Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-03-21
WISCONSIN SOLOAs.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Chief Clerk Eaton of the Sonata on
Thursday submitted his report or the
condition of work before committees and
the Senator from the Thirty-frst made
a harangue on the slowness of tho Sen
ate in getting down TO work. Ry a
mathematical calculation he attemnted
to prove that it would be November be
fore the work of the Senate is finished
at the rate they are now going, and with
the Assembly bills added it would be
near the first of the year before they
can get back to their homes. a'hus far
they had disposed of but one and one
half bills a day and in the future they
must pass or kill thirteen bills a d. TO
go through by May l. The Senate adj
vanced but four bills on its calendar
including that authorizing the CRY of
Milwaukee TO help build public audito-
rum or music hall and the Roehr bill
providing that no justice of the peace in
Milwaukee county shall have jurisdiction
of any action brought against a resident
of the city unless one of the parties
plaintiff in such action is resident of
the town in which the justice of the
peace lives. This measure will put an
end to the plan followed by loan sharks.
Under special order the Assembly took
up ASA. cutting down to exemptions OF
wages that can be garniSheed from $Go
to $50 a month. Mr.. Perry said il was
blow at the poor man and wanted it
indefinitely postponed but the motion
was defeated. GO to 20.
Bill No. 16 A.. authorizing cities to
fix an eight-hour day for municipal work.
was taken up in the Assembly Friday.
Mr.. Cc<fiand opposed the measure as
class legislation. Mr.. Aldridge spoke
for the bill. 1t was not new idea; it
was local and optional with cities. The
eight-hour day was surely coming and
Wisconsin should be in line. Mr. Brock
hansen called for the ayes and noes.
was not sustained by sufficient number
and there was no roll call The bill was
killed by an overwhelming vote. The
Portland exposition bill called for some
explanation. Chairman Kinney of the
State affairs committee explained that
the bill carried an appropriation of S15.-
600 and that $4,000 was left from the
St Doris fair fund, making a total appro-
prati~g of $4,000 Some thought since
the State spent only $4,000 for the Buff
falo exposition this was more han the
Portland fair should get. but the bill was
cOncurred in by vote of 90 to SO. 4
number of bills of lesser Importance were
passed by each house.
1t is hard work for the Senate to get
through its calendar Monday night. but
it was finally accomplished after several
motions to adjourn had been voted down.
On one of these motions division was
called for and it developed that there
was no quorum voting. A roll call, how
ever, showed that there were nineteen
present and the business was resumed.
Among the bills passed was that to
authorize the city of Milwaukee To erect
and maintain an auditorium and music
hall in cooperation with private assoc
citation. The Assembly bill to grant pow
er to inhabitants Of school districts to
vote tax TO compensate the clerk was
killed In the Assembly the Andrew re-
call bill was recommended for passage.
as were two Milwaukee bills-to author
ize the use of the revenues of the water
works for the erection of school houses
and to legalize the transfer of the water
fund to the general city fund in recent
years.