Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-05-25
IF ANTS ARE ELECTED lEGiS
LATURE WILL De FLOODED
WITH ANNuLLMENT GRisT.
IMiLLAGE TAXES TO Dear
eRUNr OF ATTACKS
Radicals IL Elected Will introduce
serie. Of Measures Removing Many
statutes-Governor Clarke Will
Favor Some Changes in Methods Of
Fixing Valuations.
Special to Times Republican.

Des Moines, May 25.-When the next
legislature of Iowa meets, provided
some Of those who expects to be mem
bers ara not disappointed, there will
be presented the greatst ficcd Of bills
ever seen; and first and foremost will
be long line Of repeal bills. That the
first effort Of the repealers will be di-
rected toward the whole scheme OF
millage taxes is now certain. Here
will come the burden of the fight.
The radicals will propose series OF
bills that will repeal absolutely all
millage taxes for all the institutions
to the old system of definite legislative
appropriations for biennial periods
only.
The first alternative will be to pro-
pose that all these millage taxes OF
every kind be submitted to vote of the
people before they are effective be-
cause they involve expenditures OF
money which, II regarded rs debt, are
more than the constitutional limit. 1t
may be the constitution would have to
be amended before this could be done
as there Is now no legal way for sub
hitting laws to referendum except
bonding propositions.
The other alternative to be presented
will be to place all miSlage taxes on the
same basis as the general tax levy,
with authority lodged somewhere to fix
a levy that would raise approximately
certain sum, the levy to be fixed
after the equalization Of assessments
has been completed.
Clarke Will Favor Plan.
There is little doubt that with Gov
ernor Clarke reelected he will favor
the last named method. There Is
equally no doubt that Mr.. Rowley, un-
less he has changed his views as to
what to do with bills for tax aid,
would favor the second proposition
Mr.. Lee has only evasNely committed
himself against millage taxes and
probably would favor abolishing all
except one and to increase It. One re-
snlt of his session lobbying the last
time was to increase the millage taxes.
That the advocates Of wholesale re-
peal will be both noisy and persistent
can not be doubted. Some are seeking
election under definite pledges on these
millage taxes. For instance. J. G.
Campbell, who is running Tor the NOM
nation in Van. Buren, county, pledges
himself:
81 will vote. for the repeal Of the
millage taxes"
He also pledges himself to vote to
change the law so that the executive
council will not have the right to
equalize assessments.
In jefferson county S. A. Power, who
asks denomination, does not specifical-
" promise to secure repeal OF the
millage taxes, but he calls attention.
as matter Of pride, to the fact that
he voted against the millage taxes for
the agricultural college and to build
up state institutions. etc.
Over in Appanoose county one l..
Shaeffer is out with = Two column
TRADE against what the legislatures
have done and especially attacks
millage taxes.
George w. Ball, in Jefferson county,
is seeking to break into the legisla-
ture with this platform:
Il will vote for the repeal OF every
millage tax that is now levied by stat
Ute
Will Issue Win?
Scores of other similar expressions
could be gathered from the political
announcements. II these men. follow
ing the trail Of the attack on the CAPT.
tol extension millage tax, are In the
legislature in sufficient force. all the
millage taxes will go by the board and
again we will return to the system
under which the friends Of the univer-
sity and those Of the state college and
those Of the teachers college and those
interested in the various institutions
under the board Of control, will feel
called upon to maintain extensive lob