Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-05-26
WISCONSIN SOLONS.


There will be no legislation along the
lines of the Thayer district option bill
at this session of the Legislature. The
Assembly Tuesday, by vote of 3S to
81, adopted the substitute providing for
referendum instead of the purely re-
monstrance feature of the Thayer bill to
bar saloons from residence districts. Then
By vote of 40 to SO it killed the bill:
There was no debate on the measure.
The Governors veto of the Martin bill,
giving the board of control parole pow
ers, was sustained, without debate, by
a vote of 13 to 81, those voting to pass
the bill over the Governors veto being
Messrs. Baker, Berner, Brockhausen,
Coffiand, Durland, Hansen, Frank john
son, Henry johnson, Norcross, Page,
Ramsey, Strehlow, Westfahl The AS
sembly concurred in Senate amendments
to 547A, giving to truant officers the
powers of assistant factory inspectors to
enter factories. The Assembly took fav-
orable action on a resolution to amend
constitution to limit suffrage to full citi-
zens. A fight was made on the bills to
increase salaries of employees of insur-
ance department. A conference between
the two houses has been arranged to con-
slider the bill prohibiting marriages of d.
vorced persons within one year of date Of
divorce. The bill to regulate automobiles
passed by the Assembly was held up in
the Senate. Senator Rogers viciously
attacked the bill.
The Senate Wednesday passed the bill
submitting to the people the question OF
moving the State capitol from Madison;
also bill to compel safeguards on corn
huskers and shredders; a bill providing
for lien on horses to pay for shoeing
same, and a bill to prevent unauthorized
presentations of dramatic and musical
compositions The Senate killed the
Johnson bill, a reform measure designed
to prevent lobbyists from attempting to
influence members of the Legislature ex-
cept at committee meetings.
The Senate Thursday night passed, I'M
der suspension of the rules, the La Fol-
lette railroad rate commission bill. On
the anniversary of the great bolt in the
Wisconsin Republican convention the
Senate debated all day and into the
night on the measure which grew out Of
the party strife. The controversy was
confined to the details as to the extent
of the powers to be conferred on the com
mission and the machinery of the propos-
ed law. Senator George B. Hudnall OF
Superior bore the brunt of the battle in
favor of the report of the committee on
railroads Senators McGillivray, Ste
yens, Rummel, North and Whitehead Of
fered many amendments, providing for
an elective instead of an appointlve com
mission and generally designed to give
the commission less power than the bill
proposed by the committee. All these
amendments were in turn voted down.
Little acrimony, although remarkable de-
termination, prevailed in the discussion,
but when Senator Whitehead, the stall
wart leader, offered a long series OF
amendments and asked for recess ne
was charged by Senator Hudnall with
attempting to invalidate the entire law
by ingenious amendments that would
cripDle the commission and render 1t
powerless.
The Senate Friday morning was in
an extremely Eighty mood as reaction
from the strenuous work of Thursday. 1t
had one of the most important calendars
of the session, but killed bills with APP
parent reckless aDauQOu, IWO VI CHAeC
times reconsidering its action and order
ing them advanced after listening to
speech by the advocates Of the respec-
tive bills The bill to leave to the vote
of the people the removal of the capitol
from Madison was reconsidered. The .
dover and courtesy bill, to put husband
and wife on the same plane as regards
inheritance rights, was killed by the Sen
ate. The recall bill, to remove Alder
men by petition Of electors, was killed
The mental anguish" bill, to authorize
recovery Of damages for delay in deliv-
ering telegraph messages, was killed. The
Assembly had a short session at which
three missives were reported back by
committees and one new one introduced
No. 315S for State exhibit at the
Portland exposition was unfavorably re-
ported, as was joint resolution No. Ala
for the naturalization of trusts. No.
1904 for a State tuberculosis sanltarlum
costing 100000 was reported for passage.