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MR. McHENRY: I did not include that in this motion. I thought 

 it would come up in this discussion and I am anxious to have in- 

 formation on that myself — what is meant by that personal tax — 

 whether it is a tax on money and personal property or just what 

 it is that is paid into the State Treasury; if it is included, then I 

 will include it in my motion to amend. 



The CHAIR: There is a member of the Legislature in this body; 

 probably he can enlighten us along this line. 



MR. BROSIUS: Mr. Chairman, the personal property tax is paid 

 now into the State Treasury, and our coutentiou has been as agricul- 

 turists that we should retain that in our counties. I believe that 

 our money at interest is personal property, and it should be, we 

 think, retained at home. That has been my view. We pay no State 

 tax to-day except a personal property tax, and that is properly 

 money. 



The SECRETARY: Mr. Chairman, will you allow me to inquire, 

 through the Chairman, whether any part of that tax is returned 

 to the counties now, or whether it is all returned to the counties? 



MR. BROSIUS: I think there is a portion of it only returned to 

 the counties. And now our contention, as to this resolution, if 

 I am right — it is intended that it should be all returned. With 

 our immense State revenue, it seems to me that should be done. 



The SECRETARY: I understood Mr. Clark to ask the question 

 whether it is not all returned to the counties now. 



MR. CLARK: Mr. Chairman, what I spoke of was our personal 

 taxes. Now money — the tax on money is not the only personal 

 tax that we pay. We pay plenty of personal tax that never goes 

 into the State funds at all. My query was this: What part of this 

 tax do we w^ant to include in this? It seems to me that we should 

 amend it so as to include that part of the personal tax that is now 

 paid into the State Treasury. 



MR. HERR: Mr. Chairman, make that ''personal property tax" 

 and that will cover it, will it not? 



The SECRETARY": If that were made ''personal property tax" 

 and the other should follow immediately after the words "personal 

 property tax," the words "that are now paid into the State Treas- 

 ury," that would make that very plain because that would be the 

 tax assessed upon money at interest and nothing else. Now while 

 you are amending this report, while the amendments are being con- 

 sidered, you can insert that, and that will make it all right and 

 make it plain. 



MR. KAHLER: Mr. Chairman, in regard to the question of the 

 money returned to the counties, the object of this recommendation 

 was that we retain it all in the counties. Now it seems to some of 

 us that it is hardly worth v/hile to pay money in and get money 

 back. Why not leave it in? A great many of us think we are 

 overburdened with taxation; that would help to balance it. We 



