Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-01-29
agalnst which the s her cent tax

be calculated. These are the
street railway, the light department,
the water system, the city auditorium,
the clty.owned golf courses and the
Port OF Seattle.
Wait on License Revenues.
Just as the road committees feel
that until the license question is dis.
posed of. and revenues decided upon,
there can be no real consideration OF
the road program, 30 do revenue and
taxation committees feel towards the
two measures designed primarily to
raise state revenues. The entire pro.
gram Of the advisory tax committee
reyolyes around these two revenue
producing masures.
The Showalter bill looks to either
the income tax or sales tax or q
combination Of both to raise the money
necessary for the maintenance Of
operation Of the primary, secondary
and high schools Of the state.
For this reason this week and per-
haps part Of next will be devoted al.
most entirely In these four committees
to consideration OF the revenue pro-
duclng proposals, gas taxes and H.
cense fees for roads and income and
corporation income taxes for schools
and other state expenses.
An hour battle was waged on the
floor Of the house over amending the
homestead exemption law, but the com.
mittee report was finally adopted with.
out amending any vital parts of the
bill.
The measure would provide that
debtors can file to exempt homes up
10 $4,000 value from being sold to sat.
isfy creditors at any time up to actual
sale Of the property by the sheriff.
An attack led by Senator Dan Lam
don brought defeat to a bill allowing
King county four more superior court
Judges. A vote was finally taken on
compromise amendment, which
would have given King county two
more judges. This measure was de-
feated.
A bill comforting upon Judges the
right to fix the amount of compensa-
ton for probation officers was defeat
ed IL to ~.
Another senate stand in favor Of
economy came from the senate rev.
enue and taxation committee which
adopted definite policy. The com.
mittee will consider bills for added
revenues only in connection with re.
auctions in millage limits.
Senate Gets Bills.
The senate had five bills on Its
calendar for third reading the first of
this week. One, committee substi-
tute for senate bill 20, was to sus-
send the 1s-mill reclamation revolv.
Ing fund levy for two years. The
original bill, drawn by the advisory
tax commission, would have abolished
the fund and put its s2,00O,0OO balance
in the capitol building fund. The sub
stitute was offered after the original
met stubborn opposition.
Another bill on the calendar was
to release motor vehicle owners from
responsibility for injuries to pas.
sengers. Car owners, under the bill,
would be responsible only If they were
demonstrating the machine to a pros
pective purchaser, or deliberately
wrecked it.
The other three measures were maxi
Ing minor changes in existing condi-
tional sales and mortgage laws.
A boxing bill was introduced by
Senator Paul Houser. The measure
would provide a state athletic com
mission with regulatory powers over
professional boxing matches and would
collect per cent of all gross receipts,
dividing the money among veterans
organizations.
A mothers pension bill was intro
duced by Representatives Mills, Kit
sap and Benson, Walla Walla. The
measure would give mothers unable
to support their children s25 for the
support of one child and $40 for each
additional child under the age of Is.
To Tax Butter Substitutes.
Representative Charles Peterson,
Spokane, says he is sure the bill to
impose 15-cents-a-pound sales tax on
butter substitutes will pass. 1t was
introduced in the senate by % sena-
tors, enough to pass It; and Mr.. Pet.
erson says he has obtained 60 signed
pledges in the house, 40 being ma
jority.
The first move to put the Wash
ington legislature on record as for or
against repeal Of the 18th amendment,
was made in the senate when Senator
Paul Houser, King county, filed a
resolution memorializing congress to