Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-04-01
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 dissenting vote, and
the one of Senator O'Neil calling for
La woman member of the board OF nor
NAL regents was ordered engrossed.
j Senator Whitehead's bill, forbidding
mutilation of horses by docking, was
also engrossed.
i All Night Session.
The assembly held the most remark
able session in a quarter century,
meeting at 7:3O in the evening yester-
day and not adjourning till after Z
this morning. The struggle was over
the primary election bill. At the morn
ing session Mr. Stevens made a mo-
ton that the measure be made a
special order for 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
it's report should be. That was wise,
but he doubted whether 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 member of the as
sembly he was DESTROYS of doing moth
! ing but what was fair and for the pub
i lie good and he objected to so speedy
a hearing. He had seen the bill only
i 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 vote of 48 to
SO refused to adopt Orton's proposal.
Then the Stevens motion prevailed
vive 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,
McGill, Mcmillan, Manuel, Middleton,
| Overlook, Park, Rank, Roe, Rogers,
Root, Rossman Sarau, Smalley,
Steiger, Stevens, Swenholt, Thomas,
Valentine, Whitson, Willott, Young,
linn and Rays.
i 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,
II Slade, Smith, Soltwedel, Spratt,
Thiessenhusen E. A. Williams, and J.
~. sNflI1lduu
This showed the La Toilette men in
control, and the opposition began to
filibuster. e. A. Williams of Neenah
made motion for call of the mouse.
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 raise
the call. The motion to adjourn was
voted down by the friends of the bill,
and the motion to raise the call was
voted down by the opposition. This
state of affairs was made possible
hby the parliamentary rules which per-
nit an adjournment to be taken upon
a majority vote Of those present, but
willsnot allow the call of the house to
be lifted without 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
it's total 40 or two short of the re-
quired number, the motion was lost
Then the motion to adjourn was put,
but that side of the contest did not
have a 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 Sc, to Il.
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 postures as time dragged slowly
on. During the previous session a
senate bill was concurred in authoriz-
ing special election in Milwaukee to
choose aldermen in three new wards
thus preventing Nthe mayor from ap-
pointing democrats. Senator Roehr's
resolutions for constitutional amend