Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-06-28
LEGISLATURE WORK
/. NEARLY COMPLET
Only a Few of the Assembly Bills
Are Pending.
HEALTH BOARD ADOPTS RULE
Ban on Drinking Cups Extended
Fountains in New Capitol Build
ing viii Be Displaced by
Sanitary "Bubbiers."

Mathematician week will be
Necessary for the perfunctory recep-
ton of reports from the committees
on engrOssed and enrolled bills and
for communications from the gov.
ernor. but unless unexpected vetoes
should come from the chief executive.
the last week of this month will wit
| ness a session in which a bare dozen
| members will take part in each house
There is still possibility that con-
tests over one or two big measures.
notably the appropriations, apportion-
ment and income tax bills, may pre-
cipitate a temporary deadlock that
will further prolong the session. but
this possibility seems remote.
The assembly has pending only a
few of its own bills, but there are
something like fifty senate measures
LEFT from the past week and as many
more which were messaged over later
The senate has less business to at
tend to, but amendment by the as
sembly of quite a number OF senate
propositions will have to be taken
up, and here again is possibility of
delay. The practice of refusing to
agree on amendments has prevailed
quite generally of late, and many com
mittees on conference have been
named This is likely to be the case
with quite a number of senate bills
Prominent among the measures
that may be conducive to delay is
the joint finance committees bill of
/ appropriations for the university The
total amount proposed by the COM
mittee is S2,133.1S5, of which all but
the $1.068.685, which it is estimated
the three-eighths mill tax viii bring
i'll is in direct appropriations. 1t is
the failure of the committee to pro
vide specifically instead of by mill
tax. that has provided the opponents
of the measure with their best am
munition. The committees own eX-
pert reported in favor of specific APP.
preparations as one Of the cures for
chaotic conditi1 ns with respect TO the
states finances. and a strong effort
will be made to change the mill tax
I proposed by the committee TO a d.
rect appropriation In past years
such taxes have not been reckoned as
state taxes" and frequently much
has been made, in political way. of
the fact that there was no necessity
for a state tax, when the university
/ and common school fund taxes were
levied in the usual manner There
are many supporters of the plan TO
make all appropriations specific. and
then allow the administration and the
| tax commission to fix the necessary
rate after the annual assessment has
/ been made
( Further Punishment of the dead
ly drinking cup win be &C
/ complished as a result of the decision
of the state board of health. at it's
regular semi-anEual meeting. The
/ present rule of the board, which has
the force of law. applies to public
and parochial schools and railroad
trains The new rule will extend the
prohibition against this spreader of
/ disease to public buildings of any
character, parks and street fountains
The ornate fountains in the new
/ capitol building here, with their sill
yer cups and chains, will be displaced
4 by sanitary "bubblers" as soon as the
I capitol commission can effect the de-
/ sired change, but in this case the or
! der of the board is further bolstered
/ by a joint resolution by the legisla-
| ture
The board of health has under con
sideration a plan by which all local
boards will distribute free anti-toxin
/ in cases of diphtheria, not only to in
/ digent persons, as is now the rule. but
/ to all persons. This viii be done. If
at all by cutting out the middle
man" and having the makers sell the
serum to the local boards of health
directly. This matter is still under in
/ vestigation.
Another problem which the board
/ is studying seriously is the proper dis
1 position of library and public-owned
:. DOL books which have been used by
I a person convalescing from a conta-
/ gus disease The board individually
: favOrs the requirement that they be
burned, even if the library and school
boards have to be recompensed. but
this matter has not yet been decided.
1t is held that such books are a pro
life means of spreading disease, ow-
ing to the fact that they cannot prop
erly be disinfected.
The board has decided to take up
with the national department of the
interior the matter of regulating and
controlling contagious cases on the
Indian reservations of the state. These