The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1909-06-18

penal institutions, the general uSl anu
game bill, which draws the proteG ing
lines closer; the bill for the comrlis-
sion form of municipal government;
the bill making possible teachers re-
tirement fund. which includes an ap-
preparation OF $4,000 from the gener-
al fund of the state; the measures
which define the functions and duties
of trust companies dong business in
the state; the measure giving larger
powers to the railroad rate commits.
sion; the bill regulating tie building OF
tenement houses.
A large number of measures affect
ing Milwaukee were introduced and,
while a great number of them were
enacted into law, the most important
ones were rejected by the legislature
The usual discord between the mem
bers of the Milwaukee delegation
caused the defeat of the so-called
charter convention bills, the measure
for home rule, the bill for nonpartisan
municipal elections and the corrupt
practices act, which were drawn up by
ton and which were favored by posi-
bly, an overwhelming majority of Mil.
waukee's citizens.
Bills That Were Killed.
OF chief interest among the bills
killed was the so-called Marsh coun
ty option bill. On the whole the ex
else bills or measures affecting the
saloon question in the state took up
large part of the time Of the legisla
ture. The opposing sides on the sa.
loon question, the temperance people
led by the Anti-Saloon league, and the
brewery interests, submitted two big
bills to the legislature. namely the
county option measures and the bill for
a state commission for the revocation
of saloon licenses and for the general
supervision of the liquor trade in the
state. Both bills failed of passage.
Other important bills rejected were:
The bills for the completion of the
binder Irvine plant in connection with
the state prison at Waupun, which
caused one of the greatest fights be-
fore the legislature; the so-called re.
call and the initiative and referendum
Gates the Social Democratic members
of the legislature; the bill for refer
endum on the question of woman suf
frage; the Twesme bill for closed pri-
mary
One important measure was de-
he nf tho
ernor. This was the socalled Chapple
ore dock bill, which provived for a
local taxtion of railroad ore docks.
The argument used against this meas
ure was that it was an assault on the
ad valorem system of state railroad
taxation.
Closing Sessions Lively.
The closing sessions Friday even
ing were marked by many dramatic
and melodramatic incidents. In
spirit of fun the senate adopted reso-
luton introduced by Senator J. w.
Thomas, of Chippewa Falls, calling for
a joint legislative committee investi-
cation of the means, pecuniary and
otherwise, by which was accomplished
the defeat of the state prison binder
twine plant bills" The resolution was
defective formally, but Speaker Ban
croft called upon the clerk to read it
at length, "for," said the speaker,
these senate messages and resolu-
tions have certain literary value"
Then Speaker Bancroft with feeling
denounced the senate for the insult it
had handed out to the assembly for
cusing a coordinate branch of the
state government of bribery and dis.
honesty On motion of Assemblyman
Cleary the resolution was returned to
the senate without action.
In similar spirit the assembly killed
the governor discharge or demand the
designations from all state employees
shown by the senatorial primary in
vestigation to have taken or used cam
paign money.
On this measure Assemblyman Cleary
ton had been stalking around the leg
islature long enough. Assembly Bray
said such a resolution would work an
injustice in some cases. Assemblyman
Hambrecht declared that the senate
ought to know better than to propose
such action after all the evidence had
been certified to the attorney general
and governor and civil service COM
mission with full power to act and
deal out justice. Speaker Bancroft
referred to the resolution as plain i'm
pertinence on the part of the senate.
Conference committee reports on the
fish and game bills were adopted and
also on the Inheritance tax bill, the
compromise on the latter measure CIV
ing the counties 7h per cent of the
inheritance tax collected.
Got Its Bills Back.
After the assembly had voted to re-
fer the bills of the senate investigating
committee to the special session of the
legislature in the senate substitute
embodying the provisions of the inves-