The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-04-13

| OVerShadOW all else and last long
after other reforms are forgotten.
While the idea of central board
has been tried with varying degrees
of success in other states, it is
claimed it will be left for Wisconsin
| in this, as in other matters, to take
up and work out a successful plan
| for intelligent cooperation of all the
educational activities of the state so
| the best results be secured and the
| greatest harmony obtained and put
stop to the present differences and
endeavors on the part of different
educational classes to get the largest
slice of the appropriation pudding.
Risk Law Recalled.
In way the present attempt to
find a successful plan for state
board of education is parallel with
the effort, so successfully made, to
work out a plan for workmen's COM
| pensation. AS in that case where,
after long hearings, several bills were
! drafted when the legislature met it
is now. At that time hearings were
held and as new things were shown
to be desirable or others to be doubt
full new bill was drafted until in
the end a workable plan that has
stood the test of operation was made.
Something similar will be done at
this time. The far-reaching efforts
of such a bill as the governor hopes
| to secure are just beginning to be
realized. This in turn has brought
about different feeling in regard to
the plan. There is much less fac
tional opposition and greater desire
to work together to get something
that will add to the glory of Wiscon-
sin and attract, as it will, the atten-
ton of the educators of the country.
Has New Waterpower Bill.
Senator w. M. Bray of Oshkosh has
returned to Madison from California,
where he was called by the illness of
his mother. Senator Bray has COM
pleted work on his new waterpower
bill, which has been filed in printed
form. Although comparatively short
measure, the bill covers fifteen pages
of printed matter.
Senator Bray in his measure recog-
nizes riparian rights so long as they
do not interfere with public rights. He
makes the state railroad commission
the administrative board, and provides
permits instead of franchises An an
nual sum, not to exceed S25,00O is ap-
propriated to carry out the provisions
of the act.
The commission, in the interest of
public rights in navigable waters, or
to promote safety and protect life, is
empowered to regulate and control the
| level and flow of water in navigable
streams. Plans and specifications for
the construction of dams are to be
passed upon by the commission. The
bill provides that permit to build a
dam shall be null and void unless the
dam is constructed within five years
| granted. The commission for good
cause, may extend the time two years.
$4,000 Repeal Bill Signed.
Madison.-Gov. Philip has signed
the Burke bill repeating the appropria-
ton of $4,000 made two years ago for
the building of state administration
building in Milwaukee.
Woman Suffrage Bill Up.
Among the measures of import
ance scheduled for hearings is the
back to the committee on state affairs
by the assembly on substitute
amendment introduced by Assembly,
man Budlong. There is something
more than a suspicion that it's pur-
pose was only to delay consideration
of the bill. Whatever the object the
substitute will be considered by the
committee on state affairs. The as
sembly committee on education will
take up the Whitcomb bill prohibit
| ing student discipline by student
bodies at the university; the Filing
ton bill, repeating the mill tax for
the support of the university, will be
up for a hearing.
Hear Bank Bill Arguments.
The committee on insurance and
banking will hear arguments on bank
bills limiting loans, relating to cash
reserves and over drafts. The judi
ciary committee will hear arguments
on the Killa bill for a county board
of control in Milwaukee county and
the Berninger bill for a county audi
tor and purchasing agent. The Kent
bill relating to the salary of the sec
rotary of the school board in cities
of the first class will be taken up by
the committee on municipalities
"Hasty" Marriages May Return.
The days of the marrying parson"
may return if a bill introduced by
Assemblyman Kurtenacker of La
Crosse should pass. 1t amends the
marriage license law, cutting out the
five days which must now intervene
between the granting of a marriage
license and the marriage ceremony.
This law was passed a decade or
more ago, largely on account of the
scandals arising from the wholesale
manner in which marriages were
performed by Milwaukee ministers
on Sundays, when the excursion
boats came up from Chicago.
Girl Named VaIedicto.ian.
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