Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-05-26
JITNEY BUS BILL
IS RECOMMENDED
Provides Drivers Must Take out
Indemnity Insurance.
PRESENTED BY SCHROEDER
Reports Show There Are 400 Operat-
ING Jitneys in Milwaukee and
Several in Cities Like Madi-
son and La Crosse.

ness which has made It's appearance
in the state during the past SIX
months. Assemblyman Schroeder OF
Milwaukee has presented a bill, Whlch
has been recommended for intToduc-
ton by the committee on rules, which
provides that before a person may
operate jitney bus he must take out
indemnity insurance in the amount
of $4,000. This provision is made so
that in case of accident there will be
some method of compensating the
persons injured. There are also heavy
penalties for the operating of jitney
buses without obtaining license. Re-
ports that have been presented to the
legislature show there are 400 Jltneys
operating in Milwaukee, a score IN
Racine and several in cities like Mad1-
son, La Crosse, Fond du Lac, Oshkosh
and Green Bay.
The county agricultural representa-
tive system will soon find its benefits
extended to the whole state. Senator
A. R. Potts of Waupaca county was
the author of the plan for the intro
duction of the county agricultural rep
resentative system in the state. He
is now urging an appropriation so
that every county in the state may
have a representative, the state to
extend a certain amount of financial
aid. The plan has been tried in sew
eral counties during the past year.
in the counties where it has been
plant better grades of grain, to stand
ardize their crops and to study market
conditions" said Senator Potts. This
idea is now being adopted in other
states. During the winter the county
agricultural representatives hold coun-
ty short courses of from two to six
weeks in length which are attended
by boys from the farm who have given
up their school work"
The assembly has nonconcurred in
the Weissleder bril- which would deny
the payment of the fire department
dues to those cities of the state that
do not maintain a high water pres
sure for the extinguishment of fires.
Assemblyman O'Brien of Kewaunee
county said he feared that the passage
of this bill might be used by insur-
ance companies as a method of delay
ing payments for losses. The assem-
bly, killed the Tews bill providing for
the public contribution from the coun-
ty treasury for the purpose Of en-
abling the mother to keep her family
together. This bill sought to make
the law compulsory. 1t is now op-
tional. The house passed the Whit
comb uniform marriage law recon-
mended by the American Bar associa-
ton and the Kleinsteiber bill provid-
ing a closed season for partridges
until 1919.
There were small calendars of hear
ings in the legislature this week. The
committees have many of the bills in
their possession, but these are to be
acted upon in executive sessions only.
Upon request of Senator George E.
Scott, chairman of the joint commit
tee on finance, Attorney General Wal
ter c. Owen has sent a legal opinion
to the legislature in which he holds
that the claim of John A. Awkward and
NJ. B. Olbrich for compensation as at
torneys in the defense of Commission
er Ekern in the Ekern- McGovern con-
troversy is a valid one.
According to Senator George E.
Scott, chairman of the joint commit
tee on finance, there will be cut of
100000 FROM the budget estimates
made by the various state depart
ments. university and normal schools,
board of control and state highway
commission. He declares that no state
tax will be necessary for the support
of the general government this year.
Year before last it was necessary to
levy about $1,500,000 The budget es-
Inmates submitted to the legislature
at the beginning of the session in
Dictated that it would require $685.
600 for the next biennial period. The
cut of 100000, says Senator Scott,
means that the total disbursements
for the next biennial period cannot
exceed $27,5O0,0O0.
This cut of 100000 will be made
without repeating the appropriations
for the contemplated university build
ings, erection of the home for the
feeble minded at Union Grove, for the
new industrial home for women at
Taycheedah, and improvements at 9TH
er charitable and penal institutions
and for improvements in buildings at
all of the normal schools" declared
Senator Scott.
New Wisconsin Patents.
Herman and Edwin S. Barsness,
Black Earth. cattle stanchion; War
rem r PeadIe Grand Panids bark