Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-04-06


scope OF the measure to legislative off,
GERS and preserve the state conven-
ton for nomination of state officers
and congressional conventions for
nomination of congressman, and by
Senator Rogers, to eliminate United
States senators and members of the
legislature from the operation of the
law but including state officers. The
Kreutzer substitute received four
votes while Senator Rogers was the
only one who voted for his amend
ment. Senator Gaveney offered the
amendment to submit that portion of
the bill applying to officers above
county officers TO a vote of the people.
The vote on this was the real test on
the measure. The amendment was
carried by a vote of Is ayes TO Is
noes, as follows: Ayes-Senators
Beach, Eaton, Gaveney, Green, Hagc-
meister, Johnson, Kreutzer, Nc
Donough, Morse, MOsher, North,
O'Neil, Randolph, Riordan, Roehr,
Rogers, Whitehead, WHY'S. Noes
Senators Bird, Burns, HattOn, Hud
nall. Martin, McGillivray, Merton,
Miller. Munson, Reukema, Sarau,
Stout. Whipperman, Wolff, Wylie-15.
The Merton (democratic) primary
election bill was defeated by vote
of is to H. 1t was a momentous day
in the assembly also where an en-
phatic negative was given to the pro-
position for the state to go into the
business of licensing stationery en-
gineers. The assembly killed the
Dudgeon bill by vote of 81 to SO.
There was no debate and an amend
ment by Mr.. Peterson to include
marine engineers-but not those on
private launches or on boats under
federal law-was lost by a tie vote,
As to As. The bill required the en-
gineers of most stationery boilers to
pass examinations and pay 81 each,
and to submit to biennial examinations
thereafter, paying 81 each time. Boil
ers for heating purposes, threshing
machine boilers and boilers on steam
boats did not fall within the purview
of the act. The same bill has been
killed repeatedly by past legislatures.
Such a law would take about $4,000 a
year out of the boiler owners of Wis
oonsin. In discussing the bill forbid
ding the marriage of whites with
negroes or mulattoes Mr.. Cady dis
closed for the first time the origin of
the demand. 1T comes" said he,
from the colored women of the state,
and, particularly the colOred women Of
Milwaukee, who want such law for
their own matrimonial protection" In
the cream city, he went on, there are
"a mixed families and in these -
black men have white wives. This
means that AZ colored women are de-
prived of the privilege of marriage.
There are annually, he said, 80 such
marriages in Massachusetts and in
nearly every case the bride is white.
These marriages result generally from
the association of the two races as
servants,-sharp, designing negro men
winning weak and ignorant girls. A
law like this would protect such girls,
continued Mr. Cady, who farther said
that the penalty for these mesalliances
fell with special force upon innocent
children who become social Outcasts.
ID. Evans and Mr.. Barker opposed the
bill and it was rejected, 81 to 80. The
DudgeOn bill forbidGiEg the sale of
intoxicants within a mile of the Dor
6ers of prohibition town or village
was amended to make the distance
one-quarter of a mile. The Ray bin,
permitting state repositories to give
as security to the commonwealth GER
tain bonds rather than personal Sc
cdrity, was amended TO specify munich
pal, county, state government or
surety company bonds, and was then
advanced 70 engrossmeDt. Among the
house bills passed were the following:
Absolutely forbidding The importation,
manufacture or sale of cigarettes or
cigarette papers; providing for the
collection of statistics relating to the
sale of alcoholic liquors; forbidding
the carrying of liquor into election
booths, and increasing the compen-
sation of jurors to SO a day. Bills
killed were: Martins, forbidding
convict labor and to provide
department in hospitals for the
insane for treatment of dipsOmaniacs.
inebri7tes. etc.