Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-01-29
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LEGISLATURE .

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Gov. Blaine has announced the ap
pointment of visiting committee
that will investigate charges made by
Assemblyman Paul H. Raihle OF
| Cadott, against the management of the
state home for feeble minded at Chip
pewa Falls. Members of the commit
| tee are:
From the senate-Walter H. Hunt
River Falls, and Walter Polahowski
Milwaukee.
From the assembly-Miss Mildred
Barber, Marathon; Robert Caldwell
Lodi; Erick H. Johnson, Frederick
and August Beversdorf, Shawano.
Mr.. Haihle and Col John Hannah
secretary of the board of control
We're requested to appear before the
visiting committee concerning the
charges of cruel treatment of patients.
Senator Hunt announced that the
committee will make a trip to Chip
pewa Falls within short time and
that it will conduct an investigation
of its own, regardless of whether the
special committee asked for in the
Raihle resolution is appointed.
Revival of the income tax fight OF
the last session has been signalized
by the Introduction Of the so-called
compromise bilr' by Senator John
Shumanp.
An important feature of this bill is
the repeal Of the general property mill
tax, which produces about 100000
of revenue, and the shifting Of this
burden to income tax payers. 1t
practically doubles the present income
tax rate until the rate reaches 10 per
cent. The corporation rate is fiat
4 per cent.
In effect, this bill repeats the per-
sonal property Offset by providing that
the personal offset could be used up
to $25.
A desire to reduce taxes is, con-
tanned in bill by Assemblyman
Mosely, .Beloit, to raise the state ex-
emptions to the level of those in the
federal act. The Mosely bill increases
exemptions for single men from $500
to $1,000 and for heads Of families
from $1,000 to $4,000. with an exemp-
ton of $500 for each child instead Of
5000. Mr.. Mosely's bill is backed by
a petition from Beloit clerks, me
chanics and laboring men.
Assemblyman Schultz of Bruce who
Intended to ask the legislature to
memorable congress to adopt the Ster-
ling-Reed bill, providing for federal
department Of education, he declared
that he had not realized the nature
of the bill and would withdraw the
measure.
Opponents of the Sterling-Reed bill
claim that it has for it's purposes crea-
ton of an entering wedge designed
to abolish, eventually, the parOchial
school system in the United States.
The measure is said to have the in
dorsement of the Ku Klux Khan.
Several measures were reported by
the revision committee in the as
sembly and referred to standing coni-
mittees. They included the resolu-
lions by Glass and Warden providing
for ratification of the federal child
labor amendment and limiting the in
PRODUCTION of bills, respectively, and
the bills seeking repeal of the Sever
son prohibition law, by Cieczynski;
repeal of the $500 homestead exemp-
ton. by Tuffley, and repeal of the per-
sonal property Offset in income taxes,
by Duncan.
Senator Padway, Milwaukee, has in
troduced a measure to prohibit night
work in bakeries and another bill to
make basic eight hour day for Wis
consin industries Under the latter,
workers could be employed but eight
hours day in all industries with the
provision that for period OF thirty
days each year they could be worked
overtime providing they were paid
extra for the additional service.
There is apparently little prospect
that the Severson dry law will be re-
pealed at this session. While a fight
may be waged in the assembly to re-
peal the law, those who have taken
an informal poll of the membership
declare that there are not enough
votes for repeal in the assembly to
pass such bill.
In the senate the drys have the up
per hand and bill to repeal, 1t one
is introduced there by the socialist
delegation, as is the prospect, has vir-
tually no chance.
A division of opinion already has
been heard in connection with the
proposed bill in the assembly to
change the laws to permit persons to
pay taxes in half-yearly installments
instead of in the early part OF each
year.