Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-06-23

SeVenthS to three-e1gntns~ VI
which would raise $1,0S7,0O0
university regents are perm1tt
use 100000 remaining in the
ing fund for building operations
fiscal year 1912. For the next
100000 is appropriated for bull
with a like amount for the foll'
year.
After ordering the measure
third reading by majority OF
the senate refused to concur IN
Hurlbut bill reducing express
In the state 20 to rs per cent.
vote was 16 to Is, and In view OF
fact an attempt later will be mad
reconsider and pass 1t.
The arguments that killed the
were those Of Senators Sanb'
Blaine and Owen, who argued &c
over the heads of the railroad ct
mission, which is within three mon
of a decision on the subject, Wol
constitute a reputation OF the W.
consin idea" of regulation by comm1
sion.
The senate refused to concur in the
assembly substitute for the senate
resolution providing for legislative
committee to settle the boundary dis
pute between Minnesota and Wiscon-
sin. It is likely that a conference
committee will try and adjust the al
fair
The Hull bill for a state board OF
education to have charge OF the uni
versity and normal schools, composed
of five members at $4,000 year each,
instead of the present honorary
boards of regents, was killed by
close vote in the assembly.
The senate reconsidered the vote
by which it killed the optometry bill
and then passed it under suspension
of the rules in a form that met gen
eral satisfaction, even the Social
Democrats voting favorably. The vote
was Is to 21. The optometry bill de-
fines the practice Of optomery in this
language: THE employment of subjec-
tive and objective mechanical means,
without the use of drugs, to determine
the accommodative and retroactive
states of the eye, and the prescribing
adaptation and adjustment of lenses
The bill creates a board of three
optometrists under control and super
vision of the state board of health to
give examinations to those beginning
practice after passage of the bill. All
those now in practice for one year
or more before the date of passage OF
the act are not affected by it and can
continue practice undisturbed.
It was decreed by the senate
that the sovereign people should
decide whether Wisconsin is to have
an income tax in lieu of the present
| involved system. The debate on the
bill continued for five hours and it
ranged back and forth from a strict
dissertation on economics to a strong
representation of political effect.
The progressive Republicans, or most
of them, held firmly to the idea that
| the bill should be passed in con-
| Torrance with platform pledges, but
| there were others who insisted that
| the question should be submitted to a
| referendum of the people.
The referendum advocates won.
Right after the roll call motion was
made for the suspension of the rules
and immediate passage. The bill was
sent to passage with but one change
in the lineup Senator David G. James
changing his vote to aye and making
| the result 20 to 6.
Thus the income tax proposition
with the referendum will go to the
assembly and be acted upon within a
| few days.
The amendment to send the bill to
a referendum was adopted by narrow
vote. The roll call stood Is to IS
when the clerk finished reading the
names Bishop and Shower, however,
changed their votes and the result
was IS to II.
Only one member, John NJ. White
| head, spoke against the main principle
of the bill, saying that it had been
tried in various colonies and states
in America at various times since
1701 and had been a complete failure.
Senators Sanborn, Krumrey and
Bosshard made strong appeals for the
passage of the bill because of platform
pledges, while Senator Teasdale
worked successfully for the adoption
of his amendments
The most important amendment was
that raising the exemption for married
persons from $500 to $1,000 and OF
single persons from $500 to $1,000
This was presented by Gaylord, who
managed to secure it's adoption after
running debate with several mem
bers
The assembly passed the bill which
will permit Mrs. Claude to reside for
the remainder of her life in the home
on Devils lake which she has occupied
for half a century. The land around
the home is to be purchased for state
park under condemnation proceedings
and it was the desire of Mrs. Claude
that she be permitted to live in the
old home for the rest of her life. The
Plowman bill, permitting the college
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