Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-01-03
TAX REFORMS and new MEANS OF
RAISING REVENUES Are PROBLEMS
FACING Is STATE LEGISLATURES
Retrenchment, Budget Plans and Abolition of
Needless Departments Will Be Next in I'm
portance; Dry Law Enforcement Acts Con-
templated; Constitutions to Be Revised.

New York, Jan. 2.-Tax reform
and new means of raising revenues
will take first place for discussion
In at least fifteen state legislatures
now about to open, judged by re-
ports from correspondents of the
Associated Press forwarded here
from many state capitals.
Retrenchment, budget plans AMI
abolition of needless departments
will be next in Importance in
twelve or more legislatures, with
questions of public improvements,
utility corporations and public
welfare ranging in order close be-
hind.
Dry law enforcement acts are
contemplated 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.
Soldier Bonus Bills.
Revision Of state constitutions
will be undertaken in the Penn
sylvania assembly, which convenes
tomorrow and in the Colorado and
New Hampshire legislatures whose
sessions open next Wednesday.
Soldiers bonus bills come up for
discussion or action in Connecti-
cut, Delaware, Iowa, Pennsylvania,
South Dakota and Montana.
I,qhnr 1aoicIofin i,ol,,l;,r- -,
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, Wyoming
and Oklahoma. California will
take up the question of combat
ting radicalism.
Public improvements will be adj
vocated in at least eleven states
California, Colorado, Kansas, Mis-
souri,. Nevada, North Carolina,
Texas, Vermont, West Virginia,
North Dakota and Oklahoma.
These include $3.50, 100000 irri-
cation project and a 5,5O0-mile
public highway.
Programs of economy, involving
the consolidation or abolition of
state departments and budget sys-
TENS will be considered, among
many of the forty eight states, no.
tably by Arkansas, Colorado, Del
eware, Indiara, Kansas, Maine.
Michigan, Missouri, Nevada. New
Mexico, Ohio and Oklahoma.
Radical Taxation Measures.
Legislators of Wisconsin and
Texas will wrestle with radical tax
alton measures. In Wisconsin, the
legislature, which opens tomorrow,
the state division of marketing has
proposed a tax on unused land, in
effect, a single tax. The state tax
commission has also recommended
repeal Of the personal property off
set to the income tax as a means to
raise all needed funds. The Texas
legislature which meets January
IL, will consider the conservation |
of general resources in connection |
with taxation reform. Other states
that are to take up the question of |
tax reform are Indiana, Iowa, |
Maine. Missouri, New Hampshire,
Nevada, New York, New Mexico, |
Ohio, Tennessee, Vermont, Mon |
tana and oklahoma.
Repeal or revision of state pri-
mary laws are slated to occupy |
much of the time of the lawmakers |
of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ne
braska, New York, New Mexico, |
North Carolina, Tennessee, YER
mont and Wyoming.
Regulation of Autos.
Six State legislatures, at least, |
will have before them bills pro-
viding for stricter regulation of |
automobiles and increased license |
fees, namely, Delaware, Maine, |
Massachusetts,. Nevada, Montana
and Oklahoma.
Four states, Colorado, Kansas.
Montana and Wisconsin, will dis
cuss proposals for cooperation, |
marketing and aid for farmers and |
two legislatures, those of Califor- |
mia and West Virginia, will have
before them interesting marital |
measures" In California. the act
Of 1919, designed to place a wife
on an equality with a husband In
the ownership and disposition of
community property, which was
defeated. will again come before
the lawmakers. West Virginia may
make non-support of wife by a
husband an extraditable offense.
Measures correlated with suf-
frage will come up in Connecticut,
Massachusetts and Nevada. Reor-
ganization of state militia will be
discussed in several states, includ-
ing Delaware and four states expect
to forward new public utility leg
islation, namely, Connecticut, Colo
RADIO, Maine and South Dakota.
Bills Relating to Sports.
Connecticut. Illinois and West
Virginia will consider bills relat-
ing to sports and the ablishmentl
of state boxing omissions.
Dates for the converting CT leg
islatures, other than those already
given, are as follows: (Tomorrow) |
Rhode Island, Idaho, Montana,
Tennessee and Ohio; January d