The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-05-16
LAWMAKERS GO home.
Sessions This Week Will Be
Attended by Few Mem.
bers.
CHAOS MARKS THE CLOSING
Senators RetaIiate for Governor La
FoIlette's Structures on Failure to
Enact Primary Elections.

Madison, Wis, May 14.-The sine
die adjournment Of the legislature is
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 men,
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 quor-
UNI. however, the issue was not
raised and a number of bills got
| through that way. Where appropria-
lions are involved there must be at
| least sixty assemblymen voting and
| twenty-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 $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.
It is a cause for congratulation that
| the Bartz- Gilman system of uniform
state accounting is enacted by law.
For this Governor Schofeld 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
| 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 Sentinel's 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'Nei1-did not like the
tinkering with their districts. Con-
gresham Barney of West Bend has
been selected as the victim for sacri-
| fee and the counties which threaten
| to go 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. us
Insurance on State Property
AS for insurance on public build
! ings, while Governor LaFollette adj
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 oeca-
siona1 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
with $4,000 this year, which means
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 $4,000 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 pulp is broken up
and the full city electorate select and
elect the men who must therefore en-
Joy city distinction. Boston has the
is enough to regenerate 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-prin Try 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 menu
bers. AZ
New Members Easily AJisIed.
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 SO
sometimes one will see a country