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COReZ K neeses e . se mt n CCCE | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1903 fewé . > ASSESSMENT BILL __-- t AGAIN DELAYED.} _----_----__------ | t Laid Over for Special Meetmg! in Fall | | + 4 | t LEGISsLATURE'S BUSY DAY.( Te 5e | Morning Sessions Not to Com--| mence Yet. wotantemenn onrieremmitits Statute Law Amendments and Muni-- cipal Amendments Considered at Length. oo eatintaen ies rvctnecai The Legislature decided yesterday to suspend for the present their intention of morning sittings, which were to commence to--day. This was due to two causes, in all probability, the fear of running out of work before the Gamey Commission's. report .came. down, andl the desire not to interfere with the in-] teresting proceedings now going on iul the Public Accounts, Committee. The} House also approved the recommcnda-: tion of the special Assessment Com--| mittee that the. municipal . taxation . bill | stand over until next fall, when the committee will meet specially to deal with it The report was not passed, | however, before Mr: Whitney had made an objection. The statute law amendments, the omnibus bill con-- taining fag ends of Government legis-- lation, was considered. at length in committee and 'explained by Col. Gib-- son. The Attorney--General _ also | spent much time in carefully explain-- ing the consolidated municipal bill, which contains 129 clauses. Several other Government bills were also put! ! through committee. & | | Assessment Committee's Report. | | _ Col. Gibson presented the report of | | the special Committee on Municipal | | Assessment and Taxation, saying that| | the committee had decided, in view | of the importance of the questions in--| volved, to sit again in the autumn for' a week or two, and devote their time entirely to the subject. I Mr. Whitney said that now, after a} commission had been appointed and had considered the subject, and a com-- mittee had gone over the ground again, the matter was to be put off un-- til the fall, after which no one knew what would happen to the question. Mr. Pettypiece doubted Mr. Whit-- ney's sincerity in criticizing the post-- ponement, because when the decision to do so was reached in committee in the morning he had not been pre-- sent. He (Mr. Pettypiece) had want-- ed to press his own bill (116), to a third reading in the House. and had pressed his wish to a vote. Then was ' the time for Mr. Whitney to have shown the sincerity. Should Go Slowly. Col. Gibson asked whether, when they were considering so great a ques-- tion as the abolition of personal taxa-- tion, they should not be careful not to f go too hastily. The question of fran-- . chises was a most important one. The