The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-12-28

ecutive clerk, who plans DO master
strokes in politics, but quietly saws
wood. keeping the pFocrastinating
Bob up to his dates and looking
after the loose ends. 1t viii be a strong
trio and the executive chamber Will
know what IS going Gu, not alone I'M
der the big white dome, but all over
the state,
W ranGlo LIKELY Over bills.
The coming session Will be an im-
portrait one, ana possibly sensational.
The primary election law must ne
passed in some form; and 1t must he
made clear just what is TO be the rcIa
ton between the new administration
and tie great corporations. The tax
commission Will recommend something
more ylgGlOUs in railroad taxation
which viii bring to Madison q big lob
by and high railroad officials from far
and wide The Northwestern Mutual
Life is resisting the big tax Of the last
session and already StOrming the state
with the mpIIet-pr0teStS OF vice
President MertuI and its lawyer
Judge Dyer. There is freak legislation
brewing, too. One man wants to stop
foot ball by law 4 Lacrosse lawyer
has Il bill that shuts out sick people
from matlm0ny. The corn shredder
must either go CT be made safe for
children to play with. y number Of
counties want ~ be divided, and rs enc
new enc is proposed, partly made up
OF Ashland, 70 bear the name Of La
Toilette, it VIII be q temptation to push
the thug along. Chippewa county
wants to be divided. throwing the
northern half which lies along the Es
cans.lJa-St. Paul line by itself. This,
it is said, has real merit and [ believe
the county board has formally APP
proved it. Whether Marshtield and
Grand Rapids at the extreme ends of
Wood county are still scrapping, | Go
not know.
There is the fear that the new adj
ministratiOn will stir things up and no
one knows what will happen. The
pressure for place is fearful; as Jerre
Murphy says, the worst of it is, most
Of 'em want to hang up their hats in
their new jobs Jan. I" Even the
scrub women, who get to work Oh
their hands and knees in the marble
corridors at / O'Clock in the morning,
are fearful OF losing their jobs and are
circulating papers.
BARBER. Want Protection.
The BARRIERS will work hand to have
the Minnesota law enacted here, which,
OH the plea of clean Larber shops.
forms a trust TO keep out BARRIERS
who cau not pass al examination
The plan carries an annual license fee,
and SO all BARRIERS do not like it. Ore
tells ne:
THE only need OF care is to prevent
the dirty practice Of BARRIERS putting
their hands into the same water and
cleaning customers faces with it. The
bill will make soft job for some one.
I'd like to- be the inspector"
The champion Of the organized bar
bers is Assemblyman Saltwedel Of
Milwaukee, a German born, II years
old. Since 1878 his occupation has
been that of a barber and for the past
thirteen years he has been proprietor
OF the Schlitz hotel barber shop. He
was elected assemblyman Nov. S,1S9S,
to the Wisconsin legislature, being the
first barber elected to that body III
Wisconsin. His bill passed the as
sembly in 1889, but stuck in the sem.
ate. The bill provides fer 4 board Of
three examiners (barbers), to be APP
pointed by the governor.
Each member gets s. a day. plus
mileage. All BARRIERS pay 81 year
Any person applying for examination
mrSt pay a. 50 examination fee. He
must have studied eetOnsorial art
for three years. \ penalty Of a fine
from $40 to 500, OF imprisonment
from ten to ninety days, is provided
for barbering without q certificate
for pretending to be qualified when
they are not so.
Traces Detectives to Marriage.
The editor of the ,onesville Gazette,
Mr.. Bliss, is also superintendent of the
state school for the blind. He de
sires to be heard in the matter Of
regulation of marriage with ref
erence to physical and moral health.
He notes among other things that 1.-The
state has discovered that half the pop
ulation of her penal and charitable in
situations belong to the cOngenital
class, where heredity is responsible
for The weakness of mind or defect of
body. In one Of the northern cOun-
ties, living in a house on the county
farm erected for them, is a feeble
minded father and mother and seven
sons. grown to mans estate, living out
a miserable existence. This family is
the direct product of heredity. The
schools from the dear ana Dllnd enroll
whole families of children. not unfre-
Quently half dozen or more from
single home. The Gazette has in mind
a family of nine children, five of them
the offspring of a mother who for fiji
teen years has been an inmate of the
Brown county insane asylum. Three
of these five children are blind. The
father married the second time, and
four blind children are the result of
the union"
1t must be admitted that these are
very pertinent facts.
No Knife for Railroads.
1t is not the belief in Madison that
the tax commission has any knife up
it's sleeve for the railroads. While the
method of finding the value of rail
road through its stocks and bends APP
plies to the whole system, it is not re-
garded as difficult to ascertain W.scol-
sins proportion of that total value
Under the license system the railroads
themselves do this, and their method
is examined by state experts and APP
proved. 1t is a technical calculation
of the volume of freight and paSsen-