Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-04-17

they are very confident that the peo-
| pie would approve the bill at the polls
! The oth=- side does not think so, how
ever. Public sentiment is becoming
| informed and no one can tell what
night be the verdict after the state
| had discussed the matter few
months longer
fractional Fight On.
Looking at it politically, the fall
ure to settle the issue at this session
necessarily means a hard fractional
| fight until the elections of 1902, when
| not only the governor comes up for re-
election, but legislature Is to be
| chosen which will both have nomina-
/ ton reform. on its hands and also the
| election of a United States senator.
| With the rest of the country trying
to secure John G. Spooner as a presi-
| dental candidate. II seems absurd that
| his own state should be lashing itself
! into a fever which may even involve
| his return to the senate. Governor
| LaFollettte is quoted as freely say
| ing he has no designs on any honor
| except reelection. AS for Senator
| Spooner, his friends are insistent that
he must continue to represent the
| state In the senate, whether he wants
| to or not.
Surprise in Railroad Taxation.
! What is really the most important
/ event of this session is the report Of
| the tax commissions bill, 165a. I'M
| favorably by the assembly committee.
| The bill provides for an increase Of
| some 5000, 900. The three members of
| the committee who favor the bill are:
| Hall of Dunn county. Stevens of Madi-
| son. and Frost Of Stevens Point. The
| four members who voted against 1t in
| committee are: McCabe and Zinn Of
| Milwaukee, Lane Of Phillips, and
| Brunson of Fennimore,
| The report came as a surprise for
| the tax commission was supposed to
| lend such weight to the measures it
renorts as a result of it's skilled re
searches as to insure passage. The
| bill increases the tax rates for the big
roads from to 51s per cent. A dupli-
| cate bill is in the senate committee.
Mr.. Hall is greatly disappointed at
| the action Of the committee. The OPP
ponents of increased railroad taxa
| ton take the general ground that rail-
| roads are paying enough taxes now;
| especially point to the discrepancy as
| to personal property in the state es-
Gaping taxation, reported by the gov
| ernor's message and by the tax com
| mission. The Milwaukee Sentinel and
| Milwaukee Journal are hat-fo0ted
against any Increased taxation of this
| sort. There Is another bill from the
tax commission proposing railroad tax
| alton on an ad yalorem basis Gas with
other property, but II the license sys.
TEN increase will not be accepted by
the legislature, ii Is unlikely a radical
change of system win be adopted.
No one knows yet how strenuous Gov
ernor LaFollette win be in this matter
OF corporate taxation.
Another Railroad Triumph.
Mr. Halls railroad commission bill
was killed by IA to "a In the assem-
bly,, but this, of course, is no test of
the railroad sentiment. The opposi-
ton of manufacturers of the state to q
railroad commission was practically
final.
Another matter along this line was
the ordering to third reading by the as
sembly of q bill that exeupts notaries
public from the operation of the anti
pass law. 1t seems that especially
| in the smaller communities notaries
public are often men OF sufficient in
fluence for one reason and another to
entitle them to free passes on rail
roads and when the law went into eff
feet many designations came to the
governors office, men preferring to
ride free-transferr. their commits
sions as notaries to friends and in
some cases to their wives. The fight
ON this matter viii be renewed.
Dark Outlook for osteopaths.
The osteopaths bid fair to lose their
| fight which has been remarkably able
In view of the fact that there are less
than forty physicians of this school
| In the state. What they want is a
| special state board, to examine and ap-
prove osteopaths in medical practice.
| What the regular doctors want Is to
have osteopaths examined by the pres
ent state board as doctors Of all 9TH
er schools are examined. So in gen.
eral bin affecting the present state
board a paragraph was inserted regu-
lating the examination OF osteopaths
by this board. The crisis came in the
assembly on the motion to strike out
this paragraph and thus open the way
for the osteopaths' bill setting up q
special examining board. The motion
was lost--53 to 80.
The regulars say that de-
cry school should have
training. To allow ostt
mp a SPECIAL and lower s,
be TO open the door to ha
tors from many states
Not all men feel alike
the bin taxing ice cut In
and shipped out of the state
would not have passed the ass ably
as it did, by a vote of 81 to 10. On the
face Of II ii would seem TO be uncon-
titutional--interfere with inter
state commerce; but Mr.. Lenroot took
the ground that IT was not a matter
OF commerce, but OF the right of a
state to sell Its right Ito cut icel to
whom Ii pleased. 1t seems the Knick.
erbocker Ice company cuts on many
of our lakes to ship to Chicago an
elsewhere and local lee men do not
like 1t, Some said that the Knicker-
booker Ice company would not pay the
tax, but transfer their business to 9TH
er states and so stop spending money
here for wages. etc. At all events, II
is IA popular bill with the legislators.
Two marriage bills met quick
deaths as soon as the assembly could
vote on them one by vote OF 49, TO
80. preventing marriages of whites
and blacks, and another vote killing
the bin to allow divorce after five
years of insanity.
ORLANDO BURNETT.
Wanted. more old gold and silver a
JOSEPH BoEHRER' S.
DIR. r. W. Baldwin, Dentist il nov