Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-06-11
REGENTS BILL IS
KILLED BY HOUSE
ACT Provided for Farmer-Labor
Members Of Boards.
CIVIL SERVICE BODY DOOMED
Measure Engrossed Doing Away With
State Commission ard Creating
Office CT Exanicer-Appoin
merit ~ Governor.

merit ~ GoSeFnoF.
Nadisoa.-Sc law wilI be passed at
this session u the legislature requir-
lBg the governor OF TIE srste 70 ap-
point farmers and laboring men On the
Loards 81 regents Tor tie higher eda-
atloual Institutions Of the state. Tie
farmer organizations { the state have
demanded q law Of tE.s character.
Senator Titus bin for the appoint
ueut Of six members Of the boards Of
regents Of the university. normal
schools and the state board Of educa-
ton 81 large. two o. whom shall be
women, tw0 farmers and two appoint
I'd from tie manual arts trades. was
killed in the house by q vote Of - to
90
At first the bill was refused indef-
mite postponement By q vote Of 81 to
3. Then tie assembly refused 10 en-
gross the bin. The attack on the
measure &as led by AsseRlblyman
CLARK II. Perry Of Oshkosh. He said
that it would be as sensible to have
fwo butchers or TWO blacksmiths on
The board and that il was up 10 the
governor 10 appoint whom he pleased.
Assem6ly1nan John L. Dahl wanted to
know If he cid not believe in repre-
sentative board OF regents. This
stirred the ire u AssembIynan Perry,
who charged politics.
Tie committee program for reduc-
Bg the size Of some Of the unimpor-
tant commissions II the capitol was
favored iu the assembly. The bin
changing the conservation commission
from three members. to one member
was engrossed. This one member
would be appointed by the governor
for a six-year term al a salary Of ST.
go annually.
without debate the house engrossed
tire bill aboiishlng the state civil serv-
ice commission and creating the Office
q civil service examiner, appointed by
the governor for six years. at salary
Of $3.50 annually.
Not a few interesting resemblances
to noted personages are visible IN the
legislature. For example, how ike
Gen. Z. S. Grant IS J. G. Hanson, as
Femblyman for the east Dane county
district, with his ciose-cropped gray
tair: and there Is Senator George
Staudeumayer Of the Sauk-ColuTnbla
district, who Is something Of replica
If General Pershlng. while Assembly
man Rush Bulls Of Eau Claire might
" readily taken for Thomas r. Mar
shall, vice president during the WI
son reign and who IS not reminded
somewhat Of Abraham Lincoln when
John y. Grandine, assemblyman from
Forest county. begins the leisurely op-
GRAFTON Of unwinding himself prepare
tory to speaking. and OF Daniel Web
ster In the square and solemn visage
and beetllnc brow Of Assemhlyman
Conrad Welttenhil1er Of PIatteville.
Then comes Speaker Riley S. Young,
q aritable John D. Rockefeller facial
~. If not at golf or In oil.
Attorney General William J. Nor
gan, in an opinion, declared that the
Dahl surtax rider attached to the
teachers retirement bin by the assem-
bly, was constitutional.
The lower house amended the bin to
the extent that the property tax pro-
vision which Is to raise the needed ST.
100000 annually be replaced by sur
FAX clause. The surtax amendment
put a fractional tax on incomes over
$1,000 and up TO and over $4,000 when
one-mlll tax Is assessed.
Deputy Attorney General Ralph ii.
Hoyt. in an opinion, states that tie
constitutional requirement Of uniform
It's Of taxation is not violated for two
reasons: first, the uniformity rule Of
the constitution with reference to the
property taxes does not apply to In
come taxes, and secondly. because the
uniformity rule applies only 10 the
levy and assessment Of taxes and not
to the distribution Of taxes after they
have been collected.
The fact that the city Of Milwaukee
Is 04EEu4s SuNlf0l LitE d tcAAAAS4S PEA
sion system Is not at all conclusive
upon the constitutional question Of the
amendment, Nj Hoyt says That is a
matter solely for the legislature to
consider in determining stat is just
distribution Of the burden be holds.
The Ingalls, party convention bill
was sent to engrossrnent in the house
by a vote OF a to 40. This bill pro-
vides for party convention system,
for the nomination of state candidates
and The drafting az a platform. Others
may be candidates, but the machine
wiu be hack OF the men indorsed by
the convention.