The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-02-27
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effect from their passage. Governor
Dawson placed both in his proclama.
ton for this reason. as unless they 20
into eject at once The State win lose
this years revenue from that source.
The first changes the revenue year
from May LIST TO July list, so as 10 con
form with the Government assessment.
year. The second provides for the
pasment Of a tax on National Banrs
capital and stociss and provides for i
board Of equalization.
The senate adiounedsat noon untii
tomorrow morning. but the House win
be in \ sssion aii afternoon.
Ugly Feeling Toward Governor.
There IS an ugly feeling among some
II the members % the Legislature over
the yetoing OF the bill which proyidesl
for the taxation OF leaseholds. II Isl
openly stated by some of the people,
who are Interested in the coal bust.
ness that they had a promise Gov.
Dawson would sign the bill and a local
paper has taken the matter up and
quoted the governor as saying TO the
lobbyists who were back Of the bill
that he was running the governors
Office ard they could not dictate tol
him. They claim after getting the
governors promise to sign the bin
they helped to get some administra.
tion measures through which would
have been held up otherwise.
To ypuc correspondent the governor
made tie statement that he had never
made IN agreement as to what should
go into the proclamation, although he
had been importnned by number Of
People to, keep certain things QUIT;
that he had been aroused by. certain
people who did not want him to put
the antitrust bill In the proclamation
but he thought that as the insurance
people were preparing to make a raid
on the State by advancing their rates,
having had assurance from reliable
source that such was their intention.
he did not propose to stand for the
State being mulcted to an amount Of
between two and three hundred thous.
aud. "a
Does Lobby pominate2
II believe the antitrust bill Will
show whether, the Senate is being dom.
mated by the lobbyists or not.r said
the governor. When the bill was
first passed the vote was almost unan.
Iimous, but when it was introduced
again there was q fight against 1t and
the vote was fifteen to ten in its IA.
yor The lobbyists are working hard
to get the Judiciary committee To-
make az adverse report on the bill.
THE impression appears to be that
I agreed to the bill, which was pre-.
pared by Malcolm, Of Jackson, which
had for It's purpose the Strengthening
out of the leaseholds taxation middle.
This Is a mistake, for / never agreed
Ito 1t. Tho fact of the matter being that
he had a sort Of an agreement of a
tacit approval OF the bill from the tax
commissioner. The bill, as It was
prepared, only took care OF the coal
people and did not look out for the
oil and gas interests Of the State, in
sofar as the people who own the land
On which the wells are located are CON
cerned. A farmer who gets 5000 for
a gas well would be compelled to pay
the leatehold taxes under this law.
or course. this would be perfectly &C.
ceptabEe to the operators, but after
the taxes were paid the farmer would
have nothing out Of the amount he
would receive. vetoed this bill be-
cause I thought IL was a bad one and
would get the State into lot Of trou.
ble.n
The Governor Explains.
In speaking of the bills which had
ibeen included in his proclamation, the
governor said there were three which