Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-07-14
Philips BILL
is SIDETRACKED
Central Board Measure Is Sent
to EngTOSSment.
AGRICULTURAL BILL is PASSED


stitute For State Administration
5iII-oovernor viii Veto Amend
ment If II Goes Through the As
senbIy Which Appears Doubtful.
Madison, Wis.,, Especially Although
the past week has been the most i'm
portant week of the present legisla-
ture from an administration view.
point, singularly enough it did not
bring with it any startling surprises.
The assembly Having practically COM
ple:ed its work all eyes were turned
on the senate, which thus far with
one exception (the conservation board
bilD has not touched any OF the Sc
called administration measures. Last
week, however, came the final action
on the central board of education bill
and the proposed agricultural consoli-
dation measure. The first was practi-
cally killed and the second passed
AS has been predicted before this is
what was en- Rectea and caused no shrs
prise. The only unusual feature was
ahe fact that the progressives sue
ceeded In making several important
amendments to the agricultural bill.
Adopt staudenmayer Amendment.
Final action on the central beard of
education bill did not come until Sat
;urday morning when it was ordered
sent to the finance. committee and en-
crossed. st. however, was the
Staudemayer amendment as amended
by Senator Burke's suggestion, and
rot the Philip proposal. The Stau-
denmayer bill was ordered substi-
tuted for the original bill Friday night
after four hours of debate. The decid-
ing vote was IS to 10. Those who
supported the substitute were Sena-
tors Arnold, Barwig, Bichler, Boss
hard, Bray, Culbertson, Everett, Glenn,
Huber, jennings, Monk, Mulberger,
Potts, Rollman, Skogmo, Staudemayer,
Stevens and Weissleder. Those
against the substitute were Senators
Albers, Bennett, Burke, Cunningham,
Fairehild, Hanson, kellogg, Martin,
Perry and Whitman. The Stauden-
mayer substitute proposes board of
apportionment of five members, one
appointed by the regents of the uni
versity, one by the regents of the
normal school, with the governor, sec
retary of state and superintendent of
public instruction acting as members
ex-officio. The amendment by Senator
Burke provides that the board is to
have exclusive charge and manage
ment of all financial affairs of the ed
ucational activities of the state" and
that mo new buildings shall be con-
structed or lands purchased except
under the direction of the board"
Senator Bosshard led the attack ON
the original bill. He contended that it
would no nothing for the rural schools
of the state and would greatly harm
the normal schools and the universe
ty."
Philip viii Veto Substitute.
Admitting that our present ar.
rangement is top-heavy financially.
this plan. of the governors would not
help at ALL he said He pointed out
that the concensus of opinion of the
leading educators of the country was
against the central board idea. Sen
ator Bennett on the other hand ridi-
culed the Staudenmayer amendment
at does not even mention the rural
Schools" he said. an fact you have
packed the jury against these schools
by this BILL" In any event it now
seems certain that nothing will be
done at all, because if the Standen.
mayer amendment passes the assem-
bly, which is extremely doubtful. it
Will be vetoed by the governor At
least he has SO announced his inten-
ton. Friends of the governor assert
that the defeat of this bill will give
him the strongest kind of political
issue should he determine to run for
reelection others, however. assert
that he has hurt himself because
through his effort to put this bill over
he has done more to advertise the
with VI tic univ cISllg anu Inc uOI-
NAL schools than any other factor and
II Is claimed that the people will
realize that these institutions should
be protected 1t would appear, how
ever, that the governor does not in
tend to give up the fight for at Rhine.
lander, the other day he announced
that he would keep on working for
the interests of Che rural schools
whether he was in office or out of
office.
Agricultural Bill, Amended, Passed.
For some time it has been generally
agreed here that some kind of an
agricultural consolidation bill would
be passed by the senate. 1t has been
known that the administration con-
trolled enough votes in this body to
insure the passage of the special in.
Vestigating committees bill on this
subject. What was not known, how
ever, was that progressives were pre-.
pared to support the idea, The action
on this bill came Friday afternoon.
Instead of passing the bill intact,
however, the senate got together on a
substitute measure by Senator Skcg-