Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-18

mons, because, as explained by the board
OF contSS@l !? the committee g. c!lai,ns.
epileptics eat no meat ana also be,.5as,ss
sleg 10 a great deal of worn which the
4I"i OF oihd or insane cannot do and
nien t9e authorities would not allow
the inmates At tie State prison 10 do.
me board insisted THAI investment in
farm lands adjeining the State institu-
lions at which produce could be raised
Tor the institutions would be wise bust
ness policy The great factor in farm
work IS the engaging of labor said Mr..
huestermap, land when the State has
al the labor it wants for nothing. it is
foolish to pay big prices for farm pro
duc6 when little expenditure would
bring it to them for nothing"
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They are telling a story on Henry
Hagemeister, the jovial Senator from
Green Bay. who is as big around as he
Is tall and then some GA his way
home last week he rode part of tile way
IN the fish ear in which The tish and
game committee was making rheir an
nual tour of inspection. The train came
TO bridge over stream which had
been swollen by the sudden thaw and
stopped before crossing and thea slowly
pulled over the trestle. \ moment later
Mr. Hagemeister went into forward
coach and the other members united i'm
declaring that the conductor had made
the Senator get out of the car and walk
across the bridge to prevent n wreck
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\ local photographer has framed up a
group of individual photographs of
members of the Assembly and is canvass
ing for orders, 1t is generally agreed
that Ms Carpenter Is the handsomest
man in the bunch and Mr., Lcdyina the
, Most intellectual looking. Mr.. Aidridge,
they say, looks like an actor and Rev,
Mr. Thayer-surprising as il may SEEM
resembles prize fighter. MessrS. Sau-
gen and Curtis have the most natural
expressions and Mr.. Hartung has an
expression as if some one said freight
rate bill TO him just before the camera
was snapped. He has superciious.
Disguised expression,
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! In view of the fact that this State has
peS2 asked to Teturn one N the battle
flags to Alabama, where it was original
ly owned, some of the G.. ~ r. have
been trying to find out whether any Wis
consin flags have ever been returned
from the South since the war They
discover that the col0rs captured from
the Nineteenth Wisconsin at Gold Har-
Dor, which were later taken to Rich
mOnd and given by jefferson Davis to 4
young officer who later became n judge
in New Orleans, was returned to Wis
consin through Mr., Bloodgood of Mil
waukee some years ago.
The committee on claims to which all
appropriation bills must be referred has
between $S,00000O and $90O0,OO0 of as
sets in sight, exclusive of the three-quar-
tiers of a million secured from the war
claims against the federal government,
and appropriation bills have been intro
duced, not counting duplicates, amount
ing to 81 100000 more than the total
assets, exclusive of the fund for the new
capitol or repairs for the old capitol.
This means that there will be a pairing
down of the appropriations 10 or II per
cent or that State tax win be levied
to make up Il deficit.
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Assemblyman Evans. who introduced
the anti-cigarette bill, says that he did
50 at the request of the tobacco mer-
chants and cigar storekeeperS of his dis.
trict. They don't want little yellow
fingered, dirty-faced kids hanging about
their places of business" he said, las
they keep away adult trade who would
spend more money. But if they keep
cigarettes, they have to allow the boys
to lounge around their stores. 1t is the
tobacco men themselves who wanted the
bill passed
The resolution INTRODUCED some weeks
ago by Senator johnson. challenging tha
Governors figures in regard TO compara-
tive railroad rates in Wisconsin and
Iowa. which was amended so that a
committee. consisting Of Senators Hatten,
Frcar and johnson, should make an in
vestigation of the figures, has died aborn-
ing. The resolution caused quite a stir
at the time, but has petered completely
out. 1T is still in statu quo,' said SEN
ator Frear, smiling placidly.
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"This is certainly one Of the quickest
talking body of men | ever knew" OBJ
served Pliny Norcross in the course of a
speech recently. In my experience with
Legislatures on two former occasions, |
never knew men who knew their minds
so well~as the members of this Assem-
bly,. If they have anything to say they
say it straight to the point and sit down.
We all know what we want and what
we are doing. There are many Of us
who don'ttalk at all"
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The hoary old mental anguish bilI''
has been favorably reported into the As
semby. 1t provides that person can
recover from a telegraph company for
the mental anguish suffered in not hav-
ing message promptly delivered. IL
has been before every Legislature for
the past generation or so.
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Some of the old soldiers who do no.
fancy the idea of returning the Alabama
battle flags to that State ask why Ihey
didn't keep them if they thought 50 much
Uf them.
''The trouble with Legislatures are that
too many men try to use them to try
their lawsuits" said Billy" Walker. ru-
minating on the defects ia the science
of law making as she IS carried on in
this day and generation. "a young law
yer gets a case and lose- it in the lower
court and loses it in the Supreme Court
and then goes to the Legislature 10 get
o new law TO fit the ease. Altogether
too many laws are proposed to cover GER
tain individual cases no matter what the
effect Of them may be on the general
public
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Now that the bill making debts due
for gravestones a lien on such property
has passed the Assembly. it will be in
order to allow undertakes who are not
paid promptly to demand their cassets
back. and for embalmers who have con-
plant against slow debtors 70 seize the
corpse and Keep It until their claims are
satisfied. And on the other hand, man
who buys a monument 10 put over the
grave Of his dear Departed will want an
r.. 4l.g. go. efs.rs h. l.