The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-11-28
ROAD PLAN KILLED.
City Members Of County Board
Win Notable Victory In the
Fight Over Road Tax
is LAID OVER INDEFINITELY
That the Laws Are Too Conflicting
to Admit of Construction-Ad.
journ for THANKSGIVING

Taxpayers in Kenosha will have an
added reason for being thankful to-
morrow for late Tuesday afternoon
the County Board of Supervisors dis
posed of the matter of levying tax
for the building of county roads by
laying the matter on the table, and it
is postponed indefinitely.
It was the first real victory of the
city members of the Board in a decade,
but it was one worth winning. It was
expected that the members from the
outlying towns in the county would
make a hard fight to secure the levy
of the tax covering the property in
both the city and the county, but
when the matter came to final vote
only one ballot was necessary.
Supervisor Tigh, of Brighton, who
had been favorable to the adoption of
the law from the start, moved that
the system of roads as reported by
the committee be adopted in order to
open theaway for the levy Of the tax
and the naming of highway COM
missioner. The vote on this motion
| showed that the road tax was killed
for Supervisors Luke, of Wheatland,
and Kline, of Randall, voted with the
Kenosha city members of the Board
and the motion to adopt the system
was lost. No sooner had the vote
been announced than Supervisor
Charles was on his feet with a motion
for indefinite postponement of any &C
ton on the matter, and this motion
was carried with the same vote as lost
the former motion. The resolution
| follows:
Whereas, We find after careful in
vestig alton that the laws relating to
county highways under Chapters 487
and 532 of the laws of 1907 are con-
f1icting, complicated, unjust and not
practicable in the county of Kenosha,
and
Whereas, There is to be submitted
to the people of the state of Wiscon-
sin an amendment to the constitution
of said state providing for state aid in
the construction of highways, it is,
by the Countya Board of Supervisors
of Kenosha county Wisconsin, hereby
Resolved, AS follows:
First-That the interests of Keno
sha county in county highways will
| be better understood and more intel
| 1igent and efficient action can be taken
in the matter of such county high.
ways after the amendment to the
state constitution pertaining to high
ways has been voted upon by the peo-
pie of the state.
Second-That action by the Board
" in the matter of county highways be
overwhelmingly
The action taken by the Kenosha
Board is practically the same as taken
by the Racine County Board and by
other Boards in the state. All counties
seem to be steering decidedly clear Of
the law, land so far as can be learned
not one of the counties has adopted
a system of county highways or
elected highway commissioner.
The city members of the Board had
considered the matter from every
a
clusion that the law was most unfair
one for the people of the city who
have been called upon to pay the taxes
for the roads out in the remote cor
ners of the county. Under the action
of the Board on Tuesday afternoon
the consideration of the road law can
not come up again at this session Of
the Board as it would be practically an
impossibi1ity to secure reconsidera-
ton. The city members are all united
against the law and several of the
county members have admitted that
the law would be unfair to the city. 81
| After the action had been taken
several Of the country members of the
Board stated that they were perfectly
satisfied with the action as taken and
that they had not been very anxious
to secure the adoption Of the law for
use in this county. - 80 aaeal
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