Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-07-17
WORK ON HERO
BONUS PROBLEM
Both Houses of Legislature Dis
cuss Question.
SENATE FOR DIRECT TAX
Also Want Surtax on Incomes Which
Will Help Raise $4,000, 1000 to
Pay Soldiers Who Served
in World War.
SENATE FOR DIRECT TAX
Sy FRED l.. HOLMES.


ferences today as to how best to solve
the soldier bonus problem. The SEN
ate insists that the legislature pass a
bill for direct state tax and SurtaX
on incomes which will raise $l5,OOO,-
600 to pay bonuses to Wisconsin SOL
diers who entered the service. The
assembly wants the people to pass on
the problem.
This would mean an Increase OF
taxes in the state of Cne-fOurth,'' said
Assemblyman T. S. Nolan, leader of
the administration forces. II think the
people should say whether this money
should be appropriated.
Governor Philip and his friends
cling to the referendum idea and want
a special election on August 10 to set
tie the matter. Senator John COnant,
Westield, one Of the leaders for the
direct tax without a referendum of
the people, declares that it would be
shame to submit the matter and
that no referendum was asked by the
soldiers as to whether they should en-
ter the service.
Probably by tonight some solution
of the problem may be had, although
the outlook today was that the senate
would not recede from it's position and
would do all possible to force the as
sembly to adopt it's view Of the mat
ter. Should both houses pass direct
tax bill it is probable that Governor
Philip will sign the measure, al
though he is outspoken for a referen-
dunn on the subject. The direct tax
bill would levy 3-mill tax on all of
the taxable property of the state. On
incomes in excess Of $4,000 the sur
tax would be per cent.
Should the direct tax bill pass, SOL
diers will be paid $40 a month while
in the service with minimum Of 500.
The parents or heirs of soldiers who
died in the service will receive the $40
a month, computed to July l, 1919.
The big manufacturing organizations
are petitiOning for referendum. The
soldiers are opposed to it. This is the
big problem for solution.
Nearly one hundred bills are still
pending in the enrolling rooms of the
legislature and must be considered by
the governor before final adjournment
can be had. During the past week the
governor signed about forty bills, the
|. most important of which was the No
Ian measure creating a state board Of
Cancellation.
Important bills approved by the
governor are:
City councils may prohibit heavily
laden wagons, vehicles or other con-
veyances from passing or being
hauled, driven or propelled on city
streets.
Providing a plan for the municipal
acquisition Of street railways.
The county board of any county
within which a state normal. school is
not located is given authority to pro-
vide for training school for
teachers Of common schools and for
the erection of suitable school build
ings and dormitOries therefor.
Extending the power to condemn
land beyond the limits Of a city for
sewerage disposal purposes.
To establish the position of field
agent for the adult blind of the state
Every county board of education
shall, between the first day of Janu-
ary and the first day of July, next fol-
lowing the date of their appointment
and every fifth year after the first
adoption of textbooks, meet at the
county seat and select and adopt a
uniform series of textbooks for their
respective counties.
To appropriate $4,000 for the pur-
pose of erecting a statue in honor Of
James Duane Doty, the founder of
Wisconsin.
State aid of $1,000 annually to the
Wisconsin Brotherhood of Thresher-
men:
Prohibiting the loaning of rare
books from the State Historical soci-
ETY..
Supervision and control by the state
board of health of water and ice sup
plies, water publication, sewage and
refuse treatment and disposal and the
pollution Of streams.
Punishment for derogatory state
ments affecting the financial standing
Of any bank.
The entire cost of protecting, trim
ming, spraying, planting, renewing
and removal of trees and shrubs be-
tween the lot line and the curb in
front of any lot or parcel of land abut-
ting on a street, avenue or boulevard
shall be chargeable to and assessed
upon such lot or parcel of land.
The popular assumption that the
war has, or might have, caused an in
crease in insanity is not supported by
records of the Wisconsin State Hos
'pital for the Insane at Mendoza, ac-
cording to an article by DIR. Frank I.
Drake, superintendent.
A decrease during the period is
shown by the records, and the de-
crease, Doctor Drake believes, has less
to do with war conditions than to the