Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-01-28
BIG INCREASE
SHOWN IN BUDGET
s3,301, 703.48 Cost of State
institutions.
GAIN OF NEARLY 100000
s2y553,e13 for Operation and s22s,-
1928 for Maintenance Are Cur
rent penses-Remainder
for New Buildings.

Madison.-It will require s3,301,
7O3.48 to maintain the II Chart
able and penal institutions for the
next biennial period, according to the
budget approved by the state board OF
control and sent to the joint finance
copmittee of the legislature for con
sideration. This is an increase OF
nearly 100000 over the budget of the
last biennium. OF this amount $685..
913 for operation and 1929, 1928 for
maintenance are current expenses,
which the board Of control points out
must be met to keep the institutions
operating. The sum of $524,66 is
asked. Of the II institutions, it is
planned to erect new cell wing at
the state prison at Waupun; a new
building at the Hospital for the Insane
at Oshkosh, and to complete the build
ing work at the Hospital for the Grim
NAL Insane at Waupun. The report of
the board to the finance committee
shows that for operation alone it re-
quires $360,000 for the Northern hos
pital at Oshkosh; $360,000 for the
state hospital at Mendoza; $139, 102 for
the School for the Deaf at Delavan !;
S126,000 for the School for the Blind
at GAINESVILLE; $198,s12 for the Indus
trial School for Boys at Waukesha;
1919, $50 for the state prison ar Wau-
pun; $115,000 for the state school at
Sparta; $360,075 for the Home for the
Predetermined at Chippewa Falls;
1858, 094 for the state reformatory at
Green Bay; $250,000 for the tubercu-
losis sanatorium at Wales, and $102,-
$50 for the Hospital for the Criminal
Insane at Waupun.
Although the budget asked for by
the board for the biennial period Is
large, it does not take into account
any appropriations for the operation
Of the new womens reformatory at
Taycheedah, now under construction,
nor the southern home for the feeble
minded at Union Grove, Racine coun-
ty, contracts for which have just been
awarded. The board suggests that a
larger appropriation will be necessary
to operate the tuberculosis camp at
Tomahawk Lake, and suggests that
new tuberculosis sanatorium should
be established in northern Wisconsin,
The disfranchisement of students in
universities, colleges and other educa-
tional institutions, who are not self
supporting, is proposed in a bill that
has been introduced by Assemblyman
John B. Helm Of Madison. The capital
city is the seat of the state university.
where upwards of 1000 students vote.
Assemblyman Nye of Superior has
introduced bill extending the time
for the payment of taxes without pen
atty to March 1, upon a tWo-thirds
vote Of the town, village board or COM
mon council in which the taxes are to
be collected. The city of Milwaukee
is exempted. Assemblyman Bradley
is the author of a measure to facili-
tate the settlement Of estates of less
than $4,000, by providing that the
county judge and his clerk shall draw
the papers, upon request, without ex-
pense to the administrator.
Assemblyman Dixon of Racine has
offered a bill to repeal the present law
regulating the construction of court
houses, and Assem- blyman J. B. Jensen
is the author of a measure that ex-
cuses child from attending school
who desires to take instructions lead
ing to church confirmation. Senator
Martin of Milwaukee has offered sew
eral bills limiting the scope of the Sec
ond choice law in Milwaukee, and SEN
ator Baxter of Racine has offered one
that would permit foreign corporations
not licensed to do business in Wis
consin to buy, sell or enforce the pay
ment Of deeds and mortgages on prop
erty in this state Both houses of the
legislature have adjourned until Tues
day afternoon.
The man who solved the 40 famous
cruxes in Shakespeare's plays, that
have bafied such ingenious minds as
who wrote the law COM
mentaries; Hammer, who was speaker
of the house of commons over a hun
dred years ago; Cole&dge, the famous
and other notable Shake
spearian scholars to the present day,
has been appointed by Gov. Emanuel
L. Philip Of Wisconsin to the position
of executive clerk in the governors
Office.
This man is Charles B. Stewart of
author Of several novels that
have brought letters of commentator
from such men as John Hay, formerly
coprp+arv 0f state and Robert TT In
coin, and one of his novels was one Of
the last books read by the late Presi-
dent Cleveland.