Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-04-24
cigarette bill and filed it with
secretary of state for publication.

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requiring campers to remove VIII
ordered so to do by the owners of t
property, was finally sent to the g,
enor, a senate amendment being CT
Cured in by the assembly. The
sembly passed the Stevens bill, prov
ing that hereafter sales of state Ian
must be paid for in cash only Amt
the other bills passed were Tarrol
empowering the state board of hea
! to determine qualifications for
practice of emDalming; McGregor's,
provide for the appointment of st
park commissioner; Crowley's,
viding for licenses to agents to
cure life insurance policies in c.
panies not authorized to operate
| Wisconsin by giving a bond: LeRo
authorizing the more extensive use
voting machines; and the sen
sanitary committees, prohibiting
sale of canned goods containing de
erious preservatives or other
gradients. The trading stamp
not be interfered with by this legis
ture. Two bills were killed, one
troduced by Mr.. Theme, to p
hibit them, and another by the sal
member, to license their use. Amo
the other bills killed were Curtin's,
change the time of the sessions of Il
legislature; McGregor's, AUTHORIZE
the appointment of policemen at
ligious and other meetings; Beedle'
to provide for a state liquor commi
sioner; and Metzler's, to fix stant
ard for Illuminating and fuel gas.
The bill introduced in the assembl
by the committee on judiciary proviC
ing for the payment of a bounty TO
the killing of wolves, lynxes ant
wild cats, with the amendment chang
ing the bounty from So to So a head
was referred to the committee OF
claims, as it provided for the payment
of money from the state treasury.
Some of the most important bills
were laid over on account of the abb
sence of senators interested. Among
the bills reported for indefinite post
ponement was that of Senator Roehr
providing public school teachers re-
tirement fund in cities of the first,
second and third classes.
Madison, Wis, April 18.-The as
sembly advanced the civil service bill
after lacking on an amendment re
quiring the present state employees to
compete for their positions with any
other applicants. This removes the
objection that the measure is de-
signed to perpetuate the present en-
ployes in the state jobs.
The Thayer ward option bill was
ordered to engrossment and third
reading, after the assembly had re-
fused to pass Mr.. Thayers' motion for
suspension of the rules and i'm
mediate passage. Vote on both propo-
sitions was AZ to 49, in favor, but it
requires two-thirds to suspend rules,
while plain majority is sufficient for
advancement.
The senate postponed for day the
matter of investigating Senator Bar
ney A. Eaton, giving the judiciary
committee more time to report
Senator Wylie caused the committee
on agriculture to introduce new bill
to require all live stock imported into
Wisconsin to be subjected to the
tuberculin test and certified to be free
from Infection The bill provides g
penalty on railroads violating the pro
posed law of from $50 to 5000 fine
Madison, Wis, April 19-The usua
and sensational spectacle of senator
being cited for contempt by his col
leagues, the action being based on hi,
sworn statements while on trial TO
criminal bribery, was presented in the
senate today when a resolution wa
adopted without dissenting vote order
ing Senator Eaton to appear ant
show cause why he should not be eS
PEELED from the senate or otherwise
punished. He declared while OF
trial for accepting a bride for hi
vote against the BARRIERS license bill
two years ago that much of the i'm
portant work of legislation was de
termined in saloons and hotel wine
rooms over liquor and cigars and tina
the money he took was for sucf
Legitimate" expenses.
The judiciary committee after in
vestigation and hearing, reported that
Senator Eaton, on the face Of his
sworn testimony, was in contempt of
the senate and had slandered that
body.
The senate advanced to third read
ing the forestry bill, carrying an ap-
preparation of $4,000 a year and in
creasing the force now under the
forestry commission and making more
effective the present system.
The largest petitions of the session
came in from Milwaukee against the
Stout bill to prohibit saloons within
33 feet of any school Some twenty
five thousand residents OF MllWau-
kee protested.
The assembly passed the Stout bill
+o ,orouop+ tho iYnnronor influences of