Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-03-29
STATE MAY GIVE
$4,000 FOR STREETS
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE AGREES
ON FAVORABLE REPORT.
CONTROVERSY NEAR END
Improvement Seems Assured With AS
sistance Of Contribution for Pave
ment on the Strip Belonging to the
State-old Asphalt Appropriation
Was $4,000.
Madion. March "A.


/ The bad streets around the capito
park are TO be improved, probably by
laying macadam pavement with per
/ haps a layer OF crushed granite on
/ top; and the state is to contribute S.,
/ 600 for the purpose if a bin favorably
acted upon by the assembly commit
tee on state affairs yesterday after
noon becomes a law. The committee
| had a discussion Of t- capitol parb
pavement question. at which the diff
Guilty of the people of Madison agree
ing upon a kind Of improvement was
recited at length and ii was decided
I 10 amend the bill to reduce the
amount of the states appropriation
from $4,000 as proposed in the bill to
$4,000.
/ The capitol park pavement contro.
yersy has dragged on for years and in
the meanwhile the state capitol has
been surrounded by streets exceed
/ ingly undesirable and at times un.
slightly. Governor Scofeld removed
the old iron fence and The stone
walks from the edge of the park,
caused new cement walks to be con.
structed inside Of the fence line, re-
sulting in practically donating TO the
Madison streets a strip Of Il feet. It
is understood that this was perhaps
going beyond the authority OF the
executive, but no complete test has
ever been made Of it. -Four years
ago the legislature passed a bill ap,
! propriating $4,000 toward the i'm
iprovement of these streets. but stipu.
4 latins that an asphalt pavement must
be laid. The Madison common coun.
ell proceeded TO let contracts for the
pavement ard forthwith there devel
oped a greal controversy among the
property owners across the streets
from the capitol They objected TO
asphalt on the ground Of its cost and
for other reasons. In this opposition
the street car company joined and the
result was That when Tie council let
contracts for the work % the Conway
company Of Chicago tbr,e Injunction
sTits We're brought which effectu y,
tied up TIE work. Professor c. S
Slicbte~, through his wife brought an
inj"Gction suit i'm the circuit court. as
diG also J. II. Bowman and he street
car system brought suit in the feder-
a. court The city chose not 10 20
ahead with the law suits for various
reasons and the contractors became
apprehensive Two years ago ar at
/ tempt was made 10 get a bin through
the Legislature to allow the $4,000 10
be spent for any pavement and moi
confne it to asphalt. but it was said
that if any change was made tho
whole appropriation would be knocked
out and the Madison people back OF
the movement became inactive
Recently the council and the prop
/ erty owners agreed that something
should be done, that a common macad.
am pavement should be laid and
that an attempt should again be made
to get the Legislature to make an APP
preparation for the work or a share
of it. The senate committee on stale
affairs has passed favorab1y on cut
! ting the appropriation from $4,000 II
10000 and The assembly committee
proposes to allow no more than S.,
900 10 he appropriated. It. seems
/ that the latter amount viii be the
maximum. It is contemplated that
this sum is sufficient to pave the II
| feet belonging to the state