Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-09-07
lin BADGER BUDGET.
|; Costs About S4,OOo,OuO a
Year 10 Run the State.
RAILROADS PAY IN 1880, 900.

RAILROADS PAY IN 1880, 900.
Insurance Companies sl3OO0O-A plan
to Tax Them Higher-The Treasures
Ms vaults - The Office staff Some
"Doodie-Book" AffergIow-Checks for
over $200,OOO-A Milwaukee Rank
Qualified To Garry on Deposit $500, 900
of state Funds.
Madison. Wis.,, Aug, So,-Most of the
departments in the state capital close
snelf doors at r. m. Not so with the
treasury department. After o'clock
yoa cen only get Ia by pounding on the
aoor, and unless you have business
thefe, not then 1t is bank. as well
as department of record.
shere are two huge vaults made fire
proof and burglar-proof. Once year
an expert comes from Cincinnati to
c!ean the mechanism. With the deli
cate wheels and spifals and glistening
stee! bits aoout him ON a table, one is
reminded of the Elgin watch factory.
Ana as you see the ponderous bolts and
| massive steel doors, you can almost
imagine yourself at some sh,p yard at
the building OF a second Maine" These
vaults open at 3 O'clock in the morning
| ana not betOfe. The time-lock is so
set. should clerk or visitor chance
| TO oe inside when the ponderous doors
! are smut and the clock work springs the
| DOTS To with noise like the report of
| a gun. he could not be released until
the next cay, 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 d-stifled
The head of the treasury department
| Is Sewall A. Peterson. He is a Nor
| weglan-Ameflcan, a merchant of Rice
Lake His salary is 1000 a year. The
precendent has sprung up, apparently
OF assigning this place to sons of Nor
| way On the Republican ticket DavA
ldson, the present Republican aspirant
is one of them-also merchant of
crawford county. The assistant treas
urer is Charles NJ. Don of Madison.
Among the staff are l.. II. Swift of
Treasurer Petersoh's town-an editor
ano an old soldier. and Henry Sanford
OF MahitoWoc, also an editor and SOL
| der,
Governor FairchiId's Patriotic Father.
The treasury department dates, OF
course, from the beginning of the gov
ernment-1S4S. The first treasurer was
Jarius Fairchild, whose son Lucius, aft
| erwards served as governor for six
years
l was looking at the Fairchild lot
| in the Madison cemetery the other day
The center monument In the lot is one
of those old-fashioned duh brown
shafts. neither big nor handsome. On
il is this impressive sentence:
$3.50 .''....''.'.
He Gave His Sons to His Country.
80. N'...-.... NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS."
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. He is a Boston financial man
and his SOFIA Harvard boy-is on the
Yankee" gunbOat, and saw Spaniards
with their war paint on. Lucius Fair
child got his start in politics by being
nominated with "hurrah" for secre-
t6ry of state because he lost his arm
at Gettysburg. He was lying in his
wounded condition at home when the
glad surprise was told him. We have
similar situation at Madison now.
let of young lawyers are "out" for dis
t!ict attorney. the position in which II.
VI. IaFollette began his career. The
salary is $1,000 The leading candidate
Is Stanley Hanks, very bright young
man, university-traihed. But a Mad-
son youth, Dudgeon by name, has cut
cr"ditable figure at Camp Cuba Libre.
He has been useful and unselfsh in
caring for the sick. Arid his friends
hope to rush him into the nomination
and Office to pay for it. We shall see.
The "Neal Dow" OF the West
The longest-termed treasurer was
SayT d. Hastings. of Trempealeau. now
tie Neal Dow" OF the west. He served
from 1858 to 1866 aud did splendid serv-
ice SIS a financier during the war. He
! is now infirm and living with his son at
Green Bay And by the way. | have
reason to know that the judgeship re-
Gently accepted by Bardeen of Wausau,
was offered to the son, Hs 1t had been
| before in Uphams time. This time.
after careful deliberation, Mr.. Hast
| ngs decided to accept. But it was too
| late. The Wausau mans acceptance
ante~dated the Green Bay decision by
few hours. But Hastings of Green
Bay can be a supreme court judge al
most any time there is q vacancy.
And vacancies occurr often, for judges
are apt to be advanced in years.
Henry Bats, one of the treasurers
whose earnings were wiped out by the
decision in the treasury cases, is now
an employe in an important position
In the great Pabst brewery.
Salaries of state officials are paio by
check where nonresident. In the case
| of normal school teachers the amount
| is RENTED to the local regent, EN-
pluyes of the state institutions receive
| their checks by letter. Capital en-
| ployes are paid in cash, if they so de-
| sire
| doodle Book Gossip.
The Democrats propose to make a
| good deal of the doodle book issue
| during this campaign, but about the
| capitol there is a disposition to take the
| matter lightly and the employees prefer
| not to talk obut it. The veteran state
employee is a manned soldier, Fores-
man, In the land office. Barring the
| Peck regime he has been in the service
| Of the state for thirty-nne years. and
| he maintains that not only has the
| practice of advancing money on salary
| been hab.tual during this long period,
| but the very expression Doodle book"
| Is ancient. Employees who served about
| 1888 are confident that the word was
| then a well understood term. 1t ap-
| pears that state officials and bonds