Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-30

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King. Klein. Ransom, Raymond, Tanner,
Nays-Banning, Bartos. Brown, cain, Cox,
Diers, Donohoe. Fuller, Gammill, Henry,
Ketchum, Laverty, Majors. Miller, Myers,
Randall, Thompson Tibbets. Volpp, Wiltse
10. ttl
PepuIists want Initiative.
The delay over the physical vaulation bill
has caused some of the populists who de-
mand the enactment of the initiative and
referendum to demand that the legislature
pass their platform measure. They are try
ing for a deal whereby the price Of the
Initiative shall be the defeat Of physical
valuation in view Of the deadlock that
still exists over the latter measure.
The conference committee newly APP
pointed on physical valuation is not hasten
ing matters and now in the closing hours
of the session, the popullsts, disregarded
the entire session, are putting in hard ticks
TO force some recognition from the demo-
Gratis who have been carrying the fusion
load and are now trying to dump them in
return for their assistance these many
years.
II the democrats In turn succeed in get
lining enough support for their initiative
and referendum to pass it, they are likely
to do so only by agreeing to the terms
VA lbO bOh " wv NNoNO VIM ~ wv
terly opposed to the physical valuation
measure, especially in the form that it
passed the house with the stock yards and
public service coprbation companies in
cluded In its provisions.
In other words, IL the democrats expect
to browbeat the populists and merge them
into the democratic party they must give
something In return and the populists are
making the Bryan pet measure the price,
but the corporation democrats make hay
while the sun shines, caring nothing what
ever for the future OF their party. are TAX
ing advantage of their strategic position
as holders of the balance of power, to de-
mand in return what their masters decree.
1t is not unlikely, however, that the ses-
sion may adjourn without recognizing a
single platform pledge of the populist
party.
The senate committee on constitutional
amendment reported the Miller house
Joint resolution for a constitutional amend
ment for the initiative and referendum TO
De indefinitely postponed. Oils moved to
order the bill to third reading. Adjourn
ment wa staken with the motion pending.
Occupation Tax Recommended.
S. F.. 10. by King of Polk, which provides
that all corporations shall pay an annual
occupation tax 10 the state was recon-
mended for passage In the of
the whole i'm the house this morning.
The house amended the bill to provide the
annual tax should be one-twentieth of the
paid up capital stock Of the corporation
instead of a flat rate as provided in the
bill as il came from the senate, the mini
mum to be s.. and It changed the name
from u license tax to an occupation tax.
Begole of Gage and Brown of Lancaster
opposed the measure, while Humphrey OF
Lancaster, Kuhl of Cedar and Taylor OF
Custer spoke for it.
Begole said ne could see no reason why
an Incorporated mercantile establishment
runninS a business beside a firm should
have to pay the same tax as the firm and
still have to pay the additional occupation
tax. Brown of Lancaster argued that Ii
the bill became a law In Nebraska and 1t
was a good law then a was right 10 pre-
sumo that all the states would in time
adopt It. This would cause the corpora
tionsn to have to pay forty-six times as
much tax In all the states as they did in
Nebraska. This would shut out the smaller
corporations and give 10 the large corpora
lions a monopoly.
Taylor of Custer explained that If the
corporation paid the tax in all the states
ii would mean therefore that they were
maklng a profit in ali the states and for
the opportunity of doins business they
should pay.
Griffin OF Burt flourished a World-Her-
aid on high and told the house he was up
in the air;
This paper charges that one bill in the
legislature was drafted by the corporations.
Now / am not sure but what this bill wiz
turn out the same way. II is possible that
the foreign corporations and wholesale