Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-04-29

three bills were killed.
Madison. April 19.-Most of the
time of the senate was occupied with
debates on the medical advertising bill,
which was finally amended by its
author. Senator Lockney, and ad-
vanced to third reading 1t is all
outrageous harsh measure in its bear
ing on editors The bill had been
changed in the committee on public
health and sanitation so as to forbid
the publication of Objectionable medi-
cal advertisements but so as not to
provide for punishment of the news
paper and other publishers whose
papers might contain such matter. AS
amended by the committee the bill
was made to apply TO the one who in
serted the advertisement rather than
to the publisher.
Senator Lockney. assisted by Sen
ators Hudnall and Noble, maintained
that unless publishers be reached by
the law it would be impossible to
reach the advertisements OF the bad
practitioners and medical Institutes
outside of Wisconsin, and Senator
L.ockney, for this purpose, offered an
amendment to place into the bill a
provision fixing liability on publish
ers. Senator Roehr moved to lay
the amendment on the table, which
motion, prevailing, would have killed
both the amendment and the bill.
Later he withdrew his motion, as he
did not care to Kill the bill, intend
ing only to secure a vote on the
L,ockney amendment. The amend
ment prevailed by the following vote:
To make publishers liable-Senators
Bird, Brazeau, Browne, Burns, Fair
child, Fridd, Hazelwood, Hudnall,
I1ockney. Martin, Morris, Noble
Pearson. Rummei, Sanborn. Stout,
Whitehead Wilcox-18.
Administrations Barker, Bishop.
Froemming, Husting, Marsh, Munson,
Page, Roehr, Wolf, Wright-1o.
Senator Fairchild then offered an
amendment which would have the
effect of making it question for the
Jury to decide whether an objection.
able advertisement was improper or
contrary to public morals. but 1t was
defeated.
Four new bills were introduced by
various committees as follows: To
punish the depositing Of lead nickels
or other substitutes for money in
telephone boxes Or to otherwise de-
fraud a telephone company. The
penalty is a year in jail or $500 fine;
appropriating $4,000 a year to the
Light Horse Squadron Armory assn-
citation of Milwaukee; and prescr1b-
ing that the penalty for second offense
violation of the game laws shall be
double the ordinary penalty and for
third offense shall be the maximum.
penalty. Governor Dayidson's first and
only veto of the present session (of
the Elkhorn cemetery billy becomes a
law through the action of both houses
in passing the bill over the veto.
Wisconsin socialists are in favor
of the mail-order houses and the
IuIOILlluS "a InC SOu1Ilg
but the assembly is decidedly OF an
other view. When the joint resolu-
ton memorializing congress to estab-
lish a parcels post, introduced by
Carl D. Thompson, Milwaukee social
ist came up in the lower house it
was indefinitely postponed by vote
of so to 30. George E. Scott a mer-
chant of Barron, made brief argu-
ment i'll opposition, contending that
it would further the interests of the
large corporations doing mail-order
business at the expense of the small
store-keepers That was enough; but
Assemblyman Alldridge, social demo
crat from Milwaukee made an extend
ed argument in favor of the resolu-
ton. Yet oratory was of no avail, and
when the vote was taken an over
whelming majority was recorded
against the proposition.
Friday the automobile bill came