The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-05-17
LAWMAKERS CO HOME.
Sessions This Week Will Be
Attended by Few Mem.
bers.
CHAOS MARKS THE CLOSING
Senators RetaIiate for Governor La
Enact Primary Elections.

Madison, Wis, May 1.-THE sine
die adjournment Of the legislature is
tomorrow "wednesday at noon.
Practically the end was last Satur
day noon, three days being allowed
the governor to consider bills passed
by both branches. However, the SEES
siOns this week are of a dozen mem
bers or so only, who go through the
form Of meeting and adjourning.
The close Saturday was in keeping
with the whole unsatisfactory session.
Members nave been leaving for two
or three days without permission, and
there was no quorum in the assem-
bly, for some hours before the noon
adjournment. By passing the word
not to question the presence of a quOr-
UNI, however, the issue was not
raised and number Of bills got
through that way Where apprOpria-
tiOns are involved there must be at
least sixty assemblymen voting and
tWCnty-One senators. Therefore, the
only way to pass such bills, as to
which the two branches had been
Wrangling, was for one or both
branches TO recede or adhere to
amendments bringing the disagree
ment back to some common point of
agreement at which the bill was in
form to go to the governor for action.
The bill establishing a $4,000 for
estry system failed through lack Of a
sufficient attendance in the assembly
to pass bills involving an apprOpria-
ton
Uniform Bookkeeping Established.
1t is Il cause for cOngratulatiOn that
the BartZ-Gilman system Of uniform
state accounting is enacted by law.
For this Governor Schofield should
long be remembered, and in the plan
Governor LaFOllette has heartily
joined. The senate resisted the form
of the bill which allowed Governor
LaFOllette to name help necessary in
setting the plan in operation, until in
the last half hour of Saturdays ses-
sion it appeared the bill must become
q law in that form or not at all. Then,
the only time during the winter, did
flowers bloom over the party wall.
Dan Starkey, The Sentiners popular
writer, took Long" Jones by the
shoulder and told him the senate must
yield and Jones allowed the point.
Jones said with a despairing surren-
der, I'm willing; you may do it,
WiscOnsin's Eleven congressman.
The congressional appOrtiOnment
went through with less friction then
was supposed. although state sena-
tors from the extreme nOrth-RiOrdan,
Kreutzer and O'Neil-did not like the
tinkering with their districts. Con-
gresham Barney of West Bend has
been selected as the victim for sacri-
Il, l. 49,
to 90 Democratic have been thrown
into this region. The new eleventh
district is in the northern part of the
state. The appOrtiOnment was a con-
fessed effort to get all possible for
the dominant Republican party, as
all appointments are, keeping with
in safe distance of an upset by the
supreme court
Insurance OH State Property.
AS for insurance on public build
ings, while Governor LaFollette ad-
vised against it, the legislature leaves
things in such shape that he may or
may not insure There was some OPP
position to freeing beet sugar plants
from taxation, but so much has been
said Of the new industry that the con-
cessiOn was made. There are occa-
sional plums in the way of fresh legis-
latiOn one being the creation of a
state live stock sanitary board which
will grant So a day for expenses to
some experts. The gentlemen who
are prominent in the legislature in
this state understand easy things of
this sort, though in this case the pay
is not large enough to fatten on.
The geological survey must work
iah
that little work in the field can be
done A number of sessions have de-
MED the application to establish a
lighting plant for the capitol build
ing, but this year $500 is appropri-
ated.
Judge Orton's bill restoring capital
punishment did not get far Another
bill that fell down was one providing
twelve aldermen at large for the city
of Milwaukee. 1t looked at one time
as if this reform on which the Nation
al league has long laid stress, would
be effected. By electing aldermen at
large the ward pull is broken up
and the full city electorate select and
elect the men who must therefore en-
joy city distinction. Boston has the
plan and some think that in itself it
Is enough to regenerate a municipal
ity, but it is not to be the law this
year.
In the last few days many bills
which have attracted wide attention
and threatened passage were knocked
in the head. One of them was the
pool bill. a measure legalizing gam
bling. The senate made this happy
stroke of defeat and the question of
which was the more virtuous body
the anti-primary election senate or the
primary election assembly-has been
.jocularly discussed in the upper body.
The fact that certain assemblymen
should have voted for this gambling
measure is a reminder that most any
thing may be expected of new mem
bers.
New Members Easily Misled.
The fact is that they are like new
boys at a boarding school. Men are
but children grown" Boys think that
to be tough is to be manly, and Sc
sometimes one will see a country
member, who is a good churchman at
home. vote reckIessly on measures
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