Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-03-16
EUGEN|C LAW BILL
IS BEFORE SENATE
HEATED DISCUSSION EXPECTED
TO DEVELOP WHEN BILL
is GIVEN HEARING.
WATER POWER MEASURE UP
cussed-PIan for Hospital for
Inebriates to Be
Debated.
Madison, March 8, 1915.

The fight to continue the existence
of the eugenic marriage law against
the attack and bill for it's repeal will
be given a hearing before the senate
committee on education and public
welfare. 1t promises to furnish the
most excitement of the thirty-four
hearings scheduled.
Senator Bennett has introduced a
measure for the repeal of the pres
ent law requiring a certificate of
health from every prospective groom
before the marriage license shall be
issued. The hearing will not be con-
fined to this plan, however, but will
include a number of substitutes for
the law already offered.
Water Power Hearing.
Great interest also centers in the
resumption of hearings on the water
power bill introduced by Senator
Ackley This will be held in the par
Tor of the assembly chamber. The
progressive forces have outlined an
attack on the Ackley bill for the rea-
son that water power men had con-
siderable to say about the drafting
of this measure. Senator Bray has
already opened war on the bill with
the statement that cit is nefarious
piece of legislation" Mr.. Bray is
drafting a new water power measure.
The assembly committee on public
welfare will consider the Weber bill
authorizing the state board of con-
troll to purchase a site for a hospital
for the treatment of inebriates.
Boxing Bill Up For Repeal.
The ]. Hanson anti-boxing bill will
come up before the house committee
on state affairs. Assemblyman He'd
ding believes that boxing has made
a good record and that the present
law legalizing no decision ten-round
contests will not be repealed.
The assembly committee on trans
portation will discuss the Vint bill to
lessen the powers of the state rail
road commission by giving cities the
right of home rule in regulation of
purely local public utilities.
Income Tax Cut Planned.
Senator A. E. Martin has intro
duced a bill, that has just come in
from the revision committee, amend
ing the income tax law. The first
$1,000 of taxable income is taxed on
a rate of three-fourths of 1 per cent.
From this up the classes are cut
down One-fourth of l per cent up to
and including the tenth thousand of
rate of 3 y per cent. Above this
rate is per cent instead of per
cent.
The income tax of corporations in
the Martin bill starts with z per
cent on the first $1,000 and is re-
duced from the present rate one-half
of l per cent up to and including
$1,000, the tax on which is 31a per
cent. Tax on all incomes in ex-
cess of $4,000 is per cent instead
of per cent, as at present.
There will be a hard fight against
the bill made on the part of the tax
commission and others. Senator
Martin, however, believes he will be
able to make the reduction provided
win through.
Pay $4,000 a Day in Tips.
The people of this country spend
$1S,000,OO0 year and the travelling
public in Wisconsin spends $4,000 a
day in tips, according to J. F. Barnes,
La Crosse, who appeared before a
committee of the senate today in favor
of the Bosshard bill making tipping a
misdemeanor punishable by a fine of
So to $25.
THE tipping game" he said, has
become a holdup. The travelling men
are for the bill and will see to it that
if the measure is passed that the law
will not be violated"
Senator Hanson appeared for his
bill to create state department of
architecture and engineering. The
state, he asserted, pays out about
100000 a year for architects and en-
gineerS. and in some cases, Mr. Han
son said. Gov. Z. L. Philip considers
it necessary to call in an architect be-
fore signing some of the contracts
which reach him.
II. ]. Torkelson, acting business
manager at the state university, ap.
peared in opposition to the bill.
War Resolutions Killed
Killing war resolutions was the pas