Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-03-05

GRANT COUNTY ASSEMBL YNAN DE-
CLARES TOO MUCH MONEY IS
BEING SPENT.
OPPOSES MEDICAL COLLEGE.
Says Milwaukee Schools Provide Ample
Instruction N That Line for
State.
MEASURE IS FINALLY KILLED.

MADISON, Wis, March 3.-TSpe-
clal.I-The Assembly enjoyed a good
laugh this morning. when an anony-
nous letter was received from Il hotel
keeper III the state asking the Legis!a
ture to kill the hotel bill. He says that
instead OF making laws to keep hotels
clean, laws should be enacted to make
the travelling public clean up
The most important bill to be recon-
mended by the committee this morning
Is TOR representation of the state at the
AIaska- ukOn exposition at Seattle,
Wash.
The committee on military affairs rec
ommends for passage the Chapple bill
to put four companies of naval enliStors
on much the same basis as the Wiscon-
sin National guard.
The Assembly passed joint resolution
IA, to print 1000 copies of bill 1SA,
also the Browne resolution 29A, and to
print extra copies of the highway bill.
resolution ga, to expedite legislative
business was laid over until Thursday.
The Assembly suspended the rules and
passed resolution to instruct Nlscon-
sins members in Congress to secure
an appropriation to repair the Portage
levee, now i'll neglected condition. 1t
IS said that several thousand acres of
and are threatened If there is any
iueSllOu VI llle ownership Itllu super
vision of the levee the resolution asks
that this be determined. The resolution
was favored by Assemblyman Hughes
and passed unanimously.
Rothe Raps University.
The Roethe bill to abolish the medical
department Of the university gave him
an opportunity for a TRADE against the
institution. The bill was reported for
death. Mr.. Roethe scored the large eX-
penditure of money. He thought there
should be limit. He said twenty mil
lionaires could be sent to the United
States Senate under the primary law, on
what it costs to run the university a
year. He favored another department
at the university, "a school OF econo-
N.Y.
Has Slick Lobbyist.
81 want to commend the university
right here that it has the slickeSt and
the smoothest lobbyists that have come
down the pike" said Mr.. Roethe.
The university now has two year
medical course. He said to extend it
to four year course would need an add
1itional outlay of 100000. He thought
the Milwaukee Medical colleges should
be allowed to continue in the field, UNI
hampered by competition by the univer-
ity.
The establishment of medical col
tGge at the state university looks TO me
like a stupendous piece of folly, that
ought not to be continued" declared Mr.
Roethe. Now is a good time for the
Legislature if it so chooses, to reverse
the action of two years ago and elm
mate the college before any of the need
ed heavy investments have been made.
If not [ fear this medical college will be
the most expensive college and the most
disproportional in results to its great
cost, OF any the tax payers of the state
have ever been called on to support
Twesme Opposes Bill.
Mr.. Roethe said the medical course
will cost a large amount.
"A quarter of a million dollars, tax
ing the university authorities own esti-
mate, will be necessary to equip even
the first two years course as it should
be-" said Mr.. Roethe. He said it would
cost more when the four years course
was installed.
Assemblyman Twesme spoke against
the bill. He showed that the only real
object of a college Of medicine in the
university was to permit the giving of
credits for premedical course work to
students attending the university and
thus permit them by taking their last
years at some other school to obtain
their medical education in six years in
stead of four years. Others who spoke
against the Roethe bill were Assembly
men Reynolds, Irvine and Viebahn. The
bill to abolish the medical department
was finally killed.