Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-05-20
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LEGISLATURE

Madison Wis-Improved conditions
are assured at the charitable and penal
institutions Of the state by the pro-
visions of the appropriation bill, which
has just been agreed upon, for the
support and upbuldng of the several
institutions. The board did not obtain
an ii asked to make the institutions
ideal" but the finance committee has
granted every request made by the
board which its members considered
urgent" There will be an increase
of nearly 100000 annually in the oper-
aung of tile institution.
Extensive building improvements are
20 be made at the school for depen-
dent children at Sparta, at the north
en colony and training school ut Chip
pewa Falls, at the southern colony ut
Union Grove and Tumahawk lake
tuberculosis camp. other institutions
where capital improvements are to be
made at home for women at Taychee-
dah, prison at Waupun, Wales sani-
tarium and the Mendoza hospital.
An of the old building uppropria-
lions made to The board Of control,
which have not been used, because
found adequate have been reappropri-
ated. During the last sixteen years
appropriations aggregating $470,202
have been made, hut because they were
insufficient to erect the buildings pro-
posed, have been held up. These old
appropriations have been reyamped so
that this money is available for build
ing projects in new form and the com
mittee has authorized an additional
building sum Of $237, 1913 This revised
policy, approved by the finance com
mittee at the suggestion of the board
of control, will make possible over
100000 for building Improvements at
the several institutions
The annual amount granted for oper-
alton is 81, 13G,595. This is about $780,
600 more than was spent the past
year to operate the institutions and
is less than the amount requested by
the board to operate the institutions
"ideally.' This increase of operating
expense assures an Improvement in
food, hospital treatment and care, ac-
cording to statements Of board of CON
troll members, when the bill was up
for hearing.
Governors Veto Threatened
The governors veto Of the 5000 600
conservation commission appropriation
came within a vote of being wiped out
I'm the senate. The vote was u to II
to sustain the veto, one vote less than
the necessary two-thirds required to
override the diSapproval
Senator Sauthof of Madison led the
fight 20 put the bill over in spite of
the governors disapproval. Gov
Blaine's contention was that the meas
ure practically doubled the appropria-
tion and that it was excessive.
Dances Co on in Capitol
Dancing in the Wisconsin capitol
building apparently will be unchecked
by the legislature The assembly de-
feated the Seyerson bill to bar enter
tainments at which admission is
charged and to which the public is
not invited. The vote on nonconcur-
renee was IS to 10
The governor has vetoed bill pro-
viding that a person giving a check
without funds in the bank in payment
of past due obligation could be fined
and imprisoned. The giving of checks
without funds is punishable now in
cases where it is found to have been
done for fraudulent reasons Gov
Blaine declared the additional statute
unnecessary
Senate Orders Cheese Probe
The senate has adopted Il resolution
calling on the attorney general and
state dairy and food commissioner to
investigate and prosecute any process
cheese manufacturers found violating
the state law in regard to the manu-
facture of process cheese. The vote
was unanimous.
The Barber bill extending the eu-
genie law to women weathered sharp
attack by Senator John T.. eastman,
who asked for reconsideration of the
vote by which the bill had been passed.
Senator eastman referred to it as
an insult to Wisconsin womanhood.
Thirteen senators voted for reconsid-
Grafton and Ii against.
Now it is up to the assembly to say
whether women shall be examined the
same as men before they can he mar
ried in Wisconsin.
Assembly Favors Height Repeal
Repeal of the state law limiting the
height of buildings to rs feet was APP
proved by the assembly, when it en-
crossed the Prescott bill to remove the
height restrictions. The vote was sc
co %.
The Prescott bill was engrossed after
q hard fight, during which the social
lists, as a init battled against the bill
10 remove the state limitations on re
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