The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-04-09

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worked like Trojans to defeat it.
Just why certain senators not living
in Milwaukee and who were expected
to support the measure but voted
against it will not be Known, but it is
/ said that they were frightened by the
German vote boyle. 1t is said thar a
Milwaukee publication served notice
! that if the bill were passed the STATE
! would be handed over to the Dea7o-
| Gratis next year through the G. nan
); vote. The bill was ably debated
| through the greater part of Wednes-
day, with Senators Marsh, Barker,
Browne, Bird and Pearson arguing
for the bill and Senators GAYLORD,
| Husting, Page and f4ehr speaking
| against it. Marsh and Gaylord made
particularly effective talks, the latter
arguing that the saloon had its func-
ton as the poor mans club and that
| the bill was in effect simply a regula-
ton of the workingman, hence his Cp-
! position
Needs of the University.
| The tremendous increase in attend
ance at the university in recent yea S
and the great expansion Of its prac L
cal extension work has called atten-
ton to the need of increased appro-
| priations for the institution if its work
is to be kept at its present high level.
| The total enrolment this year is nea--
| ly 1880 and it is expected that by the
time the next Legislature meets it will
be increased to 5000, q figure not ex-
ceeded by many schools inthis country
! if indeed in the world. The regular
university bill has been introduced
| in the upper house by Sanator Brazeau
and in the lower by Assemblyman
| Cleary, who are alumni of the school.
University authorities, in discussing
the bill, make the following state
ment:
''The university bill further provides
that the permanent educational i'm
provement fund of 100000 per annum
| for five years shall be enlarged to
| 100000 a year and be extended to
seven years This is necessary in or
der to provide adequately for buildings,
apparatus and books. On the basis of
| 100000 a year we have been unable to
keep UP with the demands for permal-
ent improvements The following
| buildings are badly needed at the
present time:
"A forestry laboratory for co-opera-
tive work with the United States gov
eminent; biology building; a build
ing for the training of teachers with
a model school for observation and
! practice; wing for the present en-
inadequate; Git may be possible to pro-
vide for the third and fourth needs by
constructing an entirely new building
for engineering and taking the pres
ent engineering building for the
| model SCHOOL,; a new building for soils
or horticulture, two departments that
are now in single small building;
additions to the dairy building; an ad-
ditional wing to the library building;
completion of tunnels and equipment
Of central heating plant; wing of
chemical building; building for po-
litical science, history, and sociology;
a drill hall on Camp Randall; a new
pumping plant.
Appropriation for Dormitories.
ITO carry out satisfactorily the pin
f, Of providing dormitories for the stu
dents of the university, the bill further
provides that the present appropria-
ton of 100000 per annum for four
years, made by the legislature two
years ago, be increased to $780, 900 per
annum. With an increase of several
hundred students q year the existing
appropriations for dormitories will not
nearly keep pace with the growth of
the student body. If instead of $780,
600 we had 100000 per annum for the
construction Of student buildings, we
should be able within a reasonable
time to provide homes for a consider
able part of the students, but certainly
only for portion of those who would
gladly have the advantage of living
in university dormitories.
THE university bill likewise provides
for continuance of the present sys-
tenn of borrowing from the general
fund Of the state for short time each
year, until the income from the two
seventies of mill tax becomes avail
able. During the past four years Dy
careful management, the university
has been able to decrease the amount
of this temporary loan by 100000.
This policy is to be continued But in
order to do this and thus make it I'M
necessary TO continue to indefinitely
to borrow from the general fund until
the taxes are available, $4,000 has
been and will be %aken each year from
the income Of the university, thereby
using large portion of the annual in
crease from the :wo-sevenths of mill
tax.
"In addition to the regular university
bill there are in the legislature a con-
siderable number of bills increasing
the aprop"iation for university extern
sion Of these bills is that increasing