The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-04
STATES HAVE MANY
IMPORTANT BILLS
Tax Reform and Budget Legislation
Heads List of Measures.
lRy Associated Pressl

at ledSI 10 SCdIe leBlSldtuTeS HOW dpOuh
to open, judged by reports from cor
respondents of The Associated Press
forwarded here from many state cap
itals.
Retrenehment, budget plans and
abolition of needless departments will
be next in Importance in IL or more
legislatures, with questions of public
improvements, utility corporations and
public welfare ranging in order close
behind
Dry law enforcement acts are con-
templated in not less than five states:
California, Connecticut, New York.
Ohio and South Dakota. while anti
Blue laws will be fought pro and con
on the floors of the legislatures of
New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, South
Dakota and Vermont.
Revision of state constitutions Will
be undertaken in the Pennsylvania as
sembly, which convenes tomorrow and
in the Colorado and New Hampshire
legislatures whose sessions open next
wednesday.
Soldier bonus bills come up for dis
cussion or action in Connecticut, Della
ware, Iowa. Pennsylvania, South Da-
kota and Montana.
Labor legislation, including in at
least one instance the question of
Industrial Courts, will be pushed in
California. Connecticut and Iowa.
Public welfare bills have strong
sponsors in Arkansas, Connecticut,
Colorado, Delaware, New York, Texas,
West Virginia, Wyming and Oklahoma.
California will take up the question
OF combating radicalism.
Public improvements will be advo-
Gated in at least II states-California,
| Colorado. Kansas, Missouri, Nevada,
North Carolina, Texas, Vermont, West
Virginia, North Dakota and Oklahoma.
These include a $3.50, 100000 irrigation
project and $500 mile public high
way. Programs of economy involving
the consolidation or abolition of state
departments and budget systems will
be considered among many of the 40
states, notably by Arkansas, Colorado,
Delaware, Indiana, Kansas, Maine,
Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New
| Mexico, Ohio and Oklahoma.
Legislators of Wisconsin and Texas
will wrestle with radical taxation
measures. In Wisconsin, the legisla-
| ture of which opens tomorrow, the
State Provision Of Marketing has pro-
posed a tax on unused land, in effect
| a single tax. The State Tax Commits
| sion has also recommended repeal OF
the personal property offest to the in
come tax as means to raise all
needed funds. The Texas legislature,
| which meets January IL, will consider
the conservation of natural resources
| in connection with taxation reform.
other states that are to take up the
question of tax reform are Indiana,
Iowa, Maine. Missouri. New Hamp-
shire. Nevada, New York, New Mex
leo. Ohio, Tennessee, Vermont, Mon
tana and Oklahoma
Repeal or revision Of state primary
laws are slated to occupy much Of the
time of the lawmakers of Illinois, In
diana, Missouri, Nebraska, New York,
New Mexico, North Carolina, Tennes-
see, Vermont and Wyoming.
| Six state legislatures at least, will
have before them bills providing for
stricter regulation of automobiles
and increased license fees. namely
\ Delaware, Maine. Massachusetts, Ne
vada, Montana and Oklahoma.
Four states, Colorado, Kansas, Mon
tana and Wisconsin, will discuss pro-
posals for Coz operation. marketing and
aid for farmers, and two legislatures,
those of California and West Virginia,
will have before them interesting
martial measures" In California, the
act Of 1919, designed to place a wife
on an equality with a husband in the
ownership and distribution of COM
munity property, which was defeated,
VIII again come before the lawmak-
ers west Virginia may make nom
support Of a wife by a husband an
extraditable offense.
Measures correlated with suffrage
will come up in Connecticut, Massa-
chusetts and Nevada. Reorganization
Of the state militia will be discussed
in several states, including Delaware
and four states expect to forward
new publicity utility legislation,
namely, Connecticut, Colorado, Maine
and South Dakota.
Connecticut, Illinois and West Vir-
ginia will consider bills relating to
sports and the establishment of state
boxing commissions.
Dates for the conyening of legis-
latures other than those already
given. are as follows: Tomorrow
Rhode Hand, Idaho, Montana, Tennes-
see and Ohio; January 4, Delaware,
Nebraska, North and South Dakota,
Minnesota and Oklahoma; January 5,
North Carolina, Illinois, Michigan,
Maine. Vermont and Connecticut:
January 6, Massachusetts,, Indiana;
January 8, New Jersey; January 10,
Arizona, California, Oregon, Montana,
Washington, Arkansas. Iowa; Janu-
airy II, Kansas, New York, New Mex
leo and Wyoming; January II, Wis
consin, West Virginia. January Is,
South Carolina; January II, Nevada,
I Georgia; February 16, Hawaii; Feb
ruary IT, Porto Rico; March II, Alas
ka April s. Florida.