Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-02-26
Cosby Letter From
The State Legislature
By o. d. Brandenburg

takers WITHOUT UESI dSCcl IdlH1uS
The wishes of the next of kin res
pecting the matter is progressing
steadily to maturity. It's but fair
% the family, and that's the whole
.ssue. Senator Boldt is from
Sheboygan Falls.
1t may not be generally known
hat Gen. Mitchell of the air serv-
ice now the center of cyclonic
movement in Washington, is 4
Milwaukee man grandson OF Alex
ander Mitchell who made the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail
way great: land" declared a cream
city solon, che will be sent at once
to Congress from the old home
town if higher-ups persume to de-
mote him"
5. 81 y
On the theory thai persons who
pay no taxes are little interested in
voting or in their government, SEN
ator V. S. Keppel of Holman pro-
posed a plan for an annual mini
mum tax Of So on non-voters.
Every person between 81 and 60.
who pays no property taxes, but
who has an independent income,
would be subject to the levy.
There are too many non-voters
now, and they largely comprise the
people who have to pay no taxes. F."
says Keppel. Not bad idea.
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Now it is affirmed that the big
tax bill really is not The child of the
state tax commission at all, but the
administrations. Anyway, 1t
would raise $5,O0O,00O more than
the existing law, and that circum-
stance is enough to damn it what
ever the source. Tax revision
should be down, not up. Ways OF
reducing expenditures, not of find
ing now methods of taxation, or
disastrous readjustments of the
burden should be sought. Taxes
on realty are mercilessly high, but
they are the same on industry too.
Study the records Of the bankrupt
cy courts and note the monumental
fact that business is as much dis
traught as the other element.
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Investigation OF the Chippewa.
Falls state home for feeble-minded
is under way by the legislative Wis
iting committee. This was al
nounced by Senator Waiter Hunt
River Falls, chairman, after the
senate had refused to reconsider
the vote by which it killed the
Raihle resolut on asking for spe-
CldI COuIIulCI6c " SO4AuuSI IhO -
curry. Seventy-five or more wit
nesses will be subpoenaed. The
committee will delve into charges
of cruelty to inmates, malfeasance
general inefficiency. Senator Hunt
long a teacher, is a clear-headeG
forceful character, and will reach
the bottom of the matter.
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Deploring the manner in which
the state board of public affairs
has dealt with requests made BY
the University of Wisconsin for
operating and building funds, Geo.
I. Haight, president of the Wiscon.
sin Alumni association told more
than 1000 male students at huge
mass meeting, that unless the le,-
islature granted the university its
modest requests the unit erslty
would, degenerate into nothing
more than an advanced gh school
The university has requested a
building appropriation of $4,000
600, while only half a million has
been recommended. The operat-
ing request also has been cut by
81 900, GOO. These requests" said
Haight, "are modest in comparison
with the actual needs Of the insti
tuition. Michigan gives its stale
university $6,OOO,OOO Minnesota.
$6,O0O,O0O Illinois, $4,50O,00O, Iowa
! $3.5OO.O00. Is Wisconsin too poor
to do as much? Consider that
twice as much money as the uni
versity wants was spent in this
state last year for candy and chew
ing gum, ten times as much for to
bacco, and 10 times as much f6 |
! pleasure riding in automobiles
/ We are operating a school which
provides for only 5000 students
and we have 5000 in attendance
/ President Birge st a great legisla
tive banquet. said the univers't,
was being financially starved under
a so-called economy program. Bot
! eakers were vociferously ap
rlauded.
i ;. = =
At last Madiso police are for
hidden to imbibe intoxicants, botf
on duty and off. It's a long de