Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-06-24
HELP FOR
MEN WHO FOUGHT
Constitutional Provisions Limit
Debts of State.
FOR PURE WATER AND ICE
czerwinsky Measure, Placing Supply
Under Control of State Health
Board, May Require Purifica-
ton Plants in All Cities.


Madison THAT there probably will
be little legislation this session for the
ald OF returning soldiers, owing to con-
stitutional provisions that limit state
debts, is indicated by action taken in
Doth houses of the legislature. The
assembly has advanced the senate bill
creating a service recognition board
and appropriating 100000 for the care
and treatment of convalescent Wiscon-
sin soldiers.
The senate, by vote of 10 to 6,
killed the Zumach bill which would ap-
propriate $1O00,00O for the settlement
of soldiers on lands in Wisconsin. The
Dill provided for commission to con-
denim land and placed a tax of 50 an
acre annually on unused Wisconsin
land. The purpose of this tax was to
force all unused land into the market
for agricultural purposes The Fletch-
er bill on the same subject was laid
over until this week.
The assembly killed the Metcalfe
Dill giving counties power to issue
bonds in order to give bounties to sol
diers, marines, sailors and nurses who
served in the war against Germany
and Austria.
1t is doubtful if any bill passed by
the legislature at the present session
received more careful consideration
than the Czerwinsky bill placing the
water and ice supply of the state I'M
der the control of the state board of
health.
The bill was introduced February IS
in the lower house and was referred to
the committee on public welfare, where
the first public hearing was held and
the bill recommended for passage. 1t
next went to the finance committee,
where another hearing was held and
again it was recommended for passage,
and passed the assembly May Z with
out dissenting vote
When it reached the senate it was
referred to the committee on education
and public welfare, where the third
public hearing was held and, after due
consideration, it was sent out of COM
m1ttee with recommendation that it
be passed, and there was no opposition
when it came up for final passage in
the upper house last week.
The bill, which was originally in
tended to guarantee wholesome water
for Milwaukee for domestic use, was
made to nytpn6 to tho opti,o ctota T+
provides for the supervision and con-
troll by the state board of health of the
water and ice supplies, water purifica-
ton, sewage and refuse treatment and
disposal and the pollution of streams,
and for the supervision of the mainte-
nance, alteration, extension, construc-
ton and operation of systems or works
relating thereto.
The bill, which will probably go to
Governor Philip for signature within
week, was drafted by the legal de.
partment of the city of Milwaukee in
conjunction with the attorney general
and legislative reference library, after
consultation with the state board of
health and health officials of Milwau-
kee and other cities.
1t is generally understood here that
the passage of the bill is the first step
in the move to prevent the dumping of |
sewage in Lake Michigan and the in
land lakes and rivers of the state, at
least until it has been treated and
passed through a publication system.
mi hn hot in tho
very far distant future practically |
every city in the state will be compel |
led to install publication plants in |
connection with their sewage disposal |
systems, and after two years operation |
under the CzerwinSki bill it is expect |
cd the state board of health will rec
ommend additional legislation along |
that line to the legislature in 1921.
II is expected the first steps will be
taken by the state board of health to |
prevent the cities of Kenosha, Racine. |
Milwaukee, ShebOygan, Manitowoc and |
the smaller cities on Lake Michigan |
from emptying their sewage into the |
Lake. at will mean the changing of |
practically the entire sewage systems |
In those Cities" said member of the |
senate, "but there appears to be no |
other way if the water of Lake Michi- |
gan Is to be used for domestic pur-
poses"
A number of bills relating to work
mems compensation were indefinitely |
postponed because the provisions of
these several measures have been in
GUIDED in the general workmen's COM
pensation bill now pending before the
senate.