Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-05-12

ties friends managed to persuade the
assembly to lay this bill over.
The Joerns bill on tonnage taxation
was reported for passage by the tax
alton committee together with the
Haight bill requiring the true condi-
ton to be stated in deeds of convey
ance
The corrupt practices bill was on
the calendar but by general agreement
it was laid over. Schwalbach put in
an amendment seeking to solve the
problem that may be brought about
by the disqualification of a candidate
or nominee because Of illegal prac-
tees. His amendment would give the
nomination or election to the candi-
date receiving the next highest num-
Der of votes provided his total
amounted to IS per cent of the first
mans vote.
BY vote of Al to "a the assembly
refused to reconsider the Hull bill,
which seeks to prohibit granting of
saloon licenses within one mile of a
dry district. 1t also refused to re-
consider the bill providing for milk
commissions. Strouf moved reconsid-
Grafton, but was the only one favor
ing it, the assembly as body voting
him down. Because of the great num-
Der Of amendments offered, the Gettle
initiative and referendum resolution
was sent back to committee.
The supreme court did not fare
well, bills raising the salaries of mem
bers to $4,000 and providing for a
modified pension system being voted
down by big majorities. In the course
of the debate the Social Democrats
took occasion to take filings at the
court, and Mcconnell and others were
as staunch in their support of the
changes. While the bills were killed,
motions were made for reconsidera-
ton and the fight will be renewed
later
The sterilization bill, which seeks
to make impossible the propagation by
insane people, was killed 40 to q,
after Hansen had embarrassed the as
sembly and galleries with a speech
The Social Democrats managed by
clever maneuveriEg to put through a
rebuke for the judiciary committee.
The point came up on the Vint bill,
which would require jury to deter
mine whether a street car company
or the injured person had exercised
ordinary care to prevent an injury.
This law now is in effect as regards
steam railroads. The bill had been
reported out for indefinite postpone
ment, but Vint and his colleagues
made brave fight for it, and man
aged to have it advanced, despite the
objections of the judiciary committee
members.
Among the important bills advanced
was the ROycraft bill for non-partisan
elections of judges and school boards
throughout the state.
By the close vote of 48 to AZ,
Milwaukee escaped having the
state fair moved to Oshkosh There
is strong sentiment among the far
mers that it ought to be located far
Lucl uOItH ana tuC uCDdJo On lu0 Dill
by T. J. Mahon to remove the annual
exhibit was long and spirited The
assembly first killed the Dennhardt
bill moving the fair to Oshkosh, and
then took up the Mahon bill moving
it to Wausau. Messrs. Hurlbut and
Mahon made energetic speeches in
favor of relocating the state fair
where it would be of benefit to the
agricultural country of the middle
north, now being developed III the
meantime ar amendment making the
Mahon bill favor removal to Oshkosh
was put in and the speechmakers got
busy. Mr. Mahon said that the chief
aim of the state board of agriculture
was not to build up an agricultural
fair, but to get big crowd through
the gates, no matter what kind of "a
crowd. The time had come he said,
for the state to look to the welfare Of
the agriculturists in the north and to
aid the settlers to build up the new
country. The main problem before the
legislature he said, was the develop
ment of the states agricultural re-
sources This was a greater need, he
said than the conservation of forests
and water powers.