Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-06-02
TIME FOR ANOTHER
ROLL CALL IN WIS.
SENATOR WHITEHEAD lNvUKES
PRESENCE OF ONE HE DOES
NOT ADMIRE.
SENATOR HUDNALl WINS FIGHT
IN UPPER HOUSE FOR CHAP
PIE BILL.
Madison. Nav 20.

Manson, May 70.
1T is time there was another roll
call and another kind of a roll call
read in this state" declared Senator
Whitehead in ringing tones as he
concluded the debate IN the senate
yesterday morning on the proposition
to except docks at Superior, Ashland
and other terminals from the ad val
orem railroad taxation law and sub
ject them to local taxation.
1T is time the newspapers called
the roll on the senators who are en-
deavoring to tear down the system
which was built up in years of strug>
gle in this state under a man OF
whom | was never an admirer. l was
never an admirer of the man VINO led
this fight but l would he were COVER
nor of the state today know what
he would do, what would be the fate
of this bill if it had been laid upon
his desk"
Closing with warm denunciation
of the lobby for its work for this bill
the senator again declared it was time
for roll call in the state and the
words of the president, "The clerk
will call the ROLL" came so swiftly as
to cause a laugh in the senate.
1t was Senator Hudnalls day and
he won his fight for his home city,
defeating the opponents of the Chip
pie bill, amending the ad valorem
railroad assessment bill act, horse
foot and dragons, the bill being con-
Cured in by vote of "a to 4.
Senator Whitehead led the fight for
the committee report for non-concur-
renee, charging that the bill was an
attack upon the ad valorem system
of railroad taxation and the principle
that railroad property should he
taxed as a whole.
Senator Sanborn denied this while
Senator Owen declared the bill was
the most important before this session
of the legislature. He was willing to
stake his reputation as lawyer that
the bill would make the ad valorem
law unconstitutional. He asserted
the bill was a retrOgrade step.
Senator Hudnall defended the prin-
ciple conveyed in the bill and said if
it was right to take elevators and
coal docks out from under the ad
valorem law as was done in 1905 it
followed that other docks should also
ha +oIyoD ont uharo not ,,cod OxoI,,
sively for railroad purposes. In Doug
las county SO per cent. of the prop
erty was owned by the railroads, in
Adams none, but while Justice Mar
shall had held that an accounting was
necessary to establish an equality of
burden the accounting was only con-
structive and Douglas county paid
$273,000 toward the expenses OF the
state while if it paid on an equal
rate with other counties it would pay
only $4,000.
He said there was a serious posi-
bility of the present law being decid-
ed unconstitutional if attacked by "a
municipality.
On a call of the roll the senate re-
fused to non-concur in the bill by a
vote of to %, as follows:
Ayes-Senators Burke, Donald
James, Owen and Whitehead-5.
Nays-Senators Barker, Bird, Bish-
OPP, Rodenstah, Brazeau Browne.
Fairchild, F'ridd, lakewood Hudnall
Husting, Kleczka, Lehr, Lockney.
Lyons, Martin, Morris. Page Pearson,
Randolph, Sanborn, Stout and Thomas
-23.
Paired Senator GAYLORD for ana
Marsh against; Senators Krumrey for