Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-05

RACINE NAN WOULD CREATE art
C0EMJSSICNS" FOR SMALL
MUNICIPALITIES.
SUPERVISE PUBLIC BUILDING.
Assemblyman Would Also Bury Electric
Wires to Dispose of Upsightly
Poles.
LAWYERS FACE A CUT IN FEES.

MADISON. Wis. Feb. 4.-TSpecial.1
Art in the smaller cities is provided for
IN Il bill introduced by Assemblyman Wal
lace Ingalls, of Racine. His bill empow-
ers common councils in cities of the sec.
ond and third class to provide commits
SlonS with the duty Of passing upon all
plans i'll the way of civic improvements.
Under the bill the public art commission.
II such it may be called, must oversee
the architectural plans of every public
building TO be erected and if the plans
DO not agree with modern ideas of civic
art they must be altered to meet the
views of the commission. Bridges posts
ana other public facilities must come un,
Ger the ScrutInlZing eye of the commits
sion The erection OF public memorials.
statues and arches under the jurisdiction
OF the new commissions.
For Underground Circuits
Mr.. Ingalls, has introduced another
Dlll for the Identification of cities This
PHI Is aimed at unsightly electric light,
telephone and telegraph wires in streets
ana provides that in all cases where
streets are to be paved by municipality.
II may command corporations to place
tneir wires underground at the time of
paving thus avoiding future tearing up
Of streets in order to DO work that might
nave been done more easily at an early
date. The bill, if passed, will make it
mandatory upon the part of companies
10 follow out the order of cities within
sixty days.
Assemblyman George e. Scott has put
IN bill OF peculiar interest to attorneys
1t cuts down the fees established by law
10 considerable degree and is designed
10 give the client the benefit of modern
ideas and inventions.
wv hen the present scale was put into
law, says Mr.. Scott, there were no type
writers and carbon copying paper still
was 10 be invented. 1t is time we read
Justed these fees and gave the lawyers
L reasonable amount. Nowadays it takes
Il stenographer less time to make six
copies Of Il document that it used to
take to make one. The people ought
TO get the benefit Of progress"
E. P. Sherry Asks Privilege.
Z. T. Sherry of Milwaukee is men
toned by name in bill presented by
Assemblyman Z. l.. Urquhart. The
measure extends to Mr.. Sherry permits
sionto build dam across the FIambeau
river in Price county.
If Il bill presented by Assemblyman
Herman e. Georgi of Milwaukee be
comes law, the amateur actor will have
10 act gUardedly. Mr.. GeOrgi'S bill makes
it a punishable misdemeanor to wear the
uniform of the army or navy or the Ma
ti0nal guard unless one is member of
one Of the organizations. One clause of
the bill says: Nothing in this act shah
he construed as prohibiting persons of
the theatrical profession from wearing
such uniform in any playhouse or theater
while actually engaged in his profession"
u. e. Coolidge, assemblyman from
Dunn county, wants the state to estab-
fish bo5rd of accounting of three mem
hers to be named by the governor. He
has introduced Il bill making it necessary
Tor public accountants to get certificates
after an examination before the board. Il
Zee Of S25 being required from each can
didate. Candidates will not even be elig-
IDLE FOR the examination without a Ger
tain apprenticeship in the business of
the use of &C. Z. ~" after a name
without 4 certificate from the state
board.