Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-05-21

Senator Bennett OF Viroqua intro
duced a bill in the senate amending
the state highway aid law to provide
for construction of highways under
the county unit instead of the state
unit system and providing that the
state shall pay one-third of the cost
OF such highway Improvements IL
they are approved by the state con-
Sulting engineer. State aid for any
one year Is limited to 100000. The
| bill appropriates $4,000 annually,
to pay the state expenses of admins
tering the law and the salary of the
state consulting engineer, who is to
| receive $4,000 year, The county
commissioners, who are to be paid
| by the several counties, are each to
receive salary of 81 900 year. The
bill in the main follows the Michigan
state highway aid law.
Jitney Legislation at Madison.
The jitney has invaded the legisla-
ture. 1t came in a mysterious man
ner. A bill was introduced from the
senate committee on judiciary which
claimed to be measure regulating
the granting of franchises by cities
and villages. 1t provided that no
| franchise to use streets should be
granted by any city or village until
| the franchise had been submitted TO
| the railroad commission. A permit
| Is held to be the same as franchise
It was some time before members
of the railroad commission were
aware that the jitney was liable to
/ be unloaded onto them. One of the
commissioners in looking over the
bill one day was struck with the idea
that this meant jitneys and began TO
study the bill further.
Some railroad men who were
charged with being at least godfather
| to the bill denied the impeachment,
| but admitted that with few amend
nents the bill might be able to cover
the problem of jitney regulation.
Since that time it has been rumored
| that substitute amendment had
been prepared which covers the jit-
worrying now are members of the
railroad commission, who see in the
| passage of the bill If 1t should pass,
| that their work will be doubled, at
least in annoyance, If nothing else
Anti-Hazin9 Bill Passes.
| Senator Henry Culbertson made an
uphill but unsuccessful fight for his
substitute bill to check hazing in edu-
cational institutions receiving state
aid. Senator Bosshard contended that
the bill if enacted into law would in
| terfere with the work of the student
court at the university, and he consid-
cred it good policy to encourage the
work of this court. Senator Culbert-
son insisted that the student court has
no authority. He asserted that most
of the boys at the university are in
clined to be orderly, but some Of them.
| he said, encourage a System Of aTE
archy" No student, under any cir
cumstances, he said, should be permit
! ted to carry on acts of violence. The
hill was advanced to engrossment. >
The Ackley bill relating to indie
pendent candidates was advanced.
This measure provides that no candi1
date defeated in the primary be per-
mitted to run as an independent unless
ten days before the primary he shall
file statement saying that he will be-
an Independent candidate If defeated.
A bill was introduced appropriating
$4,000 annually for three years to bs'
spent strengthening and repairing 1G+
wees ON the Wisconsin river in Column
bia and Sank counties Another bill
was introduced reducing the cost Ct
barrel
The senate committee on corpora
lions advanced the life insurance tan
bills step by referring No. 55s with
a substitute to the joint finance CON-
mittee and recommending that No. 63s
| be indefinitely postponed.
Bill 55s proposed to change the eX-
listing tax law only by removing from
the taxables the Wisconsin premium
receipts of domestic companies.
Bill 63s, which was recommended for
indefinite postponement, Is the one
which was originally recommended by
the Wisconsin tax commission in 1910
IL before the general income tax law.
now operative in the state, was enac>-
ed This bill recommended the taxa
ton of the income on that portion of
the assets Of the company which were
properly apportioned to the Wisconsin
policy holders.
Anti-Tipping Up TO Assembly.
The anti-tipping QuestGn must be
decided by the assembly. After much
debate between Senator Timothy
Burke and Senator Otto Bosshard
Lieut-Gov Dithmar ruled out of or.
der the motion made by Senator
Burke for reconsideration of the vote
by which the senate passed the Boss
hard anti-tipping bill over the veto OF
Gov. e. L. Philip.
Among the measures ordered to third
reading was the Everett bill, permit.
ting county treasurers to serve more
than two terms. The Zinn bill, which
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