The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1905-05-05
LEG|SLAT URE'S WORK
Synopsis of the Proceedings o
the Lawmakers at
Madison.
STATE NEWS OF IMPORTANCE
Items of General Interest Caught
from the Wires and Prepared
for Our Readers.

Madison, April 27.-Open intimations
that bribery had been employed to Sc
cure a recall of Thayer's local option
BILL which has passed. created con-
siderable excitement at the session Of
the assembly. After lively discus
sion, during which Rev. Mr. Thayer,
author of the bill, made the indirect
charges Of bribery, the bill was ordered
recalled by majority of one vote. The
Warner bill, applying civil service laws
for all departments Of the state was
, passed.
The bill to pay the awards of the
capitol commission to the competing
architects was on the senate calendar
for engrossment Senator McGilliv-
ray, ever watchful upon all motters
concerning the capitol proposition pro-
posed an amendment which was in
tended to limit the payment of the
awards and to permit no other similar
transa ction Senator Whitehead con-
tended that the bill proposed to do
this. The matter finally went back
to the committee.
The committee on claims sent in a
bill to pay the members of the fish and
game commission attending the Chi
cagO conference $3.50 or $12 each for
expenses. The bill making an appro-
priation for the Lewis and Clark ex-
position was sent to the committee on
claims.
Madison, Wis, April 2S.-After two
hours of spirited debate, the state
assembly OVERRIDE the recommen-
cations of it's taxation committee and
materially amended the committee re-
port relating to the powers and duties
of county supervisors of assessment.
Another sharp contest developed
over the Dahl bill providing for the
adoption of the Torrens system for
the registration of land titles.
The substitute bill for the Ekern
measure to compel the Bell Telephone
company to grant the use of it's long
dent telephone companies of the state
was on the calendar for indefinite post
ponement, but the Trempealeau mem
Der saved it from immediate death by
offering an amendment The house
adjourned before any action could be
taken.
The senate disposed Of long calen-
dar, although many of the bills were
laid over. Senator Stevens introduced
Il substitute to the Oshkosh capital
bill, which adds a referendum clause
to his bill and permits a vote on the
capitol location. The Stout bill pro-
vlding for the sale by municipalities
of the right to handle and sell intox-
icating liquors went over, as did the
bill to pay the competing architects Of
the capitol. The Stout bill. upon the
insistence of Senator Wilcox, went to
the committee on state affairs, which
has had it under consideration. Sem
| ator Stout requested leave of absence
until May 8.
Madison, Wis, April 29-The assem-
bly,, with but one dissenting vote.
passed the employe bill recommended
by Governor LaFollette and defining
the liability of railroad companies. The
assembly also advanced the bill to pre-
vent piracy of plays. The bill for a
live stock sanitary board was killed
The bill requiring competing telephone
companies to connect was advanced.
In the senate the committee on
charitable and penal institutions in
troduced a bill providing for the selec-
Of I lot so;&
by the legislature instead of by the
| governor. The bill proposes to. select
one senator and two assemblymen eacn
from the committee on claims and from
the committees on charita BILE and penal
institutions.
The senate passed fifteen bills, ana.
during the consideration of the entire
calendar, failed to pursue it's custom
airy proceeding of laying over or re-
, referring bills. Some of the; freak
measures of. the assembly, We're on the
calendar and they were .rereferred up
on the request of interested. parties
who desire further hearings ).
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Madison Wis, May WISCONSIN is
a tipless state, or will be when Gov
ernor LaFollette signs the Stout bill
against graft, which has been passed
by the legislature. Senator Stout had
no intention of warning on the tip sys.
tenn when he introduced his bill. His
intention was to wipe out the petty
grating which has grown up through
small commissions paid buying agents
and employees to induce them to favor
some firm or corpora ton. in making
their purchases. 1t was with such a
view that the bill was passed by both
houses.
1t was not until the final vote was
being taken in the assembly that mem
bers discovered that, if the bill passed
it would wipe out the custom of giving
tips or place the giver and the re-
| ceiver in danger of fine or imprison,
ment
Members who have been inclined TO
believe that possibly two weeks more