Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-06-16

| the right OF condemnation Bills III
tended to convey rights to streets
through usage by interurban car.
were all killed. The main change il
the railroad rate commission law wa:
that providing changes in rates by
railroads must be preceded by {
months notice to the commission ;
feature which is now coming to the
front in connection with the nationa
law.
Banks.
In the banking line two bills were
| passed of the greatest Importance anc
intended to remove the controversy
| between the banks and the trust com
panies from the legislative arena. The
/ first defines banking in the state, re
quiring a charter under one OF the
| four forms established, and the sec
ond requires the same inspection and
| regulation of trust companies as oil
| banks and cuts off trust companies
from receiving time deposits and from
| further encroachments upon the
Ultimate field of the regular banks.
New Institutions.
| Bills were passed empowering the
| board of control to secure a site in
| the southeastern part of the ate Tor
another home for the feeble minded
| Eau Claire was designated as the site
| for the next normal school estab-
| lished and a much-needed appropria-
| ton was passed for a detention hos
sane.
The Page automobile bill requiring
drivers to exercise due care, instead
of attempting to regulate automobile
| traffic by a speed limit, is new de-
parture and under it many chauffeurs
will get into trouble in hurry, it is
predicted, unless they are wise
enough to study the law and overcome
the retrogressive boxing bill viii also
be watched with interest should it re-
ceive the governors signature. Some
athletic clubs are greatly interested
in the bill which permits boxing ex-
hibit;ons under careful restrictions.
Some Failures.
Among the lights that failed, so far
as Milwaukee is concerned were the
charter convention bills, the Juvenile
! court bill, the bill repeating the alder
, menat-large act, the annexation bill,
the bills relating to county civil serv-
ice and putting the city civil service
commission under the authority of the
state commission-and an old friend,
the Milwaukee Gas company charter
repeal bill.
The General Crash.
In the state other measures OF
general interest which fell by the
wayside were the proposition to give
| counties a larger share of the inheri-
lance tax collected, the spring shoot
! ing bill, the senate board of account
ancy measure and the optometry bills
the Gothenburg bill of former SEES
sions, the Torrens land title registra-
| ton bill, the first and second choice
proposition again and the bill fought
by the Christian Scientists which re-
ouired instruction in schools relating
| to diseases.
IMPORTANT ENAcTMENTs.
The more important pieces of legis-
J lation of statewide interest follow:
Assembly Acts.
| Twesme's, creating the nineteenth
judicial circuit out of Chippewa Eau
Claire. Sawyer and Rusk counties and
making the seventeenth circuit clark
Jackson and Juneau counties.
Hammill's, permitting inmates o.
national and state soldiers homes 10
determine their place of residence fol
voting.
Committee on taxation abolishine
the state board of assessment ano
imposing its duties on the tax com
mission.
Farrell's, requiring the state boare
of health to publish information re
garding blindness in the newborn
babe
Hambrecht's. providing that al
schools and colleges of the University
Of Wisconsin shall be open to boti
sexes.
Chapples, providing for four divls
ions of naval militia.
Kalaher's, making the testimony
deceased witnesses admissible whel
the other party has had the prlvileg'
of examination.
Hamm:lrs, permitting railroads t
give free transportation or reduce
rates to persons engaged more thai
half of their time in inducing imml
grafton into Wisconsin.
Crowelrs. prohibiting the creation
of more branch banks.
V. H. Cady's. extending the tim
for notices of action in personal IN
iu-v cases to two years.
Estabrooks, authorizing the esta