Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-03-12
Madison Notes.

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Mckinley, were passed by the legisla-
ture. While they were in the business,
they should have congratulated them
selves on having been able, so far, to
keep the primary election bill from be-
coming law.
The anti-eigarette bill has been rec
commended for indefinite postponement
by the senate. Such is life at the CAPT
tol. Scare the daylignts out of tobacco
dealers. Make them dance attendance
to the law makers, and then do nothing.
There is lot of this kind of business
going on in the legislature.
Evening Wisconsin: The following
letter, received by an assemblyman
who cannot see his way clear to vote
for the primary election bill, is fair
sample of the treatment received by the
opponents of the bill:
Mr.. So-and So.-Dear Sir:-I see that
you are opposed to the primary election
law. am surprised at this for | never
have seen person yet that was opposed
to it except sly political "trixters."
The people want the law passed, and if
it is defeated woe be to the hair Drained
fools that vote against it. The party is
pledged, don't forget that. Yours,
Blank.
Ellis B. Usher says in his state Cap
itol gossip to the Milwaukee Journal:
81 found Col. Gabe Bouck, of Osh-
kosh, at the Park Hotel yesterday and
had chat with him. He says that his
visits to Madison nowadays are to at
tend the supreme court. Col. Douck
used to know the whole story here. He
was in the assembly in 1860 and was
speaker in 1875. asked him what he
thought about the primary election bill
and he declared he didn't think about
it at all. Then he added Sixty years
| ago pups used to born blind and they
| got their eyes open in fourteen days,
now they remain blind. They began
legislating about liquor, and the per
capita consumption of whisky steadily
increased. They have had their Ben
nett laws and all that sort of thing, and
they are all of kind. l don't believe
in them. The more machinery you pro-
vide the easier it will be for somebody
to run it and deceive the people. l
don't know anything about the bill.
The senate committee reported
against the bill extending the right of
suffrage to women.
The bill making the punishment ten
years Imprisonment or $1,000, for the
administering of knock OUT drops
was passed by unanimous vote of the
senate.
The bill of Senator Riordan for uni
form representation on county boards
was passed.
Milwaukee News: An incident in the
assembly proceedings was a request by
Senator Kreutzer to see a petition
signed by residents of Marathon county
for the primary election law. Mr.
Kreutzer declared the petition was not
| presented by him, and Assemblyman
Miller, who has presented numerous
petitions for the bill, said he knew moth
ing about this Marathon county petit
ton.
THE Presidents cabinet is composed
of the following named who were re-
appointed
Secretary of state, John Hay, District
of Columbia.
Secretary of the treasury, Lyman j.
Gage, of Chicago.
Secretary of war, Elihu Root, of New
York.
Attorney general, John W. Griggs, of
New Jersey.
Postmaster general, Charles Emory
Smith, of Pennsylvania.
Secretary of the navy. John d. Long,
| of Massachusetts.
Secretary of the interior, Ethan Allen
Hitchcock, OF Missouri.
Secretary of agriculture, James Will
son, of Iowa.
j. W. MILLER has been appointed
Register of the U. s. land office of this
ity and the appointment has been COM
tirmed by the U. S. Senate.
The trainers of the primary election
bill are not so Internally independent
| as they were in fact they are unite