Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-04-28
WISCONSIN SOLONS.
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Legislative bachelors won out after
the horse play" session of this years
Legislature Wednesday night by killing
the Cleary bill to lay a tax of So year
on all unmarried men of good physical
power. The vote was Overwhelmingly
against the proposition. Assemblyman
Cleary is bachelor, 80 years old, but Is
engaged to a Juneau county girl. He ar
gued earnestly for his bill, declaring that
unmarried men are unsubstantlai, raco
suicidal and often violent. To avoid pos
sible blodshed at the Thornapple river
dam in Chippewa county, where John
Dietz is holding up by force millions OF
logs of the Chippewa Boom and Log
Company, a bill was introduced IN the
Assembly during the lay repeating the
act for the establishment of the DAM
Many armed men are on the scene OF
trouble, but it is hoped the bill may
solve the difficulty. A bill was intro
duced to tax telegraph and telephone
companies on all ad valorem basis IN
stead of by the license system.
Gov. La Toilette sent to the Legisla-
| ture Thursday a message setting fortn
| the need of law providing for greater
| safeguards against railroad accidents.
! He urged law placing the responslblll-
| ties for all accidents where they belong,
juries to determine as between companies
and employees All accidents, the Gov
ernor said, should be reported to the
| State During the years 1903 and l9o4
| the number of deaths and accidents from
railroads in Wisconsin was 2,624. The
Governor favored thorough investiga'
ton of all accidents, and recommended
the enactment of a cO-employe law SIM
liar to the one repealed in 1880. Rail
road employees, in particular, he SAID
should be more fully protected. Follow
| ing the Governors recommendation suc'
bill was introduced in the Assembly
and ordered engrossed. Doubt as to tho
| passage of the railroad rate commission
bill was largely removed by the an
nouncement that the Senate COMMITTEES
on railroads had agreed on bill to b'
reported favorably. The last element G
sDlit among the members Of the com
mittee regarding what should constitute
a stay of proceedings from the decision
of the commission was settled by TIL
agreement on the provision that the de
cisions of the committee should not be
come effective until sixty days after TIL
decisions were rendered, and that it
further delay were desired the objector
should go into court and secure an in
junction. This provision was agreed t
by the stalwart and administration men
bers of the committee.
After a sensational trial, lasting a
day. the Senate Tuesday night foun
Senator Barney A. Eaton of Milwaukee
guilty of conduct unbecoming membe
and suspended him until Jan. l, l90'
The action against Eaton grew out
bribery charges. After taking four TO
calls and killing the bill once, then recol
sidering its vote, the Assembly passe
the Thayer bill to prevent by remol
:. 5residence districts. The final vote VIZ
35 for and "a against. The bill is
replica Of the Indiana law and has bee
bitterly contested by brewers. The Tu
ner bill extending the right Of suffrae
TO women in city, village and town ma
, ters, which came back from committe
; without recommendation, was refused Ell
grossment by a vote of "a to 49, TIL
bill to require employers of labor to kee
a register of all accidents and make II
port thereof to the commissioners of IL
Dor was passed.