Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-08-17
LAWMAKERS MAY
ADJOURN AUG. 20
WORK OF LONG LEGISLATIVE
SESSION REACHES POINT
WHERE END is SEEN.
VARSITY WANTS S5,25e,67O
The Allowance Carried by the Bill Is
S765,594 Less Than the University
Authorities at First
Requested.
Madison, August 10, 1915.

That the legislature will adjourn
sine die on Aug. 20 is now the general
opinion. The work of the session has
reached such a stage a fairy accurate
estimate can be made as to the time
when the members can go home for
good.
The work of the two houses will be
completed by the latter part of next
week. Then the governor will have
SIX days in which to decide what he
will do with the bills sent to him. Get
ting bills to him will take several
days, hence it is safe to put the final
adjournment about ten days after the
last bill has been passed by the legis-
lature.
When this has been done most of the
members will go home, leaving few
OF each house to remain and adjourn.
Should there be delays, due to vetoing
of any of the appropriation bills by the
governor, that time will have to be
added. In such case it might be near
ly Sept.t1 before the legislature ad-
jOurned
Taxpayers May Get Relief.
1t begins to look as though the tax
payers of the state might be given
some relief before the appropriation
bills go into effect.
The only thing that will continue the
load is a failure on the part of the leg
islature to pass any appropriation bill,
when the continuation appropriation
would prevent any reduction of the
load to the taxpayers.
1t is these same appropriation bills
which will hold up the session, if it
should be held up farther than is now
contemplated. The governor will not
accept any bills that do not conform to
what he believes to be proper appro-
priatiOns for the various departments.
Unless the bills come to him in a rea-
sOnable shape they will not meet his
approval and the legislature will have
the task of doing its work over again,
which would mean delay of some days
at least.
The joint finance committee, after
and Business Manager H. ]. Thorkel-
son of the state university, decided to
report back to the senate without
change, the bill appropriating $685.
go for the university during the next
two years. This meant that the orig
inal recommendation of the commit
tee that the bill be passed as first re-
ported in, stands.
The appropriation carried by the bill
is $765,594 less than university author
tiles at first requested. Individual
members of the finance committee re-
served the right to offer amendments
on the floor of the senate to cut or
increase certain items in the bill if
they should desire.
DIR. w H. Allen of the governor
office was present at the finance com
mittee conference and showed the
committee that the bill would give the
university S576.1S7 more for operation,
apparatus and maintenance than it
spent for those purposes during the
last two years. 1t is expected that, in
senators will offer amendments to cut
the total appropriation when the bill
comes up for consideration.
Spent $3,266,569 for Operation.
During the last two years the univer-
sity spent for operation, exclusive of
so-calIed revolving funds derived from
fees and sales of property and supplies
and similar purposes. $3,266.569. The
bill as recommended by the finance
committee, on the same basis of fgur-
ing. carries $3,62S,9S for operation for
the next two years. This means that
the bill carries for operation 1852. All
more than was expended for that pur-
pose during the last two years.
1t was shown before the finance com
mittee that there was an unexpended
balance in the operation account OF
s10S,447. 1t also was shown by undis-
puted figures that the allowance by
the finance committee bill for mainte-
nance is S9,602 more than the amounts
expended for maintenance in the last
two years. To add to this there is
an unexpended balance in this fund OF
SS737. There is an unexpended bal
ance in the apparatus fund of $4,000
Concur in Assembly Cut.
The senate concurred in the assem-
bly amendment to the appropriation
bill for the industrial commission
This bill. which originally appropri
ated $4,000 annually. was amended
bv the assembly TO s71.42S.69 for 1915