The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-03-22
by a unanimous vote under sus-
pension Of the rules.
Public Service Hearing.

1
| session was held last Wednesday over
| the Leroy public service measure.
Inis bill seeks to place all public serv-
| zee corporations, gas companies, water,
| ngntlng and electric companies under
stare control. The bill provides that
| as the present rate commission has
Wor.ed so satisfactorily control should
be delegated to this body. There
was some sentiment for a separate
| commission to be modelled after the
| one in operation in Massachusetts.
The measure gives delegates the
| power not only of regulation of rates,
belt III the case of gas companies, fixes
the standard of quality, and the meth
! 0ds OF service. 1t also asceftains the
true value of the property Of the plant
and squeezes out all water from the
| stocks Of the company.
There are sixty-three insurance bills
pending before the legislature. Hear
lngs were started ON the measures
| last week in joint session. On the
] hrst day of the debates two of the
! representatives of different outside
companies signifieG so the committee
that the companies intended to fight
such radical legislation as was pro
posed, and if need be, withdraw from
the state.
To Make railroads Liable.
| The railroad hearings at this session
are not as important as at previous
ones. The great fight so far shown is
| an attempt of the locomotive engineers
| to repeal the present cO-emplOye law
| and make the railroads liable for dam
| ages where it can be shown the road
| is at all at fault. This is a new doc
| trine and was presented to the com
| mlttees of the legislature by Frank w.
! Hall of Madison. Every railroad is
| opposed to such a measure. The
| Northwestern was represented at the
hearing by Lloyd Bowers; st. Paul by
| Burton Hanson; Wisconsin Central by
| Thomas Gill, and the Omaha by Judge
Thomas Wilson.
| The Y. Nj. c. A associations of the
| state are bringing a storm of protest
in the form Of petitions down upon the
| head of AssembIyman August f. Mar
|
| introduced bill in the legislature to
amend the law relative to the revO-
cation of saloon licenses, after viola
| ton of the city ordinances. The SUI
| preme court recently sustained a suit
taking away the license of a saloon
keeper for a violation of the city ordi-
| nance. Petitions are received in the
ic1a f,11a ,1, IoS1 Ivy in
the proposed amendment be killed.
-@ Slap at DIR. Roberts.
The senate has passed a bill which
is in effect slap at DR.. David Rob
| erts of Waukesha, the state veterina
rian. The bill provides the state vet
erinarian shall not in any way be con-
! nected with a patent medicine COM
| pany. This is the cause of the COM
| plant against DR.. Roberts, it being
| alleged that the medicines he sold in
| jured the work of other veterinarians
| throughout the state. On the vote the
bill passed, yeas p, nays II.
G.. A. Ingram, the linear young
chairman of the assembly judiciary
| committee, may be said to be the floor
| leader of the lower house. although he
| has not yet measured up the half doz-
! en- strong debaters ON the floor. Ban
| croft, McGregor, Sprague, Norcross
| LIE Roy have been heard more effect
! lively, but Ingram has seldom fallen
| down in anything he has attempted,
| as he combines much tact and genial
| personality with not a little shrewd
T,,o 80, n C first tar11
| hence too much should not be expect
| ed perhaps He was particularly for
| tunate in that he was appointed chair
| man of the most important committee
| of the house, distinction that seldom
| comes to a member serving his first
| term. Ingram began his active work
! as a newspaper man, and for some
| years was editor of the Durand Enter
| ing Wedge He made the paper in
| teresting and talked about, but all the
| time the virus of the law was in his
| blood, and in time he succeeded in
weaving himself from the sanctum
and becoming disciple of Blackstone.
State Press Association.
Madison has been full of editors the
| past week. Drawn mere DH Tue dlllud
meeting of the State Press association
While here they had the opportunity
to see the legislative wheels go round
and watch the workings Of the legis-
lative mind Of which they are mentors
at long range. Madison rose above
it's proverbial Indifference to conven-
lions in this instance, and much was
made of the quill-driving visitors.
Wednesday evening a banquet was
given them at the expense of Colonel
A. H. HOLSTER. one Of MadiSOn'S lead
ing druggist. who forty years ago was
a country editor himself. to which fact
he referred in feeling "reminiscences.
On Thursday evening the editors and
their wives and daughters We're guests
at the legislative reception given by
Governor and Mrs. Davidson. where
they met state officials and legislators
face to face. resulting doubtless in
mutual roviSiOnS of opinion in many