Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-26
WISCONSIN S0LONS.


The Senate oil Thuas6ay ordered en-
crossed the bill providing Tor tie appoint
ment of one woman ON the State board
of. university regents by vote of q To
10. The bill viii now pass the upper
house, and stands strong chance OF
passing in the lower. The Senate passed
the bill fixing the salary of the Milwau-
kee chief of police ut $1,000 Il year
The committee on privileges and cleo
tions on Monday evening reported the
primary election bill to the Assembly for
passage. Some changes are made from
the original, but the main features of the
bill are retained, the convention being
eliminated and the caucus transformed
into a primary election. One section
which has called out considerable crit
cism, requiring that the voter at he pri-
mary on being challenged must mako
oath that he intends to vote with the
party. is cut out in the substitute bin,
and the manner of constructing the party
platform is left optional with State con-
trail committees. At meetings of the
State central committee each member
is given one vote for each 80 cast by his
party 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 considera-
ton and the test came on Mr.. Orion -
amendment, which was rejected by Il
vote of IS to 80 At the evening session
the Assembly without any speechmak
ing voted, 80 to So, TO adopt the subSti-
tute. On vote to engross a call of the
House was ordered, and for more than
an hour nothing was done. the friends of
the bill refusing to adjourn and the OPP
ponents refusing to raise the call
The lower house of the Legislature
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 n 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 Z o'clock
"Wednesday morning after an all-night
session, during which thG house was in
deadlock. 1t was the hottest contest
the Wisconsin Legislature has seen for
generation. Almost all the politicians
of the State were present, among them
practically all the federal office holders.
who are making an organized fight
against 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 j. G..
Monahan of Darlington were present di-
recting the fight The House met at $
o'clock Tuesday night and almost at once
began consideration of the Stevens bill.
The opponents of the measure began to
flibuster and kept it up all night. They
succeeded in preventing any discussion
of the bill until ASsembyman SturdCvant
arrived on an early morning train. The
friends of the bill then had majority
and the bill was ordered cngrOsscd by
vote of 56 to fl. In the early morning
hours an alteration arose between Col
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.