The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-01-25

rival Mr.. Leroy, the lmp0rtaEt char
manship of the committee OH trans
portation. A higher homer he c3all
not have accorded him, for it Is con-
cctiGl that this will be the NEST in'-
portant committee of the assemEly
this winter Not only will all bill
affecting railroads go before it. tut
al~u I'll measures having to dc WI
street cans electric lighting, gsss ;,Hi
other public service utilities who
considcra ton will he the chief ,..lli,
Germ of the legislature this ,lter.
Aid Mr. Leroy is showing Fae
spirit. Our contest for the speaker
ship was only an incident-a friendly
rivalry and it is closed," he said The
great and important thing is to carry
out the pledges Of the party ard al
vance he work of reform which Wis
consin has SO grandly begun. MI.
Ikern and | have struck hands in this;
we will work together for thu good
of the state and party. There is no
i'll feeling between us. I have 40
doubt this years assembly VIII pass
every bill promised in the platform
of the Republican party and we will
put the measures in strong shape. This
house will be found entirely right Oh
the question Of public utility corpora
ton control especially | car promise
that the committee OH transportation
will deal with public service questions
witll firm hand"
EstaOrook Wins Il Position.
Ar. Estabrook won his coveted posi-
tor as chairman of the committee on
cities, having declined the judiciary
chairmanship. He is ambitious to do
something to reform the syestem of
government i'll Milwaukee and III
cidantally of other cities. He did not
come to the assembly for the glory
thereof: he won the honor twenty-five
years ago and besides is too good and
too busy a lawyer. But he believed
he could strike blow for Milwaukee
and SO was persuaded TO be elected
and he is expected to be a hard hitter
| teo when he gets going" says an
adnirer, '|You will see something do
ing Mr.. Esta brook is one of the
old soldiers of the assembly, but is
| splcndidly preserved, being straight as
| an arrow. alert, vigorous. with a clas-
| sic. intellectual face and frank.
brctherly manner that attracts.
| The other day Captain A. r. Bush
nell. of Lancaster, former congress
! man, walked into the assembly cham
| Der to greet his old friend Estabrook
and other comrades and at a little side
reGnion the interesting fact was re-
! vcaled that when in 1858 Bushnell
| came out from Ohio he was engaged
| to teach a country school near Platte
vile and among his pupils was Mr..
| Estabrook, then q boy on farm
| there.
Soldiers Well Represented.
| And by the way the old soldiers
are well represented in the legislature,
! there being eight veterans in the as,
sembly and one in the senate. The
! lone senate member is III. p. Bird, Of
| Wausaukee, who had an honorable
hand in the Vicksburg campaign and
much of the other hard fighting done
| by Grant. The veterans of the house
Vile: w F. Perry, Of Oshkosh; G. e.
| Estabrook, of Milwaukee,; William
| Dsch, of Milwaukee; A. s. Baker, Of
! Evansville: Fred Ties, of Green coun.
! ty: Duncan McGregor, of Platteville,
and Simon Smith of Beloit. Norcross
| was a student in the university when
the war broke out and enlisted as Il
7 in a
! First Wisconsin, seeing service at
| Bull Run, Chickamauga, Fort D0nel-
son and other trying places. Perry
| was in the Seventh Ohio, and was
! wounded and served q time in Libby
| prison. Fstabrook went out with the
| Forty-Third Wisconsin and was one
| of the youngest of soldiers. Disch,
| who was in the Twenty Fourth Wis
cousin, saw tremendous fighting. He
| went through twenty -one battles, not to
mention skirmishes the Chickamauga
and Atlanta campaigns being part OF
| this experience. Likewise Baker, who
was in the Second Wisconsin, had a
| baptism of fire that was a stern
reality
At Both Bull Runs.
He fought on both the Bull Run
fields and all the bloody ground con-
tested by the Army of the Potomac,
Antietam, fredericksburg Chancel-
louisville and Gettysburg and many
smaller trays He was wounded at
Gainesville and again at Gettysburg,
carrying a bullet from the latter field
for twenty three years. 1t entered
the groin and lodged near the back
bone. After twenty-three years it
concluded to leave its resting place
and gradually worked toward the sur
face. One day while the veteran was
taking a bath he heard something
scrape the side OF the tub and found
it was the point of his rebel bullet.
Reaching around he pulled it out with
his own hands and has the grim
memento now at his home Ties was
in the Eighteenth Wisconsin, received
I, n Shiloh onI also 6o6 his