Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-04-03
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Inc anJl-nat cruSade prevailed IN
California. The Kelsey law just
passed by the Assembly by vote of
48 to IA prescrlbes the payment of
damages not to exceed $50 to the per-
son aggrieyed and the payment of
fine of $25 in addition. with the alter
native of Imprisonment. A similar law
has been enacted in Nebraska Other
anti-hat bills introduced were the De
Reign bill, in Missouri, the Duncan
bill, in New Jersey, and the Jones
bill, in Illinois, but none of these have
yet become laws. Three of these
measures were brought out the same
week, without apparent concert in their
authors.
Another sensational measure of this
session at Albany, the Gerry Whip
ping-Post bill, comes under the same
head of female legislation, but repre-
sents the opposite tendency. the desire
to propitiate the feminine element
whose Jealous efforts to achieve the
franchise were defeated by last years
Constitutional Convention, but have
just been satisfied by the Assembly.
This measure, which prescribed a pub.
lie whipping for the brutes who beat
their wives and assault little children,
passed the Senate and was defeated
this week by a narrow margin in the
House.
In contrast with the action of Colo
RADIO is the proposition of Representa-
tive Julian, of Missouri, who tried to
put bill through the House imposing
tax on bachelors and fixing by law
the limit when man ceased to be
boy. He is candidate for reelection.
The bill which was smothered in the
Oregon Legislature and which taxes
every male wearing a queue is inciden-
tally sop to womankind and directly
a slap at Mongol immigration.
A Connecticut statesman has a pet
measure which would compel parents
to name children within three days
after birth. If the legal limit were
extended in the other direction, the
Nutmeg State would perhaps get rid of
much Of its peculiar and unpleasantly
characteristic nomenclature.
Another measure which no friendly
brain has devised is an attempt to
limit by law to $3.50 the amount Of
damages fair plaintiff may collect
for kiss stolen without her permits
sion. 1t is the work of an Indiana
State Senator, and bears this innocent
title: "a bill for an act to reimburse
Louis Haas in the sum of $3.50 paid
| ;,,Rn fho NV to1~ o,,d do
claring an emergency" 1t was favor
ably reported by the Senate Commit
tee, but expired with the death of the
Legislature. This bit of abortive
spleen will go ON record with the bills
to prohibit hoop-skirts and Mother
Hubbard dresses which several years
ago adorned the calendars respectively
of the Minnesota and Iowa Legisla-
lures M
Not content with opening the doors
to prize fighting, Oklahoma Territory
has made quick divorce quicker and
now Judgment takes effect within ten
days. with no appeal. 1t is freely
prophesied that the cattle thieves and
train bandits of the new Territory
will, ere long, find their surroundings
entirely congenial. At any rate their
representatives appear to have executed
the popular mandates.
The battle for laxer divorce laws
was also fought in South Dakota, but
there it was complicated with the
woman suffrage issue, and both went
down together. 1t was significant that
the defeat of the suffrage measure was
Immediately followed by the over
throw of the attempt to shorten the
time of residence in the State necessary
to sue for divorce. The explanation
is that the leaders of the woman's
movement avenged their discontinue
by blocking the measure that would
have given men greater freedom.
The crest of the wave of woman's
suffrage which swept eastward from
| the mountain barriers of Wyoming
several years ago struck an obstacle in
this State last summer, but overcame
it last Thursday. The wave dashed on
into New England, and, within fort
night, one of its cross currents sub
merged the lower house of the Maine
Legislature which pronounced for
female suffrage. Another breaker
came to grief in the Massachusetts
House of Representatives. which de-
feated similar bill by vote of 1s7
to 81.
Female influence in legislation was
exemplified not long ago in the expul-
sion Of woman lobbyist from an In
dianapolis hotel. Senator Solomon
last Tuesday presented resolution at
Springfield. asking for an investigation
into Chicago's big department stores
which he charged were injurious to
public morality"
The book of this years legislation is
closing and the field is open for the
trenchant pen of another Aristophanes.
But perhaps the subject will lend
itself more easily to farce comedy than
polite satire B. F., in Mail and
Express.