Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-03-28
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

congress urging the passage OF the
Cullom interstate commerce bill.
Senator Martins bill for a woman on
the board of university regents was
passed without a dissenting vote, and
the one of Senator O'Nen calling for
woman member of the board of nor
NAL regents was ordered engrossed.
Senator Whiteheads bill, forbidding
mutilation of horses by docking, was
also engrossed.
All Night Session.
The assembly held the most remark
able session in quarter century,
meeting at 7:30 in the evening yester-
day and not adjouTning till after
this morning The struggle was over
| the primary election bill. At the morn
| ing session Mr.. Stevens made mo-
! ton that the measure be made
| special order for s o'clock in the even
ing. Mr.. Orion objected. He was
glad, he said, that the committee had
| reported the bill and that it had eX-
! ercised great deliberation as to what
its report should be. That was wise.
but he doubted Wheeler the matter
should be passed at this time. The
bill had just come in and he person
ally had heard very little of the eX-
tended consideration that had been
given it. AS a member of the as
sembly he was DESTROYS of doing moth
ing but what was fair and for the pub
lie good and he objected to so speedy
a hearing. He had seen the bill only
last night and had been led to believe
that it would not be reported till the
latter part Of this week. To fix the
hearing so soon would not give an
opportunity to prepare for the discus
sion. He moved to amend by making
the time this evening. But Messrs
Hall and Stevens would hear to no de-
lay and the house by a vote of 4S to
80 refused to adopt Orton's proposal
Then the Stevens motion prevailed
yive voce. So at night test vote came
early upon the question of adopting
the amendment to the bill as reported
by the committee. The question was
put and not word was said for or
against the bill When the clerk
called the roll the vote resulted So for
the adoption and 80 against as fol-
lows:
Ayes-Ainsworth, Anderson, An
drew, Babb, Brunson, Cady, Clark,
Coapman, Cook, Dahl, Duerrwaechter,
Erickson, David Evans, Fenelon,
; Frost, Galway, Gilman. Haggerty,
Hall, Hanson. Henry, Hodgins, Hol-
land, F. Johnson. H. Johnson, Jones,
Krumrey, Lane, Lenroot, Mccormick,
McGin, Mcmillan, Manuel, Middleton,
Overlook, Park, Rank, Roe, Rogers,
Root, Rossman Sarau, Smalley,
Steiger, Stevens, Swenholt, Thomas.
Valentine, Whitson, Willott Young,
linn and Rays
Noes-Barker, Benson, Burdeau,
Cleophas, Collins, Dodge, Dow, Eager,
Ella, Eline, E. w. Evans, Fesenfeld,
Flaherty, Gagnon, Gavin, Hartung,
Jensen, Johnson, Karel, Katz, Keene.
McCabe, McComb, Meloney, Miner,
Moron, Orion, Owen, Pomrening, Ras-
mussen, Schellenberg, Silkworth,
Slade, Smith, Soltwedel, Spratt.
Thiessenhusen E. A. Williams, and J.
c. Williams-39.
This showed the La Toilette men in
control, and the opposition began to
hllbuster E. A Williams of Neenah
made motion for a call of the house.
1t only requires the votes of Is
members to secure this and when this
was once on the only motions which
by the rules Of the house, were in
: order were: to adjourn, and to raise
7 the call. The motion to adjourn was
voted down by the friends of the bill,
5 and the motion to raise the call was
voted down by the opposition. This
state of affairs was made possible
by the parliamentary rules which per-
NIT an adjournment to be taken upon
majority vote of those present, but
, will not allow the call of the house to
be lifted without a majority vote Of
; all the electoral members There
were seven absentees, and when, on
the motion to suspend the call being
put the bill lost four votes, making
Its total 40 or two short of the re-
CURED number, the motion was lost.
Then the motion to adjourn was put,
!, but that side of the contest did not
have majority of the votes of those
present. The contest was on And
without any more voting it stayed on
an absolute deadlock, with neither
side willing to yield till morning when
a break came and the bill was ordered
engrossed. The vote was IS to Al.
NOW the bill cannot be amended in the
assembly except by unanimous con-
sent. During the all-night session no
member was allowed to leave the
chamber and coffee and lunches were
brought in to the solons, many of
whom drowsed in all manner of places
and pastures as time dragged slowly
on. During the previous session
senate bill was concurred in authoriz.
Ing special election in Milwaukee to
choose aldermen in three new wards
thus preventing the mayor from ap.
pointing democrats. Senator Roehr's
resolutions for constitutional amend
ments for an election on and a revi-
sion of the banking law was concurred
IN. The same action was had on Sen
ator Whitehead's bill permitting local
mutual fire insurance companies to do
business for 100 miles roundabout
but IN not to exceed eight counties.
| The assembly was too weary with
It's aH-night exploit to hold a day
session but at night there was an
! other lively skirmish when the COM
mlttee on engrossment failed to in