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UNDER THE CAPITOL DOME
Semi-annual payment of taxes is slated to become reality in Wisconsin with the legislature passing the Nelson-Tremain bill. Session after session the legislature favored such a plan but when bills were given close study it was believed that they were unworkable and they were discarded. But the bill passed this session was the result of lengthy work by the League of Municipalities in cooperation with the state tax commission and is believed to overcome most of the difficulties. The bill sets up that only part of the taxes can be delayed next year with the ratio growing from year to year until it will be fully effective in 1935 when it will be possible to pay half of the real estate taxes at the usual time and the second half at the end of July without penalty. The argument for the bill is that it will make it easier to raise the second half of the taxes in summer when work is more plentiful. The argument against it is that it will make much more work to collect taxes and that the expense is greater.
The small loan law with its interest charges of 42 per cent a year remains on the statute books for at least two more years and has the progressive assembly to thank for its continued existence. The senate voted twice overwhelmingly to repeal the law. The assembly voted against repeal and on the second bill to repeal the law, Speaker Charles B. Perry ruled the bill out of order on the ground that the assembly had already voted on the repeal question.
Senator Thos. M. Duncan, Milwaukee socialist, has become executive secretary to Gov. LaFollette. Senator Duncan is admittedly one of the most able men to ever serve in the legislature and he has been a LaFollette aide since the election. Duncan is expcted to bcome disconnected from the socialist party.
The legislature is going on record against history text books that claim Germany was the cause of the World war. Sen. John Cashman, Denmark. offered resolution outlining the history books that blame Germany for the war and demands that the state superintendent of schools send a copy of his report to every school governing body. The senate adopted the resolution by a unanimous vote and aso adopted unanimously another resolution by the same author asking the revision of the treaty of Versailles.
The assembly killed the interim committee bill for a central state board of education to displace all present state school governing bodies. The senate had passed the bill. Committee members are expected to renew their fight for central school control at the next session.
The assembly has gone on record for the Fronek bill to raise $1,500,000 for conservation by a tax of two cents a package on cigarets. The vote was surprising because sales taxes are strongly opposed by the progressive organization.
In spite of all the talk in the last two years the corrupt practices act remains unchanged for at least two more years. The assembly passed the Carow bill to tighten up the regulation of campaigns with more leeway granted candidates in the amount of money they can spend but the senate amended the bill to remove even one of the chief limitations of the present law. The Goodland amendment would have permitted corporations to take a free hand in politics. After the adoption of this amendment Sen. Walter S. Goodland, Racine, declared that the present law is stringent enough and that it should be left in force and the senate killed the bill.
Cheesemakers have won a victory for which they have fought for many years with enactment of a bill removing the labeling requirement for whey butter. Whey butter is a by-product of cheese factories but up to this time they have been forced to label the product. Now they can sell it in open competition with other butter.
Harry J. Mortensen, New Lisbon banker, has been named state commissioner of insurance to succeed Milton A. Freedy, brother-in-law of former Gov. Fred R. Zimmerman. Andrew Ekstrom, Superior, was named to the unemploym commission and John Thiel, former district attorney of Dodge county, has become a member of the Annuity board to succeed Anton Kuckuk, Clintonville.
Wisconsin births in 1930 reached a total of 56,497 to mark an increase of 904 over those of the preceding year, according to tentative report of the bureau of vital statistics state board of health. The 1929 births had set the lowest total since 1920, the records of the bureau showed, and if the marked falling off two years ago was due largely to economic depression, the gain in 1930 may be regarded as a harbinger of returning prosperity Rural births comprised 29,031 of the 1930 total, the board's survey revealed, as compared with 27,466 urban births.
Racine-Plans have been announced for the erection of a new $700,000 structure to replace the old St. Mary's hospital/here.
Medford After being scolded for killing a robin, Francis Wegerer, aged 15, hung himself in the garage of his parents Just outside of Medford.
Janesville-The Bower City bank, smallest bank here, failed to open its doors on June 13. There had been a quiet run on the bank for several days.
Tax does to your pocketbook what tacks do to your tires.
The later a man's bedtime the less difference it makes to the world what time he gets up.