Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-11-27
OLD LEGISLATIVE EMPLOYEES TO
NOT HOLD OVER.
NEW STATUTE APPLIES
Late Enactment of Last Session Now
in Force-Senator McGiliVray
Thinks Much Time May Be Re-
quired to Do the Work Opened up
in the Proclamation. 4 ~
Madison, Nov. "a.

Madison, Nov. "a.
The most interesting development,
at the capitoi yesterday with refer
ence to the special session that opens
a week from Monday is the question
of whether or not the working force.
of the senate and assembly will have
to be reorganized. A number OF
capitol officials EXPRESSED themselves
to the effect that the same employees
who served through the last regular
session would return and take their
PAGES, very much as though the spe-
cial session were a continuation or a
y second chapter of the regular session.
Secretary of State HOuser, however,
who was the chief clerk of the SEN
ate for a number of sessions, and who
els commonly regarded as an authority
on things parliamentary, inclines to
the opinion that complete reorganiza-
ton OF the working force will be nee
essary,. the same as at the beginning
of the regular session. He suggests
that. the Legislature will employ only
such help as it needs for the purposes
of the special session and that it will
not take the expensive step of car
rying on the payroll lot of employees
whose services are not needed at all.
New Law Enacted.
A fact that tends to enforce the
opinion of those who say reorganiza-
ton of both houses is necessary is
that at the c,ose of the regular SEES
sion a new law was enacted relating
TO the employees of the legislature.
This act was chapter 515 of the laws
of 1905. 1t was approved June 81,
and was not in force and effect as a
law until. after its official publication
June 30, week after the adjourn
ment of the legislature Consequent
ly the regular session was completed
under the old law, but for the special
session, there is a new law in force,
under which no officers or employees
of the legislature have ever been
elected
H. Will Make Sure of Pay.
The new law expressly repeats the
various previous statutes on the sub
ject of legislative employees and con-
sequently it is not easy to understand
how employees chosen under a re
pealed and nonresident law could
act when there is a new and differ
ent law in force. If it were assumed
that the old organization and en-
ployes, held through the special SEES
sion, and the legislature went ahead
on this assumption, a special appro-
priation bill would have to be passed,
for there is no statute under which
such. carried-over employees could be
paid out of the state treasury. This
usually is the test in such cases, for
if an employee is in danger of not get
ting his state provender he will see
to it that that danger is removed by
formal reelection or he will not work.
1t would seem, therefore, that there
will be a complete reorganization of
the two houses of the legislature, ac-
cording to the provisions of chapter
SIS of the laws of 1905. The chief
clerks get $500 for the regular session
and $40 a day for special sessions.
May Be Long Session.
Senator James j. McGiliivray of
Black River Falls, who is a candidate
for the republican nomination for gov
ernor, and who is making a, vigorous
canvass of the state, expresses sur
prise at the action of Governor La
Toilette in calling an extra session.
eff we open up all the subjects he
has Included in his CALL" said the
senator, 81 am afraid the special SEES
sion will be a protracted one Some
one mas suggested that it last
two or three weeks, but 1 0v not be
lieve we shall be through this year
that is my judgment. The general
feeling among the members of the