Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-01-28

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Madison, Jan. I'm the assembly
the committee on claims reported ia
vorably on the bill to make an
emergency appropriation for the
/ benefit Of the legislative reference de-
partment and asked that it be put on
it immediate passage. Judge Levi
H Bancroft objected to the bill go
+ ing through without full consideration
by the house. We may be creating
/ the biggest lobby the state ever saw,
said Mr. Bancroft, "and if the special
interests Of the state should get q
grip on it we may be unable to
shake it off for twenty years. I am
opposed to making the bureau out
of all proportion to the assembly
or the governor. The department
seems to have incorporated into it
! self some features that are not good,
but I will not discuss them now
would keep this library what it
should be, a purely reference library.
This bureau was started only two or
three years ago and the annual ap-
preparation for it now is $4,000. 1t
is now behind $4,000 and seeks
yearly appropriation of S14,500 here
after 1t has grown from one man
to about 25 persons at the present
time four being lawyers, and one Of
it's proposed functions is to draft
bills for introduction in the two
houses. Mr.. Bancroft withdrew his
opposition after learning that only
SIS, 900 to cover the deficit was
wanted and the bill was passed.
Among the bills introduced were
these By Mr.. Ingram, increasing pay
for district school officers attending
conventions from 81 to So day; also
! making a so per cent individual liza
bility for stockholders in corpora
tions; by Mr. Bancroft, protecting
deer in Richland, Crawford, Vernon
and Grant counties; also making
railway officers responsible for &C
cidents liable for manslaughter;
also for a passenger fare of 2 cents
ON roads earning $4,000 a mile;
also to regulate automobiles, reduc-
ing speed in cities from II to 6
miles and in the country from 25 to
y miles an hour; also holding an
autoist guilty of manslaughter in the
first degree if he kills a person;
also prohibiting students from voting
Or soliciting votes unless residents of
places where attending school; by
| ]. P. Peterson, authorizing town in
surance companies to insure contents
of churches and school houses; by
Mr. Potter, exempting malt sprouts
sold for feeding from taxation; by
Mr. J. o. Thomas, permitting county
clerks to retain so per cent of inheri
lance taxes collected; by Mr. Berner,
for an eight-hour labor day on all
public works of every possible de-
scription and affecting contractors
and sub-contractors; by Mr.. Brock
hansen, allowing meetings to talk
trade disputes to be held anywhere,
permitting picketing and providing no
action can be taken against unions
for acts of it's members; by Mr..
Estabrook, general enabling act
for municipal courts in cities; by Mr.
J. F. Baker for the further protection
of quail.
In the senate Senator Owen in
troduced bill relating to fishing with
nets in the Mississippi river. Under
the present law the state fish and
game warden had held the lagoons
and sloughs a part of the river, but
an opinion of the attorney general
holding they were not such part,
has invalidated licenses granted, and
on the ground of emergency the bill
was referred to the committee on
fish and game. other bills intro
duced were: by Senator Barker, to
maintain sanitary conditions in
hotels; by Senator Rummell, to COM
pei employers to pay employees at
least twice per month and provid-
ing a penalty of 81 per day for fall
ure to so pay after notice with