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THE I. A. A. RECORD 



only $r)0,000 to udminister the ai-t if i . 

 passes. At the same time Arnold introduc«'i| 

 liills appropriating $9,200,000 for refundinjf 

 f.o the counties to build roads, and $1,810, 

 000 for rebates on gasoline not used in mof 

 tor la; -, should the tras tax measure iiassi. 



Rep. I^ittle of Champaign attacked th t 

 mieasu IV because he said, "there are toi> 

 Miaiiy strings tied to the money to be re 

 funiii'd to the counties." A spirited de 

 bato continued with Arthur Roe of Van 

 <lalia. Wood of Keenes, Moore of Kewanee 

 Smll of Macoupin County, and Arnold o 

 <iuiticy defending the bill. 



Amendments won- offered repeatedly by 

 O'drady and Lyons of Cook, Tice of Men 

 ;)»•!. and others, hut all these were votec 

 • .'•wn. The opponents then withdrew, an( 

 :illowed the bill to go along to third read 

 •iig when it is expected to i)ass :ui<i b 

 .•■eferre<i to the Senate. 



Fight Awaits In Senate 



The I. A. A. sponsored the measur 

 bt-aring Rep. .Arnold's name after juucl 

 deliberation because it considers the bil 

 most fair and acceptable to all interest 

 I'oncrrned. Cook county legislators hav 

 repeatedly taken the narrow and selfis 

 view that it is not concerned in the down 

 stall- road program and hence is oppose 

 to any gas tax. They continually belabo 

 downstate re|>resentatives for lack of co 

 operation, but on an issue such as this on<| 

 which concerns the entire state, oppose i 

 because the rest of the state will get ' 

 slightly larger piece of the pie than th 

 county of Cook. 



The amended gas tax provides that tiftyl 

 l)er cent of the funds so derived will bi 

 returned to the counties to build an«l main 

 tain state aid roads under state super- 

 vision. Such funds may also be used tc 

 retire bonds already issued for roads with-: 

 in the county. A fight awaits the measure 

 in the Senate when it passes the House 

 but with the amendments noted it i^ 

 exyjected to pass ;ii)d be sign<'(l by th< 

 L(Hernor. 



School Bill Amended 



The Cork bill which would 

 vjiore than double the maximum 

 Mon-high school tax rate was 

 further amended in the Senate 

 >>n Tuesday when Cuthbertson 

 -ecured an amendment reducing 

 the maximum rate, from $1.2.') 

 to $1.00 per $100 valuation. 

 Hicks had previously amended 

 the l>ill reducing the rate fi'om 

 .$1..jO as provided in the or- 

 iginal bill to $1.25. The pres- 

 ent law aliffws a levy of only 

 (j»;-2, :5 cents per $100 valua- 

 tions. The Cuthbertson amend 

 ment is in line with the I. A. 

 A.'s thought on this (luestion, 

 .md allows enough taxing 

 power to any district whose 

 ■ a.^sessed valuations are at the 

 state level. 



The McCarthy Public Ware- 

 housing bill, H. B. 553. was up 

 before the Senate Committee 

 on Agriculture on Wednesday 

 morning when I. A. A. amend- 

 ments were submitted by Sena- 

 tor Cuthbertson. Section fi B 

 of the act would validate all 

 trades and transactions on the 

 Chicago Board of Trade wheth- 

 er they are legal or otherwise. 

 R. A. Cowles and Donald Kirk- 

 I)atrick appeared before the 

 committee against this provision 

 contending that it did not be 

 long in the bill in the first 



place, and moreover would legalize dishon- bonds the people have already voted. 



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est transactions contr.ary to the interests 

 of the pubjic and particularly farmers. 



Senator Swift upheld the provision 

 claiming it was germane to the bill and 

 necessary to i)rotect the milleis who buy 

 wheat and sell flour on ctyitract, hedging 

 their purchases to protect themselves 

 against market fluctuations. Senator Dun- 

 lap defended the I. A. A. amendments to 

 strike out Section 6 B. Senator Mecnts 

 admitted the bill would be stronger with- 

 out 6 B although he saw no harm in it. 

 Cuthbertson's motion to strike out the sec- 

 tion was sustaine<l a moment later and the 

 bill was reported out with the recom- 

 mendation that it do pass as amended. 



H. B. 471 O'Hair, known as the fertilizer 

 bill, was amended in the Senate Agricul- 

 tural Committee on motion by Senator 

 Dunlap to exclude nitrate of soda, and 

 nitrate and sulphate of ammonia from the 

 provisions of the act. Sen. Dunlap claims 

 that these fertilizers lio not need to be 

 tagged, and that the tax for this purpose 

 would just handicap and increase the cost 

 of these fertilizers to the fruit growers 

 who use this material. The state dej)artment 

 of agriculture contended that these mate- 

 rials ought to be tested, analyzed and tagged 

 to safeguard the smaller buyers. Senator 

 .Dunlap. who is one of thtrlargest fruit grow- 

 ers in the state, promised to look into this 

 feature before the bill comes up for passage. 



Bonding Bills Win 



A sharp encounter between friends and 

 (tieinics of the Chicago increased bonding 

 nieasuie. S. B. -1 ICi, occurred in the House 

 Revenue Committee on Wednesday aftei- 

 noon. This bill would double the bonding 

 ITftwer by doubling the assessed valuations, 

 in every taxing district of Hlinois. Cor- 

 poration Coun.sel Ettelson of Chicago and 

 his colleagues appeared in defense of the 

 measure again with the argument that Chi- 

 cvAgo can not go forward with its j)ublic 

 imni<>vem<>nt« and school building program 

 unless it has authority to issue the 



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(JRICULTURAL a.s.^et.s have been depleted ll 

 some $20,000,000,000 in the i)ast five year.s. fl 

 n >ears the indebtednes.s of agriculture has jj 

 increa.sed from $3,320,000,000 Q 

 to .$12, 250,000,000. The total g 

 value of Illinois farms in 1920 ' 

 was $.5,250,294,752 and by the 

 ch)se of 1925 they had de- 

 creased to $3,428,229,-161. 

 showing a loss of $1,822,065,- 

 291." 



This is part of the story told ll 

 the organized bankers of Illi- fl 

 nois by President Karl C. Smith, H 

 who recently completed a 

 speaking tour before ten group 

 conferences of the Illinois 

 Bankers Association. 



"We all enjoy-ed having you |i 



with us on the trip, and I want || 



to thank you most sincerely for W 



splendid contribution to the pijogram," said U 



(Jraettinger, secretary of the Illinois Bankers' ll 



Assoi iation, in a letter to President Smith. "I feel U 



that your efforts have spurred the interest of the jj 



bank >rs in the agricultural problem as it has never 'J 



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done before and I am sure that this will lead 



to some helpful action on the part of the associa 



vithin a short time. 



St< ps were made at Barry, Litchfield, Murphys- 



Mount Vernon. Casey, Dixon, Kewanee. 



Peoria. Pontiac, and Woodstock. 



Margaret Haley of the Chicago Yeachers' 

 Feiferation and Harris Keeler of the Public 

 Bureau of Efficiency of, Chicago maintained 

 that the bill was not deeded, that the $3.').- 

 000,000 of bonds just voted could be issued 

 when the money was needed. Nevertheless, 

 when put to a vote, this bill together with 

 S. B. 447-.'>:52 which, cut the maximum tax 

 rates in half in taxing districts throughout 

 the state, were passed out fifteen to eleven 

 with favorable recome'hdation. The I. A. 

 X. fought these measures with all its 

 strength. The vote of downstate members 

 who were not representing the interests of 

 their constituents when they voted for these 

 measures, was responsible for them going 

 to the floor of the House. The roll call 

 vote on S. B. 446 which doubles assesed 

 valuations throughout Illinois follows. 



For: Overland, Beckman, Elrod, E. A. 

 W. Johnson, Juul, Phillips, Schnackenberg. 

 Stewart, Swanson, McClugage, MeSweeney, 

 Ratcgan, Minsky, Lipka, O'Brien. Mc- 

 Clugaire explained his ivote saying he would 

 vote against the bills on the floor of the 

 House. Igoe voted present. 



Against: Chr. Hutson, Hunter, .Allen, 

 Church, Clark, Vaughan, Warren, Wylie, 

 Gill, Fahy, Hennebry. 



It is hard to understand how any legis- 

 lator could be for these bills, much less a 

 downstate representative when they open 

 wide the gates for higher taxes. 



The vote on the other measures S. B. 

 l47-.")32 was the same. 



Senate Bills Delayed 



The Board of Trade bill, S. B. 148, was not 

 called up this week. Pressure is being brought 

 to bear to prevent the passage of this meas- 

 ure and there are evidences of influence to 

 block its further consideration. It was on 

 the calendar, second reading, on Thursday. 

 The I. A. A. will ask to have it brought up 

 for early consideration this week. 



The state income tax bill, S. B. 313, was 

 in the same position. An effort will be 

 made to bring it up for early considera- 

 tion likewise. 



The Lantz cornborer appro- 

 priation bill, S. B. 553, which 

 would give $30,000 to the state 

 "■xperiment station for special 

 research work on the corn- 

 borer. lies in the House Com- 

 mittee on Appropriations fac- 

 ing opposition from certain 

 committee members. It will be 

 brought out early next week, 

 .iccording to present indica- 

 tions, and moved up for pass- 

 age. 



Cooperative Bills 

 S. B. 366 — Lantz — the amend- 

 ment to the Cooperative Act of 

 iy23 passed the Senate with 

 some bad amendments, which 

 would virtually prevent a co- 

 operative from entering into a 

 contract with a producer, 

 passed the Senate and lies in 

 the House Committee on Agri- 

 culture. The same bill H. B. 

 .')09 — McCarthy— was up on third 

 reading in the House ready for 

 passage on Thursday. The 

 House bill is not amended. This 

 bill will be pushed along to the 

 .Senate where an eff'ort will be 

 made to pass it without amend- 

 ment. 



H. B. 578— Tice— the grain 



warehousing on farms bill is up 



on third reading in the House. 



Its companion measure S. B. 433 



Cuthbertson — has passed the 



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