Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-05-07
WISCONSIN sOLONS.

Final adjournment of the Legislature
will in all probability be taken May IL.
This is the date fixed upon by the Repub-
lican members of the Senate and it now
looks as though all business can be
closed up by that time. The osteopathic
compromise bill was passed by the As
sembly Thursday morning without dis
senting vote. As it goes to the Senate
the bill allows the osteopaths to practice.
The debate on the Assembly substitute
to the Senate substitute for the primary
bill was held in the evening. Assembly
man Stevens opened the debate for the
bill, Assemblyman Williams closing
against it. The bill requiring BARRIERS to
pass examination and be licensed. passed
by the Assembly, was advanced to third
reading in the Senate. The,defea of the
tax commission bill to increase the rail-
road taxes some S616,000 by raising the
license fee rate from 4 to 512 per cent
has led the committee on assessment and
collection Of taxes to recommend for pas
sage the bill taxing railroads on the ad
valorem basis, which measure has pre-
yiously had but few friends.
Two Milwaukee bills which went
through the Assembly were killed in the
Senate on Friday. One was the keene
bill, making the Milwaukee assessors as
sistants to the City Treasurer, and the
other the Hartung bill. providing clerk
for the county superintendent of schools.
The general fish and game bill was pass
ed by the Senate without discussion. The
Roehr bill providing for free employment
bureaus in the cities of Milwaukee and
Superior was passed. The bill introduced
by Senator Roehr relative to the pay for
State patients in the Milwaukee county
hospital was passed The basis is the
number of acute and chronic cases. The
bill provides that the rate for two-tfths
of the patients shall be 81 per week and
for three-ffths $1.j0. The Stout bill APP
propriating $4,000 for WisconSin's ex-
hibit at the st. Louis fair caused some
thing of a furry. Judge Orion doubted
the wisdom of putting in that sum OF
money. d. Evans, Jr., thought Wiscon-
sin dairy products should be advertised
in the South Assemblyman Root said it
was not necessary, as Wisconsin goods
advertise themselves, at home and
abroad The bill was finally concurred
in, 80 to %. The railway brotherhoods
of the State sent in a great batch of pc
tftfons to the Assembly favoring the bill
to prohibit the running of dOuble-header
trains.
News was received Tuesday morning OF
the death at his home in Coloma ,of Sen
atOr Thomas Fearne. The news caused
great surprise Senator Fearne attended
the sessions all the previous week, going
home Friday, and was not thought 90 be
seriously i'll. No business was done by
the Senate and little by the Assembly.
A joint resolution of tribute was adopted
| and a committee of FIVE members from
each house appointed to attend the fun
eral. Senator Fearne was in his fifty
| fifth year. He was a farmer, and was
serving his first term in the Senate.
BY a vote of 10 to 10 the Senate on
| Wednesday passed the joint resolution in
creasing the compensation of members OF
the Legislature from $500 to $1,000 per
| year, with mileage of 10 cents mile fol
one trip each way and cutting off per-
! quisites The Fenelon pure beer bill was
killed by the Assembly. Fifty-three votes
were cast against it. The death of the
| BARRIERS license bill was confirmed, the
! Senate refusing, ID to II, to reconsider
the vote by which the bill was indefinite
| Iy postponed. The bicycle side path bill
was concurred in without discussion. The
osteOpathy bill as amended went through
the Senate. The Assembly bill limiting
! the fees and expenses to be allowed in
a contest for a seat in the Legislature to
$500 as amended was advanced to the
third reading in the Senate. Senator
| Martins hill nrOyidiUp for the aDDOint.
ment of woman inspector was advanced
to engrossment and third reading against
the report of the majority of the COM
mittee The bill appOrtioning the State
! into senatorial districts as fixed by the
committee was introduced and went on
! the calendar. The Assembly cOncurred
in the Senate bill to allow women to vote
on all educational matters.