Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-04-01
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LEGISLATURE

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Madison, Wis.-The bill sponsored
by the Izaak Walton league to ratify
federal act giving the government
power to purchase Mississippi river
bottom lands as a game refuge and as
a fish reclamation project has met
formidable opposition with a probable
ity that the measure will be killed
when it comes to vote in the legis-
lature
Gov. Blaine has joined with Con
gresslnen Beck and Peavey in urging
the defeat Of ratification of the federal
act on the ground that the state should
net forfeit it's sovereign right to its
own territory.
Under the federal act, the govern
ment, through the bureau of fisheries,
would buy lands for ordinary use.
practically valueless, situated along
the river from Rock Island, ILL.,. to
Wabasha, MINI. Under government
regulations, this land, which is flooded
annually would be used to propagate
fish.
Senators Admit Wine Making
Two state senators appearing before
the senate committee on state affairs
declared that they and their wives are
technically violating the Severson state
dry law.
Senator Bernard Gettelman, Milwau-
kee, added to his remarks by declar-
ing that he defied anyone to come to
his home in Milwaukee and cause an
arrest and he shouted his home adj
dress in voice that carried to all
corners of the crowded room.
Senator James A. Barker, Amigo,
Informed the committee and the audi
ence, made up mostly of prohibition
workers, that since prohibition has gone
into effect he has always had three
kinds Of wine in his home. His home
had no wine before the eighteenth
amendment was adopted, he asserted.
Mrs. Barker makes wine and
want to tell you she makes it with
kick in it," he declared.
The two senator's appeared in sup
port of the Gettelman bill which would
change the state dry law to permit
the manufacture for home use of beer,
wine, and cider.
Senator Gettelman stated that 80 per
cent Of the people of the state are
violating the state dry act by making
beer, wine and cider in their homes.
Another New Tax Plan
The Wisconsin tax fight has now be-
come three headed Issue, with the
administration plan of shifting be-
tween S4,000.000 and $5.000,000 in prop
erty taxes of higher incomes still hold
ing the center of the stage The adj
ministration measure is intended as a
tax reduction plan for small income
payers, with the saving to his class
loaded on to those with greater earn
Ing power and on to industries.
Conservatives have conferred their
efforts on making a flat reduction of
% per cent in state income taxes and
on defeating the administration bill A
new plan has been advanced by Sena-
tor Herman Severson, to be introduced
as "a substitute to the Morris bill for
% per cent income tax cut, for which
the SeversOn plan would substitute a
% per cent cut in real estate tax.
Senator Severson says that his plan
would mean a $26,000,000 slash and
would curtail the expenditure of prac-
tically every unit Of government. Wis
consin general. property taxes now to-
tai about $l00,O00,000 a year 1t re-
duces the tax limits by a fourth and
makes it crime to exceed them.
Old Age Pension Bill Up
A system of old age pensions to take
the place of the poor houses main
tanned by the various counties, has
been approved by the senate COM
mittee.
This innovation is backed by Sen
ator Carey of Edgerton. He says that
It's adoption will save the state con-
siderable money.
To get a pension under the Carey
bill, a person must be over 20 years of
age; must have an annual income of
less than $500 and have no legal rela-
tives who can support him; and must
have been a resident of Wisconsin for
fifteen years. The pension granted
shall not exceed $100 a day.
1876 5ills Disposed of
OF the 926 bills that have been in
PRODUCED in the legislature this session
103 We're killed, Al were withdrawn
and Al were passed, according to an
unofficial compilation made Mar 23
This compilation places the total
number of bills disposed of SO far this
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