Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-05-16

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woman factory inspector at $1,000 >
year, saying such work was unfit
for women-that they might work in
millinery, dressmaking, drygoods
stores and cooking schools with
propriety but not inspect factories
properly. 1t was concurred in, 43 to
%. The railroad committee reported
an original bill for an anti-pass con.
stitutional amendment and was
passed. The senate bill making the
recent increase in judicial salaries
apply to the judges elected this spring
was concurred in. The increase for
supreme court judges is $1,000 a year
and for circuit judges $500. Mr..
Orion spoke briefly against the Roe
bill requiring private bankers to keep
on hand assets to cover the deposits
of patrons and it was rejecteA 81
to 21.
Madison, May 1O-Veto submitted
and sustained, That was what hap
pened in the senate. Wisconsin
will have no primary election at pres
ent. The so-called Hagemeister plan
has been negatived by executive will.
Gov. La Toilette transmitted a 1000
word message defining his reasons for
withholding approval. In part the
governor says of the Hagemeister
measure: This bill is defective and
faulty in its frame 1t attempts to
supply important, necessary, and
vital provisions nowhere contained in
its context by reference to and incor-
pOration into it's body of portions of
the general election laws of the state.
1t would seem to be not only i'm
pOrtant but absolutely necessary in
order to determine the result that the
votes under this bill should be duly
canvassed by the county and state
boards of canvaSSers. The provisions
of the bill require county canvass to
be made by the county board of can
yassers IL the same manner as the
result of general election is can
vassed. There is no time fixed for
the canvass, no duty imposed upon
the county board to make it, and no
provision by which it can be compelled
to act. He also points out many
other features which he says are in
conflict with laws or are a wholly
uncertain or indefinite character by
the provisions of this bill the board
either of county or of state canvass
ers could annul the entire vote by
either refusing or neglecting to meet
and to canvass it," he says, while
double registration of voters is re-
CURED under this bill, it answers no
apparent purpose. The added expense
necessarily incurred in making this
extra registry is uncalled for and
without Justification The stalwarts
voted solidly to pass the bill over the
governors veto, but as there were
only % senators present, II of whom
voted aye and IL no, the two-thirds
necessary to that action was not OBJ
tanned. The roll call stood: Ayes
Senators Bissell, Devos, Eaton, Gave
ney, Green, Harris, Jones, Kreutzer.
McDonough, Morse, Mosher, O'Neil,
Reynolds, Riordan, Roehr, Whitehead,
Willy-17. Noes-Anson, Burns,
Hatton, Knudson, McGillivray, Martin,
Miller, Mills, Munson, Stebbins, Stout
III. Administrators Jacobs, Weed
and Wolff. The senate concurred in
Assemblyman Overbeck's bill putting
an export duty of 10 cents on ice ship
ped out Of the state and also in the
bill exempting beet sugar factories
from taxation till 1907. Other bills
concurred in were: Millers', creating
the county of Gates out of a part of
Chippewa and providing that an
agent of each party may be present
at the polling place at all times dur
ing any election. Several bills were
non-concurred in: Relating to the
weight of steam engines on roads;
refunding to certain life insurance
companies some $4,000 as taxes; pro-
viding for state text books and pro
viding for the submission Of the ques
ton of uniform text books to the
voters. The Hall bill providing that
poison shall be sold only in three
cornered containers was killed II to
IL, and the Lenroot antitrust bill was
by viva voce vote. The
bill establishing a central system of
accounting was up with an assembly
amendment striking out the clause
allowing the secretary of state and
state treasurer to employ clerks to
help them carry out the provisions
of the act, leaving the employment of
such clerks in the power Of the gov
ernor. Senator Jones made a heated
speech against the amendment and
killed it. He said such a provision
would cast a reflection upon the
honesty of constitutional officers, the
state secretary and treasurer, by al
lowing the governor to set some one
over them to supervise their work. He
seized the opportunity to score Gov. |
Ia Follette's veto Of the Hagemeister |
bill The governor vetoed the bill re- |
jealing an act passed in 1893, author |
zing E. S. Hammond to improve Lost |
:reek in Sawyer county. The claims |
committee made a report showing |
hat the total appropriations asked |
or during the session were Sass
Al; deductions by committee $733,27S
The committee estimates that there /