The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-25
BADGER Law MAKING.
An Attempt to Hurry the SoIOns
That Won't Succeed.
SALOONS AND GAMBLING PLACES.

Reform Bills That Embarrass the Timia-
Why the Legislature Won't Visit the
Campus-The Pressure of Corporatior1 =
1 A sparta Lawyers Big Hit-The Gov
ernor's House To BE Made Regal-Race
Track Lobby Fails.
Madison, Wis, March The assem-
bly, has adopted a resolution to adjourn
from day to day until March q, which
means no Sunday aome for the mem
/ bers. IT has been frightened apparent
/ ~ by Speaker Buckstaff' sreminder that
the session costs the taxpayers $4,000
a day and adjournments are an ex-
pe1lsive luxury. He also scolded the
/ committee chairnen for not getting the
! important bills before the legislature.
It is such measures that consume the
/ time of the legislature. The daily ses-
sion beginning at 100 clock in the morn
/ ing and adjourning soon after u o'clock,
one big debate often engages most Of
the time On the other hand routine
bills are often put through at the rate
of twenty an hour
Notwithstanding the resolution, there
is little probability of the assembly
saving wood" on Saturdays and Mon
days When Friday noon comes round
the members are anxious to get to their
business and families; and the mem
/ Der who proposes more work is greet
| ed by shout Of noes" There are
precedents of legislatures staying in
| Madison over one Sunday near the
close of a session; but the Spartan res
olution to buckle down for six days
work a week until March q will prob
ably be rescinded
Would Close Up Saloons.
| The bill to forbid the sale of liquors
within one-half mile of the State uni
! versity and the seven normal schools
of the state comes up for hearing to-
morrow. At a conference Of it's friends
it was decided not to press for high
school limit. President Adams gave So
! to pay for printing the petitions, and
some of the members have declared
/ their intention to support the bill. In
| Madison it would shut up about a
dozen saloons, most of them on State
street, the Pennsylvania avenue" of
| the Capital City. There is a big brew
| y-Haussmann's -that will not be in
| terfered with in the making of the
! amber fluid but it's retail salesroom
would be closed. Some of the normal
| schools are in the heart of their re-
| spective communities and the bill will
| be almost local prohibition. This will
be urged against the bill; also that if
any community wishes to close the sa-
| looms, it can be done by local ordinance.
| The answer is made to this that these
| schools are state institutions and
| their pupils are state charges. lie the
communities will not surround the
young people with proper influences, it
| is the business of the state to do SO.
| Race Track Lobby Fails.
The bill to stop race track gambling
went to third reading in the assem-
bly,, despite the active lobby that la
| bors still to defeat it. The opposition
| managed to get to their feet one-sixth
of the members to demand an aye and
nay vote; and then the task of advanc-
! ing the bill was easy. Many members
! are not averse to a bet on horse race,
/ but when it comes to having their
names sent all over the state as oppos-
ing a bill to suppress gambling, they
weaken. And so many were furious
when it appeared that the roll was to
/ be called and as it was, fourteen had
the nerve to vote nay. Of course the
! Milwaukee delegation stood by Ideal
Park Mr. Barnum of Wausau had a
compromise measure to allow pool SELL
| ing for thirty days each year, but it
failed
/ Mr. Hall, the Dunn county reformer,
is the acknowledged parliamentarian
| of the house and the chair occasionally
asks him publicly his opinion when per-
| picking questions arise. Speaker
| Buckstaff, by the way, is making a
| very satisfactory speaker. Some think
his railroad committee is not as near
| the people as it might be; but generally
speaking, there is satisfaction with his
committees and he conducts himself in
the chair in an impartial manner.
Slated for Senator.
d. F. Jones (and by the way, he mar
ried a SMITH of Sparta is a marked
man and one paper already states him
for a senatorship at Washington some
day. He is a lawyer and a Congrega-
tionaI Sunday school superintendent
He seems to be q fearless laW-maker
! and makes a wonderfully effective
| speech. Almost on the first day he
made a speech, pitching into Halls bill
forbidding free passes, and the thought
less said the railroads had shared him
into their service. Then he made a
rabid temperance speech in connection
with the state fair and the bystanders
concluded that he was free lance
His big HIT however, was the speech
that turned the tide when the attempt
failed to depose the president of the
State university as a regent. Elk
Speaker Keogh of Milwaukee said il
was the best speech he had heard on
the floor for many years.
3 Codd1ing the Farmer Boy.
Mr.. Jones said he didn't want a col
lege president who would fall on the
neck of every farmer boy that drifte6
: into Madison. It recalled Nasby's de-