Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-04-02
An Astounding Series Of Falsehoods.
lFrom the Portage City Register.l

lFrom the Portage City Register.l
| The Madison Democrat is shouting
hosannas and singing p@ins TO the
greatness of the Reform assembly.
just adj aurned, but to make anything
like point it is forced the necessity
OF res" eting to fiction, to a most as
tonishiag degree, which is neither
creditable to the candor of the ed :
tore, nor mpIimentsry to the sa-
gacity of their readers, the most of
whom will be sure to detect the i'm
position hich is soughJ to be palm
cd off on them. W. quote from edI-
torial articles the following para
graphs, which we have numbered,
tor convenience in our comments.
with which we have followed them
/. The Legislature adjourned at 3 O'Clock
p. m, yesterday alter session of forty. nine
| DAYS. This is the shortest regular session of
the legislature ever held in Wisconsin.
2. The appropriation bills passed b. the
last republican Legislature provided for
| ST te tax of 1921 ,tI0 but that was not suff-
Gent TO meet the lavished expenditures OF
| republican administration.
3. 7 meet the current expenses Treasur-
er Be'z was Obliged 10 make forced loan of
nearly 500 900 from the trust funds of state.
This sum the new administration had TO pro.
vide for in its estimates for mex year.
4 The republican, senate asked for state
tax Of $685., 625 TO provide for the dlsburse-
ments Of the year, but the reform assembly
after consulting the secretary of state conciud-
ed that $257 ,525 would be amply sufficient
This amount could have been reduced another
100000 if the senate had not defeated nu-
merous bills for looping off useless and ex-
travagsnt expenditures.
5 Ii could have been reduced another
$4,000 had the senate concurred in the &C
ton Of the assembly in taxing insurance com.
panies and IN increasing the license bill of
railroads to per cent. The senate stood in
the way Of every measure for retrenchmeLt
adopted by the reform assembly.
= II is the only assembly that refused
railroad passes and remained al the capital
attending to business during the entire ses-
sion.
Z. It's the city assembly that made
material reduction in al the expenditures OF
the slate government. II is the only assembly
that passed bill to tax express and telegraph
companies doing business in the state.
8. It is the only assembly that ever voted
TO tax life insurance companies and to in
crease the license fee on railroads to per
cent.
9. 1t j. the only assembly that attempted
to regulate warehouses in this state, and 20
reduce the charges so as to save the farmer
one cent bushel on all the grain he took 10
market
10 II is the only assembly that passed
bill 10 prevent ock-holders from contracting
with themselves.
l. The legislature adjourned after
a session OF SO days, having previous
iy agreed 10 adjourn one day later,
and made up he pay roll. of it's Off
GERS and emil yees tor 60 days.
Alter getting the money IN their
pockets s.lhree or four senators and
AS many assemblymen," in the lam
guage of the Democrat. met and. lille
gally Of nours,, voted to adjourn
day sooner than that fixed by .
quorum Of The two bodies. The ses-
ZION OF 1850, 1857. 1868 and 1869
were shorter than the session OF 1874.
2. The appropriation bI IL passed
by the last lrgi l.ture provided for
no ate tax whatever. We suppose
the Democrat mems they called for
state tax of 1921 Ito, bat then the
editor ought TO know that that tax
was l,si d for tho estimated expeL-
scs OF 1874, and not 1873.
3. Treasurer Bseiz borrowed not
q dollar from the trust funds to
meet current expenses. He did bor-
row from other unemployed funds to
meet drafts on the gener,l fund
which had not been included in the
e.tima es when the tax.levy OF 1872
was voted, bat the loans to meet the
over-drafts were al added to the
tax-levy of list fall, as provided by
the law of 1869, and there was no
deficiency whatever in the revenues
hat the present legislature bad TO
provide for. The d. Gciency which
did exist al the close of the last f cal
year was occasioned in part by maxi
ing appropriations, in 1873 payable
the same year. of the +, / owing
amounts, which were not included
10 the estimates of the year previous
when the tax was levied