Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-03-22
RAIL DAD S
WIN POINT.
Bill on Equal Taxation Deferred
for a Weeks Assured of
Passage.

TRENTON. Mar. 22:-There vas
considerable elation among the rail
road representatives. at the state
house yesterday afternoon, when
action by The senate on the Perkins
equal TAX bill was deferred until
Tuesday OF next week. BY this de-
lay the railroads claim to have won
q tactical advantage in their fight
against the passage of the bill.
The DELAY will give the railroad
representa- ives an opportunity TO
work upon some of the senators who
are said TO be wayering on the ques-
ton. The Perkins bill was unani-
, mously passed by the house and was
scheduled ior passage by the senate
yesterday afternoon, but when II
came mp ii was announced that the
senators would be given an oppor-
tunity to offer such amendments as
they wished. ana then the bill ana
the amendments could be reprinted.
Then it was decided 10 make the sub
ject Il special order for next Tuesday
afternoon.
Substitutes offered.
Amendments were offered by four
senators and the railroad men pro-
fess hat The adoption of any OF them
will tend to help the railroads. Sen
ator Colby, of Essex, offered a sub
stitute bill. being the bill calling for
the assessment of all railroad prop
erty at local rates which was intro
duced earlier in the session by As
semblyman Arrowsmith.
Senator Bradley offered as Il sub
stitute the bill he had earlier intro
duced in the house by Assemblyman
ScoveI. who purposes to tax the rail
roads on gross receipts instead of on
The franchise. Senator Alderman, OF
Union county. offered an amendment
taking out Of the Perkins bill the tax
ing of railroad franchises, and Sena-
tor Minturn, Of Hudson, proposed
/ the taxation of all railroad property
at local rates.
Any plan that will tend to befud-
die the issue or defeat the Perkins
bill would now be looked upon with
favor by the railroad men, who are
using as an argument that the Per
kins measure will not etfectually dis
pose of the equal tax question. Four
teen senator's have practically com
mitted themselves 70 the Perkins
scheme. They are Avis, Colby,
Brown. Frelinghuysen, Hillery. Hor-
ner, Hutchinson, Jackson, Mckee,
Mincb, Minturn. Plummer, Price and
Wakelee.
Colby. Minturn and Wakelee are
not entirely satisfied with the Per
kins scheme. but regard it as the
best that can be had at this time.
Whether the railroads will he able
10 win enough votes away from the
Perkins bin by next Tuesday is the
question that will settle the ultimate
fate of the problem.
Assemblyman Perkins, Of Union
. county. introduced a repeater for the
: Dufield act passed last winter for
taxing OF S~econd-class railroad prop
erty. The new bill provides for tax
ing this kind of property at local
rates for local purposes.
Senate Bills Passed
The senate passed the bill that was
defeated Tuesday authorizing the
erection OF a dam at Toms River by
a company 10 furnish light and pow
er 10 that town, The senate passed
The bill appropriating $4,000 a year
for five years for the determination
of mosquitoes. The bill was the
subject of lively debate in the course
Of which Senators Brown and Lee
declared that il was a matter of great
Importance 10 many thousands OF
persons. Only four votes We're cast
against the measure. The senate
passed The bill, providing that firms
using the the term company or
Co should file with the county
clerk u statement as TO who are the
members Of the firm covered by the
term.