The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-05-10

the governor The executive has used
his veto power quite freely. The as
sembly voted to reduce the exemptions
of wages from $3.50 (three months) to
$50, but organized labor, by a vote
of II to ID, stopped the bill in the
senate.
Labor Secures Protection.
Apart from the merits or otherwise
of this attempt to better protect mer-
chants from their debtors, it is inter
esting to reflect that few years ago
before the Knights of Labor and like
efforts to make use of organization,
labor had no special representation
in legislative halls beyond the wishes
Of just men to treat labor and all else
ON the square. But it is so no longer.
The representatives of labor are here,
as well as the lobby in the interests
of capital, and ''how members vote"
soon becomes common knowledge in
labor halls over the state. Nor is Ia
Dor highly organized in Wisconsin.
The senate surprised the capitol
loungers the other day by voting a
woman on to the board of control, and
the bill for a woman factory inspector
had only two votes recorded against
it.
-Four years ago gambling was abol-
ished on Wisconsin racetracks and it
was consequently a surprise to note
the assembly willing to restore the
system. The bill has been made pala-
table by providing only a ten days
betting season and limiting the bet
ting to horses Sin harness." This pre-
sumably shuts out running races with
which betting is chiefly associated
though such law would mean in
cursions of toughs and sports of both
sexes as in the palmy days of Ideal
park near Kenosha. Strangely
enough fifty-nine votes were counted
in the assembly to legalize betting.
Fifteen members were either genuine
ly absent or lodged the vote. 1t seems
only right to print the names of the
twenty-six men who stood out in the
open against this most indefenSible
measure: Ainsworth, Babb, Barlow,
Burdeau, Clark, Dodge, Eager, Ella,
Evans, D. Jr., Frost Haggerty, Hall,
Hanson, Henry, Holland, Johnson, f.,
Johnson, H., Krumrey, Rasmussen,
Roe, Stevens, Sturdevant, Swenholt,
Thomas, Whltson, Ray-26.
Sosne Interesting Assemblymen.
Almost without exception our law
makers have served in local Office, as
members of county boards or at least
in the school district. The result is
that the members are well Informed
ON matters Of local cOncern-a large
part of the volume of public business
One member who has held no office
previously (and who had no oppOsi'
tion to his election) is Assemblyman
w. L. Mccormick Of Hayward, Saw.
yer county. He is but rs years of age
and made his first and only speech the
either day on a creek dam bill. His
father was a Minnesota senator in
1891. The young man has had a fine
education-at the Faribault (Minn.,
military school; Andover, Yale, and
took his law at Madison He works
in the bank at Hayward.
Mondovis Lawyer Mayor.
One of the younger lawyers who
has manifested ability is G. w. Gil
man of MOndovi. He is a product Oh
the Madison high school and of the
state university and law school, and
has been very successful in the battle
of life. For six years he has beer
ditrict attorney for Buffalo county
and is now mayor of MOndOvi.
Grantsburg has been made famous
by Ed Peet, the Burnett county edi
tor, and Ole Erickson, the assembly
man from there has been county clerk
for four years. He is working hare
for the immigration board bill. He
was IA years of age when he arrived
from Denmark.
Dr. McComb of Brillion has never
held office previously except as pen
sion examiner and jury commissioner
He is product of Lawrence univer
sity and of Chicago Medical college.
A veteran of the assembly is. the
Welshman, John w. Thomas, of Chip
peWa Falls. He is now completing
his fourth term. He is the head OF
the railroad committee, a just and
effective man with the moderation
that is needed in expressing public
attitude toward these great corpora
lions. At years of age he was an
orphan. He has a craditabie war rec
ord At the Worlds fair he received
first premium on wheat and dairy
butter. 1t would take too long to tell
of the county offices he has he'd and
of his prominence in agriculture (be-
ing on the state board and in local
insurance.
AGrowIns Power in Assembly.
An assemblyman who is developing
very rapidly as a legal adviser is Stur-
devant of Neillsville. He came from
Pennsylvania as a child to Wisconsin
and grew up on the farm, after which
he. taught school. He has been dis