The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-09-20
WISCONSIN NEWS
STATED IN Brief
TeIeqraphic Chronicle of State
Happenings.
TO CALL SPECIAL SESSION
Phillip Announces intention of Calling
Legislature to Assemble on Sept.
24-Move Made Necessary by
Military Training Fans.

Madison, Sept. 1S.-Gov. E. L. Phil
ipp announced that he will issue call
for a special session of the Wisconsin
Legislature Tuesday, September "a, to
appropriate money for barracks for the
training of soldiers at the normal
school and the state university. The
governor estimates the appropriation
for the normal schools at $15O,OOO.
Members of the 1917 legislature will
participate in the special session,
which will last one day, according to
the governors plans. Governor Phil
the special session:
''The United States government has
asked the state of Wisconsin, as it no
doubt has asked Othe rstates in the
Union, to make the arrangements that
will be necessary to make possible the
military training of young men OF the
ages of eighteen and nineteen at our
educational institutions. Our state
university, our normal schools and sew
eral private colleges have been desig-
mated as suitable institutions where
student army training corps units may
be established. We are requested to
provide the necessary barracks and
mess buildings for the housing and
feeding of these young men. This will
neceSSitate an expenditure of approx
| mately $500 for the normal schools.
/ am without an estimate today of the
cost to the university. Application has
been made by the educational inStitu-
tons to the emergency board for the
necessary funds to carry out this work.
I find, however, that there is no author
| ity in the law which would permit this
| board to make such an appropriation
| and it will, therefore, be necessary to
| call q special session of the legislature
| TO secure the money necessary to put
UP these buildings. The course is to
| begin in October and no time can be
| lost, and 1 expect to call special ses-
sion Of the legislature for Tuesday,
| September "a, for the purpose of secur-
| ing the necessary appropriations. The
offer by the government provides that
| the young men who will have this Op-
| pOrtunity are all taken from the list Of
men registered and it gives them the
| privilege to continue their education
while they are receiving their military
| training I look upon this as very
| favorable offer and I am anxious that
our Wisconsin boys shall have an OPP
portunity to take advantage of it. AS
| I understand it the government also
offers a vocational training course
which is an opportunity to young men
who are not graduates of high schools.
| 1t must be understood that all young
men who take advantage of this offer
| by the government will be regularly
| enlisted soldiers. They will receive
| their uniforms and the government
| will pay for their subsistence and will
| be in all respects like the soldiers at
the regular military camps and sub
! ject to the call of the government for
actual service at any time that the
army authorities may see fit to make
the call" Before Governor Philip
made the foregoing announcement he
had a legal opinion from Attorney
General Haven, who held that the
emergency board had no authority to
furnish these building funds and that
the appropriation could be provided
only by an enactment of the legisla-
ture.