Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-02-04
MEASURE FOR
ANOTHER CIRCUIT
CAUSED BY GROWTH OF NORTH
ERN WISCONSIN.
TWO-CENT FARE IN THE AIR
Legislature May Give Subject Con-
sideration Without Waiting for
Announcement of Commissioners
Report-Some Senators Inclined to
Depend Upon the Commission.
Madison, Feb. /.

Madison, FEB. l.
Senator A. w. Sanborn introduced
a bill in the senate yesterday after
noon to create new judicial circuit,
to be known as the nineteenth circuit
and providing for the election of a
judge thereof. Senator Sanborn in
tends to introduce a joint resolution
for a constitutional amendment pro-
yiding for a Encouragement OF The
judicial circuits and permitting the
legislature to put more than one
judge in a circuit where the volume
of litigation demands the services OF
more than one Judge; but this will
not go into effect for six years even
if it passes the legislature ana is
adopted by the people, The bill he
introduced is for the immediate re-
lief of congested conditions in cir,
cults in the northeastern part of the
state The new circuit is to incuue
according to this BILL Florence, For
est, Oneida and Villas counties Sam
uel S. Miller is mentioned as the
man who will be made judge of the
new circuit in case the Oil becomes
a law
Senator Froemming introduced a
bill delegating to common councils
the power to regulate gas and tele-
phone rates within the limits OF mu
inequalities. This bill was referred
to the committee on transportation.
Senator Barker introduced a bill
prohibiting the sale of adulateratcd
or misbranded drugs and liquors and
providing penalty of $1O0 fine for
each Offense
Two-Cent Fare Talk.
at least one branch of the legislature
may not wait for the decision of the
railway commission on the reduction
of passenger fares in Wisconsin to
two cents a mile, immediate consid
GRAFTON may be had Of the two-cent
farebills which have been referred to
the committee on transportation
There is a disposition on the part of
some members TO pass a two-cent
fare bill no matter what the commls-
sion does. There is considerable
pressure being brought to bear upon
the assembly committee on transpor.
tation to hold the hearings on these
bills next week, or the week after
The commission is not yet ready to
report and will not be for some three
weeks.
Senator Hudnall, chairman of the
senate committee on TRANSPORTATION
is said to be against taking action
until after the commission has re-
ported He feels that to take Dip in
committee in a fragmentary way
SUBJECT to which the railroad commits
sion mad devoted ten months OF
study, and of which the commission
mad made an original investigation
together with having taken voIumin.
Gus testimony, would be unwisa and
UNFAIR In the mean time, the railroad
commission is grinding away on the
tWo-cent matter it has before if but
no mint has escaped the commission
as to what sort of decision is no
rendered
Senaor Paul A. Husting. democra4
Introduced IN the senate yesterday y
Dill providing for two-cent fare on
di common carrier lines earning
So,oo0 per year per mile OH passenger
business. This is broader than the
Dllls which were introduced in rho
assembly by Mr.. Bancroft. Mr.. Turner
| and others, in that it includes ali
common carriers, whether electric Or
steam.
Both houses meet this morning al
10 o'clock.
Proposes Spring Shooting.
Senator Browne introduced hill to
provide for spring shooting from April
10 to April rs, but 40 mallard. teal or
wood duck are to be killed. Swan are
| protected all the time by ais bill ard
limit of Is ducks is prescribed to
each hunter. The minimum fine fo1
violation of the law is also increased
Another bill by Senator Browne pro
poses to allow shooting of ducks from
an hour before sunrise to an hour aft
er sunset, instead of from sunrise to
sunset. Another bill by the same
| senator would remove white bass from
the protected list and still another
would add Washara and Waupaca
counties to the fish protection list.
| The residence district option bill SO
familiar to members of the legislature
OF 1905, was introduced by Senator
Brown. It already has been intro
duced in the assembly.
Senator Owen introduced a bill to
tax mortgages and to make the law
self enforcing by providing that no
mortgage that has escaped taxation
for any reason shall have standing in
any court, effectually invalidating the
mortgage and consequently placing
upon the holder of the mortgage the
necessity for paying taxes.
Bill for raroIe System.