Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-03-14
HOUSE KILLS
HANSON BILL
Proposition Defeated TO Protect
Business Interests OF
the State.
FINAL VOTE WAS Sc TO 81
Act Provided for Repeal Of the Per-
sonaI Property Offset to the In
come Tax-New Measure
Being Drafted.

Being Drafted.
Madison.-By vote of Sc to 81 the
Wisconsin general assembly killed the
Hanson bill to repeal the personal
| property Offset to the income tax.
It is alleged that the action was at the
request of the commercial interests
of the state, it being contended that
the proposedA law would double the
present heavy burden of state in
come tax which handicapped business
men who have to compete with out-of-
state rivals. 1t is declared that the
| senate is about evenly divided over
| the question Of the repeal OF the law
as it now stands, requiring that state
income tax records be kept under COW
er. The Severson bill to repeal the
secrecy clause has been sent back to
the committee for further considera-
| ton.
1t is understood that a new bill will
be drafted by Senator Severson which
will permit the inspection of state in
come tax records by public officials,
Il
from examining them.
By vote of So to 25 the assembly
engrossed the Coe bill which will re-
quire foreign corporations to pay ST
per 10000 on their authorized CAPT.
| tai. This places them on the same
footing as domestic corporations. The
! judiciary committee had unfavorably
recommended the bill. This measure
was introduced by Assemblyman G. @.
| Coe at the request of Secretary of
State Hull, after the supreme court
had held the present law limited the
state to charge only on issued capi-
| tall
Governor Philip sent to the senate
the denomination of Carl D. Jackson
| to succeed himself as railroad commits
sioner. Under the new rule of the SEN
| ate, according to which the governors
nominations are laid over for ten days
and then considered in committee as
| whole, the senate will not be able to
act on the nomination until the COM
| ing week. The term for which Jackson
is appointed ends the first Monday of
February, 1925.
The assembly took another unusual
step when 1t refused to print, despite
Socialistic pleas, petition of 1000
residents of South Kaukauna asking
that the legislature pass laws allowing
the organization of trades unions, an
eight-hour day and removal of the in
| junction weapon against strikes.
In the senate the time lately was
| devoted to Milwaukee legislation, but
| the passage of bill to make the teach
ers' salary minimum $500 for that city
is of statewide interest as creating a
new standard of salary for the state
to follow. Senator Bennett introduced
a resolution asking that income tax
| figures be given in confidence to the
committee on corporations in aid OF
the proposal to run down profteers in
Wisconsin war contracts.
| Senator Jenning introduced bill to
| change the eugenic marriage law by
requiring women to file an affidavit Of
hygienic condition. Men must, under
| this bill, provide physicians certif-
cate of fitness to marry as hitherto.
Theirs will be no immediate decision
by the legislative committee on the
amnesty resolution. Attorney Henry
| f. Cochems, Milwaukee, who appeared
for Congressman Elect Victor f..
Berger in the trial of the five Social
lists sentenced by Federal Judge X. M.
| Lands to 20 years. Imprisonment for
| violation of the espionage law, spoke
before the assembly judiciary commit
tee for the Ehlman joint resolution
ynemorializing congress to extend am
nesty to political prisoners.
1.-THE espionage law should not re-
main on the statute books one minute
longer" declared Mr.. Cochems. "All
The convictions under it were not hon
est convictions. Some of them were
the fruits of bitter passion. Men, law
| abiding, and men who loved the coun-
| try and it's flag as surely as you men
| of this committee do, were written
down with degrees of sentences meted
| out to the foulest criminals.
sThe treatment of some of these
men after their conviction has become
acknowledged to be scandals in the
war department, recognized by Presi-
dent Wilson and Secretary Of War Ba-
ker. Today the public dare not think.
The press does not dare to speak. Cow
ards shrink in fear and brave men
hesitate to tell the truth"
Frank G.. Smith, representing the AS
ISOLATION of Commerce, Milwaukee,
| spoke against the resolution. No re-
port will be made by the committee
| for a month, it was announced.
Labor Representatives in Session.
| Two hundred representatives Of
| wisconsin organized labor conferred
in Madison three days this week on
matters pertaining to federated labor
unions. The conference opened Mon
day with a meeting Of delegates from
| 80 carpenters unions to organize a
] state council of carpenters. The State
Federation of Labor and Brotherhood
! of Carpenters and Joiners are asked
to cooperate. The conference, in adj
dition to discussing pending legisla-
ton, will hear and review the recon
struction program.
ainseng Brings Big Price.
Prices offered for ginseng, the ia
orite Chinese medical root, last
| Month were the best in eight years,