Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-01-14
CHANGE OF CIVIL SERVICE NOT
LIKELY TO BE MADE.
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE
Immediate Vote Would Have Put
Measure on the Rocks-Bill for
Two-cent Passenger Rate Intro
duced by Turner-Roethe
Prompt Pedestrian.
Madison, Jan. II.

Madison, Jan. H.
Opposition of so serious a nature
developed to the passage of the San
born bill to relieve legislative en-
| ployes from the operation or the civil
service law that the Oil was referred
| yesterday morning to the senate COM
mittee on legislative expenditure and
employees of which Senator Morris is
chairman. The moLlon to refer was
made by Senator Sanborn himself. 1t
| is said that had he allowed the meas
ure to go to an immediate vote, as
was intimated to be the plan, it would
have met prompt defeat in the SEN
ate AS lC is, there is grave doubt
whether it can be coaxed through the
| upper branch, and even should it go
to the assembly its defeat there is
said to be hardly matter of doubt.
However, Senator Sanborn is not ac-
| cused generally of attempting an as
sault upon the merit system but he
is making an effort to place the law
place it at the last session.
In the senate yesterday the pro-
ceedings were simply the reading of
| the executive message, the reference
OF the SanbOrn bill and the adoption
| of the joint resolution to adjourn I'M
til 10 o'clock Tuesday morning.
First Bills in Assembly.
Three bills made their appearance
in the assembly. The first was intro
duced by the pedestrian member Mr..
Roethe of Fennimore, in accordance
with instructions from the board of
supervisors Of Grant county. The
bill provides for the repeal of the free
high school daw of 1901, being chap
ter 1SS of the session laws of 1901
This statute allows nonresident
pupils to attend free high schools and
allows the district maintaining the
high school to collect tuition from the
town in which each nonresident put
pill resides. The Grant county board
believes that the parents of the pupils
are abundantly able to pay the tut
ton and Mr.. Roethe is promptly fol-
| lowing the suggestions of the county
| board
The second bill was introduced by
Assemblyman Turner, providing for
| a maximum passenger fare of two
cents a mile on lines earning $1,000
or more per mile per year. Bill No
3A was introduced by Assemblyman
Roycroft of Chippewa, providing for
dam in his district.
Would Affect Three Roads.
The two-cent passenger rate bill in
troduced William R. Turner OF Co
lumbus, if passed and sustained in the
courts, would apply to Milwaukee,
the Northwestern and the Burlington
roads, but would not apply to the
Wisconsin Central the 500" the
Omaha or other roads. The/bill pro-
poses that all lines being T operated
with gross earnings of $1,000 or more
per mile per year give the two-cent
maximum passenger rate The earn
ings of the various leadng roads op-
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as follows, per mile pei year:
Northwestern 49,. ..,... $500
Mil. & st. Paul /. E....... $500
Wisconsin con Central $500 $500
800" . $500
Omana .'..,,.,.., ......... 6,(0O
A railroad attorney, who was in
Madison in connection with a matter
before the railroad rate commission
smiled when he learned of tAe provi-
sions of the Turner bill remarking
that the roads would have no occa-
sion to be alarmed by such bill, as
there was no possibility of such a
measure being upheld. Members of
the railroad rate commission chose
not to discuss the bill at all. They
have investigated. the subject on the
basis Of ascertaining the cost and
revenue of the passenger traffic and
it is said will make a decision on the
subject before the session of the leg
IA.