Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-08-11
Senate Raises Tuition Fees.


Mad1son.-The long-mooted question
OF raising tuition fees for nonresident
students of the state university was
settled by the upper branch of the leg
lslature on a compromise basis, which
is likely to be adopted also by the
assembly. 1t provides that students
from outside the state shall be charged
Sl4S per year, which includes the reg
ular incidental fee of S24 per year,
and that the regents may remit tuition
Tor worthy students who attain certain
scholastic standing. The original bill
by Assemblyman Hambrecht proposed
nonresident fee of STA per year,
with no exceptions or reductions, and
the Barwig substitute provided for a
fee of 500 per year, plus the inciden-
tai fee of $24 per year.
The Barwig substitute was rejected
by vote of IA to II. Speeches in it's
favor were made by Senators gilbert
son, Barwig, Bosshard and Baxter.
Against it were Senators Ackley, Bray
and Fairchild. The senate then adopt
ed the amendment by Senator Bray,
fixing the fee at $124, in addition to
the incidental fee of $24.
There was no dissenting voice in
the matter of the confirmation of
Christian P. Norgord, superintendent
of Wisconsin farm Institutes, to be
commissioner of agriculture of the
state under the new law creating an
agricultural commission of one mem
Der to supervise the agricultural &C
tivities of the state government. Or
ganization of the new department has
already been started. 1t is probable
the present officials having to do with
the administration of the veterinary,
immigration and other work now
merged will be retained.
The famous Hart fish bill, recently
laid on the table in the assembly, will
probably be taken out and killed in
the near future It's provisions have
been embodied in the Bray substitute
to the Mulberger BILL in the upper
house, which that body adopted and
afterward passed The amendment
provides for special permits for the
taking of rough fish from waters in
Winnebago county, including lake
Winnebago, the Fox and Wolf rivers,
with fyke. hoop or turtle nets, or
seines, upon application to the state
conservation commission. By an
amendment to the highway BILL con-
Cured in by the senate, the county
committee on highways created by the
new highway law may give consent to
the changing or re-opening of roads.
The senate passed the Bennett bill
providing for the appointment by the
governor of an attorney to represent
the state or it's officers in suits in
which the attorney general is disquali-
fed from appearing
The legislature, by the senate's &C
ton in approving an assembly amend
ent, has voted 100000 for the fiscal
year ending July 1, 1916. and not to
exceed $125, 900 year thereafter, for
state aid to county tuberculosis sana-
toria The bill also provides that
such institutions shall receive and
treat cases of incipient tuberculosis,
as well. as those in an advanced stage
of the disease.
The manner in which the eugenicS
marriage law will be amended by this
legislature is now clearly defined, the
senate having adopted the conference
committees recommendations on the
Morgan bill, over which the two
houses had failed to agree. This now
provides that the strict requirement
of the Wasserman test or other scien-
tif1c clinical examinations shall not
be demanded, but that physicians may
use their best judgment, after submit
ting applicants for marriage license
to the examination for venereal dis
ease. as to the freedom of disease of
such persons.
Governor Philip has signed the
Staudenmayer bill, providing for a
board of apportionment to look after
the finances of the university, normal
schools, Stout manual training school
and the mining school at Platteville.
In a memorandum the governor says
he does not believe the results under
the Staudenmayer bill will be as eff
cient as those which might have been
obtained under a central board of edu-
cation He believes, however that
good is to be accomplished by the bill
and for that reason signed the meas
ure.
Badgers to Attend Encampment.