The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-07-27
FORMATION Of new
COUNTY IS OPPOSED
SHAWANO OFFICIALS PROTEST
TO SENATE AGAINST LOSS
OF SIX TOWNSHIPS.
Is FOR LARGER FAIR FUND
Senator Everett Puts in Request For
Increased Appropriation anc
Senator AckIey Pleads
For Cuts.
Madison, July %, 1915.

Madison, July 70, 1910.
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 a 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.
NJ. 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
I 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,
ne 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 period of three
years, one-third to be available each
year.
Would Cut Appropriations.
Senator Ackley proposed to re-
SaT, -
institute from $55, 200 TO $4,000;
the appropriation to the state bank
ing department from $4,000 to
5000; and the appropriation to
the state historical society from $780,
600 to $4,000. He announced that
she would present amendments to all
appropriations bills which would ma
terially reduce the appropriations
carried and which would be in har-
smony with the economy program of
Gov Philip.
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
time will be saved, Senator Edward
F. Ackley introduced a joint resolu-
ton requesting the joint committee
to report all appropriation bills to the
governor first. Gov Philip has
threatened to veto all appropriation
bills which in his judgment have not
been cut enough.
Senator Ackley also submitted a
joint resolution recalling from the
governor bill 55S reducing the fees
of insurance companies.
The Burke bill providing for the
separation of retail and wholesale
liquor licenses was advanced to third
reading, despite the protests of AS
semblyman Jacob Killa, who argued
that under this measure the excise
laws of the state would apply only
to retail dealers.
Jitney Regulation Bill Passed.
The assembly, 81 to 20. concurred
in bill No. 464S, providing for state
regulation of jitneys by the state
railroad commission. After the vote
on concurrence had been announced
Assemblyman E w. Crosby of Neills-
vile. who supported the bill, moved
that it be reconsidered, his purpose
being to clinch the victory for the
bill. The assembly then, by a viva
voce vote, refused to reconsider the
vote by which the bill was concurred
Boy Injured by Auto.
Beloit-Frank Won Barlow was