Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-02-03
ADJUSTMENT OF
LAW IS FAVORED
Want Substitute for the State
Income Tax Statute.
BILL WILL BE INTRODUCED
setter Conservation of Fur-Bearino
Animals Is Urged in the Annual
Report of State Game
Warden ShoIts.

nePort OF state Game
Warden ShoIts.
DECENTRALIZATION for the curtil-
ment or repeal of the state income tax
law will probably eliminate in a few
days in the introduction of a bill for
the abolition of the law and the sub
stltution 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 1887 assessment dis
tr1cts in the state in 1911 In 731, or
40 per cent, of these not a dollars
worth of money and credits was as
sessed. In 472 districts, or so per
cent, moneys and credits were as
sessed, not taxed, less than $4,000. In
149, or 9 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.
$4,000.
The assessment in individual coun-
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 q
assessment districts in Manitowoc
county, and in IL 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 SO assessment districts the
local assessors were unable to find one
dollar of such intangible wealth sub
ject to taxation. In 20 of the 80 dis
tricts of Outagamie county no taxable
moneys and credits were found, but
in the % 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 $1O,OOO
were taxed. In Kenosha county hve
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 500. Yet there were
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 Z.
Hambrecht of Grand Rapids will intro
duce a resolution in the legislature
this week asking that 500 copies OF
the decision be printed. The constr
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 SUD-
| ject.
Better conservation of fur-bearing
! animals, including the odoriferous
polecat, is urged in the annual report
of state Fish and Game Warden Jonn
| A Sholts to Governor Philip. the
skunk is called destroyer OF insects
and rodents. Similar laws for saving
the hear from extinction and for vari-
ous game birds, including quail, are
asked. Mr.. Sholts says that the game
laws present a complicated mixture OF
| conflicting provisions which are him
drance to effective enforcement, ana
that codification 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
noint where the cooperation of an in
creasing number of citizens has been
given to the wardens in their work of
game law enforcement.
New Corporations.