Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-02-24
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The vote for senator today stood as
follows:
Total number voting. .125
Necessary to elect SO
| Stephenson ......... So
| BrOWn IL
Strange Z
| OtHerS az
The stream of bills in the legisla-
ture flowed heavily The time limit
for introduction being Tuesday, the
law makers had the typewriters at
the drafting rooms working in day
and evening shifts More than 200
| measures were introduced during the
half day session.
Two comprehensive measures plac-
| ing restraints upon liquor traffic made
their appearance in the rushing cur
| rent of Legislation. One of them Gre
ating an excise board and increasing
| license fees was introduced by Sena-
tor Wright by request. The other in
| PRODUCED by Senator Lyons aims at
| wholesalers restrictions and more
| freedom for saloonkeepers. Incident
| ally it breaks in on trust formation.
| One bill forbids manufacturers of Ii
quors to be interested in saloon Ii
| censes. This aims at a practice
claimed by saloonkeepers to be throat
cutting. If saloonkeeper is 'incor-
rigible," breweries often ''sit down
upon him" by establishing rival sa-
loon on an opposite corner or in a
| neighboring place if they can not
rent him out outright. Another pro-
vision forbids manufacturers, whole
salers or jobbers to enter into retail
business or to lease buildings for re,
tail purposes. The fine provided for
each offense is from $500 to $4,000.
The bill by Senator Wright estab-
fishes an excise board of three men
to be appointed by the judges of the
circuit courts. This board is to ex-
anime applications for licenses and
regulate the saloon trade Their jur-
isdictiOn over the liquor traffic re-
moves the power of common councils
from the field The bill levies a tax
on breweries of ten cents per barrel,
and fifty cents per barrel on products
of distilleries. 1t also provides mini
mum saloon licenses as follows:
Milwaukee not less than 81 900.
Cities of second class not less than
$3.50; third class not less than $500;
fourth class not less than $3.50.
Other important senate bills were:
Changing the speed limit of automo-
biles from twelve miles in towns and
twenty-five miles outside of corporate
limits to a rate not greater than is
responsible for the safety of traffic
or pedestrians; increasing the salary
of justice of the supreme court from
Sc, 900 to- $4,000; providing for a pen
sion fund for school teachers for
which one per cent of the seminar
nual salaries should be retained by
the treasurers of the boards OF educa-
ton. the teachers to receive one-third
annuity after continuous service OF
twenty-five years; permitting grocers
and drygoods merchants to form
mutual insurance companies.
Amonog the many house bills were
the following: Relating to compen-
sation for publication of election no
tees and information to voters; also
relating to registration of voters and
printing of poll lists; providing that
portion of the license fee derived
shall be used in improvement of pub
lie highways; making an appropr1a-
ton of $1,000 to defray the expenses
of a Joint committee to invite advice
and cooperation in the matter OF
state aid in the construction of road
ways and bridges; to transfer the du-
ties of the immigrant commissioner
to the bureau of industrial statistics;
providing for the operation OF dyna-
mite plant at the state prison, to regu-
late the sale of the product thereon
and making an appropriation of $685.
600 therefor; providing for the loca-
ton of a state normal school at the
CITY of Amigo and making an appro-
priation of 100000; relating to en-
ployers' liability; for division OF the
inheritance tax between county and
state; relating to the prevention OF
inflammation of the eyes and blind
ness of the new born babe, or so
called ophthalmia neonatorum; to
abolish a legislative reference room;
relating to advertising and publlca-
ton of resolutions, ordinances and
proceedings of councils. Among the
Joint resolutions was one on liquors;
to submit the question of holding
constitutional convention; and propos-
ing an amendment to the constitu-
tons, giving municipal corporations
power to issue bonds to pay for LANDS
and permanent public improvements
extending over period of fifty years.
The legislature adjourned to the
10th.
Madison, Feb. 16.-Today was the
last day for introducing bills in the
legislature and they came in thick
and fast. In the assembly 166 bills
were introduced in the morning and
AZ at night, making total of 20 for
the day. Forty-eight bills were handed
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