Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-03-19

week was the four hour speech b.
Senator William NJ Smith of NeilL
Vile against the employment {
ruthless railroading methods t
hasten onward the administration
S12,000,000 tax bill. Not within tn
memory of the present generatio
not indeed for 4 years-has sue.
sustained argument. been mad,
in the Wisconsin capitol. Senate
Smith effectively achieved bis end
that is, he prevented the "ll fron
being TANNED through 1mmarily
with a new imprinted 4endmen
pending. That was tn obvious
intention OF the proponents Of tn
measure. The bald plan was clear
and Senator Smith defeated it by
gaining the floor at a critical nom
cnt and deliberately talking the ma
jority into a conciliatory mood. He
may not have prevented ,he ulti
mate passage of the bill, but he dl
gain a coveted week for its quiet
study and analysis by o. cnen.s
and advocate Gh@e; and mat was
all he was al ai
Lobbies ana galleries we're pack
od,-hotels deserted and such was
the condition until lo"g D2ld
night 1t was az et.u per-
Torrance by this nod Upstate
business man, ,ud he cam through
the heroic elort smiling, fresh
ready to talk longer hut the oppo-
sition was grog1y, willing to call it
quits and III good sportsmen.
some OF them afterwards sided oy.
or cordially to congratulate the
speaker on his achievement Much
clever repartee ran through the de
bate, and the audience was vastly
entertained. Solons from the 9th
or house crowded the chamber
The talk was almost wholly eX-
temporaneous. Few notes were us
ed, and only three or four short
quotations, the longest from a re-
port by the state tax commission,
The presiding officer once let slip
the 7u 'flibustering," and forth
with Naa politely solicited to re-
peat the observation, which Senator
Smith innocently pretended not to
have heard! Yet, forsOoth it was
indeed nothing less than a subtle
instance of stalling,-but in a just
cause There really was no valid
excuse for employing the steam
roller there was and is reason err
ough for the longest and most in-
tonsive study of a question altogeth
err the most vital this legislature
will be called upon to consider. The
session is by no means in it's final
stages yet. Senator Smith-well,
many a man has been on his way
to the governorship by reason of
gesture no more striking.
50 y -
Still another eight hour bill, and,
as usual, from Assemblyman 0. c..
Olson, Milwaukee socialist. 1t PR.
vldes that mo employee in any state
or county institution" shall be re-
Quired or permitted to work more
than eight hours in any one day,
except in cases of extraordinary
emergencies. The phrase extra
ordinary emergencies" is interpret,
ed to include "only such rs grow
ont If HE necessity protecting
property OF human If When en-,
dangered by reason OF az attack by
the public enemy or endangered
from fire, FLOOD or storm" One per.
haps may even at this distance vag
uely sense the stentorian snort
heard from county board members
all over the commonwealth,
* * *
JohI T. Donaghey, state highway
engineer, thinks the new highway
law is the "fairest, most elastic
and comprehensive higl way hnanc-
ing Of any s,as n the middle
west" The law rovides a high
way fund Of aboa. $15,0"0,o00 as
follows
1st.- BY The ~ sc al tax
license fee, which onlnueG
This is estimeled to produce IS
10000 a year.
2d.-By AK Of two cents ga,
ion or gaso ne sold in the state.
This viii pa &c $4S80,OO0
Throc-a federal aid funds
received by the state, about $4,000
600 a year.
Mr. Donaghey points out that the
present law produces as much as
will be raised under the new law
with the difference that $7,44S,000
was raised by direct taxation while
the new law will tax all highway
costs on automobile owners.
"A few newspapers in the state
appear to have gained the impress
sion , ne bill provides for a de-