Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-07-23
sHAWANo OFFICIALS PROTEST
TO SENATE AGAINST LOSS
OF SIX TOWNSHIPS.
is FOR LARGER FAIR FUND
Senator Everett Puts in Request For
Increased Appropriation and
Senator Ackley Pleads
For Cuts.
Madison, July 81, 1915.

Madison, July 81, 1915.
The senate sitting as committee
of the whole heard arguments on the
proposed county of Burke it is pro-
posed to carve out of the counties of
Outagamie and Shawano.
The bill detaches six counties from
Shawano county to make Outagamie
county large enough to come under
the constitutional provision for mile
age, when a county can be divided
without vote of the people. A COM
panion bill creates the new county,
after which it is proposed to return
to Shawano county four of the six
towns, retaining two in the new
county created.
10000 Persons Affected.
M. J. Wallrich of Shawano, Dis
trict Attorney Andrews, T. B. Reid
and others spoke against the bill.
Senator Burke spoke for the bill Mr..
Wallrich said that if the six towns
were taken away from Shawano it
would remove territory up to within
a stones throw of the courthouse of
Shawano county in the county seat.
1t would further, Mr. Wallrich said,
take away six of the best towns of
the county. The chairman of every
one of the towns, he said, had pro-
tested both to the legislative COM
mittee that came there and to the
governor, against the splitting up OF
Shawano county. The proposed cut,
he said, would take $10,000,000 of
property and 10000 people from
Shawano county The bill, if passed,
he maintained, would set a precedent
which would leave no county safe.
Urges Large Fair Fund.
Senator Everett Of Racine intro
duced an amendment to his bill, No.
635S, providing an appropriation for
improvements and buildings on the
state fair grounds in Milwaukee. If
amended as proposed the bill will
appropriate $4,000 for construction
of swine and sheep barns and judg-
ing pavilions, $4,000 for the repair
and construction of fences and the
enclosure of open structures, $4,000
for the construction of a poultry
building, $4,000 for sanitation and
sewerage purposes, and $4,000 for
construction of a new grandstand.
The appropriation for the grandstand
is spread over a period of three
years, one-third to be available each
year.
Gov Philip signed the Johnson
bill creating a state department of
agriculture to manage the state fair
and look after the activities of all
agricultural and kindred societies
and associations receiving state mon
eys The new department is to be in
charge of a commissioner, who is to
be appointed for four years and re-
ceive a salary of $4,000 a year.
Would Cut Appropriations.
Senator Ackley proposed to re-
duce the appropriation of the Stout
institute from $55, to $4,000;
the appropriation to the state bank
ing department from $4,000 to
$4,000; and the appropriation to
the state historical society from $780,
600 to $4,000. He announced that
he would present amendments to all
appropriations bills which would ma
terially reduce the appropriations
carried and which would be in har-
mony with the economy program of
Gov Philip
May Repeal New Bill.
Senator Bray introduced a new
bill repeating chapter 2O6 of the laws
of 1915, one of the laws enacted at
the present session of the legislature,
exempting grain from taxation and
providing for an occupational tax on
operators of grain elevators and
warehouses. Mr. Bray said that it
had been discovered that the new law
would reduce the tax derived by cit
les from this source a large amount
annually, Milwaukee losing about
700 and Superior equally as
much. The provisions of the law al
lowing taxes paid under it to be an
Offset against income taxes levied
against the owners of the grain
would result, Mr.. Bray said, in prac-
tically exempting grain in ware
houses and elevators from taxation.
The new bill was referred to the
finance committee.
Has Plan to Hasten Sessions End.
Believing that if members of the
finance committee and the governor
reach an agreement on appropriation
bills before those measures are acted
upon by the legislature considerable