Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-03-03

self in the matter of the kinnicllinnic
and MenOmOnee sewerage system in Mil
waukee and if it is possible to do any
thing in the matter it will now be done.
-Four years ago the state board Of health
was instructed to devise a system of
sewers to drain the two valleys and the
Milwaukee county board of SUPERVISORS
was authorized to appropriate $4,000 to
pay for the work. The health board has
tried time after time to get the money,
but the supervisors always refused to
make the appropriation. Repeated dis
appointments has dishearrened the board
and it has about given up hope of ever
being able to remedy the dangerous con-
ditiOn of affairs that now exists. Mr..
HOyt has fathered n bill to compel the
supervisors to appropriate the necessary
money and they will probably be brought
to time at last.
The little entertainment arranged by
the Senate Thursday night was Il delight
full affair and it brought out The fact that
there is considerable musical talent in
that body. The following programme
was given:
University banjo club.
Solo, Grant Thomas.
Scng, "Od Folks at Home,' ladies' double
Cuartette, Mrs Anna Gussman-W Wright, Miss
Lou Wilott, Miss Mary Pickarts Miss Wi
mona Merrick, Miss Lillian Opel. Mrs.
SOBER, MIS-. A ii. NaaS, MISS Nate Cnltten-
den.
Cello solo. Prof Storm Bull.
Soprano solo, Because Love You,
Dear" by Hawley, Mrs Anna Gussman-
Bass solo, Charles Wehrmann.
Tenor solo, Senator Lamoreux.
Piano solo, Miss Elsie Roehr.
Scotch Song, Gavin Spence.
Duet. Senators Roehr and Lamoreux.
I. Of w. Banjo club.
surprised the Assembly the other day
by the speech that he made on the Ag
riculturaI society'S appropriation bill.
He was in favor of the appropriation
and he made a very strong argument
for it. Even those who were opposed TO
him admitted that his speech was Il good
one. ASsemblyman Barnum made his
first speech on the same occasion, and it
was characteristic. His homely, humor
Gus way of putting things created
quiet laugh and prevented the boys from
getting worked up over. the matter.
Waupun threatens the state with pc
culiar lawsuit, growing out of the man
agement of the states prison. For
years the prison has needed better venti-
latiOn, the air being SO bad that it in
jured the health of the inmates. Re-
Gently the members of the state board of
control contracted for system of fans
and a ventilating tower about sixty feet
high. The fans are now at work, great
~ to the JOY of those who dwell within
the walls. But outside the grumbler
still plies his vocation. Somebody ac-
quired the idea that he could smell the
air of the prison as it came out Of the
shaft sixty feet in the air, and that his
health, happiness and enjoyment of lib
erty were damaged thereby. He told
his neighbors, and they, too, began to
sniff the air for evidences of pollution
did Of +hoyx 4
ination they soon discovered that they
were victims of bad odors, and now they
have become excited enough to threaten
to apply for an injunction. Whether
they can find judge Or court commits
sioner with an idea that his jurisdiction
is exalted enough to take cognizance of
the air sixty feet above the earth is
another question.
Assemblyman D. +. Jones is after the
sheriffs, and the sheriffs will be after him
when they learn about the bills he is
fathering. He said one day on the floor
that the Sheriffs were legaiized robbers
and he is endeaVoring to minimize their
stealings. One of his bills reverses the
present order of things and makes it in
cumbent upon the superintendent of the
various penal and charitable institutions
to come after the people who are con-
signed to their care, instead of having
feet Of that change would be to cut out
a large part of the fees of sheriffs and
to reduce their earnings materially Not
content with that, Mr.. Jones has u sec
Ond bill which reduces their mileage from
10 cents to cents per mile, which would
hit them another blow if it should be-
come q law.
An ornament which has disappeared
from the walls OF the executive cham
Der was a design put there at the begin
ming of Gov. Upham's term. It was a
wooden copy of 4 Ratchet and a ham
nler, the handles of which were Joined
by the letters ''W. H t." For a long
time it was supposed to have some mys-
FERROUS meaning, but eventually it was
discovered that it came from a Rich
land Center woodworker and had no
particular meaning
The sheriffs will wonder what has
struck them if all the bills aimed at them
become laws. In addition to Mr.. Jones'
bills there is one to authorize them to
summon jurors By mail. which means a
loss of fees, and Mr.. Hall has a bill to
take the county jails out of their care.
which would cut off still more fees The
plan contemplated by Mr.. Halls bill is
10 have the county jails run rs the
county insane asylums are run. with
superintendent instead of the sheriffs in
charge. That would destroy Ill the
charges for board and the fees Cor lock-
ing prisoners in and taking them out. 1t
also contemplates a workhouse IN con-
nection with each jail. Several tia,aga-
tons of sheriffs have been here fighting
the measures and several more are likely
to come. Dan 3. Starkey.
H. L.. Van Sickle. prominent yu;