Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-23
Villas COUNTY.
The Bill Passes The Assembly.

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| The Villas county bill came up in the
assembly Tuesday evening in Com
mittee of the Whole with Mr.. Jennings
OF Waupaca in the chair.
When it arose the bill to create the
county of Villas was reported for pass
age with Messers O'Neil and Davidson
dissenting. Mr.. O'Neil moved the in
definite postponement of the bill. It
was his painful duty to oppose the Gre
alton of the new county of Villas. He
would not be acting in accordance with
his sense of justice did he fail to oppose
the passage of the bill. There were
not the necessary conditions OF popula-
ton or taxable property to warrant it..
There would be but ], ZOO people in the
proposed new county. Theirs was no
just demand for its creation. Mr.. O'Neil
denied that the republicans opposed
the creation of the new county because
it had attached to it the name of Villas
He yielded to no man in his estimate
of that eloquent that almost matchless
orator but he thought the legislature
should select more worthy territory so
the name of Wisconsin's senior senator
might pepetuated, the division was UNI
fair to the residents and tax payers of
the greater part of Oneida county most
of whom had strenuously opposed the
cutting up of their territory.
Mr.. Mcclellan of Ashland who is
chairman OF the Town and County Or
ganization committee sent to the clerks
desk his argument IN support OF the
majority report and it was read by the
chief clerk. The majority conceded
that the new county included sparely
settled territory. 1t was charged that
the minority was prejudiced against
the bill. The argument was in sub
stained taat the interests of the
state were best sub
served by the setting apart of counties
in compact form and that it would
stimulate the development of the
country.
Mr. Perkins, who represents Oneida
county, said the division WAS agreed to
by d large majority of the residents of
the county He thought that the bill
should pass.
Mr.. Austin of Milwaukee said there
was a little history connected with
this fight that would assist the mem
bers in voting intellgently When
Oneida county was created eight years
ago ont of Lincoln county, it was agreed
by the same people who are now oppos-
ing the passage of this bill to allow
the division of the now c)ulty two
years later. They repudiated these
promises at that time and were now
to repudiate the promises
Mr.. Austin called attention to the fact
that when Ashland county was created
it had 1900 population, and SO on
the list of counties nearly all
of them had q smaller population at the
time of their organization than the
new county. AT the last ell
ection the vote showed there was a
population of about $500 in the terri
torysscontained in the proposed new
county of Villas instead of LOO as
shown by the census of 1890. The val
uation of Villas county would be 1888
D0O-much larger than that of half a
dozen counties in the state while the
property in the remaining
territory of Oneida would be 1856, 600
Mr.. Austin though the motion to in
definitely postpone should be be defeat
cd
In answer to tho gentleman from
Mr.. O'Neil said that there
wes demand for creation OF sparely
settled counties because inhabitants
had from fifty to seventy five miles to
travel. Such is not the case in Oneida
The vote OF Oneida county
cut no figure with the basis of popula-
ion.
A motion to indefinitely postpone
was lost and motion to order the bill to
a third reading carried by d vote OF 6a
in favor to % against it.
FOR SALE.
The undersigned has q fine new
mich cow for sale cheap. For parti-
Glars call at VIM. KnoX's farm one mile
up the lakes from this village.