The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-02-15
CORPORATION TAX MEASURE
PAssEs-BoTH FOREIGN AND
DOMESTIC ARE ON SAME BASIS.
SAYS B|llUP'S BILL OAMNAblE
House Approves Governors Plan for
Raising State Revenue-BilIs. In.
roduced-oovernor Sings Confed.
crate House Bill Yesterday.

! Guthrie. Okla. Feb. 1.-THE house
! Ct representatives working from /
/ o'clock until o'clock this afternoon.
passed to final roll ca the governors
corporation license tax bill, introduc-
( ed by Anthony. the remodeled gross
revenue law aud several minor meas.
ur,s Not more than three-fourths OF
| the members were present durins
/ the afternoon.
/ The corporation license tax bill as
passed To final roll call, provides an
annual tax OF nifty cents per 81 600 OF
capitalization on all general corpora
/ tions doing business for profit in the
state Both foreign and domestic
corporations are on the same basis.
/ The original bill proposed fifty cents
/ for Domestic corporations and 81 for
/ foreign Railroads and other pubic
! service corporations. insurance com
panics and banking and trust corpor
a;ious are exempt from the payment
of the tax. and any other corpor1;,un
liable 20 the payment OF gross rev.
enuc tax. The remodeled gross rev.
onuc law. which is intended To take
the place of the gross revenue lav
declared unconstitutional by lIGee
EOwlcs at Oklahoma City, contains nc
new features, being a technical col.
rt... 4. =, -
The house passed the Durant-Flud-
lesion resolution, memoralzing con
grsss not to reopen the rolls of the
Five civilized Tribes \ communica.
ton handed up by Repre- sentative
Workman protested agains; tha pro
posed salaries OF county i,isea. pro
iyided in the fees and salaries bill.
, Representative Ross had read a com
munication from G. l.. Ogville, editor
, of the Temperance Review, as fol
lows:
Please allow me to congratulate
you upon the great victory YOU have
Just accomplished in knocking out the
infamous. rotten and most damnabl,
Billups dispeusary bill, which ha,
!, been an outrage on the ctiagns J'
% Oklahoma since its passage 'wo years
ago"
Iils introduced We're: By Pas
r schall. relative to jurisdiction o.
courts. and by MaXey Ctwo). provid
T. ins style of city ordinances and rel
atiyc t1 court witnesses.
The speaker announced the e'r9W
illness of Representative Compoon o
~ KAY county who is to undergo ~
2. operation at % local hospital tomorrow
Noecl Lockwood and Ewell were a,
pointed committee to look after o1.
sick member
other measures passed To final TO
" call were. by MaXey and Castecl
Ieat.yr to sale of tracts OF schoo
~ land adjacent to cities and towns AM
y I'm Greer county: house resolution, b.
It Workman. Tnlotson and Calhoun, ask
ing congress to assist in straisht'n
ing the Ncldegris river; by Clark
' relative to appeal in civil cases. Th'
y Hughes bill, appropratirg 10000
' for the state orphan home al Pryo
II Creek for additional site, was passo'
" to final roll call, despite the protes
p" OF MaNey. Who said that the peopl
u wcu.d not approve Of the special s's
'e sion taking up these Appropriation
IL bills
Is An effort OF c. & Jones OF Oklah.
ma city republican floor leader, +
IT cali mp the fees and saarios bin &
'e morrow morning was futile, Tn
* house objected saying the senate wa
'r working ON the bill, Jones replie
'S thar the sc.ate was making might
NJ little progress; that 1t hal been o.
70 the bin for a week and was iurthc
e. from finishing f. than week aso.