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FOURTEEN MEDFO RD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, April 14, 1955 Senate OKs First Measure in House Taxation Program Salem (U.R) The Oregon Senate passed the first measure in the tax program built by the House, but not before a burst of heated debate late yesterday. Sen. Gene Brown , (R-Grants Pass) called it "stop-gap" legis lation. He said the Legislature wasn't facing up to the problem on a permanent basis. The bill repeals exemptions from the corporate excise tax which have been enjoyed by utilities and by corporations which get 95 per cent of their income from real property rentals. Brown 'Presumptuous' 0 Sen.' Paul E. Geddes (R-Rose-burg) sternly told the Senate in general and Sen. Brown in par ticular that the senator from Grants Pass was pres-impt"ous in calling the program "stop gap" when he didn't even, know what the tax committee mem bers plan for the remainder of the program. He said the mem bers themselves have not yet made up their minds. Two Dissenting Votes Sen. Lee Ohmart (R-Salem) acting chairman of the Senate assessment and Taxation Com mittee, said emphatically it was not a "stop-gap" program they were working on but a perma nent one. He said the measure lifting the exemptions on utili ties and repealing what is called the "skyscraper" clause concern ing property rentals was expect ed to pick up $3,500,000 in the next biennium. Sen. Howard Belton (R-Can-by) said the measure to put the corporate excise tax on utilities "plugs a loophole that we have been trying to fill for 25 years." After lengthy debate in which several others joined, the Sen ate passed the bill with only tvo dissenting votes Sens. J. O. Johnson (R-Tigard) and Warren McMinimee (R-Tillamook). Sen. Brown explained, after the rollcall, that he had voted for the measure because Sens. Geddes and Ohmart had con vinced him that the bill was not a stop-gap measure. The action of the measure answered amply, observers said, charges made by some house members that the Senate tax committee would do nothing but m?rk time this week while Chairman Rudie Wilhelm (R Portland) is in Chicago attending a convention of the national as sociation of warehousemen of which he is a director. In fact, Sen. Ohmart scheduled three meetings for his commit tee today. 1 The Senate also passed House bill 40 yesterday. It defines true cash value as the market value of property on the assessment date. But the Senate amended the measure to postpone its ef fective date until Jam 1, 196i, so the bill now goes back to the House. House Passes Measure To Outlaw Feminine Wrestlers in Oregon Salem U.P; A bill to ban women wrestlers from Oregon was approved yesterday in the House. Rep. Edwin Johnson (R-Eu-gene) said the bill was needed to protect public morals because wrestling exhibitions featuring women attracted children who were subjected to the bawdy re marks of the audiences. Jensen Embarrassed Rep. Robert Jensen (R-Port-land) told the House he was em barrassed to admit to his consti tuents that he had taken time at the Legislature "to pass on stuff like this." He asserted that those who objected to women wrestlers need not attend wres tling matches where they ap peared. Rep. Maurine Neuberger (D Portland) objected to the bill as discrimination. Members rejected a bill that would have required cities, counties and school districts to pay their employees overtime. Opponents objected that the bill would sharply increase the costs of local government. A bill that would have al lowed counties to construct, maintain, and operate sewage disposal works in unincorpor ated areas was also defeated in a lengthy afternoon session yesterday. 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