Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-03-04
|. WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE
Review of the Most Irnpor-
tant Work of the State
Legislators for the
Week.

reporting with recommendation for
passage the Hambrecht bill, throwing
open all classes in the state univer-
sity to. men and women students.
1t has been the policy to bar
women from. certain lectures, notably
those On phases of sociology, bearing
on problems of a nature generally
supposed to be exclusively for mems
ears. Under the Hambrecht bill there
will be no such thing as segregation
of sexes in any department.
The Roethe bill to abolish the of
fee of county supervisor OF elections
was killed.
In the senate thirteen new bills
came in from the revision committee.
also a Joint resolution memOriallZlng
congress 10 pass the bill placing vol
unteer officers of the Civil war on the
footing as retired officers of the regu-
lar army. This would give volunteer
officers of the Civil war three-quar-
ters of the pay they received at their
highest rank during the Rebellion and
would include a long list of Union
soldiers.
Senator Fairchild introduced this
resolution. He also put in an 1nsur-
ance bill designed to give the state
greater authority in getting data from
companies. Mr.. Husting introduced
an income tax bill, the second so far
introduced, while Mr.. Lehr introduced
a bill that will get the united attacks
of patent medicine manufacturers and
vendors. 1t requires the former to
pay a $1,000 license fee and the lat
ter to pay $3.50, presumably for each
kind of patent medicine handled. Half
of the latter fee goes to the state
and half to the town from which it
comes, SIS of the latter going into
the poor fund of the community.
The assembly passed a resolution to
hold memorial exercises in honor Of
B. S. Potter. West Bend; Fred J. Car
penter, Stevens Point, and w. A. Ger
nahan, Eau Claire, deceased members
of the last assembly.
The committee on cities reported
for passage bill 37A, to have police
men in cities of the fourth-class Sc
Iected by civil service. 1t recon-
mended the Egan bill, providing that
the doors of all public buildings shall
swing out.
The committee on education report
ed for passage The Hambrecht BILL
prohibiting the segregation of sexes
in classes at the state university.
MI Roethe introduced an amend
ment to bill 2O4A, and had the meas
ure placed on the calendar for next
Wednesday that would abolish the
school of medicine at the university
Madison, Wis, Feb. 25.-The senate
was flooded this morning with petit
lions from various unions, including
iron workers, bakers, plasterers, cut
tiers, tailOrs, steam filters and Fed
Grated Trades councils favoring uni
versity extension, and one from the
commercial travellers of the state IA
vOring the bill providing for hotel
regulation.
The senate committee on state af-
fairs reported the bills giving veter-
ans of the Spanish war an advantage
in appointment under civil service,
granting $500 annually to the state
park board; providing for certifica-
ton OF employees in legislature to the
secretary of state and the change in
the methods of distributing the blue
book for passage and the bill making
Lincoln's birthday a holiday for in
definite postponement.
The judiciary committee reported
for passage the bill granting addition
al jurisdiction to the county court of
st. Cloix county, and the assembly
bill giving county clerks power to ap-
point deputies for concurrence. Sen
ator Lyons bill, providing penalty for
injuring credits of corporations was
recommended for death.
The committee on claims returned
the bill appropriating $2,S37.75 to T.
H. Richmond to pay Ralph Jackman
for work in the inheritance tax case
on behalf of the state with the rec
concentration that it be killed.
Bills introduced:
Notwithstanding a commission
form of government for cities.
StoEt-The Gothengurg and Sweden
systems of authorizing municipal cor
porations to dispose of liquor licenses
to private corporation.
Committee on Forestry-Regulatin
the method and time Of DESTROYING
refuse of pine cuttings and imposing
"a penalty.
Owen-Providing for a guarantee of
bank deposits by the creation of a
''depOsitors' insurance fund in con.
nection with the state banking de.
partment, made up of money credited
by banks to this fund equaling 1 per
cent of its average daily deposits be-
ginning January, 1910.
Burke-Providing for probation OF
persons convicted of felonies and mis-
demeanors.
Husting-For creation of banks and
regulation and supervision, the
liquidation, of insolvent banks and
protection of depositors, providing
state guaranty of bank deposits, de
filming banks and adding ninety-foul
new sections to the law.
Fridd-Providing for re-examina
ton of persons alleged to be insane
Lehr-Removing the time limit
when public utility corporations car
apply for indeterminate franchises
placing telephone companies unde,
law GRANTING indotorp,ipo+o g.