Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-04-30

Oh implements ana on storage
buildings, special crop insurance
and any other costs. This infor-
nation is to be published by the
agricultural experiment station,
and must include the character Of
the season as to weather conditions
and is to be ready for the printer
within three months after the close
of the accounting year. Wide dis
tribution is authorized.
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After devitalizing a bill for the
establishment of an old age pen
sion system optional with the coun-
ties, the assembly advanced the
measure to engrOssment, II to 25
The act provides that no county
can adopt the plan except by two
thirds vote of the county board.
INDECENT persons who have lived
in the county for over fifteen years,
over 70 years of age, may be grant
ed a pension Of 81 a day, the eX
pense to be shared equally by state
and county Inmates of private
charitable institutions are not eli
gible for the award, though a signi-
ficant fight, suspiciously eccleSiasti-
cal, was made to permit such per-
sons to secure the dole, presump-
lively to pass it over at once to the
institutions. Mrs. Helen M.
Brooks, of the Green Lake Waush
ara district, herself a Methodist,
was one who fearlessly called at
tention to this phase of the case
and to the fact that the estates of
inmates in the Methodist homes at
least, must go to such homes, pen
sions and all. Two of the dehorn-
ing amendments are due to Paul H.
Raihle of Chippewa. He inaugu-
rated the needful crusade against
the bill Assemblyman Robert
Caldwell Of Lodi bitterly character
lied such legislation as the worst
ever presented to a Wisconsin leg
islature. He demanded an eye
and nay vote, declaring every mem
Der should be put on record as
no for
those favoring such measure.
Other legislatures, he said, would
reduce the age to 65 or 60 years,
increase the amount and make it
compulsory upon counties to adopt
the pernicious system. The SEN
ate at once acquiesced in the as
sembly amendments and just about
the time this is read the bill will
have been signed, published and
become a law. County boards, at
their first sessions, probably will
proceed, by resolution, formally to
repudiate the innovation. The
charge has been made that it is
projected for Milwaukee radicals.
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The senate passed bill intro.
duced by Senator Herman j. Sever.
son of lola which will prevent the
prom and military ball being held
in the state house. The measure
prohibits any function, whether So
cial or otherwise, in the capital
when a charge is demanded. Pro
badly no where else or this con-
tinent have balls been given in so
magnificent environment. 1t L1ay
be feared that the assembly will
concur
BY vote of II to z the house
concurred in the Sauthoff reSolu-
ton asking the president 10 direct
the state department not to foster
financial arrangements between
citizens of this country and foreign
governments, which might lead to
"any form of military Intervention"
Senator Sauthoff, addressing the
assembly, told of the many millions
used to corrupt the press to adyo-
cate the world war-a charge abb
surd enough whatever the source.
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A referendum by which voters
of Wisconsin will at the general
election in 1926 express their atti-
tude on the question of amending
the Volstead law to permit 2.75 per
cent beer was approved by the sen
ate. 10 to 10. The house is apt to
concur.
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A salary of $4,000 is authorized
| for the governor in proposed con
stitutional amendment, but it must
not be assumed that his present
compensation of $4,000 represents