Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-02-27
DOINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE

Bills for the reorganization of the
National Guard are to be presented
within the next week They will con-
tain no provision for Armories. There
has been only one bill so far intro
duced for an armory and that is at
Chippewa Falls.
The compensation bills are to be
taken up next week and extensive
hearings will be held on the measures
There is disposition on the part of
this legislature, however, to increase
the indemnities and it is more than
likely there will be some kind of bill
finally settled on increasing indem-
mites
The plan is to hear all the measures
in a joint session of the senate COM
mittee on corporations and the as
sembly committee ON state affairs. The
bills will then be gone over and
substitute measure will be drawn for
all of them, covering all the amend
ments to the wage compensation law,
which the committees think it is ad-
visable to recommend
A hearing will then be held on the
substitute bill, and criticisms will be
permitted on the action of the COM
mittees in rejecting some and accept
ing some of the amendments to the
proposed bill.
The agitation of union labor in the
state on the subject of increased in
IDENTITIES, is beginning to show itself
in the legislature, and petitions are
already coming in in favor of the bills
which have been Endorsed by the union
labor for fiat increase in the indem-
mites.
A great deal of interest is being
shown by the manufacturers of the
state in the proposed changes in the
wage compensation act. Requests are
coming in from all parts of the state,
for copies of the bills on the subject.
There are about $50 bills before the
legislature for changes in the game
law.
Rural telephone companies are OBJ
jecting to the bill giving the railway
commission power to order extension
of their lines. They say that it will
be necessary to increase rates.
Several bills are before the legisla-
ture on the licensing of concrete block
manufacturers.
The establishment of a state nation
al bank in the state capitol for the
purpose of converting bonds issued
by subdivisions of the state into cur
| rency is proposed in bill by Senator
H. G. Schultz of Milwaukee. He says
| that the bill had been carefully worked
out by the late Alderman Henry Smith
of Milwaukee
Among the most important taxa
ton bills Introduced is a measure
| which the banks are DESTROYS shall
be adopted. The bill covers both state
| and national banks and provides for
tax of six per cent. on all bank COR
poration incomes of per cent, tax
| of per cent. on all bank corporation
| incomes between and per cent;
tax of 10 per cent. on all bank cor
| poration incomes between 8 and 10
| per cent; and a tax of 121A per cent
| on all banking incomes between 10
and II per cent, with a tax of Is per
cent. on the incomes of banks over
| II per cent. Under the tax the bank
ers claim that banks would pay a taA
of 1910 on a bank corporation which
l earns II per cent, as against $50
on the incomes of other corporations,
| paying under the present graduated
| income tax.
Asemblyman Arnold Otto of Mil
| waukee, has introduced a novel bill
which provides that no member of a
| political party who does not subscribe
| to the platform adopted by the party
| platform convention shall be allowed
to have his name printed on the official
ballot under the column of the party
| whose convention he attends.
The bill provides that the conven-
ton shall last five days and that
candidates who attend the convention
| shall receive $40 a day for their SER
vices.
Mr.. Otto says he believes the party
| platform to be most important sub
| ject, and that the candidate conven-
ton should be one for which the state
| should pay.