Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-04-22
AMENDED DRY
BILL in SENATE
Matheson Measure, Which Has
Passed House, Will Be Sub
jeCt of Attack.
HUTTON LINES UP FORCES
Superintendent of the Anti-SaIoon
League of Wisconsin Says He Has
1s Out of SO Votes of Senate
Pledged for Bill.

TiSO9SO III Dhis
Madison.-The senate promises to
be the scene of the Wisconsin wet ana
dry fight this week when the Mathe-
son bill, which has passed the house,
is scheduled to be the subject of at
tack A substitute amendment which
removes some of the more drastic pro-
visions has been submitted by Senator
Morris of Milwaukee.
The drys contemplate asking for
the passage of the Matheson bill as it
passed the house, with one exception.
They have agreed to the so-called
Cook amendment, which removes that
feature of the bill which gives prohibi-
ton officers power to cast "a person
into Jail for failure to answer any
questions asked by the prohibition
commissioner or his deputy.
r. P. Hutton, superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League of Wisconsin, re-
Gently issued statement in which he
declares that he has 1S out of SO votes
of the senate pledged for the dry en-
forcement bill. An independent cam
vas of the senate would indicate that
Hutton's count is correct. This means
that the Morris amendment will prob
ably be rejected by vote of IL to 10.
aside from few loop holes there
is scarcely any difference in the Nor
ris bill and the Matheson bill, except
as to length" said r. p. Hutton in
statement made public: 1.-THE Morris
bill is so long that it would probably
have to appear in the official newspa-
per as a continued story, end we
should all die of old age before the
last chapter was printed.
"The paramount objection is that It
the senate passes the Norris bill there
will probably be a deadlock with the
assembly, which passed the Matheson
BILL and no bill will be passed. Wis
consin will continue as a ''moonshin-
ers' millennium;" and, since she will
be one of only four or five states with
out an adequate state code, we shall
be advertised through the grapevine
channel as the hoboes' haven and bar
flies bonanza with the result that
the members of those tribes will head
this way from every direction"
That the requests for appropria-
tons for the University Of Wisconsin
for the coming biennium do not con-
template expansion in any depart
ment, except the increase in staff
necessary to take care of the in
creased enrolment; that no further
increase in faculty salaries is planned,
and that the institution is now run
ming with a smaller staff in proper
ton than any time in the past ten
years, are points emphasized by
Business Manager H. j. -Thorkelson
of the university in statement.
"The special session of 1920 enabled
the regents of the University of Wis
consin to place faculty salaries at a
point substantially so per cent above
the salary rate of 1913-14, as COM
pared with an increased cost of living
at that time approximately 100 per
cent" he declared. Although wages
had risen far more than the proposed
salary increase, the regents had no
expectation of attempting to meet the
entire cost of living, but to place sal
aries on permanent basis and ulti-
mately to bring salaries up to par of
1894 as the cost of living declined.
Although foodstuffS are coming down
slowly. and other costs accordingly,
still rent, with the scarcity of build
ing, remains high, but the university
is making no request for further in
creases in salaries, as the session Of
1920 enabled the university to estab-
lish scale comparable with that of
surrounding state institutions.
Comparisons have been made with
other institutions, and budget studies
made by other institutions indicate
that the average of Wisconsin is now
below that of Michigan university and
slightly above that of Minnesota and
Illinois.
1.-The university, however, faces the
problem Of increased expenses due to
the fact that the large influx of stu
dents in 1919, which then affected the
freshman class only, has passed this
year to the sophomore class, and in
the coming biennium will greatly in
crease the attendance in the Junior
and senior classes, where the cost of
instruction is higher than in the fresh
man class.
'"The regents are asking, for 1921
-, a sum of $2,965, 465, and for 1922
% sum of $780,, 200, which means
an increase for 1922 of practically
So per cent over the appropriations
for 192O-21."
Senate Kills Rail Measure