The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-06-09
RAISE VAST SUM
TO FINANCE STATE
Committee Reports Recon-
mending Total Of Nearly
Fifty Million Dollars.
DAHL BILL is KILLED
Additional Taxes on Autos Is
Recommended to Provide for
Highway Construction.
(Bx Associated Press Leased Wirel

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taxation is required to raise the
$44, 135,503 which the joint finance
committee of the Legislature judges
necessary to operate the state govern
ment and state institutions during the
coming biennium
The entire belouded financial situa-
ton that has been lowering over the
session practically from its start, was
cleared up today by complete finance
committee report before both houses
at their morning meeting.
Along with the financial statement
showing how receipts will approximate
disbursements, came the recommended
ton for indefinite postponement of
the Dahl income tax bill, the Arnold
income tax bill, and the Severson sur
tax bill.
Passage was recommended for the
Hirst automobile privilege tax measure
calling for an assessment of two per
cent against the valuation of all auto
mobiles in the state. This proposal if
adopted would relieve the general prop
erty of tax for highway purposes, but
would levy no additional burden.
Expenditures Recommended.
Expenditures as recommended by the
finance committee for the next two
years, excluding $1,770,o0O raised for
highways to meet federal aid, are as
follows: 1922, $22,6O0,346; 1922
%, $22,9S6,968.
| Receipts as estimated by the finance
committee, including the railroad tax
of S7,000,000 annually, an inheritance
tax of 100000 annually, on the basis
of the new Arnold bill doubling rates
and an income tax of $450,000 in 1921
% and 100000 in 1929 approx
mately are as follows: 1929,
$22 ,O61, 944; 1929, $22, $50.
Estimate Receipts at $44,OOO,OOO.
/ Estimated receipts for the bienniunI
will approximate $44, SOB, leaving a
deficit $538,402 for the first year and
1912 ,409 for the second, or $1,350,811
for the biennium. This apparent ex-
cess is met by balance in the
general fund.
The state has the best financial out
look in six years, B. A. 4 ekhofer,
former secretary of state board of
public affairs, told the committee
after their estimate had been arrived
at. He said that his intimate associa-
ton with the finances during the past
ten years, had convinced him that the
present is particularly bright.
! Evidence of the sound condition of
the state finances is shown the com
mittee points out, by an estimate
surplus of $1,50O,00O that will be in
the general fund July 1.
The fund now has $12,50000O accu-
mulated. Of this amount $5,O0O,O0O is
appropriated for highway purposes,
and $3,5OO,O00 is from motor car
fees, leaving a balance on July of
$4,5OO,OOO
May expenses are estimated at
81 5000, while old appropriations not
yet taken from the fund are said to
equal S1,40O,OOO, a total Of $3,O0O,00O.
With 100000 added for June receipts,
surplus of at least 900 will be
! left, according to committee estimates.
/ Individual recommendations by the
committee for annual appropriations to
state departments and institutions,
without the revolving funds added, fol-
| low: Boards and commissions, $8,000.-
900; board of control, $4,000,000; Uni
versity of Wisconsin, S3,986,000; edu-
cational departments and state aid,
! $2,745 600; normal schools, $1,718,000;
Memorial hospital, $250000.
Appropriations to the board of con-
troll and to state departments prac-
tically equal their requests. Both the
university and the normal schools have
had their building program shorn from
the budget. State appropriation to the
university will total $3,986,000 annual
Iy, with over $1,1000O0 annually made
up from receipts of the institutions
activities and from student fees.
Kill Obnoxious Bills.
Recommendations of the finance
committee for death of all bills adding
to the revenue of the state, is expect
ed to be followed by the legislature
although an attempt will probably
be made by Senator Severson to keep
his surtax measure alive.
+! In the vote on the Severson bill in
committee, Senator'S Nye and Bird, and
/ Assemblyman Cakes, Smith, Cook Sum
merville, Fifeld, Kenyon and Engel
voted for indefinite postponement. SEN
ators Anderson, Staudenmayer and OIL
son and Assemblyman Polakowski
dissented.
/ In the vote on the Dahl income tax
bill, the same lineup prevailed as it
did on the Arnold bill, except in that