislature in 1908, which resulted il
an increase in the revenues of thu
state Of approximately million dol
lars annually, and its defeat at tina
time, which was only secured by :
majority of one, resulted in net los
to the state In her revenue Of NOR
than q million dollars.
| Anyone who cares to investigate tn
matter and look over the records o
the house and senate during the tim
that Mr.. Buckman was a member o
the same will invariably End tina
whenever question came up befor
those bodies In which the rights O
the people and the welfare of th
state were opposed to those of tn
railroad companies and corporations h
was always found voting in favor 0
the corporation and with the corpora
tion members.
In the fall of 1892 Mr.. Buckma
was elected to Congress and is no,
In the latter portion of his secon
term and is appealing to the voter
! OF this district for support upon hi
record. This record appeared sim
ultaneously in all the Buchanan news
papers in this congressional district.
! All those who have had experienc
in newspaper business are we'll awar
Of the fect that when an Article ep
pears in the editorial column of vari
GUS newspapers, identicallv the sam
and simultaneously, that it is writer
by a SINGLE individual and publishes
as per order and so it is safe to assum
that this record was prepared by som
individual and transmitted to the va
rious Buchanan papers throughout til,
district for simultaneous prod uction
We do not know who wrote this recor,
bit we can guess. We apprenend i
was written by Mr.. Buchanan S pEi
vate secretary, who was formerly cit,
editor ef the ST. Paul Globe We al
more certain Of this from the fac
that we do not believe any pereon III
less hia Imagination had been undul
, stimulated by many years service Oh
!, = Democratic ma rar cOn11 hava Dro