The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-04-15
THE BILL EXPLAINED
THE SHERIDAN ROAD. AGAINST
WHICH SOME ARE KICKING.
TO BE BUILT By THE STATE.
All the Expense to ANY County Can Not
Exceed s5OO--The State Must Pay
All the Rest. Some Objections
to the Bill Answered.
TO BE BUILT By THE STATE.

to the Bill Answered.
{ Tt is very evident that there are
quite number of people in Kenosha
county who do not understand the
provisions of the Sheridan road bill.
For the benefit of those readers we
have secured a complete copy of the
bill and herewith print it. The bill as
printed here is just as it stands before
the assembly now. The provisions OF
the bill are such that when understood
should be supported by every lover Of
his home and every one who desires to
see his taxes reduced by the making of
an Improvement which will have that
direct tendency.
In the first place there is an objec
ton that in cases of damages the COM
missioners have full power and the
board of supervisors will not be con-
suited. BY reference to section 2 Of
the bill it will be found that aprovision
is made that in case any damages are
awarded to any person by the commits
Isioners for the laying out Of the road
for property used the commissioners
will have to file their report with the
county board for the board to do with
as it sees fit.
Another objection seems to be that
the commissioners can feather their
pockets at The expense CT the county's
taxpayers. By reference to the bill it
will again be seen that the commits
sioners do not get a cent for their la
Dor, and they are allowed to hire only
the necessary help to assist the sur
veyor in making a proper survey for
the proposed road. The labOrers so
employed are to lie paid $3.50 per day
of actual service and the surveyor is to
get So per day Then it will be no
ticed that the entire expense of the
| laying out of the road shall not exceed
i $500 in any one county. That will be
the entire expense to which the county
could be put for any portion of the
road, and the amount OF taxable prop
erty the road would add to the assess
ment rolls would more than pay this
back within q very short time, SO that
every taxpayer in the county would be
a direct beneficiary of the road.
Still another objection is that the
road will be reserved for a boulevard or
drive way for carriages only. The
reading Of the dill shows no snch provi-
sion The road will be a state road
which can be used by every farmer for
drawing his grain or for any other like
purpose. This talk of reserving it for
a carriage drive is all rot.
Then the readers attention is called
to the further fact that after the road
has been laid out it comes under the
law governing the working Of the pub
lie highways. Therefore the readers
will notice that no harm is either in
tended or done q single taxpayer in |
either Kenosha county or any other
county, as he will not be called on for
matchmaking the Sheridan road I
That will come out of the state andnOt |
out Of the counties. The $500 men |
toned above is all that it can cost each |
county, and that will be simply in the
nature Of an advance to the state.
A representative of this paper re-
Gently interviewed Senator Timme with |
reference to- this bill. Tt bears the
senator's name, and very naturally he
is proud of the bill, as every resident of
Kenosha county should be- he said
he was anxious to have the road estab-
lished since it will be the first state
road ever established by the legisla-
/ ture. 1t is the initial move, the begin
ming of a system of state roads which
are to be a network over all of southern
Wisconsin. He stated that there was
no question but that in the near future
the prisoners la the state prison, che
county jails, warehouses and houses bfI
correction, including all the temps Of
i Wisconsin, would soon be utilized ID
| the construction Of state roads. The
| Sheridan road, being the first on the
list, would receive the first benefit of
this vast amount of free labor.
The plan as contemplated is to build
this road to Milwaukee, thence to
! Green Bay; then on from Kenosha to
Lake Geneva; from Racine to James
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Lake Geneva to Madison. and from
Madison to La Crosse. Any person
consulting the map will see at a glance
what a benefit it would be to the
southern part of the state. Having the
material on the ground and vast
amount Of labor at the disposal of the
state for this purpose the plan as above
described would be accomplished ID a
very Jew years.
tell you, remarked the senator in
closing the interview, " the roads of
Wisconsin are the worst Of any state IN