The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-06


vides in towns where twenty taxpayers
sign petition an election may be held
to decide whether or not 1 500-pound
wagons shall have three-inch tires.
1t is not improbable. that an effort will
be made in the assembly on Wednesday
to have the report of the committee on
privileges and elections on the Cook
Vandercook contest refferred back to
the committee. The friends, of Gilbert e.
Vardercook will INSIST THAT they be given
more details about tfe evidence than
WAS submitted to theC committee and
that the present report is not complete
The committee held meeting this even
ing and the contest was informally els
cussed, but no action Vas taken.
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County boards are lihJ danger of COM
ing into disrepute by reason of the fire.
quency and trivialty of their appeals to
the legislature County government as
we have it in Wisconsin is only fairly
well approved, and there are those who
maintain that some of the eagerness for
municipal reform might well be diverted
to the improvement of the work done by
county boards of supervisors Certa nIv
these boards do not occupy such a posi-
ton of nom partisan prestige as to make
their resolutions on the primary election
law and other public measures of tre-
mendous Importance. The Dane county
board the other day asked the Legislature
to take the Office of district attorney cut
of the hands of the people and to allow
tie county boards to name this official
This runs into the face of the state con-
s-itution, besides on the face of it MAX
ine the office plum to be scrambled for
in the midst of body of influential men
in every town. to whom certainly the
prosecuting officer should not be under
obligations.
The vote in the assembly last week on
the resolution for the submission to a
vote of the people for the constitutional
amendment prohibiting the use of free
passes by officeholders shows the reluct-
ance of few members to give up these
valuable perquisites. Public opinion, how
ever on the question has been so IN
mistakably expressed, and both Republic
an and Democratic state conventions
have made such plain pledges for the
discontinuance of what had become a
great abuse and scandal that we do not
think there is any doubt as to the pas
sage of the amendment which must be
adopted by the present legislature before
it is submitted to a vote of the people
The large Republican majority in the
two houses will not wish to invite the
contempt of public opinion and in the
face of the most explicit party pledges,
W
the last legislature and which the peo-
pie look upon as settled for all time The
vote by which the assembly has ordered
the resolution to a third freading is an
assurance that the legislature will take
no backward step. 64r
Prof Kehl. of Madison (who is state
supervisor of the daneingnmast says
that bill is being formulated, REIN
forced by the best men1in the profession,
| providing for an examination and regis
tration OF those who desire to teach the
art. This is a novel proposition. which
must attract wide attention. Only re-
Gently fakir enrolledftwenty young peo-
| pie of Mineral Point, COLLECTED $125. gave
one lesson and has not been seen since.
| He was under engagement at Platteville,
Lancaster and Cuba City and 1t is esti-
mated that he got away with an aggre-
gate of $500 or $500 from the different
| places ait!Ef.