Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1923-06-09
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The Wisconsin Automobile associa-
ton is recommending to the legisla-
ture that it enact a gasoline tax Of 2
cents a gallon and increase the regis
tration fee of automobiles from SO
to Sl2 a year, to raise funds needed
to finance the state and county high
way program for the next two years
Under this plan, which assembly
men say is gaining favor, the gasoline
tax would serve as measure Of the
use Of the road by automobiles, while
/ the fiat registration fee would reach
( all car owners on an equal basis. The
I association asserts the plan would as.
sure nearly 100000 annually from
car owners. instead of $5,000O00 as
at present.
The senate has evinced its approval
of a moderate license fee graduateu
on the basis of weight, by reyivina
/ two highway committee bills. This
plan VIII meet opposition in the lower
house, according TO Speaker John L
Dahl, who is fayoring a gasoline tar
and a straight registration fee
Highway legislation will again come
before the senate this week, when
the committee sends out amended
gasoline tax and weight tax bills To
gether these measures will produce
approximately 100000 to be used
on a 10,000-mile state trunk highway
system. It is expected these meas
ures will go through the senate but
opposition now to be met is in the
assembly, where members are balk
ing on the weight tax idea
Blaine Vetoes Anti-KIan Bill
Coy Blaine has vetoed the commit
tee on state affairs bill passed by the
legislature as a curb to activities OF
the Ku Klux Khan. In his veto mes
sage the governor declared that the
proposed law accomplished nothing,
except perchance to restrain the
exuberance of youth from improvisine
the regalia of the merle men of Eng
land and from engaging in the
imaginary rescue OF Maid Marian
from modern Robin Hood"
This bill. if enacted into law, would
give no additional force to the pres
ent criminal statute, and would mean
nothing, and would prohibit nothing
that is not now prohibited by law.
The bill sponsored by the senate
committee on education and public
welfare to permit towns TO establish
sanitary districts upon petition of a
majority of the real estate owners
was vetoed by Gov Blaine on the
Tound that it means imposing burd
ems upon the farmers of this state
adjoining the summer resorts of the
state"
Gov. Blaine also vetoed a bill add.
ing provision to the statutes to per.
NIT officers to sell at public auction
any animal that may be exposed to
the weather. starved, neglected or
abandoned on giving five days notice
to the owner or custodian.
Draw Substitute to Drainage Bill
The senate committee on state az.
fairs has drawn a substitute bill for
the measure introduced by Assembly.
man Clinton Price of Juneau county
for the repeal of the district drain.
age law. The repeal bill passed the
assembly by large majority, but the
senate committee has not seen ft to
80 as far as the assembly and will
recommend the retention of the law
in a modified form.
The amendments to the law offered
in the senate substitute bill, however.
safeguard the public from many of
the evils, which have arisen through
the operation of the law in the per-
hitting of spectators organizing
drainage districts in sections where
the land even when drained does not
prove productive and the sale of this
land to settlers at far more than its
value
Law Would Bar All Rail Passes
Railroad presidents and all railroad
employees would be barred from
travelling on passes, except when
travelling in line of their work. under
a bill introduced by the assembly
committee on insurance and banking.
Two bills were introduced earlier
in the session to liberalize the pres
eut anti-pass law by extending free
transportation to railroad employees,
past and present. and their families.
This public policy was denounced
as special privilege for class of
people, and the argument that all
people should be treated alike re-
ed in the rejection of one of the