The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-03-10
Effort of Legislature to Avert
Criticism for Not Do
ing Business.
STATE FAIR DEMANDS ARE CUT
La Crosse Likely to Get a Normal
School-No Pensions for
Teachers.
Justices TO Judges on Capitol Com
mission Railway Hearing Rath-
err Tame-Other Matters of
General Interest.

Madison. Wis. March 1.-The as
sembly staid in town over Sunda q
that is, many of it's members did
and did business. though the senate
went home The fact is, this legisla-
ture is slow in doing business. The
leaders. however, are now worried.
and after lashing the assembly into
q Saturday session. on threat of a call
of the house-which means that the
sergeant-at-arms would have gone TO
the ends of the state to bring in mem
bers absent without leave-the DISPOSE
ton is now to take up bills and dis
pose of them. Some Of the committees
are working into the night.
Odds and Ends.
1t takes a brave man to lock horns
with the press Of the state, but DR..
Noble, of Eau Claire, did not hesitate
when he offered his bill aimed at
patent medicines. compelling publica
ton of the formula on the bottle. IN
the hearing the amazing fact was
brought out that Milwaukee Jobs
100000 annually in drugs, half 70
which are proprietary remedies. DR..
Noble offers to qualify his bill some.
though physicians insist that some
patent medicines silently kill. especial
ly when given to babies. For In
stance, some cough remedies will quiet
the cough but the opium in them is
sometimes fatal. The dairy and food
department might be able to handle
1.-THE problem in it's search for poisons.
Mr.. Emery. of that department, Is
hopeful of securing the additional help
erS his department needs to watch for
impurities.
Milwaukee Is unusually over-san-
guine as to the state fair appropria-
tons. That city will get $4,000. prob
ably not the 100000 it asks for. for
the fair: but already enough has been
Invested to put to sleep the old fear
that some interior city would get the
Iplant.
The Lacrosse men. led by popular
Senator Morris, will likely get their
There will then be a chain OF four
schools close to the Mississippi river.
And Milwaukee and Platteville will
get their new buildings: the total being
some 100000 Some of. the members
Hare frank to say that they do not be-
grudge dollar spent for education, on
the theory that if it is not thus APP
propriated. it will 60 to some less
worthy object. By the way, the terms
of number of university regents have
expired: it is not unusual. however,
for Governor LaFollette to take his
time in filling these posts.
Among the most talked Of bills that
are ''dead ones" are the teachers
lpension bill and the repeal of the five
1days' notice for marriage. Many pro
Ifessionai men do not pretend to save
lanything except their life insurance:
the pension system is hard to force or
the American people. The anti-cigar-
cite bill seems to be gaining force.
and the tobacco people are rushing
their lobbyists to the scene. Wiscon-
sin may soon be the scene of con-
stitutional convention-really a noble
experience The body sits for months.
reviews every provision Of the organic
law of the state; and the best Of it IS,
leven in these days of degenerate no-
litics. each district sends its brainieSt
and finest men to the solemn cOnclave.
The Capitol Commission.
Sentiment, for the present certainly,
looks toward a comparatively small
outlay on the capitol. And yet there is
a group of men who conceive that,
rather than spend even 100000 on
REPAIRS, it would be wiser to make Il
Istart, however small, on a new build
ing 1t may be we'll to review the his
tory of the renovation project. espe.
cially as there has been criticism Of
the members, notably the judges,
who have put in an immense amount
of hard work. and about their only re-
ward is the denunciation of those who
dc not agree with the commission. or
who perhaps do not understand how
their recommendations stand today.
The Original Task.
The commission was appointed I'M
der a law passed in response to an adj
dress TO the SONeIIO ny TIC Justices Oh
the supreme court with reference to
the needs of their department. and
that of the law library under their
charge.
The Legislature demanded that be
fore any money should be spent plan
\ should be settled upon covering all
changes that might be needed in the
future. to the extent of remOdeling the
whole capitol. if found necessary. The
bill required one of the justices to be
a member of this commission as the
work presently to be done related to
that part of the capitol occupied by
the court of library departments.
Judge Winslow was selected accord
ingly and Judge Marshall was appoint
ed according to the wish of many
members of the legislature and be-