Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-02-15

lating to food. drug and dairy products,
and may appoint stenographer at salary
OF SO a month. and with the consent of
the governor a chemist at $500 a year.
The bill also provides for two drug and
food inspectors at 50 a day, a deputy dairy
inspector at 81 200 and two assistants at
6 a day The bill gives the commission
broad powers to discover violations OF the
law relating to adulteration, low standard
Of purity, misbrandlng or failure to label
products containing poisonous drugs. The
bill alec includes malt, spurious and vinous
liquors among the products which may be
inspected! The dairy commissioner is given
power to inspect creameries. milk depots
and cheese and butter factories and estab-
lishments dealing in or manufacturing
dairy products, which are required to pay
a license. fee, which goes to pay the ex-
pense OF the commission.
To Make Dry Towns Drier.
Another rather drastic liquor measure
passed the senate committee of-the whole
today. 1t was introduced by Patrick
originally to prevent the soliciting by agents
of liquor houses in towns which had no
saloons. At the request of several of the
senator's who live in wet" towns II was
amended by the substitution OF an almost
entirely new bill. which is intended to pro-
hibit absolutely the soliciting by agents
OF orders for liquor except from retail
dealers regularly licensed. II is so drawn
that a regularly licensed saioonkeeper may
solicit orders from fixed place OF business
The bill went through practically without
opposition.
Wilson Has New Railroad Bill.
A measure important to all fhe people OF
the state was introduced in the house by
Wilson OF Custer county. This bill pro-
vides the State Board of Assessment shall
use the unit system in assessing railroad
property and the assessment shall be dis
tributed according to mileage without re-
gard TO main lines or branch lines Should
the bill be signed by the governor after
the terminal taxation bill is signed, II ia
thought by some the measure would nullify
that measure. and inasmuch as Wilson is
pretty thick with Burlington Lobbyist
Frank Young the bill will be closely in
vestigated by the pledge keeping repub-
licans. AS reason for his bill Mr.. Wilson
said the average Assessment iof the Union
Pacific was a2100 a mile. which should
have given to his county 1924, 264 for taxa
ton purposes. The average assessment OF
the Burlington. he said, is 1850 mile
which should have given to Custer county
1851, tS7 for taxation purposes making a
total from both roads OF SS26, 751. As a
matter OF fact, he said. his county go;
only S55S.l66s for taxation purposes from the
tive roads because the state board arbi-
trarily made the distribution. His bill ia
as follows:
Whereas, The revenue law Of the state
Of Nebraska provides for the assessment
of railroad property in said state according
10 what is known as the unit system, the
value OF each mile OF railroad being de-
tsrmined by dividing the whole value by
the number OF miles Of main track OF each
road or line; and
tion and assessment OF Nebraska in tbs
year 1906 found and determined the value
OF the 2Vll.S miles Of the Burlington sys-
tenn In this state, all of which $ owned
and operated by the Chicago. Darlington
q Quincy Railway company as one road
or entity at the uniform rate of S3S,7R
per mile as shown by the records of sSid
Whereas, Said board afterward without
authority of Jaw and by purely artitrs,r ~
over some sixteen Bo-called corporate ~.
visions OF said burlington system at WILDLY
varying and different rates OF valuation Iel
naught the principal of unity OF railroad
valuations sought and Intended to bg es.
tabliahed by section SO, chapter lIxYi, ar
ticle Of the complied statutes OF lEobyaska
Whereas. Said board IN the YER 100
found and determined the valuation OF tn,
Ln miles of the Union Pacific railroad
IN Nebraska at the uniform rate of $50 so,
per pile as shown by the records OF saiC
Whereas, The said board afterwards
without authority of law aud by purely
sseltrary methods. appropriated the SAT-
- main line and branches OF said railroad
~ widely varying and different rates %
valuation per mile; and
Whereas, The same methods OF valuation
and apportionment were followed by sait
state board In the year 1905 in the assess
ment Of the 245,5S miles of the Rock Islant
railroad and the 376.A miles OF the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad. the said railroads
having been valued by said board in tn
nrst instance as a unit and afterwards ap
portioned at different rates OF valuation
per mile for main line and branches; nov
therefore. be II
Resolved. That the State Board o
Equalization and Assessment be and 1
hereby directed to make said assessment o
railroad pronerty as the law provides s,
that the unit system shall prevail as con
templsted. both IN the assessment and ap
portionment OF the said property and s
that the assessed valuation shall be euua