Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1901-03-28
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

/ senator Martin Dill Tor woman on
the board of university regents was
passed without a dissenting vote, and
the one of Senator O'Neil calling for
a woman member of the board of nor.
I NAL regents was ordered engrossed.
! Senator Whitehead's bill, forbidding
mutilation Of horses by docking, was
also engTossed.
All Night Session.
The assembly held the most remark
able session in a quarter century,
meeting at 1870 in the evening yester-
day and not adjourning till after 7
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
| its 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 a member of the as
sembly he was DESTROYS of doing moth.
! ing but what was fair and for the pub.
lie good and he objected to so speedy
a hearing. He had seen the bill only
| 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
80 refused to adopt Orton's proposal
Then the Stevens motion prevailed
yive yoce. 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 a word was said for or
against the bill. When the clerk
called the roll the vote resulted 30 for
the adoption and 80 against as fol-
lows.
Ayes-Ainsworth, Anderson, An,
drew, Babb, Brunson, Cady, Clark,
Coapman, Cook, Dahl Duerrwacchter,
Erickson, David Evans, Fenelon,
Frost, Galway, Gilman, Haggerty,
Hall, Hanson, Henry, Hodgins, Hol
land, f. Johnson. II. Johnson, Jones,
Krumrey, Lane, Lenroot, Mccormick,
McGill, Ne MILAN. Manuel, Middleton, |
Overlook Park, Rank, Roe, Rogers,
Root, ROssman Sarau, Smalley
Steiger, Stevens, Swenholt, Thomas,
Valentine, Whitson, Wtllott, Young,
Zinn and Ray-53.
Noes--Barker, Benson, Burdcau,
Cleophas, Collins, Dodge, DOW, Eager,
Ella, Cline, +. w Evans, Fesenfeld,
Faherty, Gagnon. Gavin, HartunG,
Jensen, Johnson, Karel Katz, Keene,
McCabe, McComb. Meoney, Miner,
Moron, orion, owen, Pomrening Ras~
mussen, ScheIlcnberg, Silllworth,
Slade, Smith, Soltwedel, Spratt. |
Thiessenhusen e. A. Williams, and ].
c. WiIliams--39.
This showed the La Toilette men in
control, and the opposition began to
ilibuster e. A. Williams of Neenah
made a motion for a 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
by the parliamentary rules which per
NIT an adjournment to be taken upon
a majority vote Of those present, but
will not allow the call Of the house to
be lifted without a 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
its total ~ or two short of the re-
quircd number, the motion was lost. |
Then the motion to adjourn was put,
but that side of the contest did not
have 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 |
break came and the bill was ordered
engrossed The vote was Sc to Al. |
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 pastures 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 the mayor from APP
pointing democrats. Senator Roehr's
resolutions for constitutional amend.