Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1913 — INCOME TAX BILL PASSED SENATE [ARTICLE]

INCOME TAX BILL PASSED SENATE

Efforts to Have Part of Revenue Go to County Failedr-Other Legislative Doings. Indianapolis, Feb. will have an inheritance tax law if the Tingle bill which passed the senate Tuesday is signed by Governor Ralston. It passed the house several days ago. Four attempts to the bill so that part of the tax collected should go to the county where the estate is situated have failed. Senator Hibberd, of South Bend, offered an amendment that 50 per cent of the tax should go to the county and a like amount to the state. This was lost. Senator Hauek proposed an amendment that the state should receive 75 per cent and the county 25 per cent to the school fund and distributed •over the state. This also was* lost. Two amendments, one exempting property willed to Catholic priests and bishops for strictly church purposes, and the other reducing the pay of appraisers from $8 to $5 were urged by Senator Curtis and carried. The'bill provides for the collection of a graduated tax upon, estates of less than $25,000 ranging from 1 per cent of the clear market value when willed to husband, wife or lineal issue, to 5 per cent upon the degrees of collateral consanguinity. Upon all in excess of $25,000 and Up to $50,000 the rates shall be one and one-half times the schedule Of primary assessments; $60,000 to SIOO,OOO two times the primary rate, and from SIOO,OOO to $500,000 two and one-half timest and above $500,000 tjmes tne primary rate. All of the money collected is to be paid to the state. . The bill of Senator Traylor which provides that saloons may remain open all day but Sunday, elections; Christmas and Thanksgiving days, passed fly a vote Of 26 to 19. Senator Hauck moved to lay the bill on the table but was voted down. Senator Strange characterized the bill as preposterous. The McCormick loan shark bill, which provides all those who lends sums of less than $250 at interest rates between 8 per cent year and 2 per cent a month shall take out a license and not be permitted to charge a greater fee than $3 for making a loan, was passed 40 to 2. The measure by Senator Netteryille providing for an annual graded tax upon motor vehicles passed with little opposition. He said the law was similar to those in New York, Illinois, Michigan and other states and was disigned to help secure a uniform automobile law all over the country. The liveliest discussion of the day arose over the Lyday bill, which already has passed the house, and provides that legal advertisements in second class cities shall be placed in daily papers. The bill failed for want of a constitutional majority. The senate also passed the Ballou measure for the registration of all dentists. The house passed the Nix bill to protect farmers from unlawful combinations regulating the price of farm products and prescribing penalties for offenders. The Adam bill giving the railroad commission the power to award damage in certain cases passed. She house voted down the Moelng bill Increasing the salary of deputy township assessors from $2 to $3 In townships having cities of the first, second and third classes. Other bills that passed followsThornton, permitting the city council of New Albany to vote not more than $2,500 for the celebration of its centennial; Stahl, giving the township trustee right to transport children to school corporations other than his own. Representative Eschbach, of Warsaw, called the attitude of Speaker Cook, “rotten” when he refused to recognize members clamoring for the floor in a debate on the Storen bill providing for the removal of the Jennings bounty court house from Yemon to North Vernon, which was up on second reading. “I hope It is not so rotten,” retorted the speaker, “that your fellow members get a sniff.” The bill advanced to third reading. The house upheld the majority report Of the committee on elections that the Stotsenburg senate bill providing tor one woman on school boards be indefinitely poet poned The Jones primary bill was advanced to engrossing.