Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-04-15
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nesday evening.
A. r. Hairs resolution for a consti-
tutional amendment permitting the
use of voting machines was killed and
the Woodward marriage bill was adj
vanced to a third reading by vote
of Is to IA 1t forbids marriage
licenses to people with HEREDITARY
diseases. A senate bill was passed
prohibiting the sale of publication
like the dice Gazette and another
the prohibiting the employment of
children under IA in bowling alleys,
beer gardens or barrooms. An as
sembly bill was concurred in requlr-
ing that there shall be more than one
mode of egress from each floor Of
hotels, and requiring either two fire
escapes on the building or a rope in
each room.
In the assembly the Portage dixie
bill, carrying an appropriation of $20,-
coo, was advanced to engrossment;
the measure for the inspection of
barber shops and the licensing Of
tonsorial artists was passed; a
proposition prevailed to cancel the
debt of $4,000 which New Richmond
owes the state-money advanced at
the time Of the tornado; and bill
was passed making it a felony to ad-
minister narcotics with wrong intent.
The bill giving title to Pfister, Vogel
and Mariner of Milwaukee to 1900
acres of Sturgeon bay canal land was
by mutual agreement referred to "a
special committee of five-Messrs.
Sturdevant, Cady, Rossman, Lenroot
and McGill.
Madison, April 6-This was the
first Saturday session of the legisla-
ture, both houses meeting and dispos-
ing of long calendars. Interest in the
assembly centered around Judge Or
toms eloquent arrangement of the di-
vorce laws of Wisconsin in speaking
against the passage of the Whitson
bill which sought to make insanity a
ground for divorce. The bill was
killed by vote of II to Z. Mr.. Cady
sought delay for his bill, forbidding
marriage Of whites with negroes.
Action was delayed until Tuesday
The committee on public health and
sanitation to which the dancing mas
ter's bill was sent reported back 4
substitute which provides II
anyone can give lessons in dancing,
Delsarte or rhythmic motion a license
must be procured from the county
clerk. The applicant must prove that
he is competent to teach and have
good moral character. A fine from
$25 to $50 or three months in jail is
the penalty. Elias bill, liquor bill, was
reported adversely Whitson and
Evans dissenting. It seeks to bring
within the law delivery of liquors 70
children ON order of parents.
Madison, April 8.-Gov. La Toilette
sent another veto to the senate. This
time he withheld his approval OF the
bill to provide for the depositing with
the secretary of state of the annotated
statutes and the statutes of 1898, and
assigned as his reason for so doing
that there is no good reason why the
measure should become a law as it
makes no material or necessary
changes in the present statute on that
subject.
Chief Clerk w. A. NOVEL; of the as
sembly made a report of the condition
of the bills before that body, showing
that the members will have to hurry If
they intend to go home before the mid
die of May. Out of 625 bills intro
duced in the lower house and referred
to committees, after three months
work, 1913, or only 2 short of 200, are
still In committee. These include the
taxation bills, many of the large ap-
preparation measures, the senatorial
and congressional apportionment bills
and much other important legislation.
In addition to these 1913 in committee
81 bills are now pending before the
house. The assembly also has 43
senate bills in committee, and must
dispose Of all that may come from the
upper house from now to the close of
the session. What with amendments.
compromises, substitutes and new bills
from the committees in both houses,
an early adjournment is not probable.
BY an overwhelming majority the as
sembly voted down Mr. Gilman's
street sprinkling bill, over which
there had been so much debate in the
morning. There will be no Sheridan
drive legislation this year as the bills,
for work on that great Wis
consin-Illinois highway, were with
drawn by the author, Mr.. Stevens
Madison, April 9.-In the upper
house, Senator Stout's marriage bill
was killed by vote of II to 16, and
Senator Hatton's measure providing
a course of study in agriculture for
the district schools was passed, as
was also Roehr's giving county boards
the power to fix the salary of sheriffs.