River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-03-13
Asked Repeal of Personal Prop
erty Offset Income Tax.
HEEDS PLEA OF BUSINESS
New Bill Is Being Drafted by Senator
Severson Which Will Permit In
spection of Records by Public
Officials.

| personal property offset to the income
| tax, by a vote of So to 81. The bill
| was killed at the insistance of the bus
mess interests of the state, which de-
clared it would double the already
heavy burden of a state income tax
| which handicapped Wisconsin business
men in competition with rivals from
outside the state. Meanwhile the SEM
ate is thoroughly stirred and almost
evenly divided over the question Of re-
pealing the present law requiring that
state income tax records be kept Sc
cret. After sharp words and a hot
| fight the senate has sent back to com
mittee the SeversOn bill to repeal the
secrecy clause.
It 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,
but will prohibit idle curiosity seekers
| from examining them.
BY a vote of 80 to % the assembly
engrossed the COe bill which will re-
quire foreign corporations to pay 81
per $1,000 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 {. Z.
! 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 CAPT
| tai.
Governor Phillip 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 it refused to print, despite
| Socialistic pleas, a 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
| ju0ctiOn 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 q
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 ran down profiteers in
| Wisconsin war contracts.
| Senator Jenning introduced bill to
| change the eugene marriage law by
| requiring women to file affidavit Of
| hygienic condition. Men must, under
this bill, provide physicians ccrtifi-
| cate of fitness to marry as hitherto.
There will be no immediate decision
by the legislative committee on the
| amnesty resolution. Attorney Henry
F, Cochems, Milwaukee, who appeared
flor COngressman-elect Victor f.
/ l0erOpE Ill lIlC lIlUI VI lllC l1NC hoO(AttA
lists sentenced by Federal Judge X. NJ.
Lands to 20 years Imprisonment for
violation of the espionage law, spoke
before the assembly judiciary commit
tee for the Gilman joint resolution
memoralizing congress to extend am
nesty to political prisoners.
1.-THE espionage law should not re-
mir 70
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 its flag as surely as you men
of this committee do, were written
| down with degrees of sentences meted
out to the foulest criminals.
"The treatment of some of these
men after their conviction has become
acknowledged to be scandalous 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.
| towards 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 8
| 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 legis;a-
Il Al