The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-07-15
Executive Has Killed Over 40
Bills at This Session.
HAS ALL VET0ES SUSTAINED
Governor Has Approved Bill Giving
Equal Rights to Women and Meas
ure Requiring Hotels to An
nounce Prices.
BY FRED |. HOLMES.

Iatuce Dy having vetoed more bills
than probably any governor of the
state for single session. Upwards
of 40 bills have been vetoed by the
executive. He vetoed the MathesOn
dry enforcement bill, and at his behest
the legislature passed another bill
to take it's place. He vetoed the bill
for the establishment of five junior
colleges in this state.
A number of the governors vetoes
we're of bills Of little Importance, and
all Of the executive vetOes have been
sustained. The nearest to Governor
Blaine's record was that established
by Governor Phillip during the first
year of his administration, when he
vetoed approximately % measures
The executive ak has become a SYM
bOlic implement in the hands of Gov
ernor Blaine.
Governor Blaine has signed the bill
giving equal rights to women. He has
approved the bill permitting the city
Of Milwaukee to enter into contracts
for the joint operation of public utili-
ties, and he has approved bill which
requires all hotels In the state to carry
in their lobby a bulletin board an
nOuncing the prices of their rooms and
requiring the price to be put in each
room in the hotel. Any attempt to in
crease the price of these rooms with
out ten days notice to the public may
be deemed a violation of the law.
To allow the farmer boy to go
fishing after the cows are milked,"
Governor Blaine vetoed an assembly
bill restricting the use of dip nets in
certain inland waters. "This bill not
only deprives the farmer boy of this
opportunity, but it also deprives a
large number of people who use such
fish for food from obtaining the fish,
the governor said.
Governor Blaine sigped the bill es-
tablishing the Northern State Tuber-
culOsis sanitarium under the admins
tratiOn of the state board of control
The board is empowered to purchase
sit at a price not exceeding $25 an
acre The hospital is for persons af-
ficted with the disease in it's early
stages.
Governor Blaine vetoed the bill
which provides that the railroad COM
mission by reason Of the nature of
territory served by interurban or cleo
trio railway may discontinue the op-
GRAFTON of the line.
can interurban or suburban street
railway under our law is entitled to a
fare that is reasonably compensatory"
said Governor Blaine Suburban
communities have been established in
and about the larger cities, and the
city together with those communities
constitute an area that should be
served by the transportation compa-
MES operating within that area. In
considering rates Of fare therefore,
the area should and is taken into con-
sideratiOn in fixing a reasonable COM
pensatiOn, or fare.
Theoretically, there can be no loss
to the utility under the law, and for
practical purposes the utility has it's
recourse, first, through the railroad
commission. and then in the courts, to
establish a rate that will give the
utility company a reasonable return.
Large communities have been built4up
around the larger cities and people
have been induced to purchase prop
erty and make Improvements and es-
tablish municipal government, and in
fact large investments have been made
by individuals and by municipalities,
indAlcement for which was in the first
instance the presence of a transpor-
tation company furnishing a con-
venient service to the city of which
such communities are suburbs.
Sound public policy cannot justify
the possibility of the abandonment
of a suburban electric line under the
conditions l have described"
Governor Blaine also vetoed the
bill which appropriates $4,000 out of
the general fund to authorize the COM
missioner of public lands to appraise
certain lands belonging to the state
with view to having such lands set
over TO the state conservation COM
mission.
Some day." said the governor, sit
may be very well and proper to carry
out the purposes of this bill. but by
so doing the state gains nothing nor
should the state lose anything by so
doing. The transfer of this title from
the state, as it is now held in trust. TO
state ownership under the conserya-
ton commission is largely fiction.
''The bill does one very vital thing.
however. 1t appropriates annually
$4,000 out Of the general fund. On
account of the condition of the gen.
eral fund, feel that it is unwise at
this time to change the present statute
that obtains with respect to the prop
critics mentioned. After we have
passed through the period of depres-
sion and reconstruction the legislature
might then better consider the adyfs-
ability of appropriating $4,000 from
the general fund for the purpose of