Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-20
Nebraska
OF CORPORATION TAX
Suit Filed to Collect Fee Paid BY
Plaintiff Under Protest.
COUNTY CLERKS MAKE TROUBLE
AIuost Enoush CIsim. FiIed frou
Nuford Home Above 10 Absorb An
preparation for the Pen
u zion Rebate.
Test Of Corporate. Tax.
From a Staff Correspondent

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LINCOLN, Aug. p.-(special.)-The Mer-
camille Incorporating ompany Of Omaha
filed suit in the district court OF Ian
caster county this afternoon against Sec
Rotary Of state Junkin for the recovery Of
s., the fee paid under protest under the
provisions Of the corporation tax law. John
J. Sullivan, democratic candidate for SUI
preme Judge, filed the suit, alleging the
law 10 unconstitutional because It Is an
occupation tax. Service was had on the
seoretarY Of state late this afternoon. MI.
Junkln still has the money in his posses
sion. II having been paid under protest.
ne did not turn Il over TO the state treas
ursr. The law was passed by the late leg.
i~slatufe.
CSUHty Clerk Makes TroubIe.
From Saline county this morning came
9 report Of election practices on the part
Of a democratic county clerk that aroused
the ire Of the republican state COMMITTEES,
to which Il was reported, and which likely
will get into the courts.
Inasmueh as there were ne republican
candidates for treasurer. county clerk or
county superintendent, the ~dssignation Of
these offices and the blank lines which
should have followed them we're omitted
from the ballot. The county clerk also
left off The office Of county Judge on the
democratic ballot because there was no
candidate for that office. Republican
voters got together and wrote in the names
OF candidates for those offices, notwith-
standing there was no place for them.
The canvsssinE board in canvassing the
vote threw out all the ballots upon which
names had been written, thus refusing to
even count them for supreme judge or re-
gents Of the state university.
The county clerk had In his possession
the opinion Of the attorney general, which
expressly provided that the name of the
office must be printed on the ballot
whether there waS-any candidate or not.
Chairman Hayward Of the republican
state central committee advised bringing
msndamus to compel the county clerk 10
include the names Of republican candidates
who received the highest vote on the ballot
at the November election.
Brief In Pratt Case.
General John C. Gown has filed a brief
In the supreme court in defense of Colonel
Pratt In the divorce case which has beer
appealed from Douglas county
Says Telephones Are Plenty.
The Missouri Pacific railroad has an.
Aswered the petition Of w. F. Diers asking
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ton at Louisville by saying that the station
is we'll supplied with telephone and tele.
graphic facilities and that the petition va,
flied to help another telephone COMPANY
set business. The case is before the rail
way commission.
Deniel of Miller Stories.
The story Of Mrs. Northrup OF Mile
that she Is being disseminated against By
the Miller Telephone company, OF which
she said she Is a stakeholder. has brought
forth a vigorous denial from the company
The answer says Mrs. Northrup owns n,
stock in the company and is not being dis
eliminated against. One person who is be
Ing given service, the answer says, bull
his own line for two miles in order to b
connected with the main line.
Pension Refund Claims.
LENDERS Of the Soldiers Home at Mil
ford are Ming claims with the state 70
money paid to the state out Of their pen
sions. The late legislature appropriateC
800 out of which the money is TO b
refunded, The following claims have bee
filed 10 date: