Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-07-30

to all state departments. 1t is ex-
pected that minor reductions in 9TH
er appropriations will make the gross
cut about $5,00O,OO0.
The total appropriation to the
state university, which is practically
completed, will for 1856 be ST.
HATES, to the state normal schools,
$971,140, and to the state charitable
and penal institutions, $1,666,585.
These appropriations with $7,172,618
for all other departments, will bring
the total for the year of 1866 up
to $12,325,O9S.
NormaIs Allowed $1,037, 1876.
The total appropriations to the
state university will for the year
1867 be $2,439,815 to the state
normal schools, $1,O37,495 and to
| the charitable and penal institutions,
$1,65O,845. These appropriations
with $7,358,679 for all other de-
partments will bring the total for the
year of 1861 up to $12,486,834.
The total appropriations for the
ensuing biennial period will be $24,-
| 1882. With the unexpected bal
ances in funds appropriated two years
ago the grand total of all appropri-
atoms available for the ensuing BIZ
ennial period will be $27,O31,841.
Absentees Peril Money Bills.
From this time on until the close of
the session whenever that may be, it
will be increasingly hard to keep
enough members here to pass appro-
priation bills.
To pass bill carrying an appropria-
ton it is needed that sixty members
be recorded as voting on the bill in
the assembly and twenty members in
| the senate. At the close of the last
week it was only by means of the clos
ing of the doors of the assembly as
when under a call of the house that
enough members could be retained in
the chamber to pass the bills This
was drastic action by Speaker Whittet,
but he was supported by the members,
as they saw the necessity of such &C
ton. BY that means all the appropria-
ton bills on the calendar were passed.
Some of the assemblymen when they
| left for home at the end of the week
said they were not coming back again
and intimated the sergeant at arms
would have hard time to find them if
he came after them. While this feel
ing may wear off after they get home
every one admits that it will need con-
tinual prodding and some determined
action to keep enough members here
to do the necessary work.
Big Money Bills Up.
| This week both houses will have to
work through the big appropriation
bills which will all be ready for them
when the sessions open. In addition
| to this, in the senate there is plenty Of
work cut out for the members. The
bills repeating the mill tax for the uni
versity and normal schools will be on
| the calendar early in the week, as will
the bill introduced by Senator Perry
early in the session, wiping out the
bill factory. All of these bills came
back from the committee with re-
port showing the members we're d.
vided three and three. This means
warm fight on the floor when the bills
are reached. There will be tremen-
dous opposition to these bills as this
has been the favorite source of income
to these institutions. 1t has even been
charged on the floor of the assembly
! that in order to raise the income of the
university and normals the tax COM
mission raised the assessed valuation
of the property of the state. While
| this was stoutly denied there has been
shown the existence of a feeling out in
the state that the mill tax for these
educational institutions has much to
do with their taxes, hence the intro
duction of these bills and the demand
that the appropriations for both the
university and normals be made in
lump sum so it will be known just
what they are receiving.
Assembly Adopts Resolutions.
The assembly adopted resolution
introduced by Assemblyman Carl
Hansen of Manitowoc, expressing the
sympathy of the Wisconsin legisia-
ture to officers of the Western Elec-
trio company and other sufferers of
the steamer Eastland disaster.
| The resolution was as follows:
Whereas, Mysterious as the never
silent murmur of the seashell, sol
emn as the weird moan Of the far off
waves, the whole world stands aghast
and shocked over the frightful calam-
| ity which has fallen, through the
sinking of the steamer Eastland in
the Chicago harbor with terrible loss
of life, which, like the shadow of an
unheralded eclipse, darkened the i'm
penetrable curtain that wells eternity,
its unknown shores no longer chart
less to those who thus sacrificed their
lives; therefore, be it
| Resolved, That the members of
this assembly hereby voice and ex-
tend our universal and profound
| cvmnathv IN tho 0f7iciaIc nf tho Mast