Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-01-29

Al
29s; for 1918, nets, 22.992,530 feet;
value of product, $7sO.2o7; on Lake
Superior, 1914 (incomplete), nets used,
2.6i3. $50 feet; value of catch, $76,748;
In 1913, nets used, 3,7Ss,478 feet;
value Of catch, $79,15O; Lakes Michi-
gan and Superior, nets used. 1914, 49,.
37s. 1853 feet; value of catch, $662,047.
On the Mississippi river there were
used 4SS,17S feet of nets and the catch
is valued at $14,6O2. This is for the
period since June 10, 1914.
The total amount received from va
rious accounts during the year closed
was $22S, 506.40, as against $210,219.S7
in 1918. Total department expenses
were 1852, 012.S2, as compared with
| s151, 72402 in 1918. Total seizures
were sos and receipts from seizures
$2,4537O Total fines imposed were
s1s,OS0s costs imposed, s4.256.5O; war
den fees collected, s9S21S: number of
arrests for violations, 992; in 1918,
1890
Offers Water Power Plan.
Assemblyman Carl Pieper, Menomo-
ME, is working on a water power bill
which he thinks will help to solve the
problem so that the public will begin
to reap some immediate benefits.
His bill win enable any government
tai unit that exercises the taxing pow
er-county, city, village or town-to
develop water power for its own use
or for profit. The only restriction in
the bill win be nthe amount of bonds
that may be sold to build reservoirs
and plants. This limit viii be 25 per
cent of the assessed valuation of the
unit making the issue.
Heretofore municipalities have
owned utilities of this character only
for their own purpose. Mr.. Pieper
proposes to permit northern counties,
towns and cities to acquire water
power sites. build plants and sell the
power they generate to private con-
Germs, such as paper mills and fac
tories.
The state road school held under the
auspices of the state highway commits
sion adopted resolutions approving the
proposed recommendations of the
state highway commission regarding
changes in the highway construction
law. These resolutions recommend
that state aid for cities and villages
Of 5000 population or less be discon-
tinued, that all the fees received for
licensing automobiles be RENTED to
the county in which the owners of the
cars reside, except the actual ex-
pense Of issuing the licenses.
State Road Board Would Cut Taxes.
Methods for lowering the cost of
good roads construction and mainte-
nance to the taxpayers of the. state
are recommended in the biennial re-
port Of the state highway commission,
filed with the governor.
The commission recommends the
state highway aid law be amended to
provide:
That state aid funds be apportioned
among counties In Proportion to their
valuation, without respect to the
amount to be expended in the county,
with the provision that unless certain
sums be appropriated for road work in
the counties, stateapid would be relin-
11ssssned in proportion to the deficiency
between the county's appropriation
and the amount called for by the full
state aid, such reverted amounts to
remain in the state highway fund un-
til the succeeding year.
That state and county aid for i'm
proyement of streets of cities be re-
scinded.
That automobile license fees collect
ed by the state shall be returned to
the county in which they are paid,
with the cost of collection and plates
deducted, to be turned into the coun-
tvs highway fund and be accounted
for by the county highway commits
sioner to the state commission.
That system of county police be
established to regulate automobile
traffic, with authority to arrest, and
that fines collected for violations of
such regulations be applied to the
costs of maintaining such police,
courts expenses and the remainder be
used for highway repairs.
That stringent regulations for width
of tires be adopted by each county,
and enforced by the highway commits
sioner or county police.
6IumenfeId Gets Appointment.
Gov. Philip appointed Moritz f.
Blumenfeld of Waterfowl as state SUI
perintendent of public property to
succeed former Assemblyman Otto
Onstad Of Cambridge. The salary will
be $4,000 a year.
Would Repeal Eugenic Law.
Assemblyman Carl Pieper of Dunn
pounfv hac a hill RI rapaaT A. ,,,~.o,.s /.