Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-06-25
ASSEMBLY TO. ACT
ON ARNOLD BILL
Lower House Refuses to Send 1t
Back to Senate.
WILL SLAUGHTER OR CONCUR
kilograms and Letters of Protest
Pour in From All Sections and
Lawmakers Are Aware
of Feeling.

Madison.-The fight on the Arnold
bill, which, should it become law,
would send the tax rates on individ-
ual and corporation incomes sky high
and seriously cripple business in Wis
consin, may be staged in the assembly
late this week.
AT Tuesdays session the house on
motion of Assemblyman Peterson of
Marinette, so to 6, refused to return
the Arnold measures to the senate,
which is taken to mean that the as
sembly is prepared to meet the issue
without further delay.
The impression is general that the
bill will be killed in the lower branch
of the legislature, although many
amendments will be offered and will
have to be fought out before the final
roll is called
These amendments will propose in
creases in the present tax rates on
incomes.
Just before the assembly adjourned
at noon on Tuesday Senator Birds
resolution was received requesting
that the Arnold bill be returned to the
upper house for further consideration.
Following little splash of oratory,
the house voted to turn down the re-
quest of the senate, Assemblynen
Coe, Grimstad, Hellweg, Jensen, Week
and j. E. Johnson being the only
members to support Birds resolution.
Assemblyman Knapppe Milwaukee
Socialist, launched into an attack on
businessmen and newspapers and
charged that the Arnold bill was be-
ing misrepresented.
Assemblyman Nolan stopped him
with the statement that the members
were not interested in a stump speech.
Let US keep the bill here so we can
kill it decently," remarked Mr.. Nolan.
Assemblyman Donnelly asked that
the house sit as a committee of the
whole to hear arguments on the
Arnold measure.
Tuesdays proceedings in the as
sembly may be summarized as fol
lows:
1. The assembly refused to return
the Arnold bill to the senate for the
reason that it prefers to act on it
without further consideration of the
matter by the upper house.
2. Assemblyman Donnelly's motion
for public hearing was defeated be
cause the house seems to be opposed
to any procedure which would mean
delay.
8. The vote refusing to return the
Arnold bill to the senate indicates
that the assembly will decline to re-
consider this action, as suggested By
the Chilsen motion.
f. The assembly becomes the legis-
latfve battlefield and it is here that
the Arnold bill will be killed or con
Cured in, either in it's present form
or after it is changed by amendments,
kilograms and petitions of protest
continue to pour into the legislature
and the members of both houses are
fully aware of the statewide opposi-
ton to the Arnold bill.
Assemblyman James Pedersons
substitute amendment to the Arnold
income tax bill provides that increases
| in income taxes above the first thou
sand dollars as included in the Arnold
| bill shall be cut down by the amend
ment to practically the present level
According to the Arnold bill. the tax
on the second thousand would be 2
per cent, an increase of one-half OF
| / per cent on the existing law. On
| the fourth thousand the substitute
cuts the per cent to 2 per cent, on
the fifth thousand from 5 to 3 pei
cent, on the sixth thousand from to
| 3 per cent. The Z per cent tax on
the seventh thousand s per cent on
the eighth thousand, and 10 per cent
on the ninth and tenth thousands are
cut to per cent.
The proposed Arnold tax of II per
cent on the eleventh and twelfth
thousands and Is per cent on the
thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
thousands, is cut to So per cent. The
per cent tax on incomes between 49,
600 and $4,000 is cut to 61a per cent.
The 25 per cent tax on incomes above
$4,000 is cut to 10 per cent.
Taxes on corporations and joint
stock companies are kept at the pres
ent rate by the amendment. The Ar
mold bill increased taxes on incomes
above $4,000 from 6 to % per cent.
The substitute was offered in the as
sembly upon introduction of the SEN
ate resolution asking recall of the Ar
mold bill for amendment.
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