Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-03-26
KILLS NORMAL BILLS
ASSEMBLY VOTES AGAINST NEW
TRAINING SCHOOLS.
Assemb1yman Stevens Tries in Vain to
Convince SolonS That North Is
Being Sighted.

MADISON, Wis, March 24-[Spe-
cial. when the Assembly clocks hands
moved to 1915 today and the members
got hungry, they voted to kill thirteen
bills and thereby aroused trouble. In
the luckless thirteen bills were measures
to establish normal schools at Green
Bay, Amigo, Rhinelander and Eau
Claire All bills had been recommended
for the axe by the committee Oh educa
ton.
When the bills went under in an AYE"
and no vote, D. 3. Stevens of Rhine
the people Of his part of the state want
ed a normal school. His appeal did no
good and all the bills failed. Earlier in
the session Il substitute bill was intro
duced to permit the normal regents to
select a site for a new school, but this
also was killed.
Mr. Stevens made another speech of
interest this morning on the use of cigar
cites by small boys. The Cady bill pro-
hibiting cigarette smoking by boys under
IS instead of 16 as IS now provided, was
up for engrossment. Assemblyman Dor
her ridiculed the bill ana M. Stevens
denounced him III no uncertain terms,
saying that the nations chief care was
the proper caring Of its young boys,
the fathers of the men of tomorrow
The irrepressible S. A Towne of
Sank county, one of the three Democrats
who elected Stephenson, was again
turned down this morning despite his
eloquence. He tried to save a bill relat-
ing to farmers institutes. When he sat
down the Assembly voted and the bill
was killed in direct violation of Mr..
TOwne'S desires.
Fire insurance on the Lloytis principle
will not be carried on in Wisconsin dur
ing the next two years, the Senate this
morning having killed Senator Fridd's
bill permitting this practice. The bill
sought to repeal the law prohibiting this
form of fire insurance.
At the present time the Lloyds policies
are furnished surreptitiously in Wiscon-
sin through Chicago or eastern under
writing agencies. These agencies get the
policies from England where several
Lloyds organizations write American
business at the rate accepted by British
companies accepting United States risks.
The Lloyds principle involves the signing
of risk by several individuals, each
one of them making himself liable for a
specified proportion of the total.
Assemblyman G. II. Dorner of Mil
waukee today offered a substitute to
bill 225A, for the creation of county
civil service boards in counties having
a population of 100000. 1t provides
that board of four shall be elected by
the county supervisors next september.
After next January all appointments,
promotions or transfers of all Officers.
clerks, employees or lahorers" shall be
made under the terms OF the new act.
The bill permits the state civil serv-
ice commission to remove any county
commission for incompetency, inefficien-
cy. neglect or violation of law. A chief
examiner of the county civil service
board is to be elected at a salary fixed
by the county board.
The Dorner bill provides for examina-
lions under rules similar to those ord-
narily used by commissions. The COM
mission is given power to make investi-
cations and TO refuse examinations to
persons found unfit. 1t is especially pro-
vided that all employees of charita bic or
penal institutions shall be under service
rules Exemptions from the rules are:
One deputy for each elected officer or
appointee of county board chairman; in
structors and clerks of election; superin-
tendents and teachers Of schools; mem
bers of law departments.
One new feature of the bill provides
that the county civil service examiner
shall be chosen from an eligible list fur
niShed by the state commission,