Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-05-07

propriating $4,000 annually for the
geological and natural history survey.
In the assembly the senate bill ex-
empting credits from taxation was
killed. Mr.. Root combatted the COM
mitee recommendation for postpone
ment, and speaking on the bill said it
was unjust to retired farmers. Mr..
| Smalley, with Mr.. Bradford, argued
for the committee, the latter maEng a
strong argument showing that pas
sage of the bill would remove S13,000,-
| 900 from the tax rolls and exempted
! the men who were best able to pay
taxes. Mr.. Ray thought the bill was
the poor mans measure. He said it
was impossible to find mortgage on
record made the past year, where pro-
vision was not made for payment of
tax by the man who gave the mort
gage. Mr.. Dahl said it was prepos-
ferrous idea to exempt all people from
taxation just because some were able
to hide their property and escape.
The bill was then honoured in "a to
l31. Discussion arose over the bill
| giving married women the same prop
erty rights as single women but the
assembly refused to pass the bill, 60 to
%. The Merton joint resolution call
ing for a constitutional convention to
provide for election of United States
senators by direct vote then came up
was concurred in so to 81. The bill
amending the child labor law, raising
the age limit at which children can
,, work without permit from IA to 16
years, and providing that no child
shall work between p. m. and 6 a. m,
passed without opposition. The as
sembly refused, SO to 20, to concur In
the senate bill increasing the appro-
priation to $500 for the inspection of
the state of a tract of land adjoining
the state fair grounds to Thos. }
Fleming, was concurred in, and the
senate bill to regulate BARRIERS by re-
guiring their examination and license
was concurred in without debate. A
similar assembly bill was killed re-
Gently.
A woman suffrage Dill with a
referendum provision, the O'Neil bill,
was killed in the senate at night by
vote of Is to II. There was a de-
bate and a large company OF women,
many of the latter approached the
point of weeping when the result OF
the vote was announced. The vote
was as follows:
Ayes-Eaton, Hatten, Martin, Nc
Gilnvray, Merton, Munson, ONeil,
Reukema, Riordan, Sarau, Whitehead
and Wylie-12.
Noes-Beach, Burns, Gaveney,
Hagemeister, Hudnall, Johnson,
Kreutzer, McDonough, Miller,
Mosher, North, Rogers, Willy, Wolff,
Wipperman-15.
Senator O'Neil opened the debate
with a witty and interesting plea Tor
the women. He was followed in OPP
position, by Senator McDonough, who
said women having been given the
right to vote on school matters had
not exercised the right to any gen.
eral extent. Senator Martin ap-
proved the bill because of its Teferen-
dum feature. Senator Merton said
I1ne women belonged in the home and
it was the duty of the men to attend
to things political Senator Miller
also opposed the bill. Senator Nc
Donough said the only women who
were anxious to vote were the shore
haired masculine variety who never
could get over the misfortune which
nature had put upon them when they
were born feminine.
The administration railroad COM
mission bill was killed by the as
sembly late at night alter a debate
that occupied morning, afternoon and
night. Three roll calls were taken at
the close of the speaking, the last
showing that the governors side
could muster only % votes in favor
OF the bill to which he has devoted
his most strenuous efforts. The first
call was on a referendum amend
ment, proposed by Mr.. LIE Roy, to
submit the law to the people at the
spring election of 1904. This vote
was 81 to Sc, the majority against
the bill. The second vote was on tbs
amendments proposed by the COM
mittee and resulted "a to 60.
The features of the night session
were the speeches in opposition by
Messrs. Cowling and Cady, and in
favor of the till by Speaker Lenroot
Messrs. Kinney, Root, Irvine and
Frear spoke in its favor. During the
daylight debate the chief speaker was
Mr.. Gilman for the bin and Mr..
Wallrich against.
Mr.. lie Roy offered the referendum
amendment and it was debated Dy
himself, Messrs. Gilman, Lenroot and
Smoker in the affirmative and was
opposed by Messrs. Ray and Cowling.
it was voted down. The assembly
then voted down the committee
amendments and on motion OF Mr..
Ray indefinitely postponed the bill.
rne vote on the lie Roy amendment,
which was the real test of the bill,
was as follows:
Ayes-Ainsworth, Andrew, Bart
lett. Braddock, Bradford, Chandler,