Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1919-05-23


will make public the names OF the
employers who refuse to take h men
back.
The complete reorganization OF the
National Guard and the Home Guard
is carried in an appropriation OF $2oo,-
900 for the biennial period.
The enfranchisement of Missouri
soldiers. sailors and marines is provid'
cd in a constitutional amendment,
which will be submitted as a result OF
a recommendation Of the governor.
Missouri is one Of the few states which
do not provide the ballot for their
citizens while in military service.
The measures providing recognition
for the soldiers were among the hrst
| bills to be passed and have been signed
by the governor.
Compensation Act.
The workmen's compensation act,
which creates the state workmen's
compensation commission to award
compensation to persons injured In
industrial accidents. will become eff
fective November /. However. the
four members of the commission
which will be bipartisan, will be ap-
pointed in a few weeks.
The bill carried an amendment
which was offered to the Original
house bill by Representative Norman
Of Stoddard county providing hat the
commissioners shall be honorably dis
charged soldiers, sailors or marines
during the first four years.
IL state insurance had been provid'
ed in the bill there would have been
several hundred positions for soldiers
The monopolistic state insurance was
knocked out of the bill, which finally
passed.
Governor Gardner repeatedly tolC
members Of the legislature that he
did not want to go out Of office t
a compensation act had been passed
keeping Missouri in line with Other
progressive states.
President r. T. Wood of the Mis-
souri, State Federation Of Labor, ant
former State Senator Alroy S. n
lips, of st. Louis, attorney for the fed
Grafton, have declared the bill passed
by the general assembly ranks thirt
with the compensation acts Of othe'
states. Only the laws of New Yorl
and Ohio have better features than thu
Missouri act, according to Wood ant
Phillips.
The granting Of presidential SUI
frage to the ONE OF the state wa
rrged by the governor. and while I
passed the house with little opposi
ion, there was a determined effort t.
Kill it in the senate. This opposition
was finally overcome and the measur'
was passed.
Votes For Women.
The bill gives the Of tn
state the right to vote foI electors TO
president and vice president of tn
: United States. No other campaign viii
! be conducted for suffrage in Missouri
until congress passes the amendmen
to the federal constitution. carryin
: full suffrage for women of every state
: The governor faced quite a probler
in raising sufficient revenue to cor
; dact the states business during tn
: period of 1890. When he went int
,ffice he inherited a debt of NOR
than $4,000. 900. Money was boz
> rowed to pay the debt, the state pu
: on a cash basis and through stric
a economy and a business administri
:. ton the load was paid back durin
!, 1918.
= The problem of getting additions
: revenue came with the ratification {
= national prohibition through which
!, was estimated that the state woul
= lose 50, 900, 900 revenue annually.
The governor recommended that tn
additional evenu be raised throug
:. an increase in the state income an
, corporation franchise tax and the ia
:. on soft drinks.
}. The corporation franchise tax a
cordingly was increased from rs cent
10 81 on the $1,000 capital stock, Will
!. the income tax was increased frol
one half Of one per cent to one an
q one half per cent.
. The exemptions for The income ia
also were lowered from s. 1000 for ma
. RED persons and $4,000 for sing
persons to $4,000 end 81, 900 to CO
form to the exempt ,ons of the federi
- income tax.
70 II is estimated that the income ia
A with the lowering of exemptions, wi
produce 81, 500, 900 evenue annual
A Joker which was in the incor
! tax bill passed tive years ago W,
~ stricken out of the present measul
+ just at the close Of the session. TT
II Joker" provided that a person cou
i. Offset an equal amount of income I,
d which might be char-ad G~asi hi.