The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-05-19

meeting of county fair secretaries who
came here to discuss the question of
state aid He is in favor of confining
state aid to premiums on agricultural
exhibits
IF the county fair is TO survive in
Wisconsin the prize hog. the big bull.
and farm products in general must re-
ceive more attention than the race
horse and the jockey" declared the
speaker. 'The fundamental purpose OF
the county fair is to instruct the pub
lie along agricultural lines.
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Assemblyman Nye las opened up a
big proposition in his bill providing
for the local taxation of merchandise
and ore docks. The bill, which was
engrossed in the assembly, is of inter-
est to all lake ports in this state, par
ticularly Superior Those opposing
the bill do so on the ground that
it's passage would be a step back
ward because the state fought SO long
and hard for the ad valorem system
Of taxation in Wisconsin.
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A bill to take the state fair away
from Milwaukee and transfer it to
some city in the central part of the
state was engrossed in the assembly.
The bill provides for the appointment
of committee of five, three assembly
men and two senators, who shall look
into tie ACCESSIBILITY of securing a
new state fair site. Oshkosh and
Wausau are hot after the big show,
but Milwaukee people are confident of
killing the bill when it comes up for
final passage
The administration initiative, refer
endum and recall was engrossed in
the assembly and within the next few
days will be up for consideration in
the senate All attempts by the DEM
{ rats to amend it failed by an over
whelming vote. The important amend
ments were offered by Assemblyman
Bichler, Democrat, but the assembly
refused to provide that questions in
regard to the right of parents to ed
ucate their children, questions of per-
sonal liberty. questions of party rep
resentatives anG appropriation bills
shall be subject to the referendum
The new stock and bond bill is be-
ing looked over carefully by admins
tratiOn leaders, and if it is decided that
this measure will be a protection to
the public it will be put through the
legislature as practically party meas
ure. There is some opposition to the,
bill within the Republican party ranks,
there being some Of the progressives
who fear the measure makes the state
a practical endorser of securities is
sued under it's terms. This was the at
titude of some men close to Senator
LaFollette during the Republican can
didate convention last September,
when some of these men were advo-
eating the repeal of all legislation
placing stocks and bonds under con-
troll of the state. The argument is that
if the state becomes the endorser of
securities of public service corpora
lions it places itself in position
where it guarantees the allowance of
rates to those corporations which will
protect the earnings of the securities.
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The workmen's compensation act,
which has lately finished it's legisla-
tive career, may not be the only in
dustrial insurance measure passed by
this legislature There is ove-
ment on foot to pass constitutional
resolution which will per-
NIT not only of the adoption by future
of legislation for old age
pensions but also for state insurance.
The Social Democrats will favor both
but the old age pension is
their particular pet.
FRED G. SHEASBY.