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Number 7 



JULY, 1933 



Volume 11 





f I Road Bills Pass, 



58th Assembly 1 1 

 p -■§■;( Nears End iiii 



State Sales Tax Approved in Senate Faces Fight in House, 

 I. A. A. Favors Local Responsibility for Poor Relief 



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As WE go to press the 58th Gen- 

 eral Assembly is rapidly draw- 

 ing to a close and is ex- 

 pected to adjourn within the next ten 

 days. As in former years, it is faced 

 with another legislative jam with 

 more than a thousand bills in various 

 stages of passage, most of which will 

 get left in the shuffle. ;;'■...■,,; 



The administration is putting on 

 pressure in these last few days to 

 enact the legislation in which it is par- 

 ticularly interested. Foremost in the 

 administration's program is the two 

 per cent retail sales tax bill and com- 

 panion measures which distribute the 

 revenue derived from the tax. 



The main bill and the companion 

 bills met with considerable opposition 

 in the senate where it appeared for a 

 time that they would not receive the 

 required 26 votes for passage. But at 

 the insistence of the governor accord- 

 ing to reports, unwilling downstate 

 members of his party came across, 

 with the result that the bills passed 

 on June 15 by a vote of 26 to 17. 



How Senate Voted 



The vote was reported as follows: 

 AYES: Democrats — Boeke, Carroll, 

 Clifford, Gillmeister, Graham, Hick- 

 man, Huckin, Kielminski, Kribs, Lee, 

 Loughran, Maypole, McDermott, Wil- 

 liams, Mendel, O'Connell, O'Grady, 

 Shaw, Sieberns, Stuttle and Ward — 

 22; Republicans — Barbour, Leonardo, 

 Roberts and Woods— 4. ToUl 26. 



NAYS: Democrats — Behrman, Bur- 

 gess, Karraker, Lohmann, Mayor, 



Monroe, Mundy and Penick — 8; Re- 

 publicans — Baker, Benson, Carlson, 

 Ewing, Gunning, Lantz, Mason, Searcy 

 and Thompson — 9. Total, 17. 



ABSENT OR NOT VOTING: Demo- 

 crats — Broderick and Kline — 2; Re- 

 publicans — Barr, Huebsch, Paddock, 

 Serritella and Wright — 5. Total, 7. 



As a result of the determined oppo- 

 sition of the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation to a tax on the bulk sales 

 of farm crops as originally contained 

 in the bill, the senate on June 14 

 adopted an amendment prepared by 

 the attorney general's office which the 

 administration states will exempt farm 

 products from the tax when sold in 

 the usual course of commerce. ; ■ , 



Under this amendment, the admin- 

 istration states, the farmer who oc- 

 casionally sells corn or small grain to 

 his neighbor for livestock feeding pur- 

 poses will not be subject to the tax. 



Appropriate $25,000,000 



The companion bills to the sales tax 

 appropriate $25,000,000 from the oc- 

 cupational tax fund, where sales tax 

 money will be placed, to the Illinois 

 Emergency Relief Commission for un- 

 employment. They also provide that 

 after February 1, 1934, revenue re- 

 ceived from the sales tax shall be 

 used to reduce and replace state prop- 

 erty taxes. ;. •■■ .•., V -^ ■■:■:<,: 



It is generally conceded that Chicago 

 will get the bulk of the first six 

 months receipts from the sales tax, 

 and many believe that after January 



1, 1934, pressure will be brought to 

 bear on the governor to call a special 

 session of the legislature for the pur- 

 pose of appropriating the balance of 

 the year's tax receipts to the dole. 



- Policy of I. A. A. 



The Illinois Agricultural Association 

 is strongly of the opinion that coun- 

 ties and municipalities should provide 

 their own unemployment relief. Presi- 

 dent Earl C. Smith announced re- 

 cently in a public statement. To this 

 end the I. A. A. is supporting a series 

 of bills introduced by Senator Simon 

 E. Lantz of Woodford county to give 

 the cities with over 500,000 population 

 additional taxing power for poor re- 

 lief, and to give all counties under the 

 commission form of government to- 

 gether with all cities within such coun- 

 ties, additional power to raise revenue. 



Counties having the township form 

 of government have had this power 

 many years and through township 

 levies have been taking care of their 

 own unemployed. This series of bills 

 which can be employed either by coun- 

 ties or municipalities for poor relief 

 passed the senate, and at this writing 

 is pending in the house. 



For Tax Replacement 



"By the adoption of the Lantz bills," 

 said Mr. Smith in a statement re- 

 leased to the press, "all counties and 

 cities will have equal opportunity to 

 take care of their own needy people. 

 The Illinois Agricultural Association 

 still maintains that if a state sales 

 tax is necessary, the revenue derived 

 should immediately be used to reduce 

 and replace property taxes in equi- 

 table proportion among all the coun- 

 ties of the state. The I. A. A. has 

 made it known to the governor and 

 members of the General Assembly 

 that it CANNOT and WILL NOT 

 support ANY new revenue legislation 

 unless such legislation provides im- 

 mediate reduction and replacement of 

 property taxes. We believe that des- 

 titute people should be taken care 

 of by the local units of government — 

 that by keeping responsibility for poor 

 relief a£ home, economy in the admin- 



