Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-05-03
COUNTY OPTION IS
KILLED IN SENATE
Hope of "Drys" Is Given Death
Blow in Upper House.
SALARY MEASURE AMENDED
Measure to Raise the Pay of MiIwau-
kee County Board Chairman From
$500 to $1,000 Is Disposed of
by Perry.

Madison.-County option received
its Quietus at the hands of the 1911
legislature when the senate, by a vote
Of to %, killed the James county OPP
ton bill.
In vain attempt to save the meas
ure, or at least delay final action, Sen
ator Blaine offered an amendment for
a referendum vote, but tn was re-
jected by vote of IL to Is.
Those senators who voted for the
measure were: Blaine, Donald, Lin
ley, Scott, Teasdale and Whitehead.
James for and White against, were
paired.
In the discussion of the bill, which
consumed over an hour of the morn
ing session, Senators Gaylord, Hust-
ing and Sanborn opposed the measure,
while Teasdale and Blaine favored the
bill.
Senator Gaylord's remarks during
the course of the discussion on his
bill authorizing the city Of Milwaukee
to borrow money to purchase park
week, shows how the supporters of
home rule for cities regard the pres
ent situation.
"After a close study of the home
rule proposition, have come to the
conclusion, much to my disappoint-
ment, that a home rule bill that will
hold water and tom" Neacy, cannot
be passed by the present legislature.
1t will need a constitutional amend
ment."
The two Gaylord bills, requiring
school districts to furnish free text
books to school children, were killed,
"a to 2.
In the assembly the Zophy bill, in
creasing the salary Of the chairman
of the Milwaukee county board from
$500 to $1,000, which had been adj
vanced to third reading, was reconsid-
cred on motion Of Assemblyman Perry.
He offered an amendment to fix for
all time the salary of the members of
the board and chairman at $500 a
year, which was carried. The bill was
then advanced to third reading.
When an amendment to the original
Ballard bill, relating to physical con-
nection between telephone systems,
was introduced, Speaker Ingram left
his chair to support the change. The
amendment, it was said, strengthens
the bill in the interests of the indie
pendent companies.
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the assembly reconsidered the vote
by which it advanced to third read
ing the James woman suffrage bill.
The bill as passed by the senate
was considered full of legal defects,
and some of the lawyer members of
the lower house insisted that the meas
ure was not in proper form to be ad-
vanced. Assemblyman Read has
drafted a substitute bill to correct
these legal defects and this measure
will come in.
Assemblyman Gettle offered joint
resolution memorializing congress in
passing cold storage legislation to fix
as the limit that dairy products may
be stored at one year.
The assembly passed the following
bills: Committee on transportation,
giving the state railroad commission
control of interstate passenger train
ervice and providing for the stop
ping of passenger trains at county
seats; committee on cities, granting to
the city of Milwaukee submerged
land lying along and adjacent to Lake
Michigan; committee on corporations,
to authorize H. L. Norris and others
to build and maintain a toll bridge
across the st. Croix river.
The senate concurred in the assem-
bly, amendment to the workmen's COM
pensation act by vote of 16 to 10.
The bill now goes to the enrolment
room, after which it will be sent to
the governor for his signature.
Senator Sanborn, in explaining the
amendment, said that the section pro-
viding that the two defenses should
be restored, if employers refused to
come under the bill, had been put in
at the request of the employers. The
old committee did not put that in
because they believed that it would be
unconstitutional. The present special
committee was divided equally.
"They think said Senator Sanborn,
chat, if this clause should be declared
unconstitutional the whole bill would
not fail"
Senator Wright asked: "How are
you going to make a lot of fellows
who cannot speak English understand
this?''
Senator Sanborn replied: "They
come under it unless they get some
Wisconsin Man Is Elected.
Prof. K. L. Hatch Of the University