Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-26
Nebraska
ROCK ISLAND IN ODD FIX
Failure TO Pay Corporation Tax May
Affect Litigation.
HAS NOT OBEYED STATE BOARD
Number of Old Lines that Have Been
Consolidated Into systems De-
clRred Defunct by Gov
ernor's Proclamation.
llrom a staff Correspondent

tfrom STAFF Correspondent
LINCOLN, June 25.-(Special.) lowing TO
the absence OF Attorney General Thompson
form the city it was not possible today to
get statement from the legal department
as to what would be done regarding the
Rock Island railroad, which has failed TO
pay its occupation tax, and Is. therefore,
under the law, incapable OF doing business
In Nebraska legally.
The law which provides for the payment
of an annual fee BY corporations provides
tile following penalty for It's violation:
Section SIT shall be unlawful for any
corporation, delinquent under this act,
either domestic or foreign, which has not
paid the occupation fee, together with the
penalty for such delinquency, as In this act
prescribed, to exercise the powers of SUCH
this state, after the 30th day OF November
next following the delinquency. Each and
every person who exercises any of the
either domestic or foreign, which has not
paid the occupation fee, together with the
1penalty for such delinquency, or who trans
Vacts any business for or In behalt OF any
such corporation, after the S0th day OF NO
vember next following the delinquency,
shall be guilty of a mlsdemeanOr, and upon
conviction thereof shall he punished by
fine OF not less than $780, and not exceed
ing 81 900, or by imprisonment in the county
jail not less than fifty days nor more than
900 days, or by both such fine and imprlson-
ment.
the state over the railroad legislation en-
acted by the Legislature of 1907 and over
an order issued by the State Railway COM
mission to compel 1t to construct cross
ing at Hallam What effect the cancela-
ton Of its charter will have on this litiga-
ton Deputy Attorney General Grant Mar
tin woull not say, not having looked into
the question thoroughly.
The Rock Island is not in very good odor
With the legal department Of the state OF
the railway commission because OF it's re-
fusSl TO carry out orders of the conmIs.
sion. In the Hallam case, where che rail-
road was petitioned to construct n cross
Ing in order to save the citizens several
blocks walk II going over the tracks, the
/ commission ordered the crossing con-
| structed The railroad appealed to the
} district court and then again to the su-
! preme court. No decision has yet been
handed down. That case has been in con-
| troversy about two years. The in
\ wolves $24. Another case with the Rock
J Island that has dragged along Is that
| wherein the commission ordered the con-
| struction of a depot at University Place.
The railroad appealed to the courts ami,
| though the supreme court held with the
commission last February, that depot has
not yet been constructed.
The charters of many other railroads
! have also been cancelled under the occu-
patton tax law, but 1t is supposed that In
! practically all of these cases the COM
' panes had ceased to do business had
been consolidated, as in the case of the
Burlington organizations
To Help the Towns.
The city of Alliance succeeded in dispos-
ing Of 100000 Douglas county bonds and
as a result State Treasurer Brian will take
over 1000 bonds of that city. Just at this
time it is said to be almost impossible to
dispose OF municipal or school bonds in thu
east, while county bonds are more readil!
bought up by the brokers, being considered
higher class of securities AS the state
treasurer has several hundred Thousand
dollars of Douglas bonds he has decided
in order TO help out the cities of the stat
and the school districts to buy in the mum
cpal bonds and the school bonds, provid
ing the parties desiring to sell will dspos
of Douglas county bonds
Manual sti1 Printing.
Two boxes of printed matter for stat
officials were received today from tn
Kearney industrial school under the con
tract received by that institution for stat
printing. Labor Commissioner Maupin in
sisted that he would prevent the industrial
ScnooI from IllnnS It's contract, but Whei
it was suggested to him this would be don
by having the governor order Superintend
ent Manual to give up the job he stoppe
talking.
Hugh Thompson Seeks Pardon.
An application has been made to Fov
ernor Shallenberger for the pardon of Hug
Thompson, sent to the penitentary 70
three years for highway robbery, iron
Auburn. 1t is set out in the papers fle'
with the governor that Thompson wa
under the influence of drink when he com
mitted his crime and that he had previousl,
borne good reputation. Judge Raper, VIII
sentenced the man wrote the governor tina
in his opinion the man had been Furnishes
sufficiently ard that he recommended
executive clemency. The county attorne,
who prosecuted the man also recommends
clemoncy.
Want Depot mt Max.
A formal complaint has been filed wit
the state railway commission asking tina
depot be established on the Burlingto
at the town of Max. 1t is set out in tn
complaint that Max Is a growing littl
town of importance a shipping center
on one occasion the petition said twenty-si
passengers waited for the train with n
shelter with the Thermometer hoverin
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