Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-02-03
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of common sense and equity to govern.
The commissioner will be ensWerable
solely to the county board. This coun-
ty aid shall be available for any road
work or bridge work on any county
road. Thus in some sections where it
is sandy it will not be de5ired to drag
the roads with the King drag. In others
It will be desired to use large sums for
this work. In one section macadam
will not be satisfactory, another will
not be satisfactory, another will desire
graveling, and 30 the law is not arbi-
trary as to the road work to be done,
but elastic, so that any section can do
whatever work will be most available
IN that particular locality, providing
the proposed work is approved by the
highway commissioner of the county.
Instead OF everyone standing back and
denouncing the state aid law and the
state highway commission, all may work
to the common end of obtaining good
roads and seeing to it that they get the
worth of their money. The bill has
positive advantage Of first getting the
roads on TO the proper locations before
any large amount of money can be
spent. 1t is apparent that many of
our roads under the present system are
rot so located as to be permanently i'm
proved, so relocations are encouraged
and emphasized. Every desirable fea-
ture of the Jones bill of 1907, the uni
versity bill of that year, and the pres
ent state aid law are retained. Good
roads will be required to be built and
compliance With the law enforced by
criminal responsibility. There are also
safe guards so that no county shall be
required IN any one year to do more
than 81, 00O worth of work in any one
town but may do as much over and
above that Gum as may be desired In
case the appropriation of county aid
is exhausted the towns shall share
pro rata. The state has raised one and
quarter million dollars for the state
aid system and it is proposed that this
shall be paid back to the respective
counties paying it so that it will be-
come a sort of nest egg in the county
road fund.
The bill seems to meet with much
favorable comment, except of course
that those drawing down salaries from
the highway commission are violently
opposed to any legislation that will
threaten their jobs irrespective of the
fact that it may make for better roads
and greater economy in road building.
For the present complicated bridge
aid law our representative proposes a
new law that will require every county
board when petitioned by any town for
aid in construction of bridge on any
public highway to appropriate one half
the expense, provided only, that the
bridge costs $500 The bill proposes
also that the bridge shall be built by
the county highway commissioner, or
under his direction A simple, under
standaDle and inexpensive plan is pro-
posed.
At the request of Monroe county
board of supervisors Senator Bennett
introduced bill to repeal the teachers
pension law and return the amount
contributed with accumulation to those
paying it in The hoard set forth in
its memorial, which has been presented
to the senate, that the fund will ulti-
mately become bankrupt and in
volve che people of the state in ad.
ditional tax paying burdens. Vernon
and Monroe boards ask for repeal of
county board of education law.
Mr.. Bennett presented bills for re-
peal of the eugenics marriage law, and
to exempt CO operative creamery COM