The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-02-04
Plan TO Divide
UP The REVENUE
Would Decrease Deficit in
General Fund.
Examination Of State Banks Pro-
sed---Governor's Latest
Message.
BY J. n. STUART.

oHhts
Frankfort, Ky. = Especially - The
fight over the county unit extension
bill did not end when the bill. was
referred to an unfavorable committee
in the senate 10 days ago, for the
friends of the bill are still full of en-
ergy and propose to keep trying every
way to push the bill through. 1t has
been tacitly understood that the house
by considerable majority would vote
for the bill, so when the senate took
what was considered unfavorable ac-
ton on the measure, its friends in the
house planned reprisal movement.
They began circulating a written
pledge amongst the representatives
stating that each member signing it
would refuse to advance a single SEN
ate bill in the house until direct
vote was taken on the passage of the
county unit bill in the senate. After
some dozen or more had signed 1t,
the promoters learned that such a
movement would lose the bill several
votes in the senate, so the matter
was dropped. The opponents of the
bill now claim that II 1t comes to
a vote in the senate a majority will
vote against 1t. but that can not be
proven till the vJte is taken, though
1t is known that the senate is very
evenly divided on the proposition.
The final result Is being watched with
much interest all over the state.
Senator Burnam of Madison has in
troduced a bill intended to help de.
crease the deficit in the general ex
penditure fund in the state treasury
His measure proposes to divide up
the revenue derived under the so
cents on the 500 tax rate that is now
in force, a little different from its
present division. At present the
school fund gets 20 cents of the so.
cent tax, the general expenditure fund
gets 21R cents, the sinking fund 2
cents and the State university one.
half a cent. He proposes to reduce
the school fund to 24h cents. the
sinking fund to ~ cents and to in
crease the general expenditure fund
to 231a cents, leaving the State uni.
versity just as it is now. He says
investigation shows that the 26-cent
rate allowed the school fund increas-
ed the per capita for school children
last year to over 81 and by reducing
the amount to PAN cents, the per cap
tia will still be as much as 81, which
he thinks is amply sufficient, and will
at the same time increase the rev.
enue that goes into the general ex-
penditure fund sufficiently to help
pay off much Of the deficit. He says
further that as the state has practic-
ally no debt, there is no need to keep
that rate at cents, since a Lucent
rate will bring in enough revenue to
meet in 20 years the 100000 of
bonds that may be authorized by this
legislature.
Governor Wilson has decided not
to send all his advice to the legisla
ture at one time, but will give 1t to
them in broken doses. He sent in an
other part of lbs message Friday, the
larger part of which is taken up In
discussing the tax question. He in
dorses the work done by the tax COM
mission and urges that the necessary
amendment to the constitution be
made SO that new taxi system may
be enacted. He recommends that the
state be allowed to collect taxes only
on personal property, the county to
collect taxes only on the real estate
in the county outside the cities in
that county and that the cities be al
lowed to collect taxes only on the
real property inside the city limits.
He says 1t is too much Of burden
now on city taxpayers to pay state.
county and city taxes on the same
piece of property, and to pay the
same taxes on bonds and stocks takes
all the profit derived from that sort
of property, hence people who own
stocks and bonds perjure themselves
by not listing them for taxation. He
Endorses the bill which seeks to Gre
ate q state tax commission.
He recommends that a law he pass
cd authorizing the performance Of the
surgical operation Of vasectonomy. TO
prevent the bearing OF children by In
sane people and habitual criminals.
He says the law - to inquests on
lunatics is too loosely enforced and
recommends that In each case two
physicians from neighboring county
should examine every one accused of
being crazy or lunatic.
He says Architect Andrews recon-
mends that 100000 more be appro-