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Prescott Journal
Prescott, Pierce County, Saint Croix County, Wisconsin
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The Senate passed a bill repealing the law providing bounties for destroying wolves, foxes, and wildcats, despite Senator Ives' speech advocating for his constituents in the 28th senatorial district. The repeal addresses rising state expenditures, estimated at $15,000 for the next year, amid claims of wolf-growing businesses.
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A bill has already passed the Senate repealing the law giving bounty for the destruction of wolves, foxes and wildcats. Senator Ives made a speech against the repeal of the act in which he pled the cause of his wolf-killing constituents in terms full of eloquence and pathos. He represented that it was the only means by which the people of his district, situated as they were so far from the State Capital, could get a few crumbs from the public treasury, and to cut off this pap would be unfair, unjust and a gross outrage upon the law abiding citizens of the 28th senatorial district. But alas, the senator's appeal was in vain and the bill passed. These wolf bounties are becoming quite an item in the state expenditures. The Secretary of State estimates that if the present law remains about $15,000 will be required to pay these bounties during the next year.
So great has been this increase that some pretend to say there are persons engaged in the business of wolf growing—a vocation we should judge to be not without profit.
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bill passed repealing the bounty law; estimated $15,000 in state expenditures if law remained.
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A bill repealing the bounty law for wolves, foxes, and wildcats passed the Senate despite Senator Ives' speech pleading for his constituents in the 28th senatorial district, who rely on it for support from the public treasury. The repeal is due to increasing expenditures on bounties.