Emmons County record., 1919-01-30
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Bismarck, Jan. 27.-The outstanding
features Of the past week in legislative
work were the signing Of the bills by
which seven Important constitutional
amendments were ratified, and the In
PRODUCTION Of various important ''league
program" bills including appropriation
measures and some Of the proposed
new tax laws.
The Omnibus" appropriation bill,
representing the budget boards .esti-
mate for biennial expenses Of state
work, Is also among the bills recently
introduced.
New Constitution Now In Force.
Through the illness of Speaker L. L.
Stair there was an over-Sunday delay
In securing signatures to the measures
by which the leagues proposed consti-
tutiOnal amendments were ratified,
These. measures had all been passed
BY both houses and were ready for
the signatures which would render
them operative, on the 18th, at which
time 1t was designed that they should
be signed. The sudden and somewhat
acute illness Of the speaker having
made this impossible, the fOrmality
s ~as .elu over untli monday, at which
for = ,aw ' raa1.aa. s..ueu osel .ie nouse
+h,. poo......, ss..n A1 1eeu "
Monaov sI.n,,.,,, On go. '.at -lom
elahorata sa.,as ~ -. u".es ..ue nlos,
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=. ~. ,. .,e st".e nus YET known.
tho moa.,,.a - ~ enuy "
tion 40 no,,, .,,,.asa.. ~ - ~. ~ ne sou'a .4u
new ,con.,,t,,t,n,,n ~ ~. ~ 'e .. % Tue
" '"e "'"'e.
eo"e new League Program" Bills.
Among new bills introduced the
most important during the past week
appears to be income tax bill and
seven subsidiary measures by which
the league members hope to embody
the salient features of the states new
revenue laws. The income tax meas
ure, introduced by the senate commit
tee on taxes and tax laws Thursday,
was drawn for the league by Prof.
w. H. Roylance. formerly head of
the department of economics Of the
Utah state university, and is said to
be patterned after the Wisconsin law.
Features Of Income r.x aiu
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=. 60. -. eu no wages ssllar!
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ers. from annn,t,as. "a we mApas
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noo ,,.h,o,, ,..a,,,., eo. up :" Sio'
.on. u pA' . 'aA VI per
Incomes in excess ~ $40 nm ord MT
IN excess of $4,000 will pay tax Of
6 per cent.
All net incomes in excess of $4,000
and not In excess of $4,000 nav tax
of 8 per cent. and on all net incomes
in excess of $50, 600 q 10 Der cent tnx
as levied.
On earned incomes a tax of one