Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-07-02
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Many proposals fell by the wayside
III the fifty-seventh session of the Wis
consin legislature, but more than 45O
were enacted into law. Most of the
legislation proposed by Gov. Blaine
and otherwise supported by the adj
mlnistration was included among the
successful measures.
| The total number of bills introduced
In the two houses was LAO, of which
90 were in the senate and 565 in the
assembly. More than so of the ap-
proximately 525 bills passed were
| vetoed
Among legislature suggested by Gov
Blaine in his message at the opening
of the session, the following were en-
acted. Highway, including 2 cent
gasoline tax and allotment of funds
income tax, home rule enabling act
and conservation.
The child labor amendment to the
! federal constitution was ratified, and
the proposed initiative and referen-
DUN amendment to the state consti.
tuition was approved, with a change
to safeguard parochial and private
schools, which will require the sane
ton of the next session.
Appropriations were provided for
the states governmental departments
and activities, including the univer-
sity and normal schools. The univer-
sity received $1,5OO,OC0 additional for
new buildings and funds were provided
for similar work at the normals. The
purposes for which funds could be ap-
propriated by the emergency board
were restricted to certain emergencies
including caiamities.
Among the more important appro-
priations were the following approx
mate amounts:
University of Wisconsin, 100000
for two years.
State normal schools, 100000 for
two years
Charitable and penal institutions,
$6,000,000 for two years.
Conservation, 100000 annually.
National guard, $225,OOO annually.
Bovine tuberculosis eradication,
$750,000 annually.
Attorney generals department, $780,
900 annually.
Agricultural department, 100000
annually.
Approximately $15,GOO,OOO will be
distributed for highway construction
and maintenance under the big high
way appropriation bill.
In round numbers, appropriations
for the new biennium, as allowed by
the 1925 legislature, are $3,5OO,O0O
greater than the actual expenditures
for last biennium They exceed the
recommendations of the board of pub
lie affairs by about $3,000,0O0.
With the passage of supplement
| tax bill which makes the provisions
of the Blaine income tax measure APP
plicable to 1924 incomes, the legisla-
ture practically ended its work. The
retroactive clause will force Wisconsin
taxpayers to dig up an additional $5,-
! 100000 in taxes.
Progressive forces succeeded in
showing the measure through the as
sembly after it had been deadlocked
by call Of the house for more than
twenty-seven hours. Reconsideration
of the vote was refused The bill had
been passed by the senate.
Gov. Blaine, in vetoing the Bill in
creasing rates to be received by news
papers for the publication Of election
and other legal notices, declared the
| advance in rates to be too great, in
creasing cost of legal publications
thousands, if not hundreds of thou
sands of dollars"
| "The newspapers generally are great
sticklers about economy but when it
comes to supplying their own bank
| account, that presents a horse of an
| other color, and their plea for econo-
! my becomes inarticulate," he said
"There is no reason for placing these
notices upon a commercial basis
| Commercial advertising rates carry a
large overhead expense in the solicita-
ton of advertising. In many in
| stances it carries an overhead expense
and that as well as the news gathering
policy as well as the news gathering
policy Of the paper"
Placing of a statue or portrait OF
the late Senator Robert Marion La
Toilette in the hall of fame at Wash
ington was approved by the Wisconsin
| legislature, as one of it's final acts
The enabling act, approved by both
houses without a. dissenting vote, pro-
vides that any sum deemed necessary
can be used for the memorial. Under
the federal law, each state is entitled
to two places In the hall of fame
Wisconsin now has one, that Of Father
Marquette, Wisconsin pioneer.
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