Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-04-28

cigarettes by persons under 10 was
sent TO third reading without oDjec-
ton. The health committee presehteu
a bill requiring that after Janaury'
1916 no person shall be allowed TO
practice optometry without beng IL
censed by a state board. Penalty lOl
violation is a fine of from $50 10 slVV
and Imprisonment up to there months,
From the committee on judiciary
came a joint resolution to amend the
constitution permitting the state or
cities to acquire lands by glit' puFr
chase or. condemnation for streets,
sites, parks and Fairgrounds.
Madison, April 19.-Efforts OF AS
semblyman Viebahn to secure eight
instead of four additional county
training schools for teachers In tne
state. provoked the only debate OF
the session in the assembly.
Mr.. Viebahn objected vigorously TO
the amendment offered by the COM
mittee on claims, cutting down the
total number of schools from % 10
"a, venturing the opinion that the Tour
new schools would be applied for
within three months. Viebahn, kuli
and stevens participated in the dis
cussion, and at it's conclusion the as
sembly decided to postpone action on (
the bill until Wednesday
A resolution, introduced by MI.
Cleary last Friday in behalf of the
on the expedition OF busl--
ness provided for final adjournment
Nav s. Mr.. Ingram offered an amend
ment requiring that all bills and reso-
buttons referred before April %, ex-
cept those in the claims committee,
be noticed for hearing before April
80 and reported out by committees by
the following Tuesday, May a.
Mr.. Ingram spoke briefly upon his
amendment, explaining that out of 81
bills introduced in the assembly 400
had been acted upon, leaving AL to
be still reported out by the commit
tees.
Old legislators contend that even il
everything runs along smoothly the
Legislature cannot possibly complete
its work before June 10.
Following an announcement by As
Peterson of the death of
his colleague, Assemblyman Ferdi-
nand Wittig, member from the first
district of Brown county, the as
sembly adopted resolutions of re-
spect to the memory of the departed:
In a brief session the senate passed
one bill and killed eight. The bill
that escaped eternity is 449a, by Mr..
Bichler, which validates the organiza-
lion of town mutual insurance cor
porations. Mr. Egan's joint reso-
ution endorsing United States SEN
ate bill, No. 1923, was also passed.
This bill provides for the establish
nent of national children bureau.
Madison, April 20.-After a ses-
sion that lasted until $50 o'clock the
senate passed the Whitehead bill for
he commission form of government
n cities, and diverted to the special
committee two dam
pills.
Social democrats of Milwaukee won
/ victory in the assembly when they
secured the advancement of the Ber
Ter bill limiting the hours of labor
or women in factories from Z a. N.
Measure was ordered engrossed was
close, the result not be-
)eing announced.
Three educational bills engrossed
he attention of the assembly for over
IN hour. The first debate ensued
md girls who graduated from coun-
ry schools an opportunity of obtain
ng smattering of high school educa
ion in state graded schools located
n adjoining districts where one or
wo years high school courses are
aught. Messrs. Viebahm, Tewne,
1ambrecht and Reynolds favored the
,ill, while it was opposed by Mr..
Nehrwein, chairman of the commit
zee on education, who maintained that
hese graded schools are not properly
equipped to give high school courses
# instruction. A motion to infinitely
postpone the bill was voted down and
he measure was then advanced to
The ingalls, bill authorizing boards
If education at their discretion to en-
hoy teachers on three year contracts
vas indefinitely postponed.
Despite the fact that the assembly
las once before this session passed a
ONT resolution memorializing con-
sress to enact a law to prevent deal
ngs in futures and margins on boards
If trade and stock exchanges the re-
,ent corner on the wheat market
Assemblyman Scott of
Barron county to present another
ONT resolution of the same character.
fhe measure was passed without a
dissenting vote after Mr.. Scott had