The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-01-29
WOULD ABOLISH
INCOME TAX LAW
SUBSTITUTE OF OLD SYSTEM OF
TAXATION FAVORED.
WILL INTRODUCE MEASURE
Report of State Fish and Game War
den, John A. ShoIts, Urges Bet
ter Conservation of Fur
Bearing Animals.

ter Conservation of Fur
Bearing Animals.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for the curtil-
ment or repeal of the state income tax
law will probably eliminate in few
days in the introduction of bill for
the abolition of the law and the SUBJ
stitution of the old system of taxation
of money and credits. At the request
of several members of the legislature.
the tax commission has compiled data
relating to the taxation of money and
credits during the last year that sys-
tenn was in operation. About 80 per
cent of towns, cities and villages in
Wisconsin in 1911 collected less than
one hundred dollars from this class OF
property, according to the investiga-
ton just completed.
There were 1897 assessment dis
tricts in the state in 1911. In 731, or
worth of money and credits was as
sessed. In 472 districts, or 30 per
cent, moneys and credits were as
sessed, not taxed, less than $4,000. In
149, or 8 per cent, the assessment
ranged between $4,000 and $4,000;
while in 245 districts, or Is per cent,
the assessment reached $4,000. The
tax collected from moneys and credits
from that assessment amounted to a
little over $4,000. The first income
tax collected yielded in cash over ST.
100000.
ties exhibited some weird results. Not
dollars worth of moneys and credits
was found by the assessors in the city
of Superior. In fact, not a dollars
worth was found in all the 16 districts
in Douglas county, containing the Sec
ond city in the state. There were %
assessment districts in ManitowOc
county, and in II of these the local
assessors were also unable to find any
moneys and credits. The same dearth
of stocks, bonds and credits character
lied Marathon county's assessment; in
AZ of it's 81 assessment districts the
local assessors were unable to find one
dollar of such intangible wealth sub
ject to taxation. In 20 of the 30 dis
tricts of Outagamie county no taxable
moneys and credits were found, but
in the 90 districts Of Sheboygan coun-
ty only one failed to show some as
sessment of moneys and credits in
1911, and in Ii of these districts
moneys and credits exceeding $4,000
were taxed. In Kenosha county five
of the nine districts assessed moneys
and credits in excess of $4,000, and
in Kenosha city the average assess
ment per head on this form of prop
erty exceeded $100. Yet there we're
towns in Kenosha county where the
capital assessment fell below ten
cents.
So important is the recent decision
of the Wisconsin supreme court in
which it has held unconstitutional the
constitutional amendment passed in
1909 extending the suffrage to only
those citizens who had their full pa
pers, that Assemblyman George p.
Hambrecht of Grand Rapids will intro
duce resolution in the legislature
this week asking that 500 copies OF
the decision be printed. The consti-
tutional amendment became operative
in 1912. Prior to that time any person
who had declared his intention to vote
by. taking out his first citizenship pa
pers was given the ballot. The amend
ment sought to give the ballot only to
those who had both citizenship papers.
Justice R. D. Marshall, in the opinion
of the court, held that the amendment
had been illegally passed by the leg
islature and that hence it was void,
even though it had been passed upon
favorably by the people. A new con-
stitutional amendment will be resub-
mitted to this legislature on the sub
ject.
/ Better conservation of fur-bearing
animals, including the odoriferous
polecat, is urged in the annual report
of State Fish and Game Warden John
A. Sholts to Governor Philip. The
skunk is called a destroyer of insects
and rodents. Similar laws for saving
the bear from extinction and for vari-
Gus game birds. including quail, are
asked. Mr.. Sholts says that the game
laws present complicated mixture of
conflicting provisions which are him
drance to effective enforcement, and
that codifcation is much to be de-
sired. The report says that game war
den educational work has done much
to conserve Wisconsin's wild life, and
that public opinion has advanced to
creasing number of citizens has been
given to the wardens in their work of
game law enforcement.
State Fire Report.