Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-22

The hunter might catch them anywhere
else, the ordinance says, .'every person
who shall kill any such wild animal .
He might catch them any where he
! pleased and kill them here, and that
would fulfill the law
Mr.. RoDoLF proposes to drop the
wolf bounty and pay for the sheep
killed by wolves; it would be cheaper
than to pay bounty on wolf scalps.
Mr., WHITCHER moved to amend by
putting bounty to be paid at fifteen
dollars on females, ten dollars on males.
and five dollars on pups, at my friends
suggestion.
Mr.. WILSON moved to refer the
whole matter to a committee of revis-
ion and suggested Mr. Arnold, Mr..
Rodolf and Mr.. Kidd be appointed the
committee. They to revise and amend
in the meantime and report back this
evening
Mr.. WHTCHER wants to vote on the
amendment.
THE CHAIR-The motion TO refer
think is first.
As many as are in favor of the mo-
ton TO refer say Aye, contrary No.
I
Kidd and Wilson appointed the com
Wilson calls no! Rodolf the Chair
man, says Wilson. daughter and APP
| plause.)
The Clerk now read the resolution oil
Mr.. Grimm, of Cassville. as follows:
ReSolUed, That the sum of three
thousand dollars be raised and levied
upon the taxable property of Gram
county for roads and bridges for the
ensuing year.
MIR. WHITCHER- cannot bring N.Y.
self to vote for that resolution. know
we need money in Lima for roads and
bridges. We expended thirteen hun
dred dollars last year on roads and
bridges, but l consider this mode OF
road-making very doubtful expedient.
1t is an old system in vogue before we
had railroads.
| might as well keep silent perhaps,
but | think there are gentlemen on that
committee Committee on Highways,
Bridges Ind Ferries,) who will do me
justice. | expect to fail this time but
this measure will finally be beaten.
Your committee ask that you order
three thousand dollars to be raised for
highways and bridges. But you must
consider that three thousand in this
case means forty-fve hundred dollars.
The money must be raised by tax and
is pooled, and a committee is appointed
to apportion it out.
We vote the amount but do we know
where it will be spent? Mo- The com
mttee divides the money between the
! in nv
induce us to spend more. 1t is forty
five hundred dollars put into the hands
OF that committee, your town gets so
much from the county, it is nothing but
what you vote out of your own county.
1t is paternalism. They want Mr.. Daddy
! Committee to do something for them. |
want it stopped and shall not vote for it.
| There was u time when the Platteyille
and Lancaster road was IA great high
way, but in these days of railroads
they are the objective points of your
roads. 1t is a bill to induce men to come
up here and get something which is to
be voted out of their own pockets at the
| start.
MIR. kIDD-The objections the gentle
man raises to the distribution of these
funds, will apply to any fund, no mat
ter what committee has the distribution
of it. The paternal committee has the
distribution of this fund, and it must
pass through this Board. So far as his re-
marks apply to railroads there are parts
of the County which have no railroads
| and those portions as a rule have the
worst roads. The objection may apply
to the towns of Lancaster and Boscobel.
| While the towns of Lancaster and Bos-
cobel are the objective points of our
roads those OF us who live in the worst
parts have to have good roads to get to
those objective points, and it is in the in
terest of those who live at those points
to have good roads to get through our
part of the county. There may have
been Objectionable use of these funds,
but | think on the whole they have been
applied wisely and iudiciously.
MIR. WHrCHER wants specification
or specific object to which this money
shall be applied instead of bill, and
we are willing to accept. The principle
is entirely different from what Mr. Kidd
states, you must depend upon the com
mittee. (now if our chairman can get
a hundred dollars he is deviish smart
fellow. | would not want any money
appropriated for roads that are to be
less than 80 feet wide
The money is not applied properly.
| have know them to divide the money
and buy a road scraper. Show me a
specific object and | am with you, but
you do not do it, it is simply bill for
forty-tiye hundred dollars and you di-
vided it among the towns.
Mr.. KIDD-The larger and richer
towns of the county always pay more
into that fund than they take out, and
the poorer towns receive more than
they put in, although ii may seem
hardship it is, l think, good think. If
it is necessary for the people who live
in the railroad towns to travel upon the
roads of those towns that are distant
from the railroad, they should have good
roads to travel over, it is simply max
| ing distribution so that the towns
that need the most money will get the
most
Mr.. RoDoLF-That is the object, it is
not steal. There are many towns
who have hardly people enough 10 keep
the common roads in epair-whoever
travels wants a good road. Some of
the towns are to poor to build the roads.
| The idea of this tax was to build bridges
for those towns that are not able to
| build them. The richer towns have not
had money for these purposes except
when floods or storms have destroyed
roads and bridges These bridges be-
long to the county. The richer towns
should assistthe poorer--itis just. These
are highways for the general public not
for the county alone, but for the state
and it is right that the county should
appropriate something. My only objec-
| ton is that it is not enough,
Mr. WoopHoUSE-When | left home,
myself and others in the adjoining
towns thought we would try to have the
county appropriations enlarged. not
| knowing that the limit was three thou
sand dollars. In our portion of the
county we have sustained losses
amounting to five or six hundred dol
lars in bridges The board dealt liber-
ally with us last year. but what we
received was a small item upon the
losses of the year, and Potosi and Glen
| Haven are in about the same condition
! We claim a good share of the public
money and if we could raise the appro-
priation to five thousand dollars l
should be in favor of it. The County
roads we all have to travel and repair
and sustain and keep them in good
running order. We at Bloomington
! have no railroad to travel on. This
| gentleman perhaps is surrounded by