Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-06-26

against it. These were Senator
Beach, Froemming, Johnson, Nortl
and Wright. BY the refusal of tn
senate to order the assembly bill of
tered by Assemblyman Irvine regula,
ing and defining franchises to a thir
reading, the legislature of 1905 faile
to limit the amount of stocks an
bonds and other evidences of del
that may be issued by corporation
The bill to further safeguard IL
state treasury was killed by a vote
Is to 3, after amendments were d
feated by a vote of II to &c. Senat
Rogers said that the result of the b
would be to make the state treasur
the clerk of the secretary of sta
The bill making aid to state fai
definite and uniform was passed by
vote of rs to 0.
The assembly after stubborn
bate and several efforts to amend ii
bill, concurred in the Stout bill
prohibit saloons within 500 feet
public anu parochial schools. II
vote was 55 to "a. the negatives b
ing: Berner, Bletcher. Bohri, Brook
Crowley, Dietrich, Hagen, Hamr
Hannifin, Hartung, Hainecke, Holl
Marquardt,, Matzler, Mayors, Pag,
Potter Prehn, Ramsey, John Scot
Strehlow. SzymareR, Theme an
Westfahl-24.
Assemblyman Andrew offered al
amendment to give existing saloonk
until 1910 to remove instead of only
until 1908. This was voted "a to A
Mr. Curtin offered an amendment max.
ing the distance 800 feet from the
schoolhouse door. This was lost, %
to 55. Mr. Ekern offered an amend
ment to exempt breweries now in ex.
istence This was voted down, "a to
So.
The attempt of the committee on
fish and game to restrict hunters to
one deer for each hunter during the
season was frustrated The assem-
bly, receded from its refusal to concur
in the senate amendment to the bill
taxing street anG electric railways on
the ad valorem basis. extending the
time when the bill becomes operative
until 1905 instead of 1907. The as
sembly then concurred in the amend
nent. The senate substitute for the
text book bill was concurred in. A
state commission is to decide what
books shall be used. The senate
amendment increasing the license fee
of telephone and telegraph companies
was concurred in. The bill provid-
ing that stock deposit companies shall
pay a license fee of $500 instead of
$500 was passed.
The assembly passed bill cutting
down the number of legislative en-
ployes and also providing that no wo-
men shall be employed to DO any work
connected with the sessions of the
Legislature. The bill providing that
the publication of insurance state
ments should be discontinued was
passed.
| A compromise was settled upon by
the assembly-senate committee of con-
ference in regard to the county su-
prvisor bill by which the measure
was saved, but the number of days
supervisors may work per year in
counties having an assessed valuation
of $1O,OOO,O00, $2O,0OO,O0O and $780,
100000 respectively, was altered to
give them fewer days in which to Ia
Dor and draw pay. The bill creating
the office of public examiner died by
reason of a failure of the conference
committees of the two houses to
agree.
The senate, having in the forenoon
reconsidered the vote by which it re-
fused to concur in the house bill to
provide for woman member OF the
state board of control, gave its concur
renee by a vote of 10 to S. Yet the
bill was amended so that the placing
of woman on the board will not in
creasee the membership, but will
merely provide that one of the mem
bers shall be a woman. After the ses-
sion it was reported credibly that the
bill is so worded that it permits
complete reorganization of that body
that in fact, it has the practical eff
feet of wholly abolishing the board
Just what advantage the governor
may take of the circumstance is OF
course not known. 1t is said, how
ever. that the Madison member, Prof.
I Allan D. Conover, is likely to be
member of the new board, If one is