Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-02-06

than lhe thought that these detectives
and dependents may be suffering cru
city or even violence. The long days
and nights when officers and inmates
must live together, in a crowded, te-
dious life afford opportunities for tho
exercise of temper, oppression and --
other vices of Uncontrolled human IL l.
ture. The protection against this sor
of thing is the character and quality
of the superintendent, whatever insti-
tuition II may be. Some of our state
institutions are better than others-as
a whole the standard is high. Men Like
Wilmarth of the feebleminded school;
Gordon of the Oshkosh Insane: Nc
Claughrey of WaHpun; Merica of the
Waukesha reformatory and others
that might be named are the fruits
of public sentiment in Wisconsin de-
manding the best things in the way Of
the care OF tie 5000 unfortunate
charges Of the state.
shall U. $. or the State DO 1t.
There is some difference of opirion
as to the bill In congress for the adj
justment of the swamp land claims of
Wisconsin against the general gov
eminent. The bill covers the state in
demnity from over 100000 acres of
swamp lands for the benefit of the
state school funds and would quiet
the titles of great many lands now
occupied by settlers. Editor Peet of
GTantsburg has made warm fight
against it and Senator Mills of Supe-
rior takes the same ground that to
transfer these lands of the government
TO the state would result in raising
their price from the government price
to So an acre, and it was his belief
that the state would profit by allow
ing the lands to be settled under the
rules of the general government.
AS 3 matter Of fact, Ii the state
wished to dispose of the grants TO the
settlers as cheaply as the federal gov
eminent has done this policy could
be enacted. The senate favors what
is going on in Washington and the
resolution upholding the effort to have
tie lands released to Wisconsin was
passed by % to A.
shall a Big County BE Divided.
Not everybody is in favor of the
division of Chippewa county. A Chip
pewa Falls paper reminds the legisla-
ture that the county already has a
complete set of buildings and especial
~ enjoys low taxes. 1t says if new
county is set up al 1ug the Omaha road
Il people must build a court house
WI n. with roads, bridges and run
min expenses, would make the tax
pay : smart. Against the petty 49,
600 WITCH the northern end of the
eoun paid last year for county ex-
mrs xx~sStt1l con nnn 70 er4a v-f
the lew county government. As al
ways II is charged tnat the agitation
comes from a few who hope to get Of
fee. However, the petitions which
the stature is receiving to divide
this 4. county are making a profound
nj sion.
Bigger Pay for Judges.
Senator Kreutzer has a bin to In
crease the compensation of the judic-
larry. The proposal is TO advance cir
cult judges from $1,000 TO $1,000 a
year and supreme court justices from
5000 to $1,000. The refusal of judi
cial h0nOrs by a number of lawyers of
high rank of late years and the con-
slant sense of irrttati IN from which
all judges must at times suffer by
reason of the disproportion between
what they receive as judges and what
they might be earning as lawyers,
commends this proposal of Increase.
Circuit judges now receive $400 adj
ditional for expenses, so their pay may
be called S4,oOo. 1t Is said the SUI
preme court judges case is the most
urgent. Number of Milwaukee law
years have incomes of from $4,000 TO
$4,000.
Legislation of Technical Kind.
One of the. most difficult forms of
taxation for the legislature to deal
with is thar of shipping. logging
bOons and the like, technical matters
as to which the members OF the south
ern part of the state know little or
nothing. For instance, Senator Mills
has introduced n resolution which
notes thar of the S1.S00 which was
paid last year In license fees into the
state treasury by boom companies.
81 900 was paid from Douglas coun-
ty.
To Wipe Out Delavau School.
President X. c. Spencer Of Milwau.
kee has measures before the legisla-
ture, one of which, If enacted, would
prove most radical. One proposes
salaried inspector Of the eighteen day
schools for the deaf, located in vari-
Gus cities. Inspector Parker of the
high school Is qroted as regarding
these schools from a pedagogical
standpoint as the most perfect schools
in the state. There is no doubt they
are doing good work
Another bill proposes to abolish the
Delavan school Cor the deaf and dumb.
or rather turn il into an institution for
the instructing OF public school teach
ers in manual training and elemen-
tary agriculture, though the door is
left open to use the plant for such
other educational uses as the normal
school regents may direct. Spencer Is
a blunt man. and is frankly working
90 suppress Institutional teaching of
the deaf and dumb.
No school of Mines.
There has been some talk OF
school of mines as department Of the
state university. | notice that Re
gent Merrill of Ashland. who is famf
lar with mining, takes the ground
that the university has It's hands fun
In caring for agricultural stud Is. he
regarding that industry as more i'm
portant to Wisconsin than mining, and
in building up the new college of COM
merce. There is a school of mines In
Houghton in the northern peninsula,
and no doubt Wisconsin students who
wish 10 study mining can get what
they want there.
ORLANDO BURNETT.
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First publication January 23-5
NOGice OF Pnbttcaaton.
LAND OFFICE AT EAU CLAIRE, Wis