Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-05-16

offered another bill which s.es the
salary of the civil service commits
sioners at $1,000 year instead OF Il
per diem compensation and expenses.
! semblyman Kuckuk offevcsl a
resolution which provides for final
adjournment of the legislature May
20. Many members are becoming res
tive and wish 10 wind up the session
Madison, May 9.-The proposition &c
authorize cities to abolish the system
of governement by adermanic boards
ara substitute therefor a system of
government by commissioners elected
at large was discussed in the senate
and the bill was laid over for week
The bill was on the calendar with
Recommendation for passage by the
committee on villages and cities,
Senator Page asked that the roll be
called upon the question of advanc-
ing to engrossment and third reading
ana Senator Noble made an argument
in favor of the measure. Senator
Husting declared the measure to ,e
revolutionary and not sanctioned by
any demand from the people.
BY a tie vote of A to Al the as.
sembly refused to reconsider the vote
on the Douglas resolution which called
for an investigation of state finances
since the last administration o.
George w. Peck. Assemblyman Doug
les, the author of the resolution, made
a speech in favor of the measu Re.
An apparently innocent bIncaused
a stir in the assembly before it Went
down. to au overwhelming defeat
Assemblyman Elver, who was urging
the passage of the measure, declared
that If the assembly refused to enact
legislation of this kind, they would
create another John Dietz in every
northern Wisconsin town.
Assemblyman Cernahan of Eau
Claire opposed the biz. praising O. II
Ingram and Senator Stout who were
personally interested in the ownership
of the damn and whose integrity and
high standing. he said were guarantees
of fair dealing He said that the dam
was an absolute necessity to some of
the cities in the northern part of the
state and was to be used for hydraulic
purposes. Assemblyman j. p Peter
son, Douglas and Coolidge. all from
that part of the state. denied tina,
there was the slightest demand for
the repeal of the franchise. and ex-
posed the attempt to have it repealed
as a scheme on the part OF certain
land owners, including the author of
the bill, to make profit out of now
practically worthless or alf-submerged
lands. The assembly was so anxious
to kill the biz that it refused to enter
tain a motion to postpone, voted down
a substitute bill, then refused to en-
gross the original bill by an over
whelming vote.
The committee on cities offered a
bill to change the beginning and end
of the fiscal year from September to
January l, and August to December
81. The committee on taxation offer
ed measure which provides that the
taxation of inheritances be taken out
of the secretary of states hands and
put into The tax commissioners hands,
who, through a tax attorney shall
take charge of this branch of taxation.
Such attorney shall not receive more
than $4,000. All executors are re-
quired to make triplet receipts, one of
which shall be filed for taxation pur.
poses.
A home rule measure came from
the social democratic side. Il in
cludes cities of the first and second
classes. and provides for the codifica-
ton Of laws relating to those two
classes. With the home rule feature
is interviewer and initiative and ref
erendum proposal. The resolution
was offered by Assemblyman Brock
hansen.