Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-08-03

~ Oh oeoIO uSpdI lM6uIS. 1t Is 6X-
pected that minor reductions in 9TH
er appropriations will make the gross
cut about $5,000,000.
The total appropriation to the
state university, which is practically
completed, will for 1876 be So
4l4, 755, to the state normal schools,
$971,140, and to the state charitable
and penal institutions, s1,666,5S5.
These appropriations with s7,172,61S
Tor all other departments, will bring
the total for the year of 1876 up
to $12, 325,09S.
Normals Allowed S1,oa7 ,495.
The total appropriations to the
state university will for the year
1861 be. $2,439,S15 to the state
normal schools. s1,O37,495 and to
the charitable and penal institutions,
$1,650,S45. These appropriations
with $7,95S,679 for all other de-
partments will bring the total for the
year of 1851 up to s12,486,834.
The total appropriations for the
ensuing biennial period will be $24,-
711,932. With the unexpected bal
ances in funds appropriated two years
ago the grand total of all appropri-
ations available for the ensuing BIZ
ennial period will be $27,O31,S41.
Absentees Peril Money Bills.
From this time on until the close of
the session whenever that may be, it
will be increasingly hard to keep
enough members here to pass appro-
priation bills.
To pass bill carrying an appropria-
ton it is needed that sixty members
be recorded as voting on the bill in
the assembly and twenty members in
week it was only by means of the clos
ing of the doors of, the assembly as
when under a call of the house that
enough members could be retained in
the chamber to pass the bills. This
was drastic action by Speaker Whittet,
as they saw the necessity of such ac-
ton. By that means all the appropria-
ton bills on the calendar were passed.
Some of the assemblymen when they
left for home at the end of the week
said they were not coming back again
and minated the sergeant at arms
would have hard time to find them if
he came after them. While this feel
ing may wear off after they get home
every one admits that it will need con-
tinual prodding and some determined
action to keep enough members here
to do the necessary work
Big Money Bills Up.
This week both houses will have to
work through the big appropriation
bills which will all be ready for them
when the sessions open. In addition
to this, in the senate there is plenty of
work cut out for the members. The
bills repeating the mill tax for the uni
versity and normal schools will be on
the calendar early in the week, as will
the bill introduced by Senator Perry
early in the session, wiping out the
bill factory. All of these bills came
back from the committee with a re-
port showing the members were d.
vided three and three. This means a
warm fight on the floor when the bills
are reached. There will be a tremen-
has been the favorite source of income
to these institutions. 1t has even been
on the floor of the assembly
that in order to raise the income of the
and normals the tax COM
mission raised the assessed valuation
of the property of the state. While
this was stoutly denied there has been
shown the existence of a feeling out in
the state that the mill tax for these
institutions has much to !
do with their taxes, hence the intro !
1uction of these bills and the demand |
that the appropriations for both the |
and normals be made in a |
lump sum so it will be known Just |
what they are receiving.
Assembly Adopts Resolutions.
The assembly adopted a resolution |
by. Assemblyman Carl |
Hansen of Manitowoc, expressing the
of the Wisconsin legisla-
,ure to officers of the Western Elec-
,ric company and other sufferers of |
he steamer Eastland disaster
The resolution was as follows:
Whereas, Mysterious as the never
silent murmur of the seashelI, sol
smn as the weird moan of the far off |
waves, the whole world stands aghast
md shocked over the frightful calam-
ty which has fallen, through the
sinking of the steamer Eastland in
he Chicago harbor with terrible loss
# life, which, like the shadow of an
lnheralded eclipse, darkened the i'm
curtain that wells eternity.
is unknown shores no longer chart
ess to those who thus sacrificed their
ives; therefore, be it
Resolved, That the members of
his assembly hereby voice and ex-
end our universal and profound
to the officials of the West
IN Electric company of Chicago, Ill,
nd through the president of such
ompany TO all those who have been
allied upon to suffer the loss of those
ear to them through such terrible
isaster; be it further
Resolved, That this resolution be
ntered in the assembly journal of
his day and that a suitable copy
hereof, engrossed, duly signed by
be speaker and chief clerk of the
ssembly, be sent to the president
the Western Electric company at
hicago."
Wants lnr,L Prnha Il p-I.