Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-04-11
LEGISLATIVE DOINGS.


Though the legislative week has
been a short one, it has been live
ly. The members of both houses
came back last Wednesday eve
ming from their election vacation
possessed with the spirit of work,
and they went about it in good
earnest.
The anti-cigarette proposition
came up on Thursday morning
for engrossment and third read
ing. The Judiciary committee
had reported it for passage, but
with four members dissenting.
Upon motion the roll was called
and the bill was lost by vote of
Is to -.
| Last Wednesday evening Gov
ernor LaFoIlette sent in bunch
of five vetos, the largest number,
it is said, ever sent in by any
governor. He gave such good
reasons for his action that it is
not likely the legislature will un
dertake to pass any of the bills
over his veto.
The bill apportioning the state
into assembly districts has passed
both houses. The Senate under
dertook an amendment to make
two sure republican districts in
Brown county, one being about
the shape of a horseshoe. But
the Assembly declined by an al
most unanimous vote to agree to
the slightest semblance Of
a gerrymander. Judge Orton
and other republican leaders
spoke in positive terms against
taking any unfair advantage of
the minority.
| The bill to license BARRIERS has
passed the Assembly and it will,
! I presume, get through the Sen
ate; and then Barber Smith will
be quite likely to sign his name
| Professor Smith. It begins to
look as if dancing masters too,
will have to be licensed, but the
bill providing for it has been
amended as to inclcde teachers of
delsarte and rythemic art. The
| fine for violation is fixed at from
1875 to $50 or three months in the
county jail. | suspect though;
| that one house or the other will
have the good sense to kill the
bill.
! The substitute for the Stevens
primary election bill is made
special order for next Wednesday
evening. A resolution was intro
duced last Friday morning in
structing the committee on privil-
edges and election in the Senate
to report Senator Miller's bill No.
73S word for word like the orig
| inal Stevens bill-not later then
that evening was passed Is to IL.
This is considered by the oppe-
nents of both bills to have been a
test vote on the principle in
volved, and they are rejoicing.
Two Senators, Morse and Jacobs
we're absent that morning and
they too, are against the bill.
This supposes that the substitute
Stdvens bill will be defeated next
Wednesday evening by vote OF
| 20 to Is. But some OF the
friends of the measure yet insist
that last Friday mornings vote is
| no test, and that the bill will be
passed the coming week by a vote
of II to Is.
Both the Miller and the Stevens
substitute bill have been reported
by the senate committee without
recommendation. Senators Mil
| Ter and Martin are in favor,
Whitehead and Jones opposed
and Hatton, chairman, occupies
amid the ground. Mr.. Hatton
has not seen fit to say much about
what he thinks, but he told me
yesterday that / might say for
him that he is in favor of primary
election in counties, in nomina
ton of members to both houses
of the legislature. and in choice
of delegates to both congressional
and state conventions, hut
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