The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-05-20
Tentative Arrangements of Dis
triCts to Be Made Wednesday.
HEARINGS WILL BE HELD
Milwaukee, Racine and kenosha Each
Gain One Additional Assembly
District-Winnebago and JEFF
ferson Each Lose One.
BY FRED l.. HOLMES.

week on the reapportionment of the
senate and assembly districts of the
state. The tentative arrangements of
the districts will be made tonight at
meeting of the committee, and a bill
will then be drafted and hearings will
be held upon it.
Under the reapportionment of the
state into assembly and senate dis
tricts tentatively announced by the
legislative committee, Milwaukee, Ra-
cine and KenOsha each gain one addi-
tiOnal assembly district. WinnebagO
and Jefferson each lose one assembly
district and the third is lost by the re-
combination of the counties of Adams,
Marquette, Green Lake and Wausha-
ra. There are a number of other
changes in the assembly districts of
the state.
The reapportiOnment of the sena-
torial districts as tentatively an
nounced will legis1ate out of office
Senators J. Henry Bennett, Viroqua,
and John Conant, Westfield, Vernon
county. Where Senator Bennett lives
is placed in the district with Senator
II. e. ROethe, FennimOre. AS Senator
Roethe is a hOld-Over senator it will
be impossible for Senator Bennett to
come back to the next legislature If
this tentative apportionment is APP
proved. Senator Titus, Fond du Lac.
a hold-over senator, is placed in the
same district with Senator COnant,
whose terms expires next year. This
would prevent Senator Conant coming
back to the legislature next year. Sen
ator J. E. Dennhardt, Neenah, repre-
senting WfnnebagO county, is placed
in the same district with Senator Hen
ry Kleist of Calumet. Their terms ex-
pire next year and they can become
candidates against each other. Mil
waukee gains a senator district and
there are many other slight changes
in the present districts, but none
other would legislate present members
out from the next session.
This reapportiOnment of the legis-
lative districts comes as the result of
the new census. The average popula-
ton of each assembly district is 26-
800, and for each senatorial district
79,777.
Hearings will be held next Tuesday
on the bill making these changes in the
districts. So far there has been little
opposition to the changes Senator c.
3. Bird, Wausau, chairman of the
committee, said that no action could
be taken on the division of the state
into congressional districts, as the ra-
ito had not yet been fixed by congress.
The appOrtiOnment bill is one of
the big measures of the session. The
two big problems yet to- be disposed
Of by the session are the finance taxa
ton bills and the apportionment
measure. There are nearly 200 smaller
measures still before the legislature.
but these can be disposed of without
much opposition. All the work of the
legislature is being centered on secur-
ing an adjournment of the legislature
about June 10.
The joint finance committee has de-
cided TO report for passage the teach
ers' retirement fund bill, which would
levy $1O00,OO0 year for 40 years
upon taxpayers of the state by means
of a mill tax upon real estate. A con-
test on the floor is sure to develop,
members say, as many legislators OBJ
ject to putting an extra mill tax upon
real estate at this time. surtax
upon incomes has been suggested.
icIatinp ffoatinr fScsb on1 croy,oo
has practically been completed for
this session of the legislature, with
few new laws enacted, according to
Mark Catlin, chairman of the assem-
bly, fish and game committee.
Most of the bills have been cOrrec-
tive in effect, Mr.. Catlin said, with the
idea foremost that the fish and game
reserves of the state belong to all the
people A bill has been passed which
insures an open highway to all Wis
consin lakes, and reserves the shore
line around the lake for the general
public.
erich men will no longer be able to
buy up Wisconsin lakes and convert
them into private fisheries, as result
of this law" he's declared. -
Two bills to change the open season
for deer so as to make the Wisconsin
regulations correspond with those of
Michigan and Minnesota are before
the legislature and are expected TO
pass.
Another bill has been passed which
establishes legal game refugees in Wis
consin for the protection of native
birds and animals. This is the first
time that a Wisconsin legislature has
recognized this principle of protecting
game, according to Mr.. Catlin.
The law dealing with cartridges has
been opened up for four days in Octo-
Der. the duck season has been length
ened to December 20, and the goose
season to December 80.
Pickerel. creppies, sunfish. bull
heads and catfish have been taken out
of the rough fish class and hoop and