Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-04-13
THE LEGISLATURE.

Gov. Phillip is preparing three mes
sages to the legislature to be pre-
sented this week. One is upon the
state finances and will state the exact
receipts that the state will receive
during the next two years and what
the governor considers are absolutely
necessary appropriations, also the
amount to which he thinks the ap-
preparations should be limited. The
second message will be upon the
forestry situation and will state what
he thinks is absolutely necessary to
take care of the emergency situation
which was created by the supreme
court decision on the forestry question.
He does not consider the matter of a
state forestry reserve wise one. His
third message will be on the state fair
question. In this message the COVER
nor will again reiterate that there
are practically no moneys available
for the state fair, and will advocate
an immediate appropriation of S35 900
to meet the present Indebtedness of
the state board of agriculture which
has been incurred by past fairs.
The governor thinks the state
should pay the debts it has created
before making preparation for future
fairs, and will probably say in the
message that the appropriation for
the continuance of the fair should be
only a moderate amount, and not any
such sum as the appropriation of two
years ago, which was rendered I'M
available, not only by the failure of
Milwaukee county to purchase land
necessary to release the appropriation,
but also because no provision was
made by the state for placing of the
appropriation in the tax levy.
That an annual appropriation of
100000 will be necessary to provide
for new buildings at the southern
home for the feeble minded at Union
Grove, is the statement contained in a
report by the state board of control
sent to each member of the legislature
Thursday
Even this will net meet the in
creasing demand for the proper segre-
CATION and care of these classes of
detectives, declares the report"
The report says the legislature of
1909 recognized that the institution
at Chippewa Falls was over crowded
and the legislature of 1913 appropri-
ated 100000 for the purchase of a
site and for the construction of the
first buildings. The report says an
additional eight acres will be needed
and if this land cannot be purchased
at a reasonable price "we shall resort
TO condemnation proceedings"
State Treasurer Henry Johnson has
written the attorney general letter
formally requesting him to bring
suits in the Supreme court of Wiscon-
sin to test the validity of the laws
providing for the state life insurance
fund, as county and municipal fire in
surance fund and school teachers re-
tirement fund.
The state treasurer says in his letter
that he makes his request simply as
matter Of protection to the state
and not because of any opposition TO
the laws on his part. He says that
the first claim under the state life in
surance fund, which is 81 900 on the
life of the late DIR. George keenan, Of
Madison, has been fled, and it would
be we'll to have the highest court of
the state pass on the constitutionality
of the insurance fund law before the
claim is paid.
ASsemblyman kurtenacker of La
Crosse, has introduced bin to amend
the marriage license Law, cutting out
the five days which must now inter-
vene between the granting of a mar
rage license and the marriage cere-
mony.
Assemblyman Robert Caldwell has
drafted and filed a new bill to remove
the state fair to Madison.
TROUT SEASON.