Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-05-30
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Legislature

1900
legislature and a special highway COM
mittee were voted down by the SEN
ate on their first vote.
A measure providing for &c a gal
lon gasoline tax was killed 23-8 This
would have raised 100000 a year
The measure that made up the rest
of the proposed program, a drastic
license tax of some $40 to $50 a car
to be based on weight was killed 26
to s.
The weight tax would have raised
S8,000,000 a year and would have re-
placed the present fiat $40 license tax.
Motions for reconsideration of both
bills were offered and further action
deferred for one week when an at
tempt will be made to revise them by
amendments. A half dozen senators
in voting against the committee dis
approved the distribution scheme,
while approving the weight and gaso-
line taxes.
Passage of the Polakowski bill
which embodies both weight and gaso-
line taxes with a distribution system
which is more favorable to the large
cities will be made by the senators.
The Polakowski bill is expected to
come to a first vote in the senate
within fortnight.
Ask Funds for Bigger Markets
Great pressure is being brought to
bear on the universities of the nation
to conduct further and extensive re-
search into the problems of marketing
their products, e. A. Birge, president
of the University of Wisconsin, told
the joint finance committee of the
legislature
Birge appeared at a hearing on a
bill by Assemblyman A. M. Miller to
appropriate $4,000 from the univer-
sity's appropriation to the agricultural
economics department of the univer-
problems.
This department now gets around
$4,000 a year from the university
budget, so the bill in its present form
would give no appreciable increase,
Birge said
/. M Wright, of the state farm
bureau federation, appeared for the
proposal, and asked that the bill be
amended to make the $4,000 appro-
priation direct from the state treas
ury, so it would be an addition to the
500, 900 already received by the de-
partment for it's work every year.
New York state is spending about
$4,000 year on this item, and Ohio
about $4,000, but the other farm
states are at about the same figure as
Wisconsin at present, Birge said.
Officers Removal Bill Signed.
Appointive state officers in Wiscon-
sin hereafter face Interpolation and
removal by the legislature should
majority of both houses determine
that there is cause for their eviction
from state service.
9. This new legislative power went
into effect with Gov. Blaine's sigma
ture TO the Huber bill, which passed
both houses of the legislature after
fight Several previous legislatures
have defeated the same proposal.
Opposition to this measure, now a
law, was based upon the same ground
that the recall of elective officers was
based. 1t was contended that ap-
pointive officers would be forced to
become subservient to dominant fac
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for political reasons. Those favoring
the measure held it would make ap-
pointive officers more responsive to
popular will
Rival Measures on Floor
Both the Dahl and Severson general
income tax bills were sent to the floor
OF the legislature by the joint commit
tee on finance without recommends
ton, but with the committee opinion
that each would raise the amount of
money which it was desired to raise
If these measures follow their regu
lar course, they will be on the calen.
dar with Gov. Blaine's tax bill, which
is in the senate recommended for in
definite postponement by the finance
committee.
Action of the committee in with
holding recommendation from the
Dahl and Severson tax bills is re
garded as significant, since the COM
mittee voted to to kill the Blaine
tax bill.
BY a vote of 81 to 9, the senate en-
crossed bill to appropriate s150,O00
to purchase a site ard erect univer-
sity extension branch in Milwaukee.
The bill was introduced in the pres
ent session following an exhaustive
investigation by special legislative