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taxation measures drawn up by the
/ legislature and a special highway COM
mittee were voted down by the SEN
/ ate on their first vote.
A measure providing for &c gal
Ion gasoline tax was killed 23-S. This
would have raised 100000 year.
I The measure that made UP the rest
of the proposed program, a drastic
! license tax of some $40 to $50 car
to be based on weight was killed 20
to 5.
The weight tax would have raised
/ S8,000,O00 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 viii 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 Polakowsk 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
bill by Assemblyman A. NJ. Miller to
appropriate $4,000 from the univer-
sity's appropriation to the agricultural
economics department of the univer-
sity for research into the marketing
problems.
This department now gets around
$4,000 a year from the university
budget, so the bill in its present form
would give no appreciate increase.
Birge said.
l. NJ. 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
$29 600 already received by the de-
partment for its work every year.
New York state is spending about
4 $4,000 a 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 a
majority of both houses determine
that there is cause for their eviction
from state service.
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 a
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
ton in the legislature or face removal
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.
II 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 Z to 6 10 kill the Blaine