Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-03
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Introducing of Amendment Post
poneS Measure.
MANY BILLS ARE KILLED
One by Zophy Requiring Deaths Of
Persons by Accidents Occurring in
Milwaukee County to Be Report
ed to Coroner or Any Officer.

I OSNHAJ ~ RCHOEL
ed to Coroner or Any Officer.
Madison.-Senator Gaylord Of Mil
waukee introduced an amendment to
+ bill No. 1SS, requiring school dis
| tricts to furnish free text books to
school children. He then had the bill
and amendment laid over. The
amendment strikes out the provision
Of the bill requiring the question Of
/ furnishing free books to be submitted
to vote of the district affected.
Senator Gaylord also had his COM
panion bill, No. S9S, laid over until
/ the same day. Both bills were on the
calendar for indefinite postponement
! Opponents of the bills have made a
strong fight against them and have
flooded the senate with petitions pro-
/ testing against their passage.
Owing to the fact that only twelve
of the thirty-four members of the
senate were present, most of the i'm
portant bills were laid over.
| The senate concurred in a bill re-
| curing railroad companies to fence
their land used for right of way pur-
! poses and to maintain cattle guards,
and the Perry bill relating to the de
! post of trust funds for the perpetual
! care of graves.
Among the bills killed was one by
Senator Zophy requiring deaths of
persons by accident or of persons not
attended by physicians occurring in
| Milwaukee county to be reported to
| the coroner or any county officer, and
| one by Senator KlecZka, relating to
the care of neglected, dependent or
| delinquent children in Milwaukee.
Among the bills put over were: To
increase the jurisdiction of the civil
court of Milwaukee and raise the sal
aries of the judges from $4,000 to
$4,000; to prohibit employees of pub
| lie utility corporations from holding
public office; to prohibit log rolling
and swapping of votes among mem
| bers ofs the legislature; to require a
| certain amount OF air space for each
employee in a factory or mercantile
establishment, and to increase the sal
airy of the state deputy commissioner
of labor.
The Kleczka bill, No. 29S, relating
to overcrowding of employees and the
safeguarding of machinery, was on
motion of Senator Blaine referred to
the committee on judiciary.
The senate concurred in the Stern
| Joint resolution expressing the thanks
of the legislature to the state univer-
| sity authorities and others for assist
ing in entertaining Colonel Roosevelt
| during his visit here a week ago.
The assembly got into a wran-
gle over the Zophy bill boosting
| the salary of the chairman Of the Mil
| waukee county board from $500 to
| $1,000 a year. Assemblyman Perry op-
posed it on the ground that the chair
man and the members of the board
! were receiving ample compensation
He said most of them are satisfied.
The assembly, however, engrossed
the bill, and then Mr.. Perry moved
! that the vote be reconsidered.
Assemblyman Melton introduced a
! joint resolution fixing the date for the
! final adjournment of the legislature as
May 10. He tried to have the resolu-
ton acted upon Immediately, but there
| was objection and the resolution was
| referred to the revision committee,
where it is likely to remain for some
| time.
The assembly killed q bills. The
| following were passed:
Mortenson, making county treas
| urers eligible for election for more
| than two consecutive terms; Boss
! hard, relating to the merger of fire in
| surance corporations; Hoyt, providing
for biennial conferences of health of
! fCers of the state and health commits
! sioners; Husting, relating to vacancies
/ in he offices of mayor and aldermen
! in ciies of the Sec d, third and
/ fourth classes; Owen, relating to or
/ ders by the commissioner of insur-
/ ance and review by the courts: Boss
! hard, relating to standard provisions
! for accident and health policies of in
surance; Sanborn. providing for H.
/ censes to agents to procure fire poll
cies in corporations not authorized to
! do business in this state.
Madison must work out its own sal
walton and the university's saliva don.
That was the decision of the assembly
VIXEN it turned down by decisive votes
all the amendments seeking to create
a "dry" zone around the state univer-
sity. In the course Of the debate for
and against the bill, the various
speakers insisted. as their views die
tated, that the liquor question fell
either into the category of economic
problems. temperance problems or
moral problems. 1t was up to- the