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Show mm ik SESSION TO S'XTY DAYS IS VETOED Senate Sets New Record for Volnme of Business. Busi-ness. With tbe lutroductioa of twenty-four aaw billa. the greater number ia rela tioa to tba iafta on taxalioiT e'lggeeted by the Male apeeial rummiuivia on lav-eiiue lav-eiiue and taxation; the peaaatce of four ineau;e' anl a meiage fro-n tievrrnor Spry vetoing one aieaaure, the fenate bad a liuay jnd eventful dtv yenterday, aud aat a new record for tha volume of buwitieiia handled. The maamira vetoed bv Governor ttpry waa eenate bill No. I, providing for tba rloamg of tha eeaaioa of tha leglKlatura - upon tha aixtieth calendar day from ita convening. Tbe governor 'a veto wee baaed on the ground thai the raeature ia i nrouatitiitiotiat. rteuator Heuner .X. Smith, aiakar of tha bill, daclart-d that the bill waa ron-titutional, ron-titutional, ainre it dclciiateit ao legia-lutivc legia-lutivc fiiactnin to tba courta, aa cou-tandad cou-tandad by tba governor, but Bieref ee tabluhed a rule of evidence. A vote waa demanded, aa to whether tba, bill ohuuld be peaeu over the guv arnor'a veto, and it waa loat. Tbove who voted to override tbe governor 'a veto were Aenatore, Booth. Oeig, Kerry, Punk, Kelly. Laat, Olaon. Kidaont, Kinith and Wight. Ten vote. Tkoae who voted to auatain tka veto ware Senator Cottrell, Kdgahill, Krkaraley, Hanaen. lveraon, Thornier. Williama and President (lardner. tight votea. Aa two-tbirda of tbe memhara of each honae are required to paaa a vets aver the governor 'a head, the bill waa loat, aad the aanate may atop tbe crock, if it ahooeee to do ao, at boob en the alxtietk day. Among tke billa paaaed by the aenate waa aanate hill No. 0. bv Senator Wi. lard H. Haaaen of Box' Klder annate. Tim t;H province ?ur 'he witlilmwal of a ,nnt dcooeit bt either one of tha depotitora, whrther tke ethei ba living or dead. Preaident Gardner waa tba only member voting againat the meaa-nre. meaa-nre. Before tke bill waa paeead Hena tor Banner X. Smith ear u red tke adoption adop-tion of aa ameadmeet providing that aa actual or implied contract with the bank will be required, whea tha de-poait de-poait ia made, before tke eurvivor, la the event of death of tba other, may eernro tke money. Tke forcible eatry and detainer aet, aenate bill ID. prenented by Senator Smltk, giving aaw landlord! the right to ecu re ejection of aid teaanta under certain conditiona, waa alio paaeed. ' Senator Booth 'a meeaure, aanate bill No. IS, ia relatioa to chattel mortgagee, waa panned. Senator Booth 'a aanate bill No 30, relating to validation of certain cer-tain eoaveyaaeea, waa ale paaaed. When Senator Smith appeared ia tke anata chamber yeeterdav afternoon he brought with him great vale of billa, ia relatioa to taxation aad revenue, which ware recommended by the atata rommiaakiB on taxatioa acid revenue. There war thitreea of theae billa, and one of them waa a huge folio, which ran almoet the entire gamut of the law aa it bow etende in relatioa to revenue and taxation. Theae billa aim to change almoet completely the arheme of taxation and the collection of taxee ia thia atata, aad, if adopted, will Increaao tha reve-aoa reve-aoa materially, it ia claimed. All ef theea bill were laid npoa tha table, an motion of Senator Smith, to be referred to a joint committee of aix aaembere, threw from each kouee, who are to be appointed by the respective houaae. Tka principal bill i af lit eloaelv typewTittea pagee and 78 eeetioaa. Tke other billa ara anbaidiary ia character, aad depend largely upon the main bill for their force. One meeaure of im-1 portaaee la a change ia the aeeeaement ea valuation of minea. which will in. I crease their tat burden. Another eee-tioa eee-tioa provides that the state board of equalisation shall keep a record af information in-formation furaiahed b.v county assessors assess-ors relative to patents of mining- locations, loca-tions, of coal la ads, and of final receipts. re-ceipts. Assessors ere required to visit mining properties annually and to re port to the state concerning those mines. This Is almost equivalent to as assets men t report. Minea are now assessed as-sessed bv the state board of equalisation equalisa-tion on reports furnished by the opera-tore opera-tore of the mines. Many changes in the elerical methods meth-ods of the state board of equal i Ration, aad in the offices ef county assessor are provided. If the bill passes la Its present form real estate will be described by tas numbers instead of bv subdivisions, subdivis-ions, courses, distances, metes and bounds as at present, it ie held that the present method of describing real estate Ie too lone;, too tech steal, too confusing, and too oetly. Under the aew bill assessors are required re-quired to complete the assessment by the second Monday in April instead of tbe first Monday in May. as at present. Tax payers' statements mnit be returned re-turned within a time not more than twenty days from the time they are sent out bv the assessor. The new measure abolishes fines and Imprisonment Imprison-ment for non-payment of taxee and In j stead adda additional tsxatton penalties. The punishment provided bv the present law Is held to be too drastic, and there is no reoord of It ever having been In j vokeff He vara) sources of revenue have Keen discovered by the board; or commissioners from which the stats haa hitherto received re-ceived no revenue and In ths bill the oommlesloners provide for the assessment of theee sources. Rerano est Interest. Taxee on Interest on state lands is assessed as-sessed and provision mads that no patent aiiall be granted to any purchaser of state lands until the taxes have been paid. Hitherto the state has received no revenue from taxation of water rights. Irrigation works and shares in canala end Irriaatlcn companies. The new hill pro poses that theee water end irrigation aysteme he assessed at a fair rate. weep ins; changes In the methods of assessing- ths property of publlo utility corporations such ss railways, street railways, rail-ways, telephone and telegraph e vat ems, llerht and heating rompeniea, power companies, com-panies, are provided bv the new measure. meas-ure. At present the aseeaament Ie based on the physical and franchise valuations. valua-tions. The methods of maklnar the aasessment en transient stock la changed. The assessment as-sessment la to bs made ny the state board of equalisation and to he distributed distrib-uted among; the counties through which the stock erased. |