River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1924-09-04
HANSON REPLIES TO HUNT

statement, that those things have
been accomplished. am sorry that
he made this statement, for the
records show that no one of them
has been accomplished. Mr.. Hanson
did not mean to make a mis-state-
mept. He is not that kind of man.
He has simply forgotten Let me
say that my memory is perfectly
clear on the subject, and that Mr..
Hunt is either ignorant of the records
on the subject, or wilfully misrep-
resents it.
Let me quote record of Bill 2443.
1t was introduced in the Senate Mar.
s by Sen. Carey. Subject matter is
"a bill to repeal subsection % of
section 20.22 and section 1901 of
the statutes, abolishing the pres
ent state board of education" On
Apr. IL it passed the Senate. The
Assembly received it on Apr. 10.
1t was referred to the Committee on
Education. On May 9 it was passed
by the Assembly, returned to Senate
May IL. On May 10, report correctly
enrolled at 9:15 A. M. Approved by
the Governor May %. Chapter ITO.
1t was this Educational Board that
Prof. Hunt found so much fault with
in his speech treating on the subject
of all the red tape they had to go
through in order to get the Normal
School Barn built.
In my reply l said that this law
creating this board was repealed and
the board was discharged, and the
record quoted above so shows. 1t
seems to me that the professor
should at least be posted on the Edu-
cational bills and what happened to
them.
Another paragraph of his article
reads as follows, 81 also understand
that my opponent defended long SEES
sions of the Legislature saying they
are necessary in order to get the
business done. What business may
| ask? Will not everybody agree that
the people of Wisconsin would have
been much better off and millions of
dollars ahead if the last Legislature
had adjourned the next day after it
convened?'
Here again the professor is all
wrong. | did not advocate long
session, but said the law required
that we stay on the job until all work
is done. And the only way TO short
en- the session is for all to stay and
get the work done. If all stayed and
worked the session could be shorten
ed considerably
He insinuates that there is nothing
to do. He asks, "What business may
| ask ?" In answer / can inform the
professor that we had over 1900 bills
and several hundred joint resolutions
that the two houses had to consider
before we could adjourn. And these
were all asked for by the people of
the state.
One reading the professors article
might even get the impression that
the Legislature might meet few
days and organize, draw their pay
and go home at will. But not so.
When you file your nomination pap
ers you agree if elected to serve the
term out. And that means that you
stay in session until all work is COM
pleted.
In further reading his article, one
would get the idea that the $500 ex-
emption was about all we did, 1t
simply shows how little he knows
about the work that was done. Let
me mention one bill that was passed,
the Secrecy Clause, that was repleal-
ed gives more revenue to the. state
than the cost of the last Legislative
session. And there were great many
more bills passed that are of great
benefit to the people, the automobile
bill for instance, that brings over
| $7,000,O00 to the state and the re-
peal of the county meeting one-third
of the Federal appropriation. 1t
saves hundreds Of thousands of dol
lars for the tax payers of the state.
And so | could go on and mention
good work done by the Legislature
this last term.
That Prof. Hunt ridicules the $500
exemption does not surprise me at
all considering the answer that Prof.
Hunt gave in the bulletin of the Wis
consin League of Women voters for
Sept. 1924 on the question of taxa
ton. 1t simply proves to me that
his knowledge of the tax question is
very meager to say the least.
Prof. Hunt has played up his long
years of farming and farm manage
ment in the local papers, but in
answering in above mentioned bull