Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-04-19
in the assembly committee for several

in the assembly committee for several
days.
Madison is not going dry; the bill
to throw up five mile dry zone
about the university is scheduled
for defeat. Despite the heroic
efforts of the faculty and the local
anu-saloon and prohibition lead
ers the FIVE mile dry zone bill hardly
caused a ripple before the committee
on excise and fees The vote to def
initely postpone the bill was 4 to 2.
and the absent member of the COM
mittee is generally understood to be
against the bill. The measure doubt
less will cause heated argument on
the floor of the assembly. Those close
to the situation and conVersant with
the views of the members on this sub
ject say the bill has not the slightest
chance of being passed. Assemblyman
Hansen, who voted for indefinite post
ponement, says that the welfare of the
students is not to be overlooked. and
he will work hard for the passage of
his bill providing male students en-
tering the state university shall be
compelled TO sign q pledge to abstain
from the use of intoxicating liquors
during their college course. The bill
fixes as the penalty expulsion from
the university The defeat Of the FIVE
mile bill and the presence Of the Han
sen measure puts the anti-saloopists
in a peculiar position. In the argn-
ments for the bill it was charged by
lobbyists for the liquor interests that
the dry zone advocates were prohibi-
tionists and that was their chief rea-
son for fighting so hard in the inter
ests of the student If that is not
true, says Mr. Hansen, the university
faculty and members and others who
talked in favor Of tle dry zone bill
canrot consistently oppose my bill
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The carp industry, which caused so
much excitement among the fishermen
who confined their sport to the use
Of the hook and line, is on the firing
line in the Wisconsin legislature. a
bill came into the assembly barring
carp seiners from certain counties
The argument was Immediately made
that carp seiners make immense pro-
fits, and it was suggested that the
state ought to take charge of the in
dustry. 1t was also charged that carp
SEEMING Is destroying good fishing
whore ever the SEEMING is permitted
Assemblyman Long took the position
that many men have invested every
dollar they own in seiuing outfits, and
they have done so because the state
has encouraged seiuing on the ground
that the carp destroy the game fish
and must be externinated before they
deyour all of the other fish. He said
It would be unfair for the state TO
tax charge of the sening industry
AID drive mea out of the business
after encouraging them to go INFO it,
The argument became so extensive
that the whole thing was POSTPONED
until a later date Indications are
that the carp question will Re tia c'teh-
ly discussed, and the debate may mean
the end of SEEMING
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The farmer element in the legisla-
ture Yields an influence which is be-
ing taken into consideration by those
having any statewide measure in
charge The farmer vote. while not
being large enough in either house to
pass measures, is large enough in
connection with opponents or supper
tiers OF bills, 10 either defeat O. pass
attention Is being paid to this ele-
inata ff' tae assembly,
where out of the 100 members there
are "a farmers.
In the big measures The aim is to
get them in such shape that they will
not affect the farme $, This is shown
in the worlimen's compensation act.
which has been held up for weeks
while the committee studied out a
way whereby the farmers would not
come under the provisions Of the act
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''Wisconsiu's greatest asset is its
beauty and its scenery" said Jenkin
Lloyd Jones of Chicago to a crowded
assembly chamber, when he addressed
a public hearing on the use of school
houses as social centers, and the
great value of public Fairgrounds
Wisconsin is the natural play
ground Of the great Mississippi val
ley" continued Mr.. Jones. Chicago
must use il and Chicago has lots of
money That's tip"
IAN this talk of noted educators to
return to the farm because that is the
delightful place to live is bosh," he
SAID. Il krow how little poetry and
how little play there is about farm
life I've been there.
81 make special plea for he patient
mother. the humdrum father. the
tired girl and the weary boy on the
Wisconsin farm. Give them places to
play to inject into their daily exis-
tence the JOY of living Let the state
purchase and maintain its beauty
spots.
You give too much time and devote
too much soil to tobacco, shame on
you. Your states greatest asset, and
l speak from a purely commercial
standpoint. is not its corn, its wheat,
its tobacco. but its beauty.
Don't worry your heads about max
inc p,ppAv II tent much pf q trial,