Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-03-30
TO DEFEND TUITION
INCREASE ON FLOOR
ASSEMBLYMAN HAMBREcHT'S ADJ
MINIsTRATioN BILL is
SLATED FOR DEATH.
WILL OFFER AMENDMENTS
Author Of Measure Declares Actual
Added Cost to Universitys
Foreign Students viii
Be $26.
Madison. March %, 1915.

Assembiyman George HamDrecht
will make a hard fight on the floor of
the house to save his bill providing for
an increase from 500 to $3.50 in the
tuition fee for foreign students, at the
University of Wisconsin. The measure
has been reported out for indefinite
postponement, but Mr.. Hambrecht
feels that he has a good cause and
that the measure may be saved
"The opposition of the university to
the proposed increase in tuition fee,"
said Mr. HaInbrecht, "is not consistent
with the mdeh discussed policy to keep
the university a school for the poor
mans son. My proposal is made in
the interest of democracy at the state
institution.
THE bill appears to call for an in
crease of $50. The tuition fee of $3.50
is to include all incidental fees, so the
increase actually amounts to but $26.
/ have offered an amendment to the
bill, which means that in many cases,
the tuition fee will be wiped out.
propose free scholarships for foreign
students and any outsiders who win
these scholarships will have their full
tuition fee RENTED 1t seems to me
that by placing a premium on brains,
my bill will result in direct benefits
to the individual foreign student, and
to the Wisconsin boys and girls who
are thrown into association with such
students"
To Take Up Good Roads.
The question of good roads, in the
shape of highway bills, will come up
before the senate special committee
on highways and the assembly COM
mittee on state affairs.
Medical matters will occupy much of
the time of the senate committee on
education and public welfare. The
Tomkins chiropractic bill will be
heard and the committee will have a
hearing on the big medical bill and al
80 the Fairchild bill on hydrotherapy.
The former unquestionably will attract
a large attendance at the hearing.
The Martin bill regarding the refer
ence of sites for courthouses to vote
of the people will come up for another
hearing before the committee on state
affairs on the senate. The Waldron
bill, which would insist on no one en-
gaging in street trades before arriving
at the age of manhood, Will come up
for a hearing before the assembly
committee on municipalities. The
Helm bill regarding legal notices will
come up before the judiciary commit
tee of the assembly.
AnttTipping Bill Passed.
Tipping was dealt a blow in the
senate when the upper house, by a
vote of 81 to 4, passed the Gosshard
anti-tipping bill. Senators Fnber,
Perry, Stevens and Tomkins voted
against the measure. If the bill be-
comes a law tipping will be made
punishable by fine of So to $50 or
thirty days in Jail. The measure now
goes to the assembly.
Senator Bosshard denied that an
anti-tipping law would take its place
with the anti-cigarette law and be-
come a dead letter on the statute
book Fifty thousand travelling
men," he said, will constitute an
army of detectives III Wisconsin who
will see to it that this law is en-
forced Tipping has become form
of petty graft. People are tired of
the holdup, but to refuse tip is to
be subjected to public humiliation"
County Option Discussed.
County option, as it is involved in
the Jensen bill, 242a, was considered
by the assembly committee on excise
and fees.
The bill provides that the question
of county option, whether people of
the entire state wish to adopt it or
not, shall be submitted to the electors
of the state at the general election in
1916, and if upon that vote a major
ity of the electors vote in favor of
county option, then the law shall be-
come effective and counties then, up
on petition of a certain number of the
electors, may vote wet or dry for the
entire county.
Bradley Bill Reconsidered.
The Bradley bill repeating the law
of 1913 appropriating $4,000 for a
physical training equipment at the
La Crosse normal school, was recon-
sidered. Mr.. Kurtenacker of La
Crosse had moved reconsideration of