Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-07-21
FINAL ADJOURNMENT
OF LEGISLATURE
Only Two Senators and Six AS
SembIymen Present.
REDEEMS PLEDGE OF PARTY
Gov. McGovern Signs All Bills Filed
With Elim-He Praises LaWmak-
ers for the Work Ac-
complisI1ed.

MadisOn.-The new appOrtiOnment
bill is signed by Governor McGovern
with the following statement attached
to it:
The appOrtionment here made is
an Improvement upon the last one,
but believe better bill would have
been passed had the work of redis-
tr1ct1ng the state, enjoined upon this
Legislature by the constitution. been
taken up earlier in the session and
more time spent upon it by all the
members.
However, it is now midsummer
The members of both houses have
already generously sacrificed time and
labor in the service of the state and
both the senate and the assembly
have fixed upon the time for final adj
Journment. The bill cannot therefore
be recalled for correction or improve
ment. Under the circumstances find
nothing in it to justify withholding
my approval, although | feel that it
still leaves much to be desired
The governor signed all the bills
filed with him, and the legislature adj
Journed sine die. Only two senators
and six assemblymen were present
when the presiding officers of the
two houses declared the Legislature
adjourned.
Governor McGovern said this legis-
Iature passed more important and con-
structive legislation than any other
in the history of Wisconsin. He was
pleased over the fact that all the
pledges made in the Republican state
platform on which he ran had been
redeemed.
Speaker Ingram announced the ap-
pOintmCnt of assembly members of
three special committees as follows:
Settlement Of Lake Pepin and ST.
Louis river boundary dispute. F.
Mcconnell, La Crosse; A H. Long,
Crawford; c. A. Ingram (ex-ofIlcio).
Fire insurance investigation-H. j.
MOrtensen, juneau; J. L. Johnson,
Door; w. H. Bell, Racine; w. j. Gil
boy. Milwaukee.
Text book tigation-Thomas J.
Mahcn, Shawano; Thomas A. Roy
craft Chippewa; Charles B. Perry,
Milwaukee.
The senate members Of the boun-
Diary dispute committee will be Owen
and Linley.
Senator Bosshard, La Crosse. re-
signed from the special committee
appointed to investigate fire insurance
rates, and Senator True, Baraboo. was
appointed in his place
The other members of the senate
committee are Randolph and Scott.
Senators Martin and Donald are the
senate members Of the text book in
vestigating committee.
Governor McGOvern announced the
following appointments: Camp Ran
dali memorial commission, Col. ]. A.
Watrous, Milwaukee; Col. G.. E. War
ner. Windsor; W. j. Mckay, Madison:
coroner Of Washburn county, Amos H.
Hanson, Washburn county Judge OF
Iron county, Daniel Reid, Hurley:
Judge Of the Third municipal court of
Bayfield, county, J. s. Atkinson of
Bayfield,
Governor McGovern vetoed No.
50A, the Bichler bill reducing the
percentage of votes at primary
election necessary to entitle one to
party nomination from 10 to 5. The
law prior to the meeting of the present
legislature required 20 per cent. of the
party vote to entitle a candidate to a
cJ,
primary bill, passed and signed earlier
in the session, reduced the require
ment to ten per cent. Later the Bich-
Ter bill, No. 50A, was passed, and this
is the measure which failed to receive
executive approval.
Governor McGoyern points out that
the bill seeking to annul chapter zoo,
the second choice measure, practical
ly emasculates it, and would nullify
the policy embodied in it.
The object of the statute first en-
acted was to regulate party primaries
so as to accord to the members Of
each political organization an oppor-
tunity to determine the party's choice
Of candidates for office without inter
ference from other political organiza-
tons or leaders" says the governor.
This, he says, lis correct in princi-
pie. Each party should be free to Sc
cure an expression of opinion from it's
members as to who should be the
party nominees, without interference
from those who affiliate with rival po-
litical organizations. Various eXpedj-
ents have been suggested to prevent
such interference Some have urged
the enactment of a law that will re-
quire each voter, before receiving his