Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-04-16

| annually at time when the gen
eral demand is fer decreased taxa
| ton and when the pledge of part
! les has been for such a consumma-
ton. The contest wrecked faction
al lines badly, and if it fails to
wreck the majority party the pro-
| phesies Of wise politicians are
doomed to failure. How far adj
ministration success in this in
stance is due to patronage, or it's
promise, the public records of the
next year or two will disclose. Ger
tainly, it happened now and then
that an upstate legislator voted
in a way that must dumbfound his
constituency just as it causes the
significant uplifting of bushy brows
of old war horses in the halls of
| legislation.
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Publication of official state and
county notices in Texas newspapers
and political advertising were link
ed together in the same law when
Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson approved
the legal publication rate" mea-
sure passed by the thirty-ninth
legislature. The law in effective
June Is. This act provided the
rate for official notices such as de-
linquent tax lists, shall be the low
est classified advertising rate of a
newspaper; and that the schedule
of rates must be filed with the Off
cial inserting the notices. The
same law provides that political
advertising shall not be charged
more than charged for classified adj
vertising "for like class of adj
vertising matter" This law pro-
vides official notices shall be print
ed in newspapers unless the papers
refuse to accept them, when they
may be posted in the old way by
handbills or circulars.
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Returns from the spring cleo
ton must give the pro-tax contin-
gent sudden shock of cold chills.
Legislative candidates for local Of
fee suffered defeats that become
highly significant when it is found
that in practically all cases those
supporting the administration, how
ever invincible before, were coldly
reBudiated. "The growing tri-.
umph of injustice in this tax bill
is the fact that the coal and grain
storage dealers of Superior, Ash
land and elsewhere by virtue of its
provisions, are exempted from the
payment of any income taxes what
soever," is timely comment by AS
semblyman Wallace ingalls, of Ra-
cine, one of the really big men of
the legislature. 1.-THE republicans
sought by every legitimate means
to remedy this bold incongruity at
least, but their unanswerable argu-,
ments fell upon dead ears"
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Also Assemblyman Ethan B.
MINER of st. Croix County, who
has come foreward into one of the
most forceful and independent mem
bers, formerly strongly with the
administration, has sent to the
governor an earnest protest.
81 am writing" he says, ''to call
your attention to- two features OF
the bill, which ] believe could be
cured, were steps now taken to do
So" 81 refer to the use of the oc-
cupational tax as offset for income
taxes paid by the grain elevators
and coal docks, permitted by this
bill, and the failure to include the
6 per cent deduction, which un-
derstand you favor as substitute
for the personal property offset.
The use of the occupational tax
offset by large grain elevators pro-
duces a most glaring inequality.
1.-THE grain which the farmer
stores in his granary will be asses
ed at the local tax rate and he Will
not be permitted to use the tax he
pays as an offset againt his in
come tax. The rate the farmer
pays is on an average of eighteen
mills on his assessed valuation,
while the rate is the terminal ele-i
vators is one one-half of one mill on
wheat and flax and one fourth of
one mill on all other grains. as
prescribed by the statute.
at has been currently reported /
in practically every newspaper of
the state that the Offset had been
entirely repealed by this bill, but
such is not the case. The personal
property Offset has been repealed
so far as the farmer and the small
merchants are concerned, but the
tax offset is preserved
for the benefit of the large elevator