The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-01-19
RESERVATIONS Of the board Of regents
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and he thought the house ought to.
Ultimately, the author Of the bill,
Mr.. Kunze, came to Mr.. Spooner's re-
lief with the assertion that be was
ready to 60 over the bill item by item.
and, while be mightn't be able to do
it as we'll as Mr.. Lind, he thought he
could make the meaning of it's pro-
visions clear. In the meantime, as
the house was waiting to elect United
States senator, he consented, as he
had been urged to report progress
and let the matter go over another
day. The appropriation will no doubt
ultimately be voted, perhaps before
this letter is in print, but the house
has made it plain that it doesn't pro-
pose to be in any great rush about
voting away the peoples money.
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The annual report of the tax COM
mission is out. It is too big book
and there is too much detail in it to
permit of its being read in hurry.
but glance at it's pages makes it
plain that the tax commission regards
present methods of taxing personal
property as "archaic." Don't press
me to say just what this wise-sound--
ing word means, for, to be candid
about the matter, I don't exactly
know; but in a joint resolution be
introduced Senator Collier says these
same personal property assessment
laws are crude, obsolete, grossly un-
fair, unjust and unequal, and I sup
pose that's pretty much the same
thing. Senator Collier wants the old
things referred to the committee OF
taxes with view to repeating all
laws relating to the taxation OF
personally except the gross earnings
tax on railroads and other public
service corporations and the inheri-
lance tax law. That's one little thing
he wants the tax committee to do.
The other is to prepare a bill or bills
providing for an income tax to be
paid by individuals and a gross earn
ings tax by all corporations and
partnerships.
The preliminary steps we're taken
Tuesday in both houses for the cleo
tion of United States senator to be
followed Wednesday by his election
by joint convention of both houses.
In the senate Tuesday there was but
single set nominating speech-that
of Senator Works naming for senator
W. S. Hammond, congressman from
the Second district. r. T. O'Connor
was nominated as the democratic.
candidate by Senator Handlan of St.
Paul. It appears that although the
honor was an empty one the demo-
Gratis in caucus were unable to agree
on the candidate they should name.
and it was finally agreed that the sen
ators should 60 as they please. Ulti-
mately it turned out in both house
and senate that the most of them we're
for Senator Clapp, who was nominal
ed in the latter body by Senator Put
nam. In fact all the eloquence in
Senator Clapp's behalf was unbottled
by the democratic members, who
appeared quite generally to agree
with Senator Glotzbach that be really
represented the progressive spirit of
democracy, which apparently has
recently taken to roaming round. The
vote in the senate resulted in Clapp's
receiving IS votes, O'Connor 4 and
Hammond 3. In the house Clapp'
got LOG votes, O'Connor 9, and Van
Lear l. VanLear, it will be remem-
bered, is the socialist who made the
phenomenal race for mayor of Min
neapolis last fall. Representative
Hillman, from Two Harbors, also
socialist, voted for him.