The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-04-25
representatives of the County
Appear Before Legislative
Committees at Madison
THINK POWDER BILL is LOST
Sheridan Drive Bill Brings Fierce
Arguments, and it May Be Re-
ported Unfavorab1e BY the
Committee in Charge

Kenosha had its inning before the
committees of the State Legislature
at Madison on Wednesday afternoon.
when several representatives from
the city appeared before Goth Senate
and Assembly committees to protest
against the passage of the bill in re-
gard to the storing of powder and the
so-called Sheridan drive bill. There
we're also representatives of the
county who spoke in favor of the bill
for the prevention of storing powder.
Attorney James Cavanagh and At
torney Clifford Randall made the
principal arguments before the Judi
ciary committee of the assembly in
regard to the powder bill. Attor-
ney Cavanagh, who appeared on be.
half of the Lafiin-Rand Powder COM
pany, urged the committee against
favorable report on the bill. He did
not attack the constitutionality of the
bill, but stated that lawsuit was now
pending in the Circuit Court for Ke-
nosha county in which every question
raised by the bill could be settled
without peradventure of a doubt,
and he declared that the people who
had brought the suit were now at.
tempting to try the case ia the Legis-
lature rather than in the courts of the
state. He stated that there was no
doubt but that the Circuit Court had
jurisdiction IN the matter. This
point of jurisdiction has been raised
in the case, and it is thought that the
statements made by Attorney Cava-
nagh for the company before the COM
mittee will result in the case being
brought to trial
Attorney Randall spoke of the bill
from the standpoint of the people of
Pleasant Prairie and he told the COM
mittee of the conditions prevailing at
the village and urged the passage of
the bill as means of protecting the
life and property of the people of Ke-
nosha county. The committee took
the matter under advisement and it is
claimed that it may defer action IN.
til after the suit against the COM
pany has been disposed of.
Land on Drive Bill
In the argument over the Sheridan
Drive bill which was held before the
state roads committee of the senate
there was no word of comfort for the
promoters of the Sheridan Drive so
far as the Kenosha county men were
concerned and every man coming be-
fore the committee in regard to the
bill argued against its passage. Sem
ator Bishop was on hand with the
ever present petitions from his dis
trict and both Attorney James
Cavanagh and Attorney A. E. Buck
master spoke against the passage of
the bill on the part of the people of
Kenosha county. Both attorneys
held that the bill in its present form
was unfair to the property owners of
Kenosha, Racine and Milwaukee
counties and they urged the COM
mittee to purge the bill of its object
ional elements before presenting it to
the senate for final action. Attorney
Cavanagh, when seen this morning,
stated that it was his opinion that the
bill would be killed in the committee.
Senator Bishop is planning to make a
hard fight on the bill should it ever be
sent back to the State Senate for
action. Should it pass the senate the
fight will be left to Assemblyman
Curtiss and the members from Racine
county in the assembly.