Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-06-30
MARKETING BILL
To BE APPROVED
Blaine Favors Act Providing for
investigation of Production
Cost.
$4,000 FOR CARE OF BLIND
House Reconsiders Vote Which Killed
Measure-chief Executive Is Veto
ling Bills Having Tendency to
Boost Taxes.

Madison.-The state marketing CON-
mission bill Is assured the approval
oe Governor Blaine some time the
present week.
This measure spent five months in
the legislature under consideration
marketing commission trade commits
sion" power TO investigate the cost
+ of producing farm products and also
cost Of producing manufactured pro-
ducts. The advocates Of the bill claim
that 1t Is one of the most compre-
hensiye measures before the legis-
lature. Governor Blaine In state,
ment says he will sign the measure.
The house, so to %, reconsidered
the vote by which it killed the bill
apprOpriating $25, 900 for the care of
the adult blind. An amendment to In
crease the appropriation to 100000
was killed and the bill was then
passed in It's original form, 81 to 80.
Under this measure a bureau will be
appointed and arrangements will be
made to furnish work for the adult
blind. tt was denied on the floor that
this measure would in any way affect
the school for the blind at GAINESVILLE.
Experts employed by the legislative
committee which investigated the
teachers retirement fund question
will receive half pay for their work.
The bill apprOpriating $9,917.94 TO
these experts for their work was cut
to $495S97 and then passed.
BY a vote Of IT to 8 the senate
refused to reconsider the vote by
which 1t passed a bill to turn all legal
work of the board of medical eXamin-
ers over to the office of the attorney
general. Senator Morris spoke against
the bill, saying that Attorney A. {.
Umbreit, Milwaukee, had been the at
torney for this board and that his
compensation had been very small and
for the first six years was nothing
The bill now goes to the assembly for
concurrence.
It Is reported on good authority
here that George P. Hambrecht the
present chairman of the state indus
trial commission, will be elected as
secretary of the state board of vOca-
rional education to take the place of
John Callahan who has just been
elected state superintendent of schools.
Governor Blaine is vetoing all bills
designed to increase the rate of in
terest on school district and public
utility loans The governor declares
that these measures have a tendency
to increase taxes In the state.
zone Of the difficulties now con-
fronting the country is the excessive
rate of interest that is being charged
and paid and high interest encourages
greater imitation" said Governor
Bisine in vetoing the senate bill to in
build school houses.
."SchOol and municipal boards con-
stitute most excellent Investments
far superior to other classes of bonds.
Usually such bonds provide for pay
menf of interest Semi-annually, and
the bonds are incontestable after 80
DAYS from the date they receive the
approval of the bond commissioner,
except as to constitutional limita
tions; they are tax free, both as TO
the state and national government.
and the school district or municipal
ity issuing such bonds can never be-
come insOlvent. All these conditions
make school and municipal bonds eX-
ceptionaliy desirable.
mo complaint has reached me that
any school district or municipality has
been unable to dispose of its bonds
at the present statutory rate of in
terest, and Ii is to be hoped that the
present abnormal inflated condition
respecting exchange is only temporary.
However; the tendency TO further in
fation should be discouraged.
Two other measures on this same
question have passed the legislature,
and they would have received my dis
aDproyal had II not been for the fact
that a limitation was placed upon the
time, within which such bonds might
be issued at the increased rate, and
other restrictions were imposed that
weuld overcome to some extent the
danger toward imitation The time with
in which these bonds may be issued at
the Increased rate of interest is not
limited, and there are no safeguards
TO prevent the added inducement to-
ward imitation.
'aThe whole tendency of this kind
of legislation is TO further increase
the burdens of taxation for years to
come. as school bonds usually run
for 20 years"
NURSING Measure Is Approved.
Governor Blaine has signed the bill
creating a department of public
health nursing In wisconsin. Thi:
act takes the nurses from under the
control of the state medical boart
and places them under the superyt
sion of a separate board in the stat'
department. OF health. A director O
nursing will be appointed some tim'
before September and the work o
this department will be reorganize'
along the lines set forth In the bill
The measure had the support of tn
curses organization In the state.