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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1922
Page
8
A Nebraska special session outlines retrenchment in expenditures after a year of executive budgeting. It argues for a one cent gasoline excise tax to fund federal road aid, reduce general levies, and continue limited road work while preserving services and bond debt.
The governor opposes further banking law amendments at a special session. He urges remedial legislation to curb illegal legal newspapers by requiring affidavits twice yearly and notes the need to reappropriate unspent Capitol funds from the 1919 capital building appropriation to cover remaining six years.
The document urges amending laws to allow ten year payment plans for street improvement taxes and to reassign female felons to women’s reformatories or the state penitentiary. It also seeks authority to move prisoners between reformatories and the penitentiary, arguing for stricter discipline. The note notes session speed could cut costs by at least five thousand dollars and includes unrelated ads and commentary on taxation and politics.
N M Snyder operates wireless receiving gear and reports messages from the Atlantic and Pacific, and from Germany. He helped introduce Scotts Bluff county’s first telephone lines via a party line in Gering and the early long distance link between Gering and Alliance.
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