The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-01-25
Contest for Assembly Seat.


day. One increases the bounty on a
grOwn-up wolf from Sc to $40.
(! Contest for Assembly Seat.
This afternoon began in committee
the contest over the Marathon county
seat between Afford Cook and Gilbert
Vandercook who held the seat two
years ago. Crawford Harper, a
brother of the late Sam A. Harper, is
! attorney for Mr. Cook, and Fl. w.
Cheynoweth represents Mr.. Wander
cook, both the lawyers being Madi-
son men.
Mr. Overlook. of Door county, has
bill to utterly prohibit the sale of
| moving in the same direction. 1t is
unlikely that such a sweeping bill will
pass. although the evil is very great
We have had one or two cases of
, smallpox in Madison lately and many
Of the legislators have been yaccinat-
ed, including Speaker Ray, but no one
! takes the matter seriously.
1t is customary to restrict the intro
ductlon of new business about the date
Feb. 10 or 10 Already bills are intro
duced to DO this. The custom is, how
ever, after the date fixed for the legis-
lature as a matter of courtesy to sus-
=; pend the rules and allow new bills to
be introduced, the sponsor usually say.
Ing that they are of only local import
ance and very urgent The members
do this number of times and then
some one has the nerve to call halt,
for one objection can do it.
Assemblyman SOltwedel has a bill
to establish a commission to control
accident insurance.
! Speaker Ray favors a Saturday ses-
! sion in order to hasten business. 1t
! IS not popular, except among the very
] earnest. This move is often made but
rarely comes to anything, as by the
! end OF the week members like to get
! home to their families, especially the
! Milwaukee and other members who
live near Madison. Of course, Mad
1sOn interests are in favor of a long
session with chance for the men,
! bers to disburse the $500 they received
! from the state. AS members now
must pay their railroad fare, no doubt
! they VIII work more days in the week.
! A Many-sided Liquor Bill.
A bill is to be introduced in the leg
islature which proposes an advance Of
the liquor license fee in Milwaukee
ganiZed liquor men approve it, one of
it's features being the suppression Of
liquor selling as a branch of depart
ment stores. Another feature is the
barring of free lunches. 1t remains to
be seen what the true purpose of the
bill is. Very often there is a colored
gentleman in the woodpile of measures
: of this sort.
tQmnpr1nap of
state, who employ Rev. Coleman of
Milwaukee to look after their inter
ests have issued letter to their
friends in the state approving the
measures in spots.
Bee Keeper and OtEer Meets.
| Madison is a favorite place for con-
ventions especially when the legisla-
tl1Te is in session. There is to be a
meeting OF clay workers (brick and tile
manufacturers of the state Feb. 5 and
6. This convention is being worked
! up by the geological survey The
bee-keepers hold their seventeenth an
: nual convention at the same time. e.
. D. Ochsner will tell of the exhibit at
! the coming Buffalo exhibition and
| President France will talk on Foul
Brood" against which there are state
, laws. The editor of a bee paper will
! show stereoptical views on bee mat
! tiers. In fact the editors of bee pa
pers are usually present to secure sub
scriptions. 1t may interest some to
know that they can secure 1 1-3 rates
to Madison at that time. The editors
meet here in February.
Free Exercise of Pardon Power
The report of the pardons authorized
INV ffn16 Fl,
years, while not in excess Of the rec
Ords of some past executives and less
than the number of pardons made by
others, must kindle afresh this subject
of the scope of the pardonlng power.
1t is a fair question whether the GOV
ernor of state should be authorized
to pardon a criminal, either from Wau-
pun or a county jail once every two
weeks. 1t is difficult enough to con-
yict criminals. This is shown by the
! recent futile effort to even get the
Deerfeld dame county, bank robbers
on trial. 1t is believed that these sus-
poets who were in Madison the other
day have performed seven or eight
crimes in succession in these parts.
1t is we'll known that 4 clever Chicago
; lawyer is continually engaged in de-
Tending them. There is a great deal of
crime which is never atOned for by con-
! viction and imprisonment So SOLICITORS
is the law to protect a man from in
| justice that the state must clinch the
evidence in the most conclusive fash
ion.
New Richmond Since the Cyclone.
Senator MOsher, who promises to be
one of the active figures in the upper
body, having previously done good
work in the assembly, says of his
New Richmond that the main bust
ness street is more imposing than
before the cyclone. AS there were
105 deaths and families broken up
and moved away, the population has
probably fallen off 800 or 400. The
population in 1895 was 1.6SO. But the
confidence of the people is strong in
an improved and growing community.
The cash relief gifts were about
S115.OOO. to which was added about
$4,000 more in lumber and building
material. The distribution of this was
done wisely under local commits
sion, which fact in itself inspired con-
tidence in fair dealing The prece-
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