Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1905-04-27
REPEATED ROLL CALLS NEcES
SARY FOR FINAL PASSAGE.
DAHl'S VOTE TURNS TIDE
Arrival Of Late Member Gives Advo-
Gates of Residence District Saloon
Option Bill Maj ority-Woman suf.
frage Bill Killed - Cortland OPP
poses Creation Of New Department.
Madison, April 2G.

trance liquor Dill passed the assem-
bly, yesterday, the vote being 35 for to
"a against, 10 pairs being made on
the passage Of the measure and all
matters pertaining to It,
The bill provides that whenever an
application is made for license
for saloon in any resident district,
the electors resident in that district,
the boundaries Of which may be any
streets, alleys. river railroad track or
other easily defined boundary, to be
set forth in a petition may by sub
hitting such n petition signed by a
majority Of the electors prevent the
granting of such a license. a business
street within the provisions OF the law
shall be such street as may have on
it's abutting property for distance of
500 feet from the business place in
which TIE saloon exists or is to be cs-
tablished, property, GO per cent Of
which Is used for business purposes
Educational buildings and parks are
construed to be resident property.
The electors in signing the petition
must also give the street and number
of their homo and u copy of the pc
tition must be certified t. before the
proper officer In case there Is any
question as to whether II Is properly
resident district or should any other
question arise. the case shall be taken
into tn circuit court for adjudication.
The residence district shall not be
moro than four times its width and it
must contain population of at least
| 900 persons,
When the bill was reached on the
calendar, its author, Assomblyman
Thaycr, simply asked for the register
ing of the ayes ana noes, and without
debate The bin went at once to vote
resulting In a tic "a voting for to 81
against Asscmhlyman Beedle at
once changed his vote defeating the
bill by n vote Of 81 to 80 ballot, A
reconsideration was moved by Assem-
hlyman Lcdvina, and Assemhlyman
Thaycr tried first to have the con-
sideration Of the bill postponed until
today. Failing in this he raised the
point of orler that AssemhIyman
Lcdvina being party to lair on the
bin did not vote and was therefore
not entitled to put a motion to re-
consider. He withdrew his motion,
but Nascmhlyman Potter at once re-
newcd II and another attempt to post
ponc failed.
During the discussion Assembyman
Dahl entered the chamber and his
vote weighed down the balance on
the side Of the affirmative no mem
hrrs changing from the frs ballot, so
that the bin was carried by a vote of
80 to "A
Those who were paired We're Dins.
dale for with Burdoau against Leroy
for with Meyers against, Nelson for
18th Lcdylna against Andrew for with
Hcinicke against. Smclker for with
Westfahl against Collland for with
llagan against, Warner for with Car
pointer against r. Johnson FOR with
Rohr against, +, II. Peterson for
with pickort against Irvine for with
Page against, Storm for with Weir
VEN against, SN,nholt for with prehn
against. Gilman for with Schauer
against. The vote follows
Affirmative Baker. Beedle, Bell,
Bradd0ck. Chandler. Clausen. Curtiss,
nahl. Donald, Durland Ekon. Fridd,
Gordon. Greenwood, Hansen. Henry,
Hulburt, Ierdee, II, Johnson, Kinney
McGregor Mckenzie, Norcross, Rag
atz Royrraft G Il. Scott, Slight,
stevens. farrell, Thayer Thomas,
ries, Turner. Winch, Lenroot- 20.
Negative Alldridge, Bauer Beer,
Bencr. Fletcher brennan Brockhau,
son, Brooks, Clcary, Crowley, Curtin,
Dietrich Evans Hagarty, Hamm, Han
ninu, Hartuns, hole, Huber + John
son, MarQuardt. Met2ler. Miller Perry,
fred Peterson, Pierron, Potter, Rack,
Ramsey, Reynolds, J. Scott Strehlow,
S2ymarok, Thleme-S4
County Option Bill Killed
The county option bill was killed in
accordance with the recommendation
of the committee on privileges and
elections ny vote Of so to %
The senate bin providing for an ap-
preparation for the Milwaukee and
Plattevillc normal schools, on the cal
endar for third reading was put
over for consideration until Friday,
as the committee which investigated
the Milwaukee school during the re-
cess was not yet ready TO make re.
port
Aga ast Public Examiner
The bill creating the ofice Of pub
lie examiner and PROV idng for the es-
tahlishmcGt OF new department Of
administration elected considerable
discussion, but it was put over for
further consideration until today. AS
gemhlyman Cortland made a long ar
sument against creating the depart
mont. urging as one Of the chief rea-
sons the expense involved He cited
the fact that the bin provided for a
public examiner whose salary was to