Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-03-05
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 81,

Assemblyman Brockhausen tried to rail
road through the Assembly today the meas
ure making it lawful for labor unions to
picket manufacturing plants where strikes
had been declared. but he was met with
determined opposition by MesSrs. Bancroft
and Iedyina the latter declaring that the
Socialists would legaliZe murder If it was
to their interests to do so. After a spirited
debate the measure was referred to the
judiciary committee from which Il recon-
mendation of indefinite p0stponement will
probably be made. ASsembyman Ham
brechts bill prohibiting the segregation of
classes on the university was returned to
the committee on education because addl
tional hearings on it had been asked. The
Assembly concurred in the resolution to
have printed 800 copies of the testimony
given before the investigating committee.
MONDAY, MARCH /.
By a close vote today the Assembly killed
the Weber resolution memorializng Con
gress to have the federal government secure
control of the railroads The committee
appointed to look into the matter of APP
pointing committees to take care of leglS-
lation pertaining to industrial insurance, in
come tax, guaranty of bank deposits ana
state aid to highways reported and the re-
port was laid over.
TUESDAY. MARCH ..
Assemblyman Hammil replied to the at
lacks of Assemblyman John X. Walsh
made recently, that the town officers of the
northern counties of the state lived off the
taxes that were levied and blocked a plan
to kill the bill providing for the betterment
of the highways of the north. Assembly
man Rays measure providing that supreme
court and circuit court justices shall not
receive their pay until they have made GER
tificate that their work is III proper shape
was passed after being amended. The MIL
waukee Juvenile court bin was laid over
two weeks.
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 3.
In a discussion of his bill for the abolt-
tion of the medical college in connection
with the state university at Madison. As
Semblyman Roethe took occasion to score
the state authorities for the lavish way in
which they gave money to that institution.
Mr. Roethe said that the medical college
was an unnecessary expense TO the state.
He accused President Van Hise of being
the SlickeSt lobbyist before the Legislature.
Friends of the university came to the res
cue. however, and the Grant county assem-
blymans measure was killed. A resolu-
ton to compel members to attend the joint
sessions was killed by vote of 30 to 81.
Joint Session.
THURSDAY. February %.
Senator Stephenson received ffty-seven
votes on the seventeenth j)int ballot He
needed siXtyfoar. State Chairman Ed
monds threw a bomb into the primary in
veStigation by teStifying TINT Speaker Ban
croft had received $3.50 of the Stephenson
campaign fund and that Cit Attorney .!Ohn
7. Kelly of Milwaukee hat received 500.
SubpoenaeS were issued fo' Speaker Ban
croft and City Attorney Felly to appear
before the investigation committee w. X
Lush and ". VI. Powell managers of the
Cook and McCovern campaigns were also
summoned to Madison to tefify before the
committee. State Senator Haine today re
fused to honor the subpoena Of the inyesti-
CATION committee A tilt occurred between
Assemblyman Hambrecht AMI Senator Nor
ris in which Hambrecht maitained that an
attempt was being made TO whiteWash all
the candidates with the exception OF Sen
atCr Stephenson.
FRIDAY, February %.
On the eighteenth joint ballot Senator
Stephenson received 40 votes the necessary
number to election being 81. Speaker Ban
croft was witness before ne primary in
Fesugatlng committee but efused to tell
to whom he had paid the $50 given him
by Senator Stephenson's campaign mana
ger, j. H Puelicher. The spaker said thar
he did not think it was with the province
OF the committee TO ask the nmes or those
to whom money had been pai- The SPEAK
er SAID that he had hoped tcbe appointed
United States district attorne and for that
reason worked for the succ6S of Senator
Stephenson in the primaries. The witness