Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-05-15

assembly was deluged with teIt
grams to members. their constituent
urging them to defeat or modify tn
Objectionable bill. The sergeant-a
arms was repeatedly seen DISTRIBUTE
kilograms among the assemblymen.
Lengthy discussion was occasione
! by the bill to define free passes
Mr.. lie Roy and other newspaper mer
bers objected to the provision whie
prohibits publishers who are membe
of the legislature from taking pay f,
advertising in the form Of milea,
books. The bill was laid over.
The Turner bill to repeal the law
quiring candidates for Office to Fl
statements Of their campaign e
penses was killed and the bill init
| duced by the committee on privileg
end elections, to make mandatory t.
prosecution of all who fail to comp
| with the law was advanced to thi!
reading and engrossment.
Senator Randolph offered a resoN
ton in the upper house closing col
mittee hearings May 8 and sendir
all bills to the calendar May II.
Madison, Wis, May 4.-The senat
by a vote of IA to II advanced th
bill to submit to a vote OF the peopl
the question of whether the stat
capitol shall be removed from Mad
son after January 1, 1908. The bill Il
allow Oshkosh to convey to the state
a prospective site was also advanced
Other capitol removal bills, designat.
ing Hudson, Grand Rapids, Milwaukee
and Belmount, were killed.
The assembly advanced the uniform
school text book bill by a vote of 4s
to Sc, after a debate in which the
republican factional strife was dragged
out The bill to define free pass"
and make the present anti-pass law
extend to public officials who may
have positions with the railroads was
advanced, by a vote Of &c to Z.
Governor La Toilette vetoed the bill
to reduce the wage exemption from
garnishment from $50 to $50. He
based the action on multitudinous
protests from wage earners who had
WTlILSu nIUl 10 V0CO I0G Dill.
Madison, Wis, May 5.-The senate
killed the patent medicine label bill
without roll call Senator Stevens
offered some amendments which were
voted down and Senator Mobiles mo-
ton to lay over was also lost. The
senate was in the killing mood and
1t was agreed that all committee
hearings, except before the commit
tees on claims, ducation and assess
ment and collection of taxes should
close next week.
The veterinary examiners commits
sion bill was advanced.
The railroad rate commission bill
was agreed upon after an allnight
committee session early this morning
and was reported to the senate to-
night.
Madison, Wis, May S.-Legislative
interest centers around the question
of how much fighting there will be
over the administration railroad rate
bill The opposition has
succeeded in introducing a substitute
measure, proposing that an appeal
from the decisions of the commission
shall act as a stay Of proceedings,
rather than, as in the committee bill,
into effect 20 days after PRONUNCIATION
unless restrained by an injunction
The substitute, which was offered by
Senator North. a democrat, also pro
yides that the members of the COM
mission shall be elected rather than
appointed These provisions were
discussed by the committee in the
course of its deliberations extending
over three months, and were finally re
jected in the interests of the plan to
make the commission strong. The
opposition declares there is reason
able hope for passing these amend
ments. but the administration side de-
clares that the fight practically ended
when the senate committee unan+
reported the administration
bill as revised for passage.
Madison, Wis, May 9.-The tele-
phone connection bill, which has been
advocated by the Independent com
panies and vigorously opposed by the
so-called Bell trust, was defeated in
the assembly by tie vote, the as
sembly refusing to pass the bill. The
vote was 35 to 35. Action followed a
long debate led for the bill by it's
author, Assemblyman Ekern, and
against it by Assemblyman Norcross.
The latter read a report from the rail
road commission of South Carolina
opposed to such law as impractic-
able and unfair. He also attacked
the constitutionality of the measure.
The second strenuous debate of the
day was on the street railway adval-
Crem bill, resulting in an amendment
being adopted giving the state Is.
instead of 20 per cent of the tax. This.
was opposed by Chairman
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