The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-05-13
No New Buildings viii Be Erected
at u. of w.
TO KEEP EXPENDITURES DOWN
University to Get Amount Which IL
Requested for Operation and Main
tenance, but Program of Econ
omy Bars New Buildings.
BY FRED L. HOLMES.

erected at the university OF WlScouSiA
during the coming biennium. This fact
is indicated by statements of members
of the joint finance committee VINO
this week began the consideration OF
the big university appropriation bill.
1t is the policy of the finance commit
tee to keep the state expenditures
down to their minimum that will make
a state tax unnecessary.
1t is believed that it is possible to
give the university practically the
amount which it has requested for OPP
GRAFTON and maintenance, but the pro-
gram of economy will make it impos-
sible for the erection of any buildings
at the institution.
One large building, however, will be
completed at the university during the
coming biennium. This building was
authorized by special session OF the
legislature in 1920. 1t is the big gen.
eral hospital building which, when
completed, will be able to care for
about 400 patients. This hospital pro-
gram is modelled after the Iowa insti-
r
ure, soldiers, crippled and deformed
children and INDECENT persons in the
state will be given treatment. The
erection of this hospital means the
founding of large medical center at
Madison. Even by rushing the work,
this building cannot be completed I'M
til some time during 1923. In linn
tied way some of this hospital work is
already being cared for at the institu-
ton. Some slight changes in the law
providing for admission of soldiers TO
the institution and for their care at the
expense of the state will probably be
made by the legislature.
The legislature is nearly through
amending the constitution. Besides
the home rule amendments, other pro-
pOsalS which will go to a vote Of the
people authorize the legislature to pro-
vide that a valid verdict in civil cases
may be returned by not fewer than
five-sixths of the jury, and that sheriffs
may succeed themselves in office.
Two amendments adopted two years
ago, have been defeated. Both were
fiscal. The first authorized bond is
sues for highways and the second en-
powered the state to borrow money to
aid in land settlement. A substitute
for the land settlement proposal re-
ducing the amount that may be bor-
irOwed, has been introduced by Sena-
tor Werden. Two other amendments,
81 I'll a.
the salaries of the governor and lieu
tenant governor, remain to be acted
upon.
A real political scrap will be staged
Thursday when the ingalls, convention
bill is taken up as a special order. The
judiciary committee, after holding the
measure three months, reported sub
stitute on vote that indicates the line
up on the floor. The dissenters were
Sachtjen of the LaFollette wing and
Ruffing, Socialist. The alliance indi-
Gates that the measure will have hard
SEEDING.
The proposal that both factions in
the convention shall be privileged to
nominate their candidates and submit
their platforms to popular vote in the
primary may gain a few votes for the
bill. A similar proposal was brought
forward by Senator Skogmo in a pri-
mary amendment two sessions ago, but
was rejected. 1t is presumed that
whatever faction dominates it's candi-
dates in the primary will also carry it's
platform, but in the event this should
not be the result the Ingalls, bill carries
the provision that successful candi-s
dates shall agree to stand on the plat
form.
A census" of the legislature shows
that Wisconsin is still notable for the
cosmopolitan character of it's people,
Nearly one-third the total membership
comes from other countries and
states. Counting the native-born
Americans and Canadians as distinc-
tive, the legislature includes nine ma
tionalities. But for the work of the
melting pot six, languages would be
spoken here.
In the senate, foreign countries are
represented as follows: Canada, 2;
Germany, 2; Roumania, L. Other
states which contributed members:
Vermont, Indiana Minnesota, Iowa.
Pennsylvania and Maine furnished one
each.
Counting Wisconsin, IL states are
represented in the legislature.
Members of the legislature are
urged to vote appropriations sufficient
to establish state park at the Dells,
insuring preservation of the tract by
the citizens of Kilbourn.
The river bank on either side, to-
gether with several hundred acres of
adjoining land, can be purchased for
S150,000, citizens of Kilbourn esti-
mated The land proposed would in
clude all the Dells known to tourists.
By making the investment of $780,
600, citizens said, the state would re-
ceive in rentals and concessions $780,