The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-19
.SOLONS READY
FOR TAX BATTLE
Discussion of Proposed
New Income Tax Bill
Up Tuesday.
REAL FIGHT SURE

Madison, Wis. Revision of the
Wisconsin income tax law will be the
paramount issue of the state legisla-
ture next week. A bitter fight against
the administration bill, already intro
duced by the taxation committees of
the assembly and senate, will be made
at the public hearing before the COM
mittees on Tuesday afternoon.
The Wisconsin Manufacturers as
ISOLATION has taken the lead in the
battle to defeat the measure, which it
charges will commit the state to a
policy of industrial suicide" AS in
dividual tax rates in the proposed law
remain about as they are now, and as
corporation incomes are to be taxed
at per cent rate, the chief OBJ
lection will be to the repeal of the
personal property Offset.
Opponents of the bill also plan to
attack the provision increasing the
states share of the revenues. Prac-
tically all of the additional $3,000,00o
or $4,000,000 which the measure will
raise will go to the state. The allot-
ments to localities, as far as the actu-
al money is concerned, will remain
about the same.
Administration leaders, and other
supporters of the measure will put up
vigorous fight for it, asserting that
the revised law will materially reduce
the general property levy throughout
the state. The committees are GER
tain to report the measure back to the
legislature with little change, and it's
supporters are confident that it will
muster majority in each house.
Senator John C. Schumann's income
tax bill, based on the committee COM
promise of the 1923 session, will have
hearing at the same time. Senator
Schumann is expected to take the floor
in its behalf.
Hearings in Other Bills.
Three other bills stand out among
the 100 or more measures slated for
committee consideration during the
coming week.
The unemployment bill, introduced
by Senator Max w. Heck, Racine, will
have a hearing before the senate COM
mittee on agriculture, labor, and in
dustries Thursday afternoon. Sena-
tor A. E. Garey's old age pension bill,
sponsored by Wisconsin Eagles, will
come before the senate committee on
state and local government on the
same day. And in the assembly, As
semblywoman Mildred BSrber's pro-
posal to include women in the ante
nuptial physical examination and to
extend it to include mental tests for
both bride and groom will be heard
before the public welfare committee
at p. m.
Further echoes in the BLUE Book"
battle will be heard in the joint f.
nance committee Tuesday when the
Price resolution appropriating money
for distribution if supplements con-
tanning the salary lists sought by Sen
ator w. A. Titus will come up. SEN
ator Titus second resolution on the
same subject will be taken up at the
same time, as the Fond du Lac sem
tor cites statutes to show that no
special grant of funds is required to
carry out the purpose of his original
"Blue Book" resolution.
Highway Bill on Tap.
The administration highway bill, in
Guiding cent gasoline tax, will have
another hearing next week when it
comes before the joint finance COM
mittee. The bill already has been re-
ported for passage by the senate and
house highways committees, but it
was referred to the finance commit
tee because it involves appropriations.
The "home rule" enabling act, in
troduced by the senate judiciary COM
mittee at the request of Attorney Gem
eral Herman Il. Ekern, will be given
hearing before the committee We'd
nesday afternoon. The measure is of
tremendous importance to Wisconsin
municipalities, as it gives them power
to determine their own affairs, limit
ed only by the constitution and those
statutes which apply uniformly to all
cities and villages.