Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-07-05
FEEL NEED OF REST
WISCONSIN LEGISLATORS VEL
COME RECESS
SESSION HAS BEEN LONG
Statesmen Becoming Restive Under
the Strain-May Be Effort to
Get Substitute for Stock
and Bond Bill.

civil war has the legislature ever con-
tinued In session for so long period,
and the members feel the need of
rest. For weeks it has been difficult
to preserve a quorum.
1t is said that an effort will be made
to draw a substitute for the stock and
bond bill. Practically every public
service corporation, the railroads and
every interest issuing stocks and
bonds, has issued a protest The inde-
pendent telephone interests are up In
war against the measure and the rail
way corporations state that they will
be unable to float securities IL the San
born amendment remains part of bill.
Two Bills Disposed Of.
Just before the assembly adjourned
for the nine-day recess several mem
bers made efforts to have bills i'll
which they were especially interested
taken up out Of their order on the
calendar and disposed of, but all were
unsuccessful except w. A. Cernahan
of Eau Claire and Frank F. Mueller of
Reedsburg. One of the members who
urged immediate consideration Of GER
tain bills was c. E. Estabrook of Mil
waukee, but so many others followed
with similar demands that c. A. In
gram of Durand protested against
considering any more bills out of
their order and Speaker Ekeru de-
clared in his favor.
The assembly concurred in the SEN
ate amendments to the bill authoriz-
ing cities to lay and maintain tracks
for a street railway on bridges and
viaducts and lease 1t to street railway
companies. The object of the bill is
to prevent one company from monop-
olizing bridges and yiaducts in cities.
Ask for Conference on Bill.
The assembly nonconcurred in the
senate amendment to bill No. IA, re-
quiring abstractors of title to give
bonds to insure patrons against dam
age through their errors, and adopted
a recommendation asking the senate
for a conference, on it. r~Ny}.
~. The Senate amendment to the, Peter
son ballot bin was cnncurred in and
the bin now goes to the governor for
his approval This bill provides for
changing the form of notice of cleo
tions to be published In newspapers,
reduces the maximum compensation
that may be paid for publishing such
notices and materially reduces the
size of the ballot and changes the
form in which it shall be made up.
The compensation that can be paid
for the publication of general election
notices in weekly newspapers is linn
tied to $75 and in daily papers to $120,
judicial election notices in weekly pa
pers to $40 and in daily papers to $40,
and municipal election notices In
weekly papers to $25 and in daily pa
pers to $55.
Change in Style.
The circle is retained at the top Of
the official ballot, but the names of
the candidates for state offices instead
of those of the presidential electors
are placed Immediately under the cir
Gle. After the names OF the candi-
dates for state offices come those for
congressional, legislative and county
Offices. Next come the names of the
candidates for president and vice
president, followed by the names OF
the candidates for presidential cleo
tors. Next and at the bottom of the
ballot come constitutional questions to .
be voted on. The ballot Is consider
ably smaller than the old one.
The bills which Mr.. Cernahan sue
ceeded in getting through the assem-
hIy ,uora Moo d0QC ani d1aC oIuiru
street and electric railway, telegraph,
telephone, power heat and light COM
panies the power of eminent domain
to condemn land for poles to carry
electric wires. Mr.. Cernahan said
that the purpose of the bills was to
enable a company at Eau Claire to
carry electric power from its dam at
Menomonie to Eau Claire. 1t has Sc
cured the right of way for its lines
through all the territory, but short
piece of which the owner refuses to let
it have. The bills will enable it to con-
demn the right to set poles on this land.
Certificates Not Needed.
Lucien H. Palmer, the colored mem
Der of Milwaukee, scored on the ply
sicians in the Legislature when he in
duced the house to kill the Hazelwood
bill, requiring midwives to secure
from the state board Of medical ex-
aminers certificates permitting them
to practice their profession. DR.. T. II.
Miller of La Crosse made an unsuc-
cessful effort to save the bill.
The motion to reconsider the vote
by which the Ekern resolution for a
constitutional amendment providing
for state civil service was killed was
laid over until July 8.
In response to request from the
senate the house adopted a motion
for another conference committee on
the Fairchild bill providing for two ad.
ditional circuit judges for Milwaukee
county. AS members of the conference
committee the speaker appointed c.
A. Ingram, Fred j. Carpenter, and H.
H. Heilbron.
No Teachers' Bureau
The bill which passed the legisla-
ture providing for a teachers employ
ment bureau was vetoed by the COVER
nor on the ground that teachers are
among the most intelligent class of
citizens and are able to take care of
themselves.