Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-05-17
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Madison, Wis. Six amendments,
four by socialists, were offered to
Governor Blaine's income tax bill
when it came up in the senate for it's
first vote. Action was deferred for
one week when the bill and amend
ments will be considered.
BY Senator Hirsch, socialist, taking
all dividends of corporations from the
exempt list and taxing them as in
comes; by Hirsch, giving Milwaukee
about 100000 more than is proposed
in the original Blaine bill by dividing
them 10 per cent to the state, 20 per
cent to the county and 70 per cent to
the locality. The Blaine bill would
give about 33 per cent to the locality
and this would be reduced by the re-
manning particle of the personal tax.
BY Senator PolakoWski, Milwaukee
socialist, repeating all of the personal
property offset instead of Sc as the
Blaine bill provides. By Polakowski,
providing that income taxes must be
paid at one time instead of in three
payments as per the Blaine BILL
BY Senator Roethe Of Fennimore,
restoring the complete PERSONAL prop
erty offset.
BY Senator Huber, Stoughton, cor
recting clerical errors.
Oppose Pension Law for State
twenty-five to thirty thousand aged
persons would receive old-age pen
sions from the state and counties I'M
der the bill introduced by Senator
A. E. Carey providing for a $50 a
month pension to INDECENT aged not
in poor houses" representatives of
the Milwaukee Association of Com
merce and the Wisconsin Manufactur-
ers Association told the Joint Finance
committee.
Such a pension list would cost from
six to eight million dollars, Maj. Geo.
Ballhorn, of the Association of Com
merce, said.
George Kull, of the manufacturers
association, declared that although the
s'almshouse system" was very costly,
that it ought not to be scrapped in
favor of the old-age pension system.
He urged that action be deferred until
the 1925 legislature
Carey declared that the law was
aimed to supplement not to replace
the present aims system. He said
that the law was in successful opera
ton in many European countries, in
Guiding Norway, Germany, and France
and Denmark.
Eugenics Law to Stay
The senate not only refused to re-
peal the eugenics law, under which
men are examined as to their physical
fitness for marriage, but adopted a
new provision to strengthen it.
The change would require a woman
about to be married to file an affidavit
with the county clerk stating she was
free from social diseases.
Speaking for repeal Of the law I'M
der Assemblyman Newcomb Spoons
bill, Senator John E. eastman charged
that some physicians are more inter-
ested in the So fee than in making a
thorough examination
Senator George B. Skogmo's amend
ment modifying the eugenics law by
eliminating the examination of men
and requiring both men and women
to file an affidavit as bill of good
health, was killed, 10 to IL.
Then the senate adopted an amend
ment by Senator John G. Schumann
requiring women to file an affidavit
with the county clerk before mar
rage license could be issued. The vote
was Is 70 10.
Fight Won to Cut Hotel Hours
Al 1O-year fight to bring hotels under
the provisions Of the Wisconsin law
limiting the hours of work of women
was ended with Gov Blaine's sigma
ture to the Killian bill establishing a
1O-hour day and a 55-hour week for
women hotel workers.
Previous legislatures have killed
similar bills intended to extend the
hours Of labor law. It was by COM
promise that the senate voted to bring
hotels under the statute.
The original bill, passed by the as
sembly, called for nine-hour work
ing day and 50-hour week for day
work and an eight-hour day for night
work by women in hotels. A senate
amendment, accepted by a narrow
margin, established 10-hour day for
work and 55-hour week, with nine
hours of night work and 54-hour
week. In that form the bill became
a law.
The assembly voted Al to Al on the
Prescott resolution, urging Wisconsin
congressmen to initiate legislation to
modify the Volstead act in favor Of
beer, and the resolution therefore
failed of adoption. Just before the
assembly defeated, 40 to 40, a motion
Indefinitely to postpone the bill. The
vote on the resolution means that
Senator La Toilette won't have to tell
where he stands on the wet and dry
issue.
The Kiesner joint resolution memo
rializing President Harding to have
the tariff commission make an inves-
tigation Of sugar prices during the
last year was adopted by the the as
sembly without debate. It now goes
to the senate.