Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-04-23


| The house bill increasing the COM
pensation of jurors to SO day was
concurred in. The hottest words of
the session were passed in the as
sembly, when the house was con-
sidering the Barker bill to prohibit
political lobbyists from influencing
the votes of legislators. Mr.. D. Evans
had introduced an amendment defn-
ing political lobbyists as including all
federal office holders, whereas the
Barker bill made it apply only to the
state officers and employees. During
the debate Mr.. Barker had exploited
the alleged industry of the game
wardens, factory inspectors and tim
Der agents, when Mr. Dahl heatedly
declared that he didn't believe the
bill was introduced in good faith at
all, and he insinuated in rather a
direct personal fashion that the
whiskey was still on the breath Of
the gentleman from Milwaukee that
was furnished by the lobbyists two
years ago. Mr.. Barker replying,
vociferously exclaimed that at the
memorable all-night session of two
years ago, to which Mr.. Dahl had
evidently alluded, only coffee
had passed his lips, and he repealed
with indignation the insinuation made.
Mr.. Cowling and Mr.. Wallrich at once
earnestly deplored the infusion of
personalities into legislative work.
The bill was finally recommitted to
the judiciary committee with little or
no opposition. The Timlin bill max
ing Abraham Lincoln's birthday, Feb.
II, legal holiday, was killed, 65 to
p. The speaker appointed Messrs.
Smalley, Bradford and Dow as house
members of the conference committee
on the mill school tax bills. The
Stout bill giving common councils the
power to order shade trees to be
planted was passed as was the one
making an annual appropriation of
$3.50 900 to the normal schools and
also, doing away with the necessity OF
primary teachers passing periodical
examinations for certificates.
hospital bill, which provides that the
cream city shall have the authority
to acquire lands outside of its cor.
porate limits for the purpose of es-
tablishing an isolation hospital, fur
nished the theme for a spirited de-
bate in the senate but no action was
taken. The senate state affairs COM
mittee bill to authorize the governor
to make a settlement of the Wiscon-
sin war claims against the United
States was passed.
Tobacco dealers will not be able to
enjoy special favors in the way of
lower taxation, as is sometimes now
the case, if me legislature passes a
bill which aroused some debate in
the lower house. The measure was
introduced by Mr.. Dahl, the Vernon
county member, whose district is in
the very heart of the tobacco section,
and provides that the state tax COM
mission shall see that the same
grades of tobacco are taxed alike all
over the state. Mr. Dahl explained
that it so happened that tobacco
companies were in the habit OF locat-
ing their warehouses in those places
where they were permitted to escape
their just share of taxation. Slough
ton, for example, he said, had the
bulk of the business at the outset
but Edgerton, by offers of lower
assessments, had drawn off a large
portion of it. Thus a community
which sought to have an honest as
sessment suffered by the dishonest
course of another. company, he
went on, wanted to build in Viroqua,
but finally concluded not to do so be-
cause a neighboring place offered
a lower tax rate. This sort of con-
duct was a gross injustice to all
save the favored tobacco company.
No action was taken.
The bill extending the state labor
commissioners term for two years
to six was killed by a vote of 81 to
80, although it was on the calendar
favorably recommended. Assembly
bills were killed as follows:
Dudgeon's, to change the boundaries
of the ninth and third judicial cir
cults and Brittan's, relating to
damages in personal injury cases.
The bill appropriating to ]. E.
Jones and the other two Portage
levee commissioners s1,0I4 for ex-
penses incurred under the levee law
before it was declared unconstitu-
tional was reported by the Judiciary
committee favorably and went to the
claims committee. The committee on
public health reported adversely the
Benson bill making it mandatory in
stead of permissible for the
to grant pharmacists
the right to sell liquor for medicinal
purposes. 1t made a similar report
on the bill to refund to certain
counties, towns, villages and cities
what they had expended in COM
batting smallpox.
Another contributory liability bill
has been born, but with parents
divided ON the issue of acknowl-
edging responsibility. 1t came from
the house Judiciary committee YES