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porations owning them. But this is something very differ-
ent from a sale of the railway itself.
  It was believed that the law governing the assessment
of railway property, which had been settled after so long
a struggle, which brought such a large increase of revenue
and which the people did not ask should be repealed, should
remain unchanged; and, therefore, the Senate amend-
ments readopted the existing law upoti that subject. A
change in this system can bring only confusion, renewed
litigation, loss to the State and benefit to the railway cor-
porations.
  These were the more important changes made in the bill
by the Senate.
  The report of the conference committee recommended
substantially the adoption of the Senate amendments.
  The veto message of the Governor raises first the ques-
tion as to whether this bill was passed by the General
Assembly in accordance with the requirements of the Con-
stitution.
  The bill passed the Hcuse, with an emergency section,
by a vote of 67 to 0, and passed the Senate with the amend-
ments by a vote of 20 to 6. None of the amendments pro-
posed by the Senate, nor by the report of the Conference
Committee, related to the emergency section.  The con-
ference report was adopted in the Senate by a vote of 16 to
10, and was adopted in the House by a vote of 41 to 31.
  The Governor, to support his objection as to the manner
of passing the bill by the General Assembly, quotes the
last paragraph of section 46 and section 55 of the Consti-
tution.
  The last paragraph of section 46 reads thus "No bill
shall become a law unless, on its final passage, it receives
the votes of at least two-fifths of the members elected to
each House, and a majority of the members voting, the
vote to be taken by yeas and nays, and entered in the jour-