Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-06-21
In the Assembly.
TUESDAY.

After Il lively debate the bill providing for
the establishment of binder Irvine plant
at the state prison at Waupun was adj
vanced on the calendar and has a good
chance of becoming a law. The bill was re-
ported for indefinite postponement in April
by the committee on charitable and penal
institutions, but was saved by Mr.. Cerna~
han at that time and referred to the COM
mittee on claims. There were numerous
hearings before that committee and the bill
was reported in without recommendation
The bill was advanced by a vote of 90 to
90 On a call of the ayes and noes, the
Hagsr bill No. 234A to Increase the appro-
priation of the state horticultural society
from $4,000 to $4,000 was advanced Bill No
3O5A to appropriate $500 to the Wisconsin
Firemens association was .engrossed as was
the bill of granting additional employees to
the dairy and food commission. The AS
sembly, by a decisive vote of 81 to %, re-
pudiated the Georgi school board bill pro-
vidinp for the election of sixteen members
from school districts and five at large and
advanced to engrossment the modification
of the Poss bill, as recommended by the
committee on education.
WEDNESDAY.
On the 10Th. after a lively fight in the
Assembly the Roehr bill reducing the num-
her of aldermen in the Milwaukee common
council from two from each ward to one
was concurred in and now goes to the gov
erncr for his approval. The Assembly re-
solved itself into what had every semblance
of a political convention in the discussion
Of fhe bill to remove the circle from the
top of the party columns on the official
ballot In committee of the whole by a
vote TO 45 to 38 the Assembly adopted a
resolution expressing it's judgment that the
circle at the top of party columns should
he retained The Assembly without dis
cussion killed bill No. 9S1A, providing, that
a district attorney shall not be required to
disclose In any court or judicial proceeding
any information he may have acquired
while assisting a grand jury. The Assem-
bly committee on transportation decided to
REPORT without recommendation the bill re-
During telephone companies to make phys
zeal connections and prohibiting duplica-
ton Of exchanges.
THURSDAY.
On the 18th a third bill in three days
vitality affecting Milwaukee was advanced
in the Assembly 1t reduces the county
board of fifty members to sixteen members,
one from each Assembly district in the
county, and doubles the salary of the SUI
pervisors The Assembly passed the Kay
bill to appropriate $685. 900 for improvements
a. the normal schools of Oshkosh, Superior
and River Falls. OF this amount $4,000 is
for Superior, $4,000 for River Falls and
$40, 600 for Oshkosh. The vote was ayes 20.
noes f. Bill No 256A, by Mr.. Norcross to
appropriate $500 annually for two years to
the Wisconsin Tobacco Growers and Deal
ers' association, was advanced The Jack
son bill No 404A, to appropriate $4,000 for
a university extension was ordered en-
crossed. Mr.. Bancroft saved the Harrass
bill No. AGA, to pension members of the
state militia, when wounded in the line Of
action or disabled in any form. The AS
sembly committee on transportation last