Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-06-05
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cleaned up and reprinted and the diff
ferent rooms provided with proper
windows and oyerhauled generally.
THE section connecting the south
wing with the dome will furnish a lot
Of room for a little money. 1t can be
reno 1eled so as to make about Is
good rooms on the three floors besides
the basement and the attic rooms.
This can be done with stairs around
the dome and attic work for about
$4,000, using such portions of the
building as are safe and durable and
when completed will last as long as
the other parts of the building. This
reduces the proposition down to the
building of two wings ON the present
capitol. With a plan adopted and Sc
cured by a new contest for capitol
plans we will have a fixed rule to go
by when we build new additions.
Forty Cents a Cubic Foot.
'"The west wing can be built as pro-
ment fer less than forty cents per
CUBIC foot. In former proposition l
estimated that the wing should be 1902
by 125 feet This size on the ground
would provide ample rooms and Offices
for the departments of state, but the
committee on claims desires me to
consent to an increase in size to 1873
by $50 feet.
1.-THE senate wing can be smaller
than the assembly wing when built
and save the people unnecessary ex-
pense. In my argument before the
committee ON capitol and grounds
asked for an appropriation of 100000
outside of the money now in the treas
ury. The committee on claims asked
me il | would consent to- $450,O0O and
said yes.
Protection Against "Graft."
''By this appropriation the taxpay-
ers of the state will be protected
against graft and the plans for a
mRdeled capitol will have been fixed by
stsltutoIy law which no future legis-
lature can well disregard. From these
different points you will see that care
has been exercised by the opposition
to large and new capitol graft prop
osition presented to- the legislature in
the beginning of the session and that
by faithful work the best interests of
the taxpayers has been preserved and
a happy solution of the question will
be brought about by the passage of
this bill with few amendments"
No Capitol Referendum.
There will be no referendum of the
question of location of the seat of gov
eminent as proposed by Senator Stew
ems, his bill being reconsidered and in
definitely postponed. This bill was
once passed, but was recalled from the
assembly and held upon the senate cal
endar on a motion to reconsider. In
view of the settlement of the capitol
building question the senate believed
that it was useless to submit the ques-
ton of removal The vote on recon
sideration was as follows:
For reconsideration Frear,
Hatten, Hudnall, Kreutzer, Martin, Nc
Gillivray, Morris, Munson, Noble,
Rogers. Rummel, SanbOrn, Stondall,
Stout, Whitehead, Wipperman, Wolf,
Wylie-19.
Opposed-Beach, Froemming, John
son, North, Randolph, Roehr, Smith,
Stevens, Wilcox and Wright-10.
Reconsiderations.
The vote by which the Bashford,
Barnes attorneys fee bill was indefi-
nitely postponed was recOnsidered,
Senator Frear offered substitute Civ
ing the proper officers the power to
pay for the attorneys as though their
appointments had been filed at the
time of the factional litigation and the
bill was laid over.
The vote by which the Stout Gotten
berg liquor dispensary bill was killed
was Teconsidered. Senator Stout OF.
fered an amendment designed to re-
move opposition to the bill by declar-
ing that local brewers be favored by
the corporations to which the contracts
were awarded, and the bill was laid
over. ,xf3n