Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1921-05-11
WEEK IN LEGISLATURE.
Comment on DOings of Wisconsin,
SOIOns in Session at Madison

Last week at the April sitting of
the supreme court memorials prepared
by the Wisconsin Bar assertion for
state Chief justice Winslow, John c.
Spooner, A. L. Sanborn and George
Green were presented. These men
were reckoned among the. leading
members of their time of the WiscOn-
sin bar
Authority to cities allowing them
to increase their bonded Indebtedness
from 5 to 10 per cent to take over
public utilities as provided for in As
sembIyman Rulings joint resolution,
was granted by the senate Wednes-
day This resolution has passed both
houses of the legislature and as was
already passed by the previous legis-
lature it will go before the people for
action.
The assembly stood by it's action of
last week in refusing to recognize that
women should be given the same priv
ilege as men in serving on jur1es
By a vote of so to 81 it refused to
reconsider it's action in killing the
Conant bill. Members said the women
WOuIu DGCOH6 COdIS6Lcu ILL OuSA pa
ticipation in too many civic duties and
declared that there was little demand
for granting the privilege
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It takes a good deal of sugar to
sweeten up the state charitable and
penal institutions. Though the
states prison at Waupun produces
it's own sugar, that is, raises the SUI
,,aI, Zohn mo
quota of sugar, it takes $4,000 every
three months to go around. rms
means 100 tons a year. This week
the state board of control contracted
for it's meat for the quarter ending
July LIST. About $4,000 pounds OF
carcass meat, $4,000 pounds OF hams
bacon, etc, were contracted the total
price being about $4,000
The most sensational incident III the
legislature last week was the charge
made by Senator Skogmo that the gov
ernOr was playing politics in the SEN
ate A bill had passed both houses
once but the governor threatened 10
veto it if it were not recalled and the
100000 it carried reduced to $3.50
600 Senator SkogmO said no reason
existed for this slight reductions; 1t
was demanded merely to make snow
of economy The finance committee
later went the governor one better
and reduced the amount to S2oO,OO0.
Then the bill was put out OF its SUI
fering by being killed in the assembly.
The 4th of July is six weeks away
and here is a reminder; under the law
administered by the industrial COM
mission no fireworks may be stored
nearer than 200 feet from neighbor-
ing building The law also provides
that rockets and roman candles may
not be discharged within 500 feet OF
any building and other fireworks
within 200 feet of any building.
Sparklers, red fire in covered cases,
ends covered are the only exception
and are the only requirements OF hre-
works that retail merchants may sell.
Merchants who handle other classes or
fireworks make themselves liable to
forfeiture of $40 to 500 for each day
that such fireworks are stored. For
violation of this order last year
a number of Racine merchants were
prosecuted and fined.
Prof. Thorkelson, business manager
of the university, has compiled figures
showing that since the fiscal year OF
1S67-6S when the state made its first
contribution to the university it has
contributed up to and including July
1920, about $2S,OO0,000 During the
same period the state of Illinois has
contributed $33,00O,O00 to its univer-
sity. The buildings, land and equip
ment of the Wisconsin university in
ventory about $9,000,000. If the total
contributions of the state for all pur-
poses whatsoever including land and
buildings, university and agricultural
extension, farmers institute, etc, etc.
are divided by the equivalent students
registered for the two semesters for
the past SO years, the average will be
a cost of $257.50 per student For the
past twenty years the average is $282
per student; for the past ten years
1914 per student; for tire past two
years $2S7 per student.
After being greatly annoyed and
hampered in their work by the circu-
lation of stories charging unfair dis
elimination against fishermen, mem
bers of the state conservation COM
mission investigated and found that
salaried official of the Wisconsin
Game Protective association was
making charges of malfeasance in
Office against the commissioners
After procuring atfidavits that these
charges were made in public address
ses, the members of the commission
went before the legislature. submit
ting affidayits as the making of the
charges and asking that a committee
be appointed to investigate the COM
missions record and report. In ad-
dition to this the members of the COM
mission have individually put the mat
ter in the hands of attorneys and will
prosecute the parties circulating the
stories.
The Grimsted land surtax bill be-