The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-06-02
Synopsis of the Proceedings OF
the lawmakers at
Madison.
STATE NEWS OF IMPORTANCE
Items of General Interest Caught
from the Wires and Prepared
for Our Readers.

strongly QenOunceS 1.-The lmpudent
railway lobby" which, he says, has
cost the state millions of dollars in
the last six years and has been
nuisance and a disgrace in the legis-
lative halls Of the state. The railroad
lobbyists are described as usually a
set of incompetent men "best fitted for
private argument, but whom the
railroads would not trust with a pet
ty damage suit in justice court"
The governor declares members OF
the legislature were doggSd to their
hotels and their lives made miserable
the past winter by agents of railroads,
the book trust and the telephone trust.
The governor declares the practice Of
secret lobbying is wrong in principle
and absolutely certain to be vicious
in practice" The senate recently
killed the Johnson bill, drawn along
the lines of the governors recon-
mendaions, but new measure will
now be presented.
Madison, Wis, May 26.-The senate
passed the Roehr usury bill, making
it penalty for loan sharks to receive
excessive interest The Johnson lobby
bill was laid over and the Watson civil
service bill was sent to passage by a
vote of 20 for and 9 against. The
Beedle bill providing for the election
of delegates to the national cOnven-
tons under the primary law was re-
fused concurrence. The SZymarek
bill dividing Milwaukee into justice
and constable districts was advanced.
The assembly sustained the govern
Ors vetoes of the four bills which he
returned without approval earlier in
the week. The assembly cOncurred in
the senate amendments to the bills Civ
ing telegraph. telephone and power
transmission companies the right OF
eminent domain, providing that the
salaries of district and county super
intende1tS off schools elected last
month shall be the same as heretofore
in cases where county boards failed to
fix new salaries. and prohibiting the
use of wood alcohol in cases where 1t
endangers health. The judiciary com
circuit Judges, which were on the
calendar for indefinite postponement,
, were on motion of Mr.. Andrew laid
over for a week
Madison, Wis, May 27.-The state
legislature has adopted a resolution to
submit to the people proposition to
To-. Of ,I,+
tC $1,000. The senate concurred in bills
. raising salaries of circuit judges from
s. 900 to $4,000, and prohibiting tele-
phone companies from discriminating
in charges in cities of the same class
A bill to compel railroads to transfer
cars was nOn-cOncurred in.
Until 2:30 in the morning fifty-eight
members Of the Wisconsin assembly
were locked in the chamber under a
call Of the house. Adjournment was
taken then, with the announcement
that the call would be resumed later
and continued until all the 100 mem
bers We're present.
The call arose over an attempt to
pass the mortgage taxation bill. The
opposition demanded that it be laid
, over to next week and the friends of
! the measure refused. Then the OPP
pOnentS brought about a call of the
/ house and tied up business Now the
friends of the measure declare that no
business will be transacted until every
, member absent without leave is
brought to Madison and full vote ia
had. This will pass the bill
For. hours the fifIy-eight members
locked insthe chamber sang and drank
things that were kindly slipped in
through windows threw paper files at
the heads OF each other and INDUCED
in FRANKS that made the scene memoir
, able for disorder.
Madison, Wis, May Ex-Governor
LaFollette has vetoed the bill author
izing the use of voting machines at
primary elections. He holds that pri-
| mary law is too important to be expert
mented with. and that such machines
should not be legalized until there is
not doubt of their operating perfect
ly. The assembly passed a bill alp
! propriating $4,000 for state tuber-
culosis sanatorium. The senate con-
Cured in the bill authorizing the secre-
! tary of state to hold back certificates
of election until the successful candi-
dates file statement Of their expense.
Forest Fires i'm Wisconsin,
Ashland Wis, May 27.-yhe fires
south OF Ashland did 4 great deal OF
damage. A saloon building belonging
to Peter Miller was des' 70
Siding and many thousand lords Of
pulp and cordwood belonging to farm
ers and small jobbers Were burned.
F., The employees of the Scott 4 Taylor
mill at Taylor's Fork fought the fire
and saved the mill.
Bishop of Superior Diocese.
Milwaukee, May 26.-Private adj
rys1 n L.