The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-06-24
SESSION FINALLY ENDS
ADJOURNMENT AFTER VETO OF
TEACHERS PENSION.
Auto Speed Bill, Too, Meets with Dis
approval of State Ex-
ecutive.

MADISON, Wis, June 1S.-[Special.]
With about eight members present in
the Assembly and as many in the Senate
the forty-ninth Legislature, adjourned
sine die at II: O2 this morning.
Final adjournment did not come with
out grist of important vetoes from the
governor. The most far-reaching of
these was the veto of the Stout state
teachers pension bill. Until late last
night it was believed that the bill might
be signed, even though the attorney gem
eral held some clauses in it to be of
doubtful consti.utionality. This morn
ing, however, the veto came in, was up
held by the handful of members and as
a result the hopes of teachers of Wis
consin outside of Milwaukee are dashed
to the ground for a time at least. 1t is
expected now that the special committee
on education charged with the duty of
reporting on certain matters at the spe-
cial session next January, may report in
a teachers pension bill that will stand
the constitutional test
The ground for the veto of the teach
erS' pension bill was that the retroactive
clauses were unconstitutional. The gov
ernor also had objections to the $4,000
appropriation from the general fund for
the teachers fund. He also believed
that the board of trustees of eight mem
tate too large an expense for travelling
and other expenses. Prior to signing the
veto the governor was visited by Il dele
CATION of Madison teachers who urged
that he sign the measure. Judge San
born of this city, who has been deeply
interested IN the measure, also appeared
before the executive.
The other vetoes of special interest
were on insurance bills. One of the We
toed bills permitted licensed insurance
agents to divide commissions. where fire
insurance policies were written Jointly.
The other was a practical duplicate of
the bill vetoed earlier in the session with
regard to division of the surplus of town
insurance companies upon liquidation.
The governors signature was attached
to the bill abolishing the justice court
system in Milwaukee and providing sew.
en- civil courts.
The bill appropriatng 100000 for a
building for the criminal insane at the
state hospital for the insane Mt Oshkosh
also was signed. He signed the state
board of control bill and thus made il
cry member of the state board of con.
troll and appoint new members.
1t is not his intention to indulge in q
wholesale decapitating bee, however. the
understanding being that only one mem.
Der, l.. B. Dresser, Will lose his place
This morning the friends of Mr.. Dresser
| were busy working for his reappont
ment. These friends say that the only
possible objection to Dresser's reappont
ment lies in the fact that he took an
active part in the Stephenson campaign
and handled some of the Stephenson
money. This objection, they say, ism,
a valid one.
The new board Of control law provides
| that no two members of the board shall
| be from the same congressional district
| AT least one member must belong to q
| political party different from that of tn,
majority of the board One member
must be woman, and it is understood
that DIR. Alma j. Frisby will be reap
! pointed. The new measure will become
law Monday night with its publication
and on Tuesday the governor is expected
to make his appointments. The bill was
passed primarily to correct an error made
in the La Toilette administration b!
what all terms on the board expired
| AZ tho same time