Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-02-10
PROBE BY THE
LEGISLATURE
CONTINUED FROM FIRST pAoE)

privileges TO Valid e-es AID develop
the water powers OF ERE 5tsCa, the fore
'u,fner oi wfica was heard II a de-
bate In the seua-e l1s friday in
fact Senator GAYLORD of Muwau zee,
declares It viii be by far the most i'm
porJant struggle Of the session. The
agitation 70 curb this time-honored
practice In Wisconsin Is an outgrowth
OF the action Of the president in thun
dering for The preservation Of our nat
ural resour Is. The struggle this win
ter viii be between the lumber COM
panies and paper mills on one side for
continuing Of their privileges and of
the forestry department ana friends OF
conservation Tor state control on the
other Both sides have been arming
and preparing for the struggle for
some time. and a shart contest may be
anticipated.
Assemblyman Jones viii introduce
the highway bin this week, and Sena-
tor Brazeau viii introduce the acct
dent insurance bill The income tax
bill has been drafted, but SO much
trouble is being experienced with the
legal phase OF the question that 1t
may have to be reported in by com
mittce.
The question of mortgage taxation,
which has been a source of so much
trouble in recent sessions, will this
year be merged with the income tax
proposition which is intended to cover
all the taxation on all incomes from
credits. as well as from all other
sources. From present indications OPP
position to both these measures will
come from the same source and be of
no little weight
Poultry at University.
In addition to the usual appropria-
lions the University of Wisconsin Is
receiving attention from a number OF
other sources in the legislature, As
senblyman Kindin has introduced
a bill to establish a poultry depart
ment at the university farm and maxi
ing an appropriation of $40 900 there
for Interesting in this connection also
is the bill by Senator Scott to add in
struction in baking to the work of the
extension department of the big school.
Assemblyman Hambrecht has intro
duced a bill against segregation in the
university, and also presented a bill
for the establishment of a chair of
horticulture and entomology at the uni.
versity The bill is presented in the
interest of the cranberry and fruit
growers of the state. An appropria-
ton Of $4,000 is asked for Mr.. Ham
brect also presented a bill to allow
dentists who have practiced in other
states. with dentist laws as stringent
as Wisconsin. and with clean pro-
fcssional career, to be admitted to
practice in Wisconsin without exami-
nation
Assemblyman Stewart of Dane coun-
ty will go after the deadly corn shred
der. He has been gathering statistics
on the number of annual accidents,
and Will present bill asking for fur
Their safety devices in the matter of
feeding In the stalks. He has not
decided on the amount Of penalty for
violation for failure to use some
method Of safety
Bills for Saving Money.
AsseInblyman George Il. Scott is
backing two bills for the saving OF
money. one in the interests Of the peo-
pie who are Obliged to have dealings
with lawyers. and one in the interests
Of the taxpayers as a whole The first
proposes 10 regulate the fees OF law
yers by legislation, and naturally pro
vides a lower scale. The present scale
was adopted before the days of stem
ographets and typewriters, and when
in the majority of cases the lawyers
drafted their own papers in longhand
a cumbersome and weary method The
price then was 25 cents per folio of
100 words, which II declared unreason-
able now in view of the superior meth
dds and possibilities of duplication by
means of typewriters. Accordingly,
the Scot, bin makes the charge ten
cents for the first copy of the folio and
five cents per folio for all other COPIES.
Mr.. Scutts other bill aims at saw
ing In the great expenditures OF the
/ state for public printing and had its
inspiration in a statement by State
I Treasurer Dahl that from $4,000 to
/ SIS 000 Is annually wasted in this di-
reetion He would reduce the number
and size of public reports, weed out
/ unnecessary and stale matters and use
/ less statistics and otherwise to con-
serve the peoples money. The great
/ est item OF extravaganza is in the
printing of the blue book, of which
the state issues every two years $500
~ cost Of $40 per book. Mr.. Dahl
finds an unnecessarily large number of
reports of state officers are also print
/ ed The commissioners OF public print-
ing last year. he said, authorized the
/ sale Of nearly 100 tons OF books and
reports, and many more tons can soon
also he sold It is to correct these
abuses that Mr.. SCOTS bin is drawn,
The legislature must again face the
problem Of woman suffrage this year,
Senator STOUT having introduced bill
10 submit, the proposition to vote OF
the people II ordered by the people
constitutional amendment, would
! later tc niece aarv. A. Q. BARTON
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