Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-07-25
To Investigate Coal Situation.

To Investigate Coal Situation.
Indications are that Investigations
will be made into the coal situation,
the print-paper situation and other
staple articles of necessity. While no
application has yet been made to the
attorney general for beginning invest1-
cations of this character, it is evident
from the interest manifested in diff
ferent sections of the state in the
measure that such Investigations
against the price-boosting monopolies
will be asked for at once.
Governor Philip has signed the
Baxter bill creating a state cement
purchasing commission. This law al
lows this commission to purchase
cement for the state and it is believed
that by this method many thousands
of dollars can be saved to the county
and to the state in making public con-
tracts where both the state and the
county are interested.
Governor Philip has vetoed the
Saugen bill to increase the rates OF
allowance to be paid by the state to
the county for the care of the chronic
insane cared for in county institutions.
He also vetoed the bill which provides
that appeals shall be made from pro-
bate courts to the supreme court with
out the intermediary of the circuit
court. Both vetoes have been sus-
tanned.
This increase was made upon the
theory that it is justified by the in
creased cost of living" declared the
governor, in vetoing the Saugen bill.
eff the states interests had been prop
erly protected by this bill by giving it
the same increased allowance that Is
given to the county the proposed law
would not have produced as great an
inequality and l would have given 1t
my approval"
Regulates Fairs.
Evidently the legislature was anxious
to pass law regulating the conduct of
fairs, eXpositions and carnivals by So
cietieS and associations receiving state
aid. Discovery was made at the ex-
ecutive office that two Identical bills
on this subject, one from the senate
and one from the assembly had passed
during the rush days of the session.
The assembly recalled one of these
bills so that it could be nOncOncurred
| in.
The bill provides that the secretary
of state is authorized, with the consent
of the governor, to deputize any en-
ployee or inspector otherwise in the
employ of the state to make inspection
of any fair, exposition or exhibit OF
any association receiving state aid.
Laws Make Big Volume.
IT is estimated that the law supple
ments containing the laws of the pres
ent legislature will make about 272
pages of the supplement size which are
circulated by the weekly newspapers
of the state. Two years ago these sup
plements made 20S pages. The in
crease is therefore over 80 per cent.
In 1915 there were $50 chapters pub
| Hshed. There will be about 653 acts
| this session, but the laws of 1917 are
much larger and occupy 30 per cent
more space than those Of two years
ago. Some of the whoppers are:
Fish and game act, about lob bill
size pages drainage act, 103 pages !;
workmen's compensation, 40 pages; re-
! visors, 161 pages; common school sys-
TEN act, 40 pages revisor's bill Is
"a pages, and revisor's bill $40, 80
pages.
In Handy Form.
! Law supplements, however, are now
| in a form convenient for a library
shelf and therefore much more valu-
able than when in newspaper style. 1t
is understood they will be appearing
in the weekly papers about next week.
Appropriations made for the Unlver-
| sity of Wisconsin for the next Dlen-
MUM are practically identical with the
expenditures of the university for the
past biennium. The compilation OF
| the appropriation measures affecting
all of the institutions has just been
prepared by the state board OF puDilc
affairs. 1t shows that the total ap-
preparations for the university for the
fiscal year 1917-18 is S2,24S,725 and for.
the fiscal year 191S-19 it is S2,S82,945.
During the past biennium the uni
versity spent for the fiscal year 1910
16, 50, 792, $500, and for the fiscal year
1867, So, SS0,045.99.
The legislature also appropriate.
| $4,000 to be used in the completion OF
the stadium at Camp Randall athletic
| field.
| Building Inspection.
| A considerable number of blils were
! naSsed relating to building 1nSpecCOn,