The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-02-12

go through they are principally con
cerned with the Marsh county option
bill. and will watch its fortunes with
the greatest solit-itude.
States Water Power.
One of the big fights of the session
will be OH the practice Of granting
privileges to build dams and develop
the water powers of the state, the fore
runner of which was heard in de-
bate in the senate last Friday. In
fact Senator Gaylord, of Milwaukee.
declares it will be by far the most i'm
Dortant struggle of the session. The
agitation to curb this timehonored
practice in Wisconsin is an outgrowtll
of the action of the president in thun
dering for the preservation of our nat
ural resources The struggle this win
ter will he between the lumber COM
panies and paper mills on one side for
continuing of their privileges and of
the forestry department and friends of
conservation for state control en- the
other Both sides have been arming
and preparing for the struggle for
some time, and sharp contest may be
anticipated.
Assemblyman Jones will introduce
the highway bill this week, and Sena-
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 it
may have TO be reported in by COM
mittee
The question of mortgage taxation,
which has been 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 op-
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
semblyman Kindlin has introduced a
bill TO establish a poultry depart
ment at the university farm and MAX
ing an appropriation of $4,000 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
81 h GU lion in a
university. and also presented bill
for the establishment of 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 bill to allow
dentists who have practiced in other
states. with dentist laws as stringent
as Wisconsin, and with clean pro-
fessional career. to be admitted to
practice in Wisconsin without exami
nation.
Assemblyman Stewart of Dane eoun-
ty will go after the deadly corn shred
der. He has been gathering statistics
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.
Assemblyman George e. Scott is
backing two bills for the saving of
money one in the interests of the peo-
Pile who are obliged to have dealings
with lawyers, and one in the interests
of the taxpayers as a whole. The first
proposes to regulate the fees of law
yers by legislation, and naturally pro-
vides lower scale The present scale
was adopted before the days of stem
ographers 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 is declared unreason-
able now in view of the superior meth
DDS and possibilities of duplication by
means of typewriters. Accordingly,
the Scott bill makes the charge ten
cents for the first copy of the folio and
| five cents per folio for all other copies
Mr.. SCOTS other bill aims at a saw.
| ing in the great expenditures of the
state for public printing and had it's
inspiration in a statement by State
Treasurer Dahl that from $4,000 to
$4,000 is annually wasted in this di-
rection 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 1880
at cost of $1.10 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 tho