The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-03-23
Hail the Legislature


Hail the Legislature
"AXPAYERS have every reason to be distinctly
disappointed, if not Disguised, with the progress
i being made by the legislature. There has been
talk of cutting the session to 60 days. Ii the first ~
days had been cut most matters of Importance would
be just as far along as they are today.
: Hours and hours have been wasted over the ques-
ton of motor vehicle license fees with the main pro-
gress being the postponng of the day when the car
owner must pay the tax. The problem could have been
solved in days time by not interested in play
ing politics By simple arithmetic they would have de-
termined what the department needs to maintain our
roads and to meet its other obligations and the fee
should have been set at the lowest figure that would
produce that AS far cutting the rate on
small cars and leaving the rate the on big cars
is concerned, most of our Rolls-Royce
running them Ford incomes because they can't trade
them off and need the reduction badly the rest
of us.
The question of employment insurance should new
have been raised at this session Political exped-
ency is it's only excuse When the employers general
ly able to carry such tax in addition to their
other burdens it may be to their advantage well
the advantage of the working man to enact such
legislation. With conditions they are, employment
insurance could only lower wages and fewer jobs.
An income tax live issue during the last
campaign and it was turned down by the voters who
presumably to reap the benefit. The antics of
the present legislature tend to convince that
wrong in urging passage of that measure because it
gave much power to legislature which has proved
its inability
At talk of salary reductions, we heard loud cries
from appontees of the who say they cannot
be expected work for what legislators representing
the taxpayers offer Could any of them make much
per year in private life? Salary cuts may be only
drop in the tax bucket but it is drop by drop that
makes that bucket more than farmer friends Of the
administration carry To the contention that
cutS ad for
employers, must point out that every firm know
of has already cut its expense to point comparable
with income. Why should state do less?
AS for members, they may take this cr-
ticism Republican might react to of Bill
Thompson Democrat to scorn of Jimmy Walker
If know them as we believe we do they must be
Disguised as we are with the program so far
County Printing
PUBLISHERS of Redwood county and the board
r. of county commissioners have been criticised
several occasions concerning the method of
tracing for official printing Our purpose is to print
the not enter controversies but in order that
readers may Judge the fairness of the existing
contract make the following explanation
County printing has been let for 81 500 for sew
era years the condition that the material be printed
in every paper of the county, giving subscribers in
every section equal opportunity to know how their
money is being spent
When this plan originated $1,000 was considered
80 per cent of the legal rate for such printing in
paper set by the legislature. Therefore the county
bought $20,250 of legal printing for $780, Courts
have ruled that it is within the power of the board
to accept such terms when there lower bids
if they consider the wider publicity is in the best in
terest of the county.
AS depression grpped the country, the amount of
county printing increased rapidly through penalty
attachments and longer lists of poor bills. Last year
the proceedings longer by SO per cent more,
but the publishers received nothing for the additional
work. The proceedings continue to be of unusual
length consequently the county is getting better buy
than this year.
The Gazette and probably other papers welcome
the promised court airing of the matter to settle the
justice of wild charges.