Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1917-06-14
FOOD DICTATOR
FOR WISCONSIN
Bill Passed by Senate Provides
Control of War BODY.
POWER TO SEIZE SUPPLIES
Measure Also Gives State Council of
Defense Authority to Act in Case
of Shortage or Attempt to
Boost Prices.

Madison, June ia food dictator
ship by the Wisconsin council of de-
Tense is provided for in a bill just
passed in the senate. The bill gives
the council complete power to seize
food and fuel storage houses and fuel
depOts, In case Of scarcity or an at
tempt by spectators to boost prices.
An amendment by Senator Wilcox of
Eau Claire to strengthen the invest-
eating powers Of the council along this
line was adopted. Administration
forces In the state senate were caught
mapping when Senator Wilcox. author
of the state aid armory bill, moved to
pass the bill over Governor Philips
veto. Before Senator Burke of Green
Bay, the administration man, could
get his bearings the senate passed the
bill IL to 5. Passage of the bill re-
CURED twO-thirds vote Of those pres
ent, and with a full attendance it stood
good chance Of being killed. The bill
was messaged to the assembly.
Immediately the result was an
nOunced Senator Wilcox moved recon-
s1deratiOn of the vote to forestall later
attempts to kill today's action, but
Dithmar held him out of order, declar-
ing that the vote itself was a reconsid-
GRAFTON and ordered the measure mes
saged to the assembly.
There will be little building done at
any Of the state institutions during the
coming biennium. Usually from seven
to ten buildings are ordered, but the
appropriation measures just recon-
mended for passage in the Wisconsin
legislature disclose a policy of repair
ing the old buildings and only building
such new ones as are absolutely neces-
sary. The reason given Is the high
cost of building materials.
At the nine normal schools of the
state total Of $253, 22O will be spent
on land and building improvements
during the coming two years. 1t Is
usually eight or ten times this amount
A small gymnasium will be started at
the Superior normal; small power
plants will be erected at Whitewater
and Platteville, and a $25, 900 science
building will be erected at Stevens
Point. At River Falls and Whitewater
temporary barracks will be construct
ed for classroOms, which, when prices
go down, will be replaced with build
ings.
The university has been given an
aggregate biennial appropriation Of
1854, 800 for land and building i'm
provements. Of this sum $4,000 will
be used to purchase land near some of
the crowded university buildings. An
appropriation of $4,000 is made for a
wing to the university infirmary. The
remaining appropriations are for little
minor improvements.
At the charitable and penal institu-
tons the sum of S347,795 has been rec
commended by the finance committee
for building improvements. At the
Green Bay reformatory $4,000 is ap-
pr0pr1ated for new cell wing; at the
public school at Sparta $4,000 will be
used in building a new schoolhouse
$4,000 is for the operation of a scien-
tific laboratory in connection with the
state hospital for the insane at Men
dota; $4,000 is to complete buildings
at the new home for the feeble-minded
at Union Grove and ST., $40 is for COM
pleting and furnishing the new indus
trial home for women at Taycheedah.
There are number of minor sums for
repairs at other institutions
After months Of hearings, the Wis
consin legislature will this week con-
slider the bill carrying all proposed |
changes to the Wisconsin workmen's |
compensation law Taken as a whole, |
the present nroDosed- chances carry an