Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-12-20
TALK ALSO OF PLACING NURSES
UNDER JURISDICTION OF
HEALTH DEPARTMENT..
GOOD ROADS TO BE CONSLD-
Erred AT COMING SESSION
Especial to the Herald.)

Madison, WIS, Dec. 10
Among the changes in the laws
regulating the health of the
state and the operation of the
department known as the state
board of health, at the coming
session Of the legislature which
the board will favor is one which
will place meat markets under
the board instead of under the
dairy and food commission.
The board also is understood to
favor placing nurses under the juris-
diction Of its department.
A bill which created much discus
sion at the 1915 session was passed
during the last week, which affected
the nurses. 1t is said that graduate
nurses will be in Madison again to
advocate a change in the 1915 law.
One Of the subjects which will be
seriously considered at the coming
session Of the legislature is the good
roads problem. The value of good
roads is conceded to be beyond estim-
alton, but ways. and means for their
construction and maintenance is the
problem to be solved The state APP
prOpriates under the present law
$7S5,000 a year, and $1,000 900 is added
from the automobile license fees. The
part the automobile owners may play
in the good roads work is being dis
legislation must be fair to the owners
of cars.
1t has been proposed by the high
way commission that the law be
amended to fix automobile license fees
according to weight or horse power,
the latter classification being the
most popular. All these fees, less the
cost of administration, are, according
to this proposed amendment, to be ex-
pended upon the roads The subject
is OF interest to automobile owners,
and the following information regard
ing the laws in other states may be
worth while at this time:
Eight states, including the District
OF Columbia, require fee smaller than
that paid in Wisconsin, as follows:
District Of Columbia, So for life of car
and 81 drivers license; Florida, 81
life Of car and So drivers license;
Minnesota, $3.50 for three years and
$50 drivers license; Montana, So
annually and So drivers license Ne
braska, So annually; North Dakota, So
annually; South Carolina, 81 life of
car; Texas, soc life of car.
1t has been contended by owners of
cars that the Wisconsin law is unjust
because a personal property tax must
be paid in addition to the license fee.
1t is understood that if legislation is
introduced to increase the license fees
an effort will be made to exempt cars
from other taxes. Seven states do this
now, all Of them requiring graduated
tax according to horsepower, the lat
Ter being the most popular.
All these states devote all Of the
money collected to the construction
and maintenance the money going to
the county where the tax originates.
except oklahoma, which turns part Of
the money into the general fund. All
but ten states devote all proceeds
from automobile fees to road work
Delaware, Florida, South Carolina
Texas and West Vii ginia uses none OF
the money for roads.
s. r. Webster, assemblyman-elect
from the second Dodge district, and
Riley S. Young, who will succeed Geo.
u. Harrington of Walworth county in
the assembly, have been spending sew
eral days in Madison attending the
meetings of the state board of public
affairs, listening to the discussion of
department budgets and learning
something about what it costs to run
she state
Senator Timothy Burke, the dean
OF the state senate, visited Madison to
look up facts connected with proposed
legislation. The senator will intro
duce a bill to abolish the twentieth
judicial circuit, believing the work can
be done by other judges.
II YOU are a trapper you will be in
terested to know that the conservation
commission will try to amend the
game laws so that you may ply that
vocation from Nov Is to April Is.
This gives you one month longer in
the spring, it being contended that
furs are prime then and bring a bet
ter price
II Wisconsin lives up to the new ma
tional idea oil reserve army it prob
ably will cost the state an extra $780,
900 year for military purposes.
Senator Platt Whitman Of Highland.
ranking member Of the senate finance
committee, was in Madison this week
attending a meeting of the sta+a hoo ~