Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-10-05
MILK ORDINANCE
ADOPTED At LAST
PASSED COUNCIL LAS. NIGHT
BY VOTE OF 9TC 5.
Change Made in System f Street
Improvement BY Con- idation
of Ward FundS-A FOu. ill Tax
Levied-Rough and Reda Bridge
Matter Up-Other Notes.
,From Wednesday 5 Daily,

The milk ordinance was adopted al
the regular meeting of the common
council last evening by vote of 9 tc
3.
After weeks, months, yea years OF
labor on the part Of champions of such
measure, the ordinance is to be
come portion of the statutes of our
municipality, and possibly, as one OF
the aldermen intimated, to soon be-
come dead letter and in the course
of year or two become mllldewed.
At present, however, there is plenty
of enthusiasm on the part of those
who have fought a good fight to Sc
cure the adoption of such piece of
municipal law. The ordinance has
already been published in full in the
Leader, therefore suffice it to say that
the original ordinance was adopted in
it's entirety with but a couple OF MN
or amendments.
Contrary to the opinion of some 1t
will not be necessary for owners of
cows to expend the sum of So 90 every
month for tuberculin test of their
bovine with a fabulous price for a
certificate of health from competent
veterinarian. But on the contrary
the certificate is procured for the
''knocked down. price of 10 cents,
while according to the terms of the
ordinance the examination is required
but once year, and DR.. Hartwig as
sured the ''Doubting Thomases' of
the 'taugust body" that he would con-
duct the required tubercu!in test for
the nominal sum of so cents per.
The ordinance has been the object
of many jokes and criticisms from
time to time. Drs. Werner and Hart
wig have been the champions of the
measure and from the start have been
conscientious in their efforts to secure
it's adoption for the protection and
preservation of the public health.
The Leader has been with them, par
ticularly for the reason that the or
dinance they proposed was very rea-
sonable and of a character that would
not exact any great hardship upon the
public. Many municipalities have on
their statutes ordinances far more
exactlng and in some cases oppressive.
But not SO with Watertown's new
milk ordinance. 1t deals generously
with all concerned and yet is thorough
in it's scope. 1t is to be hoped that it
will not become a dead letter, for
much in protecting the health of the
community depends upon its stringent
enforcement. The three opponents to
the ordinance were Aldermen Seifert,
Ryan and Humphrey, the first men,
toned trying to sound the death knell
of the measure in voting to strike out
section 3, which would have been to
pull out the underpinning and let the
ordinance fall fiat.
The reading of the ordinance sec
ton by section was followed by
lengthy discussions by most of the al
deremen, but they were in a friendly
spirit with an entire absence of per-
sonalities.
The matter of the tax levy for the
year was one of the important matters
of last nights session that was dis
posed. 1t had been decided to levy a
4. mill tax on all of the assessable
property of the city, but the amount
was left blank in order to discuss the
feasibility of including the expense
of a new bridge spanning the Rock
river on Oconomowoc avenue, the es-
timated cost of which was placed DIT
Sc, 900, which would make the tax
mill. and a third more 1t was decid-
ed, however, not to include the eX
pense of the bridge in the levy, but
to resort to bonds at the necessary
time. This was deemed advisable for
the reason that the levy of the mill
rate is even higher than last year.
The matter was finally disposed of by
the adoption of resolution to the eff
feet that there be levied upon all of
the taxable property the sum neces-
sary, or mills.
Another commemorate act of the
council last evening was the consolld-
alton of the ward funds, thus chang
provements. 1t is change that