The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-03-04
Legislature Asked To Pass Law
Permitting Railways To Col.
Iect Extra Fare on Trains
GIVES ROADS MORE POWER
Legislature to Take Heroic Measures to
Cut Down the Amount of Money
Expended for the Printing
of State Documents

Senator Brazeau Of Grand Rapids
has introduced bill allowing the rail
roads to collect fee of every person
buying ticket on the train. The
present law allows the conductor to
charge 10 cents Of every person buying
a ticket on the train, but the conductor
must give the passenger a coupon for
this amount. After the passage of the
2-cent fare law, which wiped out Of ex-
istence the reduced fare books, pas
sengers neglected to buy tickets at the
stations and preferred to buy them on
the trains. 1t has been such an incon-
venience to the railroads that Senator
Brazeau has introduced a bill (by re-
quest) that, in addition to the regular
fare, allows the conductor to make a
charge to the passenger "of % cents
when the fare is 81 or more, or 10
cents when the fare is less than ST. -
The railroad company may retain this.
Another important amendment pro-
vides that no railroad can increase it's
freight rates without an order from the
Railway Commission. The railroad may
make an advance upon fling a notice
ten days in advance. Often the parties
affected are not advised Of the increase
until it is in effect Senator LaFollette
has been making a fight to have a
similar provision incorporated in the
Interstate commerce act.
Assemblyman Thomas Stewart of
, Dane county has introduced a bill pro-
viding that no person, firm or corpora
tion shall offer for sale any machine
for husking corn that is not Fprovided
with reasonable safety devices for the
protection from accidents from the
swapping rollers, husking rollers, chains,
gears and other dangerous parts and
shall be SO guarded that the person
feeding the machine shall be compelled
to stand at a reasonably safe distance
from the swapping rollers"
The measure proposed also provides
that the husl1er "shall be in charge of
a. competent person whose sole duty
shall be to oversee and attend to the
operation of the same. F" Any person
or corporation violating the provisions
Of the act may be punished "by a. fine
of not less than $25 and more than
$100 for each offense."
Massachusetts would emulate the ex-
ample of Wisconsin, in the establish
ment of legislative reference library
to draft laws at the request of the
members of the legislature. Every
member of the legislature received a
letter last week from Norman HI. White
a member Of the assembly of Massachu-
sets inquiring about the success of the
institution established several years
ago at the request of DIR. Charles H.
Mccarthy, the present Librarian.
Heroic measures are to be taken to
cut down the expense to the state of
printing. Senator Hudnall of Superior
has called joint meeting of the claims
and printing committees of the legisla-
ture, and the heads Of the forty state
departments which issue annual or
bi-annual reports. Reports of depart
ments for last year aggregated $4,000
pages. In two years the cost to the
state of department reports has been
$4,000. It is to cut down this enor-
nous expense that Senator Hudnall has
called the joint meeting