Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-04

| authorizing cities to establish the
| comm SIS ion or city manager plan
| of government.
| IOWA--How to- increase the state s
revenue will be an important problem
! Joint legislative code revision and
Industrial. Court legislation will also
receive attention at the session which
| opens on January 10.
| KANSAS-Two constitutional amend
ments approved at polls last Novem-
| Disappointing state aid for county
roads and for farmers-will be taken
up at the session opening January II.
/, Governor Allen, in mes sage, recon-
, mended economy and abolition OF
/ needless bureaus.
| MASSACHUSETTS, = Incre Sc d
teachers salaries is important issue.
| Plan to advance motor vehicle license
| fees will be bitterly fought. Many
towns may have to change their sys-
! tenn of government or borrow to en-
large town halls, due to suffrage. Poll
tax for women possible.
! MAINE-Water power res ources and
transporta problems, as we'll as re-
vision of automobile and road laws,
! lead in Importance State subsidy.
| suggested for trolley lines to help
them pay expenses. Decreased taxes
| for steam and electric lines advocated.
| MICHIGAN-Repub legislature,
| the first in years in which no Democrat
| is seated, will open next Wednesday
, to consider. among other things. re-
organization of state departments and
budgets of state institutions.
| MOUNTAINEERING bills already
prepared for considera ton provide a
Warehouse Receipts Acts, under which
banks would be authorized to make
loans on crops in storage. Sports
men are backing bill to prevent the
killing of gophers with poison on the
ground that game is being sacrificed.
| MISSOURI-Amendm or repeal
of state income tax law and state cor
poration franchise tax law are i'm
portant subjects that will engross the
attention of the legislature. Work
mems compensation and budget sys-
tenn are other problems of moment
! NORTH DAKOTA-Good roads leg
Iislation and the controversy over state
owned institutions viii be the ohie>
subjects at this session between Non
Partisan Leaguers and their opponents.
NEW HAMPsHIRESEfort will be
made to legalize Sunday sports that
are not conducted for profit and that
do not tend Ito the disturbance of
| Others .Resubmission to people of
income and inheritance tax amend
ments, rejected November 2. urged to
proyide new needed revenue.
NEVADA-Increased salaries for
| rural school teachers and tax relief
| for mining and agriculture are impor-
tant proposals Standardization of
motor licenses to provide funds for a
great road building project will pc dis
cussed. Women to take more active
part i'll state administration.
! NEW YORK--New efforts will be
pressed to pass laws to alleviate hous-
ing situation. Referendum on liter
acy test for new voters in contempla-
ton. Dry enforcement legislation
favored by Governor Miller. Restora-
tion of party nominating conventions
for state and judicial offices urged.
I NEW misunderstanding changes
sought in states taxation and assess
ment system, centralizing it in a com
mission of three members. Abolition
of State Corporation Commission. the
mounted police force and the state In
surance Commissions also advocated.
Land Office may be re-organized under
commission of three.
NORTH CAROLINA-Expan of
present State Highway Commission to