Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-02-10


I;he State board Of control will ask
the Legislature for appropriations
amounting TO $1.0S3 900 to pay the run
ming expenses of the State institutions
during the next two years and will also
ask for extraordinary appropriations
amounting tC $2SS0o0 10 make the need
ed Improvements in State institutions.
The total amount asked for each of the
institutions in the way of extraordinary
appropriations is:
State hospital. Mendoza $ 1900
Northern Hospital Tor Insane. osh-
kosh .......j . 100 eaO
School fos the Dea1, Delayan. ECO
School for the Blind GAINESVILLE $500
Industrial School fer Boys Wauke-
snA ,..',; .....,...'r .r.-,.'. l2,SO0
State Prison Waupdh ,.-.u,...... 6,0U0
State Public school, Sparta ........ 1900
The amount whicE will be asked 10 pay
the expenses of tile institutions for the
next two years viii be as follows;
Home for the Feeble Minded Chip
pewa Eaiis 1888. -........... $3.50
State Hospital, Mendota .........$ 10000
Northern Hospital, Oshkosh. ..... 2SS,000
School for the Deaf, Delavan. $4,000
School for the Bllnf, GAINESVILLE. 1880
INDUSTRIAL School for Boys. Wan
kesha ...........s. 10000
State Prison. waupun ........... 100000
State School, Sparta ...,......., 5000
Home FOR the Feeble Minded,
chippewa Falls .,;.....;,,;. 10000
State Reformatory, Green Bay, 10000
Totni ....... ............S1,4 AGA. 500
Less estimated revenues ........ 1880
Actual amount asked to be APP
prGplfated ......-. ......s.... 81 033, 600
Two years ago the board had.a surplus
of SAT 900. 1t kept its appropriations
down "a bedrock at that time, but il re
ceived 1891 900, while in 1899 the Gppro-
priations for the State institutions
amounted to SS95i000 The increase in
the appropriations this year is due to the
contemplated increase in the number of
inmates Of the hoLle for the feeble mind
ed and The reformatory. The increase in
those institutions during the next year
is estimated at 40l
Municipalities 'Shich issue bonds win
be interested in the bill presented in the
Assembly by Mr.. Frear relating TO the
refundiug of municipal debts. The bill
is the result of litigation that went to
the Supreme Court from St. Croix
County aud is intended to empower the
County Board of st. Croix to make pro-
vision either for issuing a new bond Sc
ries to cover an indebtedness of $l25, 900,
of which $4,000 is held by the North
western Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany of Milwaukee. Through an error
in the enabling act the court held the ST.
Croix County Beard has not made pro-
per provision for the collection of a di-
rect tax 10 pay the interest on the bonds
which were sold to provide for the build
ing of the court house The bonds held
by the Milwaukee company were not in
cluded in the suit, but they are Indirect
ly affected by il, it is claimed. Mr.. Frear
said he rs district attorney of st. CroiX
County should make the interest pay
ments, even though it might possibly be
avoided on technical grounds. AT any
rate the county had received the money
and could be held for it. and for that roa-
son he assisted no attempt should be made
to escape the legal responsibility The
passage Of the measGre will make it pos
sible for municipalities to issue refunding
bonds wherever there has been any mis-
take in the proceedings relating to bond
issues.
$50
Chief Clerk Marsh Of the Assembly
had a trying time in making mp his list
of assistants He received 125 applica-
tions for positions and inasmuch as each
applicant had some political worker be-
hind him or her it kept Mr.. Marsh busy
| trying 30 devise ways and means to sat
| isfy everyone. Newspaper men are
greatly in evidence 10 the list. Mr.. Marsh
| is an editor. Index Clerk Liecht is edi-
tor of the New Lisbon Times; Journal
Clerk Powell is connected with the Mil
waukee Free Press, while A. w. Pott
! is editor of the Sheboygan Daily Zeitung.
G.. e. Shaffer, who is general clerk, gets
place because of the efficient manner in
which he discharged the duties of the
office for the past two sessions Mrs.
Strong, who is appointed typewriter in
| the engrossing room, is daughter of
| Theron W. Haight of Waukesha. Olive
McGee of Milwaukee, one of the stem
ographers, is a daughter of g. w. Nc
Gee, a wel-known Whitehsh Bay noli-
| tician. Miss McGee for a number of
years was one of the stenographers in
the county clerks Office in Milwaukee.
| o. W. Rhodes of Omro, who is the en-
rolling copyist, is an attorney and IN
surance man of that place.
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Secretary Hutching of the free library
| commission has interested many Of the
members of both houses in Senator
| Stout's measure which asks that provis-
| ion be made for an annual appropriation
of $4,000. The travelling library viii
be benefited thereby for it viii be posi-
BILE to greatly enlarge the scope of the
commissions work. At the present time
the commission is occupying temporary
quarters In the capitol. 1t is the purpose
Of the bill to provide it with permanent
quarters and to relieve the members Of
the necessity of begging. All of the
books have been purchased by voluntary
contributions. 1T has been beg. beg,
| beg" said the secretary in talking Of
the matter. until we have about ex-
hausted our resources" The members
who have been investigating the free IL
brary commission were astounded upon
learning of the good it has been accom-
plishing. There are many who know Of
the working Of the commission in their