Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-03-27
WISCONSIN SOLONS.


The COMMITTEES on privileges and cleo
tons on Monds.y evening reported the
primary elect On bin to the Assembly for
passage. Some changes are made from
| the original, but the main features of the
bill are retained. the convention being
elimin4ted and the caucus transformed
into primary election One section
which has called out considerable eriti-
cisIn, requiring that the voter at the pri-
mary on being challenged must make
oath that he intends to vote with the
party, is cut ont in the substitute bill,
and the manner of constructing tLa party
platform is left optional with State cen
trail committees. At meetings of the
State central committee each member
is given one vote for each 250 east by his
parry in his county.
The first lineup in the fight over the
primary election bill occurred Tuesday
morning, when Mr.. Stevens, author of
the bill, moved that it be made the spe-
cial order for that evening. Judge Or
ton led the fight against the measure,
urging consideration later in the week
Mr.. Hall favored immediate eonsidera-
ton and the test came on Mr. orion
amendment, which was rejected by a
vote of As TO So At the evening session
the Assembly without any speechmak-
ing voted, 50 to 80. to adopt the subSti-
tute. On vote to engross call of the
House was ordered, and for ore than
an hour nothing was done, the friends of
the bill refusing to adjourn and the OPP
ponents refusing to raise the call.
fAF ha 7 III Ia f,t,.
passed, under suspension of the rules,
| the bill to prevent the appointment of
four Democratic Aldermen in Milwaukee
by Mayor Rose. The Senate passed the
Martin bill for the appointment of a
woman member of the State Board of
University Regents, and advanced to
| third reading the O'Neil bill for woman
member of the State Board of Normal
School Regents. The Whitehead bill pro-
hibiting the docking of horses tails was
also advanced to third reading in the
Senate.
The Stevens primary election bill was
ordered to third reading in the lower
house of the Legislature at I o'clock
Wednesday morning after an all-night
session, during which the house was in
a deadlock. 1t was the hottest contest
| the Wisconsin Legislature has seen for
| generation. Almost all the politicians
of the State We're present, among them
practically all the federal office holders,
who are making an organized fight
agai inst the bill United States Marshal
Tom Reid Of Appleton. United States
Internal Revenue Collector Henry Fink
of Milwaukee, United States District At
| torney w. G.. Wheeler of GAINESVILLE and
United States Revenue Collector ]. G..
Monahan of Darlington were present d.
recting the fight. The House met at s
! o'clock Tuesday night and almost at once
| began consideration of the Stevens bill.
The opponents of the measure began to
flibuster and kept 4 up al night. They
| succeeded in preventing any discussion
of the bill until Assemblyman Sturdevant
arrived on an early morning train. The
| friends of the bill then had Il majority
and the bill was ordered engrossed by a
vote of 81 to Al. In the early morning
hours an alteration arose between Coz
| lector Fink and Assemblyman Andrew,
| the latter Directing to the United States
officials making free with the privileges
of the floor to lobby against the BILL The
trouble resulted in the federal officials
being compelled to retire from the floor.
! The lower house OF the Legislature on
| Thursday killed the Owen bill allowing
| cities to amend the franchises of public
| utility corporations and enable cities to
regulate the rates to be charged by such
companies. The primary election bill was
made a special order in the House for
Friday.