Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-04-30
To PAY -|HNOCENTS
FOR BEING JAILED
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Bill to Compensate Men Wrongly
imprisoned Passes.
IS NOW UPl TO- GOVERNOR
Assembly Goes on Record in Favor Of
investigating Thoroughly the
Subject Of Old Age
Pensions.
IS NOW ! UP' ro GOVERNOR


The investigation will be made by the
state industrial commission. The OBJ
ject is to ascertain if it viii be posi-
BILE to devise some scientific method
of pensioning which will practically
obliterate the county poorhouse
The senate concurred in the Holmes
bill to compensate innocent men who
have been sent to prison The bill
now goes to the governor.
After long debate, in which AS
semblyman Peavey declared that the
work of county boards was largely adj
ministrative, the assembly referred TO
the committee on judiciary the Peavey
and Judson Hall bills for a commits
sion form of government Of counties.
Both bills are optional in their fea-
lures. Both provide for the election
OF commissioners on population
basis, the county being divided into
different districts.
It is expected that the committee
on judiciary will report a substitute
bill embodying more of the important
features in each of the bills.
Senate Passes Many Bills.
The Ackley bill appropriating $751;
900 annually for three years for
the erection of a state normal school
at Eau Claire. 1t passed the K. A.
Johnson bill appropriating $4,000 for
improving tie levee system on the
Wisconsin river at Portage; the Bling
ham bill giving the industrial commits
sion power to inspect all places of
employment as to safety and santa
ton; the Kiefer bill empowering com
mon councils to license men engaged
in electrical work; the Linley bill APP
propriating $4,000 for an investiga-
ton of the subject of white slavery in
this state, and the True bill for the
merging of the state park board and
the state board of forestry.
The joint committee on finance
has recommended for passage the
Bowe bill for an appropriation OF
$125,000 for the erection of building
at the Panama Pacific exposition. The
original bill called for an appropria-
ton of $4,000. Manufacturers from
different sections of the state APP
peared before the committee and
asked for an increase of this amount,
claiming that not sufficient sum was
allowed for an adequate representa-
ton of the manufacturers interests OF
the state. The committee recommend
ed for passage the Carpenter bill for
an appropriation of $3.50 for the pur-
chase of one acre of land upon which
was located the territorial building at
Belmont The old capitol building is
still standing. 1t is used as pigsty.
Frat Inquiry Revived. o
There has been revival of the
Sawyer resolution to investigate the
fraternities at the University of Wis
cousin. The assembly voted to re-
consider it's vote by which the resolu-
l;on for an investigation was indeti-
ritely post poned. Assemblyman An
derson. the author of the bill to abol-
ish all the fraternities, then offered a
substitute resolution which is more
drastic and searching than that faith
cred by Assemblyman Sawyer. The
assembly passed the Dolan resolution
requiring the statement of reasons
when constitutional amendments are
submitted to the people.
Judges in the state of Wisconsin
will not be pensioned. When the
Hedding bill came up for engrossment
Assemblyman Holmes of Dane at
tackled the measure, claiming that the
Judges were already erceiving ten
times the amount of salary that the
farmers or workingmen receive, and
that this pension would have to be
borne by the laboring classes. The
bill was indefinitely postponed
The assembly engrossed the Car
penter bill prohibiting fortune telling
in the state of Wisconsin.
The senate engrossed the Stevens
bill providing for the incarceration of
habitual criminals. This is one of the
reform measures that is advocated by
the state board of controL Under its
provisions men who are habitual vio-
Iators may be incarcerated for term
not exceeding five years.