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i i nr a ri mi THE CAPITAL TIMES, Thursday, Mar. 29, 19733 badger mm High Court Race Tests Anti-Lawyer Tide in Chrome DIRECTOR'S CHAIR more rigid requirements for parole, and capital punishment for treason, hijacking, kidnaping and slaying policemen. He said he could favor the call for stronger dope-peddling penalties and for stronger parole guidelines. But he is personally opposed to imposition of capital punishment, he said. If there is any one issue on which Beilfuss and Beaudry have differed specifically, it may be their approaches to reform.

Beilfuss stresses the legislative approach to making changes. Beaudry, at least in the field of probate, blames court rulings for allowing the legal profession to set high fee schedules and contends it is a Supreme Court matter. being relayed from lower courts to the Supreme Court and ease the higher courts work load. He also cited proposed consolidation of the states ten-dem systems of 126 county judges and 53 Circuit Court judges. Beilfuss said he likes the idea of replacing municipal courts and justices of the peace with ordinance-type courts to process uncontested cases, which he said represent about 85 per cent of societys violations.

Beilfuss, schooled in Neills-ville and graduated from the University of Wisconsin, has his own degree of familiarity with politics and populist issues. He was elected to offices in Clark County in the 1940s, and was elected to Circuit Court in the 1950s. He has heard cases as a judge in 55 of Wisconsins 71 counties. He was able to comment when President Nixon recently demanded stronger penalties for drug peddling, Id like to buy your car or take it in trade. Brace Beilfuss the legislature should adopt provisions under which heirs can dispose of small estates more easily.

He too favors no-fault insurance to expedite settlement of minor traffic accidents and assure victims of swift compensation, he said, adding this also is a legislative matter. Belilfuss drew the line, however, at censuring the legal profession although a small, small minority may be abusing the systems privileges. Discussion of judicial reform is more to the temperament of Beilfuss campaign. In a recent LaCrosse interview, he said many changes proposed byagovernors study committee could benefit the system as well as the citizen. He cited a proposal for an appellate court, which would intercept some of the matters Shop Our 3 Complete Floors of Fine Furnituro Open Mon.

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SEYMOUR MILWAUKEE GB Court reform and disenchantment with the legal profession are sharing a campaign trail marked with an appropriate road sign: the Wisconsin Supreme Court election April 3. Justice Bruce F. Beilfuss, 58, having been with the court for a decade, speaks warmly of judicial reform as he conducts a quiet campaign for re-election. His challenger is Robert J. Beaudry, 52, a West Allis lawyer who has used the campaign as a forum for probate reform, no-fault auto insurance, popular 1 i of judges, direct appeal to the court for citizens, and greater state supervision of the legal profession.

The goal is a 10-year term, paying $28,000 annually. It has not been a campaign in which the candidates have especially debated each other. Rather, they have been beating separate drums, Beaudry strenuously and Beilfuss gently. The contrast is understandable. Beaudry, Milwaukee County Democratic chairman in 1961, is an old hand at the political-campaign approach.

Beilfuss has spent a quarter century on the bench and radiates the calm image of a refined jurist. Their discussions of judicial needs and reforms have overshadowed even Beaudrys recent run-in with the court over a clients will, an ironical note in that he lists probate reform as the No. 1 topic in his campaign. He was reprimanded by the court in 1971 and was ordered to pay $2,500 in court costs after being named chief beneficiary of a Milwaukee womans $50,000 estate. The Legislature is currently thick in bills calling for probate reform, no-fault auto insurance and curtailment of a system which critics say allows the legal profession to deman exorbitant fees.

JIM JOHNSON general used car ales manager Robert Beaudry Politically atuned Beaudry said the Supreme Court justices should establish a peoples bar association just as they have established a lawyers bar association. The peoples association, he said, would choose half the i of the State Board of Bar Commissioners, which is supposed to review grievances against lawyers. It once cited Beaudry. The commissioners rather than the bar should set limits on lawyer fees, he said. Beaudry insists his arguments are not aimed at individual lawyers, but at the system to which they are chained.

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