Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-06-20

ment by the judiciary committee.
The senate killed the Smith bill
providing for reduction of 33 1-3 per
cent in present rates for express SER
vice.
The Schauer joint resolution pro
viding for an amendment to the con
stitution requiring full naturalization
as requisite to the right to vote af-
ter 1912 was amended so as to agree
entirely with similar resolution
passed two years ago and as amended
concurred in by the senate. 1t will be
submitted to the electors of the state
| ton.
The assembly without discussion
killed bill No. 981A, providing that
district attorney shall not be required
for approval at the next general cleo
| to disclose in any court or judicial
proceeding any information he may
have acquired while assisting grand
jury.
The assembly passed the Ainsworth
bill appropriating $1,000 for school
teachers employment agency to be
established in connection with the
state bureau of labor and industrial
statistics. The Schauer bill increas-
| ing the state aid for graded schools
from $4,000 to 100000 year. the
! Ties bill authorizing special terms OF
the Green county court to be held at
| Brodhead, and the committee bill pro
viding that the entire building in
| x1rb ;0I iC ch f9Yn6
Madison, Wis, June 14.-The assem-.
bly, committee on transportation rec.
commended that the Thompson and
! Weber resolutions for government
ownership of railroads be indefinitely
postponed. The report of the major
ity of the committee is as follows:
We recommend that joint resolution
| Nos. 20A and 31A be indefinitely post.
poned, and set forth the following
among the many reasons why we ia
vor private ownership of railways as
against government ownership:
1. We believe that government
control and regulation of railways is
more practical than government own.
ership.
2. That railways can be more eco.
nomically managed.
3. That more efficient service will
be rendered the public.
4. That needed extensions and new
lines are more apt to be built.
5. That the equipment Of railways
will be according to the most approx.
ed methods, and will be better main
tanned.
| 6. Both passenger and freight rates
will be much cheaper.
7. That better wages will be paid
railway employees.
8. That railway employees will not
become part of huge political ma.
chine, but will continue to remain in
| their neutral sphere as faithful work
men, exercising their rights as the av.
erage American citizen.
| 8. Government ownership is re
pugnant to a republican form of gov.
eminent, and is hardly proper
function for any government to per
| form.
10. Any abuses which may exist OF
may hereafter exist under private
| ownership can be better remedied by
national and state regulation rather
| than by government ownership.
IL Government ownership would
be a blight upon human opportunities
and human activities.
~. That the government has now
an ample field for labor in the func'
tons which it now assumes to control
and perform and should not be bur.
dened with additional duties.
The assembly committee on claims
recommended for passage a bill ere
ating a state board of immigration and
appropriating $1,000 annually to pay
it's expenses.
The assembly claims committee
also recommended for passage bill
appropriating $67 500 to the Wiscon.
sin state board of agriculture for i'm.
provements on the state fair grounds
in Milwaukee, Several days ago the
committee recommended that the ap
preparation be cut to $62,500, but
Chairman Harring of the committee
on state fair had the bill re-referred
and then persuaded the claims com
mittee to change it's recommendation
and ;ndorse the entire appropriation
The appropriation is to be principal
ly used in erecting new buildings.
Other bills favorably reported by
the claims committee we're: Appro
priating $4,000 annually to maintain
the state fish hatcheries, increasing the
salary of State Superintendent Nevin
of state fish hatcheries from $4,000 to
$4,000, and authorizing the expend |
iture of the balance of $983.50 in the
Portage levee repair fund for further
Strengthening the levees.
The claims committee reported for |
indefinite postponement bill creating |
a legislative committee to gather sta |
tstics and other data regarding the |
advisability and necessity of establish |
ing a colony for epileptics in this state |
and report at the next session of the |
legislature and the Burke bill author i
izing the state railroad commission to
employ assistants to inspect railroad |
scales and supervise the weighing OF
cars and freight.
A new bill was introduced author
izing the governor to appoint a com
mittee of three citizens to investigate |
and report On the advisability of en-
ploying convicts in the state prison
in crushing stone for use in road build |
ing The bill contemplates the estab
lishment OF a prison near some large
stone quarry and the purchase OF
nnon cars for TRANSFORMATION of con.