Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-02


mutual companies to insure county
asylums, poorhouses. Among the bills
killed were the following: Forbidding
The sale of intoxicating liquors within
one mile of the Milwaukee soldiers
home, and requiring that electric poles
be set at the inside limit of highways
The committee on health introduced
a new medical bill.
Madison, March 25.-The senate re-
fused to consider the resolutions look
ing toward the popular election Oh
United States senators, postponing &C.
ton until April 7, killed the Mosher
bill to repeal the $4,000 appropria-
ton made two years ago for the pur-
pose of paving with asphalt the
states part of the streets around the
capitol park and received three new
bills. Lieut.. Gov. Davidson an
nounced the appointment of Senators
Stout, Kreutzer and Merton as the
senate members of the committee of
Legislators to assists in the reception
of President Roosevelt in Madison
April 8.
The assembly ordered to engross.
ment the bill to reduce the one mill
school tax, after the measure had
been amended so that the progressive
principle of the law is retained. The
levy is reduced to three-fifths of one
per cent. on each dollar of assessed
valuation of all property exclusive of
railroads and corporations that are
taxed by the license system. 1t is
calculated that the measure will
raise something over 100000 an
nually for the school fund.
The state affairs committee of the
assembly reported favorably the bill
forbidding the intermarriage of
blacks and whites. From the COM
mittee on federal relations came an
adverse report on the bill for the
state to care for drunkarjs. The
Dudgeon bill permitting the or
ganization of mutual church fire in
surance companies was laid over.
Madison, March 26-The assembly
primary election bill was greatly al
tered by the senate after the two Mer-
! ton bills had been killed. The meas
ure will now be transmitted to the as
sembly, will be refused concurrence
and sent back to the upper house. A
conference committee will then deal
with it. The only chance the measure
has of ultimate passage is the pos
sibility that Senators Kreutzer and
Rogers will at the last test fall in
line and vote for the measure. The
senate lined up Is to Is, the majority
being against the assembly bill. With
the change of the votes of Senators
Kreutzer and Rogers, the division
would be II to 16 in favor of passage.
However, opinion is divided on the
outcome. Some predict the assembly
VIII concur and the measure go to the
governor, while others declare the
stalwart senators will stand pat and
kill the whole thing. A deadlock be-
tween the two houses seems certain
for a time. The stalwarts carried out
their program, after exhaustive de-
bate, and passed the bill with an
amendment providing that all that
part which applies to officers other
than city and county officers shall be
referred to vote of the people in the
, general election of 1904. This was
done after the defeat of amendments,
submitted by Senator Krcutzer in the
form of substitute bill, to limit the
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 vote of the people.
The vote on this was the real test on
the measure The amendment was
carried by vote of Is ayes to Is
noes, as follows: Ayes-Senators
Beach, Eaton. Gaveney, Green, Hage-
meister. Johnson, Kreutzer, Nc
Donough, Morse, Mosher, North,
O'Neil, Randolph, Riordan, Roehr,
Rogers, Whitehead, Willy-1S. 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 a vote
of Is to IA. 1t was a momentous day
in the assembly also where an en-