Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-04-15
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE

military reservation near camp Doug
las to the United States and for the
appointment OF brevet second lieuten-
ants in the national guard from the
university regimental officers were
concurred in. Six bills were killed
among them two socialistic measures
introduced by Mr.. Alldridge, aimed to
protect union men in their efforts to
prevent men from taking the places
of strikers or discharged workmen,
and to protect unions from liability for
injuring business and property.
Madison, April 9,-In the senate
the Lockney bill, relating to the man
ner of choosing city officers, was
killed Three bills were ordered to
engrossment, including the Kander
Milwaukee library bill, the Everett
bill to legalize the organization and
to fix the boundaries of certain towns,
and the Burke bill relating to town
boards
Governor Davidson's first veto, that
on the Elkhorn cemetery bill, was re-
vote, 81 to 0. Mr. Sprague, the
author OF the bill, delivered a half
hours speech III favor of passing the
bill over the veto, and no remarks
were made against the proposition.
The governors theory was that it was
"a measure comforting special rights
on a city. The measure is of little
importance except local. Engross
ment was secured of the residence
district option bill,-which is more
than could be secured two years ago
when the memorable Thayer bill was
Gebated-and then was an all-day de-
bate on the Gothenberg dispensary
hill The consideration of the bill
was characterized by the best debate
of the session, and the assembly final
ly refused to order the bill to en-
grossment, 55 to 80. The debate
lasted over two hours in the morning
and occupied all the afternoon ses-
sion A stubborn fight was put up
by both sides.
The bill authorized the turning ovec
of all the licenses in a community to
a private corporation organized for
that purpose after the people in the
community had voted in favor of such
a proposition. The proponents of the
measure argued that intemperance
and many other evils of the liquor
traffic would be eliminated by this
system because the element of private
profit would be eliminated from the
traffic. The violation Of the law at
the present time, that is, the selling
to minors and to intoxicated persons,
came, they claimed as a direct result
of the personal interest of the men
behind the counter. By eliminating
this element they believed these and
other evils would be cured Mr. Pot |
ter and Mr. Elver, democrats, and Mr..
George and Mr. Harring, rpublicans, |
spoke chiefly against the bill and Mr.. |
Mains, its author, Mr. Ekern, Mr.. Nor |
cross and Mr.. Ainsworth for it. MI. !
Norcross was for any plan that might |
tend to minimize drinking while Mr.. |
Ekern planted himself with great
yigor on the rich of temperance re-
form. 1t was pointed out as the
special merit of the Gutenberg sys-
tenn that no premium was placed or
barkeepers to make sales,-that thus
the prohibition against the sale to
drunkards and miners was better OBJ
served.
The vote on the question of order
ing to engrossment stood as follows:
Ayes-Ainsworth Anderson, A. S.
Baker, Cahoon, Coolidge, Ingram, r. /
vine. Jones, Kay, Keppel, Keup, Kim
ball, Kuclluk, Mains, McGregor, Nc
Kenzie, Morris, Norcross, Nye, Glen,
O'NeiI, J. B. Peterson, Roethe, Roy |
craft, G. E. Scott, Fred Smith, Soren-
son, Sprague, Stout, i. M. Thomas,
Ties, Turner, Ekern-33.
Noes-Aldridge, Bauer, Berg, Bell,
Berner Bichler, Brockhausen, Burke, |
Campbell, Carpenter Cernahan, |
Cleary, Domachowski, Douglas, Dur
ley, Elver Estabrook, Everett, Georgi, |
Goldsworthy, Grassie, Hagen Harrass,
Harring, Hebron, Hughes, Kander, |
Kubasta, Leedvina, LIE Roy, |
Luy IdIQudIOl, MCO6G, L. A1lllGI,
Nelson, Neitzel, Palmer, Perry, Fred |
Peterson, Pickart Potter, Reynolds, |
Rollman, Schauer, Nicholas, Schmidt, |
Simon, Smith, Soper, Stewart, j. O. |
Thomas, Thompson, Weber, Weir |
vein, Wellensgaard-
Thus the bill was killed.
Mr.. Harrass' bill, prescribing penal /
ties of from $40 to $40 for interfering
with the employment of members of
the Wisconsin national guard, was or
dered to engrossment The bill was
by the pernicious activity
of radical labor agitators in interfer
ing with the relations of employers !
and employees when the latter hap