Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-09-01
THE BADGER BUDGET.
II Costs About 100000 a
Year to Run the State.
RAILROADS PAY IN $3.50, 900.

to Tax Them H1ghef-Ihe lreasurys
Big Vaults - The Office staff - Some
doodle Book" AftergIow-Checks ioE
| Over $2OO,OOO-A Milwaukee Bank
Qualified to Carry on Deposit 100000
| of State Funds.
| Madison Wis, Aug. 20.-Most OF the
| departments in the state capital close
| their doors at 4 =. m. Not SO with the
treasury department, After o'clock
you can only get in by pounding on the
door and unless you have business
there, not then. 1t is bank, as well
| as q department OF record.
| There are two huge vaults made fire
proof and burglarproof. Once year
an expert comes from Cincinnati to
clean the mechanism. With the deli
cate wheels and spirals and glistening
steel bits about him on table, one is
reminded of the Elgin watch factory.
| And as you see the ponderous bolts and
massive steel doors, you can almost
| imagine yourself at some ship yard at
! the building Of Il second Maine" These
vaults open at O'Clock in the morning
| and not before. The time-lock Is so
| set Should "a clerk or visitor chance
| to be inside when the ponderous doors
are shut and the clock work springs the
| bolts to with Il noise like the report of
gun, he could not be released until
| the next day, unless an expert was
| rushed by special train from Milwaukee
or Chicago to break into the safe. And
| even then the imprisoned person would
| be dead-stinled.
| The head Of the treasury department
| Is Sewall A. Peterson. He Is Nor
| wegian- American, a merchant OF Rice
Lake. His salary is $4,000 q year The
| preCcndcnt has sprung up, apparently,
| Of assigning this place to sons of Nor
| way. ON the Republican ticket Day
| idson, the present Republican aspirant,
| is one of them-also II merchant of
| Crawford county The assistant treas"
urer is Charles M. Don of Madison.
| Among the staff are +. II. Swift of
| Treasurer Pcterson's toWn-an editor
and an old soldier, and Henry Sanford
of Manitowoc, also an editor and SOL
| der.
Governor FaIrhiIds Patriotic Father.
The treasury department dates, Of
| course, from the beginning of the gov
crnment--1S4S. The first treasurer WAS
.Jarius Fairchild, whose son Lucius aft
erwards served us governor for sin
years.
was looking at the Fairchild lot
| I'm the Madison cemetery the other day.
| The center monument IN the lot Is one
| OF those old fashioned dumb brown
shafts, neither big nor handsome. On
| 1t Is this impressive sentence:
.'''''.''.'.,'''' ''''''''''; .''''''s
| lie Gave His Sons to His Country.
A simple stone marks the resting
| place of the governor. There were
| three sons Of Jairus, one (Cassius) died
| for his country. The third served in
| the navy. lie is n Boston financial man
| and his soma Harvard boy--is on the
"Yanllec" gunboat, and saw Spaniards
| with their war paint ON. LuCius Fair
| child got his start in politics by being
nominated with n "hurrah" for secre-
| tary of state because he lost his arm
| ut Gettysburg. He was lying in his
| wounded condition at home when the
| glad surprise was told him We have
u similar situation at Madison now. A
| lot of young lawyers are out for dis
| trict attorney, the position in which II.
| NJ LaFollette began his career The
salary ia $1,000. The leading candidate
| is Stanley Hanks, a very bright young
man, university trained. But "A Madi
son youth, DudEcon by name, has cut
a crcditable figure at Camp cuba Libre.
He has been useful and unsclnsh in
caring for the sick And his friends
hope to rush him into the nomination
| and office to pay for 1t, We shall see.
The "Nenl Dow" of the West.
Sam n. Hastings, of Trempealeau. now
| the Meal Dow" OF the west. He served
| from 1853 to 1866 aud did splendid serv-
ice as II nnaucier during the war. He
is now ndrm and living with his son at
| Green hay, And Ivy the way | have
reason to know that the iudgeship re-
Gently accepted 10y Harden of Wausau.
| was offered to the son, as II had been
| before in Ipham's time This time.
after careful dclheration, MIR. Hast
| ings decided to accept, But II was too
| late. The Wausau mans acceptance
ante-dated the Green BAY decision by
Il few hours. But Hastings Of Green
! Bay can be Il supreme court judge al
| most any time there is Il vacancy.
| And vacancies occurr often, for judges
are apt to he advanced IN years.
| Henry Bats, one of the treasurera
| whose earnings were wiped out Ivy the
| decision In the treasury cases. is now
| an cmployc in an important position
| In the great pahst brewery.
Salaries or state officials are paid by
check where nonresident In the case
OF normal school teachers the amount
| Is reunited to the local regent, EN-
| ploycs of the state institutions receive
| their checks by letter Capital em-
ployes are paid in cash, If they 80 de-
| sire.
Doodle Book" Gossip.
The Democrats propose to make Il
good deal of the doodle book issue
during this campaign, but about the
| capitol there is II disposition to take the
matter lightly and the employees prefer
not to talk obut IT. The veteran state
employee is maimed soldier Fores-
man. In the land office. barring the
Peck regine he has been in the service
! of the state for thirty -uine years. and
he mairtatrs that not only has the
| practice Of advancing money on salary
| ha1 d