Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-07-23
WORK OF The LEGISLATURE



To urge upon Congress the passage of
the act limiting the hours of service of
railway employees La Toilette Esch bill).
To secure list of persons on the pay
rolls of the State drawing pay in more
than one capacity.
To direct the joint committee on print
ing to investigate the subject of State
printing and report to the next Legisla-
/ ure
Memorializiug Congress in regard to
child labor.
Relating to improvement of the upper
| Mississippi
Urging Congress to definitely determine
course of action in regard to the
Portage levee
Memorializing Congress TO provide for
fixing uniform standard for grading and
inspecting grains.
To investigate the alleged lumber
trust in this State.
Memorializing Congress to remove the
tariff on lumber
Memoriaizing the President to call an
extra session of Congress to revise the
| tariff.
Protesting against the holding of an
intercollegiate boat race on Memorial
day.
Authorizing the State board of control
to investigate home finding societies and
the results of their operations
| Providing for an investigation by the
tax commission of life insurance taxation
and report to the next Legislature.
Providing for an investigation of thN
| conditions and the cause of the increase
of mental detectives.
Providing for an Investigation by the
State board Of control of quarries and
rockbearing lands of the State and in
| quiry into the ACCESSIBILITY of establishing
| prisons on such lands to employ con-
victs at work of quarrying.
Asking the Secretary of State for a
statement of amount of money expended
for legal services during past ten years.
To investigate the hours of work of
telegraph operators.
To investigate fire losses.
To investigate the cost Of public print
| ing.
Memoriaizing Congress to make an APP
! propr. alton for a survey and report on
the ACCESSIBILITY of building a ship canal
to connect the great lakes and the Mis-
sissippi river.
Urging the establishment of national
| system of education.
| Slaughter Many Measures.
Among che resolutions and memorials
which have been killed by the Legislature
this session are the following:
Declaratory of the policy of the State
relative to water powers therein.
To amend the constitution to allow
all persons to hunt and fish on unen-
closed lands under proper regulations.
To appoint commission to investigate
land transfers
| Instructing the capitol commission to
| Investigate and report the feasibility of
extending the capital park to Lake Mo-
mona.
To appoint commission to investigate
| State insurance.
Proposing to Congress the calling of a
| convention to frame an amendment to the
| federal constitution prohibiting polygamy.
! Memoriaizing Congress in regard to
the election of federal judges by the peo-
| pie.
Memoriaizing Congress in regard to
| the establishment of parcel post.
| Memorializing Congress in regard to
public ownership of railroads.
! To encourage the instruction of prac-
teal politics in the public schools.
Memoralizing Congress in regard to
international reace.
Memorializing Congress in regard to
postal savings banks.
Memorializing Congress in regard to
cooie and Mongolian labor.
Memoriaizing Congress in relation to
the decision of the United States Su-
preme Court in the case of Meyer, Hay
wood and Pettibone
Memoria1izing Congress in regard to
the pending federal anti-injunction bill.
Determining duty of members of the
next Legislature in regard to election of
United States Senator under primary
| election law
Expressing the sense of the LegislG-
ture that the university should establish
| purely English course and that it
| should not interfere in the inspection of
high schools by the State superintend-
| ent.
! Providing for the appointment of a
committee to examine and report apon
| the finances Of the State from the expira-
| ton of Gov. Peck's term to 1906.
Providing for the appointment of
| legislative committee to investigate the
| liquor problem and the best methods of
regulation.
Requesting the Governor to inquire
| into the ACCESSIBILITY of calling a confer
ence for the purpose of securing uni
| formity of legislation among the several
! States.
Expressing the sense of the Legislature
| that Congress should enact national
income tax law.
Providing for an investigation Of the
case of "Outlaw" John L. Dietz of Saw
| yer county.
| Providing that the next Legislature
revise and codify the laws affecting Mil
waukee and extend the right of self gov
| eminent based upon the initiative and
referendum.
Urging such legislative action by ma
| tional and State authorities as will bring
about the naturalization of the trusts.
Memorial relating to a reciprocal de-
murrage law.
A memorial to President Roosevelt re-
lating to the discharge of the negro
troops involved in the Brownsville affair.
Wooden Clothes are Next.
1t will probably not be very long
before we can 90 into one of the dry
| goods stores and say to clerk, Let
me see what you have in the line OF
wooden suits" lie may reply, Hard OF
softY7 whereupon it will be our part tc
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