Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01
Burke Bill Passes Assembly.

bill, authorizing boards of supervisors
in counties containing more than 50-
600 population to be in session more
! than 30 days year. The Ledvina
bill, appropriating $3.50 to each of the
members Of the legislative visiting
committee, was ordered engrossed
and read a third time The Bancroft
! bill. providing that the electors of
school districts might, in certain.
cases, Increase the number of mem
| bers of school boards, was killed.
Bryants Place Sought.
There are a score or more applica-.
| tions for the position of superintend-,
| ent Of public property made vacant
through the death of Gen. Bryant
Each day adds to the number Gov.
! Davidson has to select from and the
applications come from all sections of
the state.
Printing Office Is Slow.
The state printer has still an aggre-
gate of several hundred bills to print
before the files can be completed,
Several hundred bills introduced dur
ing the closing days when new busi-
j ness was permitted remain to be
| printed. Members are complaining
! about the way in which business is
being delayed, and it is pointed out
! that the committee hearings cannot
be held until those interested in Iegis-
lation have had an opportunity of
| looking into the various measures in
| troduced upon any given subject.
! There appears to be no particular
| blame, other than the fact that there
was such a flood of bills at the end of
| the new business period which has
completely swamped the state print
ing Office. During the day some of
/ the bills have been coming to the
capitol and have been added to the
| files, but there remains a big aggre-
| gate before they are completed.
Figures from Other States.
Secretary Tappens of the state
| board of control is massing the fig
! ures relating to the care and mainte-
nance of the charitable and penal in
stitutions in other states to show by
comparison the difference in appropri-
! ations made in Wisconsin and else
| where. This information will be sub
! mitted to the committee on claims
| and an effort made to demonstrate
| that Wisconsin is far below the stan
| dard of cost set in Minnesota, and, in
! fact, any of the states of the north
west
1t is expected that during the week,
: or next week, at least, there will be
| hearings before the legislative COM
mittees touching upon the recommen-
! dation made by the legislative visiting
| committee to place the Wisconsin In
| dustrial School for Girls, located at
| Milwaukee, under closer state super
vision. The board of managers are
| opposed to this plan and at the ses-
sion two years ago succeeded in de-
| feating bill which proposed to bring
| about this result.
Insurance Hearings Postponed.
The change in the date for the
hearings on some Of the insurance
legislation from this week until the
second week In March may bring
about a new program and result in
meetings of some of the other impor-
tant committees. One thing is GER
| tam that it is time the members got
| down to the legislative grind in seri-
| BUSINESS, unless the session is to be
| prolonged until the last of June. or
| first of July. Some of the chairmen
Of committees are becoming discour-
aged over their inability to get the
| committees together. In this respect
| the assembly is better than the SEN
ate, for there have been less absen-
tees and a working disposition has
been shown. The committee work in
! both houses has been of a trifing, fit
full nature, and nothing of Importance
has been accomplished or attempted
| in the way of considering legislation.
1t would be difficult to explain just
what the trouble is and why it is not
met No doubt the trouble in part
| can be traced to the fact that the files
| of printed bills are incomplete and
| the members desire to classify legis-
! lation and expedite its passage by
adopting a system to give uniformity.
Promises of amendment in the way of
| serious work are evident in this
weeks program.
Governors Daughter III.
Miss Grace Davidson, youngest
| daughter of Gov. and Mrs. Davidson,
! is sustaining so serious an attack of
| infiamInatory rheumatism that her
| condition over Sunday was considered
DANGEROUS.