Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-09-16
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BILL is PASSED
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE VOTES
BIG AWARD TO SOLDIERS
AND SAILORS.
SPECIAL SESSION is ENDED
Expense Of Education Bill Is Estima-
ted at $4,000, 900 - Amendments
Adopted to Make "BIue Sky"
Law More Effective.

closed its special session with the
passage of the Nye educational bill.
and provided for tax levy of $751;
100000 to carry out the act. This sum
added to the S15,000,000 soldiers
bonus approved by the people in the
referendum of Sept. is the biggest
reward for service men and women
voted by any state, and makes Wis
consin's war record unexcelled,
In the senate the vote was % to /,
Senator Bilgrien, Dodge county, OBJ
posing the measure. The house con-
CURED in the bill 50 to 22. There was
no debate in the senate, but a few
oratorical skyrockets were shot off in
the assembly after Assemblyman
Nolan and Bowman said the $4,000
900 tax levy to carry out the bill was
too much of a burden on the people
following the approval of the $4,000
900 soldiers bonus.
They contended that there was no
demand for the Nye bill and that only
a small percentage of the soldiers
would share in its benefits.
100000 From Surfaces.
After considering the taxation fea-
ture OF the measure for several hours
the joint committee on finance recon-
mended plan for the raising of $751;
100000. approximately $4,000
year will be raised for a period of FIVE
years by means of surtax on incomes
beginning with 1918 incomes and the
remainder will be raised by direct
tax on property, which is along the
line of the plan by which millions win
be raised to carry out the soldiers
bonus act. The recommendation of
the finance committee met the APP
proval of both houses.
The surtax will fall on individual
and corporation incomes. In the case
of individual incomes the tax does not
become effective until the fourth ST.
900 of net income is reached, the tax
starting at seven-twentieths of l per
cent.
Above $4,000 the tax will be l 2-10
per cent. On corporations the tax on
the first $1,000 of income is fixed at
four-tenths of per cent and is 1 2-10
per cent on incomes in excess of ST.
900.
To Pay $50 to Men.
The Nye bill provides that Wiscon-
sins honorably discharged soldiers,
sailors, marines and nurses may take
courses at the University of Wiscon-
sin, the normal schools and the other
Institutional Institutions at cost to
the state of $50 month, covering the
period of education up to four years.
1t has not been fully determined how
many service men and women will
take advantage of this unusual oppor-
tunity, bAt Gov. Philip estimated the
number will be about 10000.
There was never any doubt about
the passage of the bill at the special
session, the only surprise being the
number of votes cast against it in the
assembly. Those voting mo" were:
Assemblymen P. M. Anderson, Bortin-
gale, Becker, Bowman, Defer, Grim
stad, Hewitt, Larson, LOrfeld, Nc
Clone, Mcdowell, Mitchell, Nolan,
Olmsted, Olson, Ploetz, Porath, Ruka,
Scharpf, Vaughan, Williams and
Zarnke.
After the passage of the bill Senator
Nye said the measure would not cost
$15,000,00O but that it was decided to
place the amount that high in order
to meet any emergency.
Both houses adopted amendments to
make more convenient the administra-
ton of the blue sky law. One amend
ment will allow the taking of subscrip-
tons for securities for the sale of
Glass A securities before the permit is
issued upon giving bond of $4,000 to
protect anybody signing the subscrip-
lions for such securities, the sale not
to be contaminated until the matter
has been passed upon by the railroad
commission. Another amendment re-
duces the fee from 81 to so cents per
thousand on stock authorized, the
maximum charge not to exceed $500.
A third amendment allows the sales of
securities which have been in the
hands Of the public for one year prior
to Aug. 1, 1919, after less formal in
vestigation than is required for new
issues.
The Jennings bill, restoring soldiers
relief commissions which were abol-
ished by an act passed at the regular
session of the legislature, went thru
without opposition.
By a vote of "a to 80. the assembly
killed resolution by Metcalfe, calling
upon the state board Of Cancellation to
attempt to settle the Cudahy packers
strike. The senate refused to receive
a resolution by Bennett indorsing the
socalled Plumb plan" for the national
ization of railroads in the United
States.