Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-02-18
SENATOR RUMMEL PROPOSES
ANOTHER COUNTY OFFICIAL.
CALLED PUBLIC DEFENDER
County Boards to Fix Salary-6ili by
Senator Lockney for Acquiring
Public Utilities by Condemnation
Important Measures from Com
n1ittee on Forestry.
Madison. Feb. ]

Senator Rummel, social democrat
of Milwaukee, introduced bill yes
terday to provide for the election OF
an attorney for the poor, called in
1.-The bill a public defender" to be
! elected with other county officers and
hold office for two years. The title
of the bill sets forth that it is a
i proposition ito abolish costs in courts
| in certain cases in obedience to the
| constitutional mandate that justice
| shall be free" The measure Will
give the county board the power to
provide and fix the salary OF the
public defender, and provide
one or more assistants as
necessary 1t shall be the duty or
this officer who must be an admitted
attorney, to appear in and prosecute
all cases brought for the recovery
of wages where the amount is $50
or less, also actions for damages Tor
those too poor to hire legal assist
ance. also to defend and give legal
advice to the poor and appear in
court whenever the judge deems it
necessary.
Senator Hudnall introduced a bill
to create the towns OF Hawthorne,
Scion Springs and Highland in Doug
las county.
A bill by Senator Lockney pro- I
poses to amend the inheritance tax
law to provide that the wife or
widow of brother. or the husband
of a sister, shall pay an inheritance
tax of ~ per cent,
BY request of the county board OF
Waukesha, Senator Lockney intro
duced a bill to allow the Judge of the
western Waukesha municipal court
to appoint a deputy clerk in each
town, the deputy to receive so cents
! for each case.
Public Utility Condemnation.
| Senator Lockney introduced a bill
to enable cities and villages to ac-
quire by condemnation public utili-
ties after favorable referendum vote
Senator Roehr introduced bill to
| facilitate the payment of claims OF
undertakes and others for funeral
| expenses in the process of settlement
of estates of deceased persons.
bill by Senator Roehr would in
/ crease the number of trustees of the
Congregation Emanu El Milwaukee,
from nine to fifteen, and raise the
limit of property to be held from
$4,000 to 100000.
Senator Whitehead introduced a
lengthy bill to revise the procedure
of eminent domain.
important Forestry Measure.
Five bills came from the commit
| tee on forestry: To forbid county
boards from leasing swamp lands for
cranberry and other purposes north
of town "a: to give the commission
el's of forests first chance to acquire
! tax title" lands; to provide pro-
| cedure for the appraisal and sale
| of lands on Indian reservations; 10
provide instruction in forestry at the
state university to exempt from tax
alton for 80 years lands planted with
forest trees. These tracs shall not
be greater than 40 acres per propri-
ator and must be planted with at
least 1900 trees per acre.
Not His Two-Cent Bill.
Senator Stout does not want to be
understand as introducing a bill for
two-cent passenger rates. He asked
and received permission to withdraw
such a bill which had been intro
duced for him from the committee
on revision. He explained that the
bill belonged to Assemblyman Stout.
had been introduced by its proper
owner in the assembly and had come
70 the senate by mistake.
Senator Wright said he was re-
corded as having introduced bill
changing the fish and game laws.
but had rot intended to do so. He
wanted the father of the measure
to own up to it or have the bill with
drawn. The matter was laid aside
and viii be corrected.
The resolution OF Senator Husting
liking toward united action by
sufficient number of state to secure
change of the federal constitution
for direct popular election of United
States senators. was reported by the
revision committee in the form Of