Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-02-23

pear in the two houses Of the legisla.
ture, was offered. 1t is similar to the
assembly committee bill and is not
greatly unlike the former bill on the
same subject by the same senator. 1t
includes all elective OficeGs, excepting
town and school officers, and provides
for the nomination of United States
senator. The principal difference from
the previously introduced measures is
that it does not require the voter to
declare that he intends to support the
candidates on the ticket of the party
for which the voter casts his primary
election vote, but it requires the
voter to declare his membership Of
the party whose ticket he desires to
vote in the primary. Senator Roehr
offered a bill to require the mayors of
cities to make their nominations of
persons for appointment by councils
from lists submitted to them by the
city committees Of the respective po-
llt1cal parties from which the appoint
ments are to be made. The crusade
which ''the anti-cigavette'' senator. Mr..
LII u, 10 WCS1AS upon the DSTulC1OuS
articles, took new turn when he in
troduced a bill providing that all per-
sons engaging in the sale of ciarettes
or cigarette paper in the state should
be required to pay a license of $500 a
year. Senator Riordan offered two
bills to provide that the important ap-
pOintive officers of the state, those
now named by the governor, shall be
elected as are the regular state officers
at present. His bills include the su-
perintendent of public property, dairy
and food commissioner fish and game
warden, bank examiner and state
commissioner of labor and Industrial
statistics. Other important bills pres
ented were: To limit the amount of
Indebtedness of towns and municipal
corporations to 21a per cent. of all the
taxable property; compelling brew
ers to label their beer and forbidding
adulteratiOn; taxation of requests;
dividing the state into ten factory dis
tricts with an inspector for each at
$1,000 salary and expenses; forbidding
spite fences; permitting a farmer to
hunt on his own land without a IL
cense; forbidding pools and combines;
for the exemption of tools from as
sessment; appropriating $4,000 for
experimenting in the growing and cur
ing Of tobacco; tabooing spite fences;
prohibiting slow machines in any pub
lie place; fixing passenger rates at
cents a mile on the large roads and 215
on the smaller; directing the railroad
commissioner to prepare schedule Of
classification of articles carried by
railway companies and compelling the
roads TO charge by such classification;
for he establishment Of ar institution
for adult blind artisans, and appropri
ating $4,000; authorizing the gov
ernor to appoint two additional mem
bers of the state tax commission at a
$4,000 salary each, one a civil eIgi-
neer, the other an expert accountant;
permitting the railway commission to
fix a schedule of rates; forbidding
discriminating in phone rates: apply
ing civil service rules to state en-
ployes; making Saturday afternoon a
legal holiday; to prohibit lobbyists
from influencing candidates for elect
i've public Offices; making treating at
elections a misdemeanor; forbidding
double-headed trains; and forbidding
federal office holders from circulating
nomination papers and otherwise be-
ing active at the primaries.
Madison, Feb. 16.-Brief sessions
were held in both houses of the legis-
lature. Some excitement was created
in the assembly by the recall of the
additional employee bill. The sugges-
ton was abroad that it had been
learned from Gov La Toilette that the
bill carried too much expense to be APP
provable by him and if it was not re-
called and clipped by the Legislature
he would have to veto it. The senate
later refused to recall it. The Dill
calls for 21 additional employees.
Madison, Feb. 17.-NO business OF
Importance was transacted in either
branch.