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Marsh, who declared with considerable
heat he was tired OF this dodgins,
equivocating and quibbling." Edmonds
retained his equanimity, although he
told the chairman that he was little
provoked himself.
State Aid for Road Building.
The legislative committees are no.
getting together as we'll as might -
desired on the question of state aid II
road building. and there is dispo-
sition on the part OF some members
to also let this subject go over until
the special session next winter when
an income tax, the guarantee of bank
deposits, workingmens insurance and
water power franchises will be COLI
sidered There would seem to be little
necessity for this, however, as the sub
ject has been so thoroughly threshed
out that but little of value could be
added by further delay.
The two principal bills before the
legislature are the Jones bill in the
assembly and the Browne bill in the
senate. Each is the result of much
thought, study and many hearings.
Their general provisions are much he
same in many respects. The principal
point of disagreement is over the kind
of state commission. The Jones bill
provides for a paid commission, while
the Browne bill has an unpaid COM
mission consisting of the president Of
the farmers Institutes, the state geol-
ogist and the dean of the college of en-
cheering of the state university Thes
are to select a state engineer, who will
exercise more or less supervision over
the building of roads that receive state
aid
The supporters Of the Browne bill
contend that paid commission would
bring that body into politics, making
it more or less ineffective, and might
lead to the building up of great po
litical machine like that of the game
wardens. This possibility should be
avoided, they declare.
New Fish and Game Bill.
Interesting to sportsmen throughout
the state is new general fish and
game bill which will be reported in
the assembly today. Some idea of the
number of bills ON this subject thar
come in may be gathered from the
fact that features of twenty-seven as
sembly and several senate bills have
been Incorporated into this omnibus
measure, while twenty bills that con-
fiicted with some detail or other of It
have already been killed.
The bill to be reported contains
many important changes in the exist
ing game laws, the aim of the measure
being to secure general uniformity in
the statute. Not only will enforcement
be more marked, but it is the belief
of the fish and game committee, which
has spent three months in framing the
measure, that there will be less con-
flict for possible litigation in the stat
utes.
Fishing Season June /.
Probably one OF the most important
changes that is proposed in the omni-
bus measure is that the fishing season
shall open on June in every section
with the various open seasons in va
rious sections of the state, but it does
not remove the ban on certain lakes
throughout the state, which are closed
to fishermen for number of years
Under the present statute the pike sea-
son opened May % and the bass season
opened June TO- This resulted in many
an illegal catch of bass and a number
of arrests, which will be obviated I'M
der the substitute measure.
The hunting season for all classes OF
game which can be hunted under eX-
listing laws will open ten days later
than for several years past, the new
date being September 10. Provisions
regarding deer hunting, which were
scattered promiscuously through the
old statutes, have been summarized in
one section of the substitute bill.
Deer Hunting License.
The most important feature of this
section is that the deer hunting license
will have but one coupon attached, in
stead of two as previously, thereby linn
iting the number of deer that can be
killed to one. This is a blow to the
pot hunter who often comes here
from other states. The open season
for deer remains as formerly at twenty
days--from November 10 to so.
The bird shooting features of the
present laws have been clarified in one
specific section. 1t provides that
prairie chicken, crouch and partridge
may be shot after September 10 in all
counties of the state The ban is re-
moved on Ashland, Bayfield,, Douglas,
Outagamie, Marinette, Brown. La
Crosse and some other counties, where
prairie chicken shooting has been pro-.
hibited. A further provision of the |
bill is that the chicken and grouse
season shall not close until October,
while partridges may be hunted up to
December /.
Question of Adjournment.
Assemblyman M. j. Cleary, chairman
of the assembly steering committee, |
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