Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-03-07
STERN MEASURES
ARE POSTPONED
NoNPARTISAN ELECTION OF
JUDGES AND SCHOOL DI-
REcToRS DELAYED.
TWO COMMISSIONERS RAMEE
Governor Appoints r. S. Adams and T.
{. Lyons to the State Tax Commits
sion, Succeeding George Cur
tbs, Jr., and NJ. S. Gibson.

Madison.-The Stern bills, providing
for nonpartisan election of judges and
school directors in Milwaukee, which
were expected to pass in the senate,
were postponed.
There was a quorum present during
the early part of the session. Before
the bills were taken up, after being IA
vorably reported by the senate commit
tee on education, Senators w R. Gay
lord and Gabriel Zophy, Social Demo
Gratis, left the chamber breaking the
quorum.
After the business pending before
the senate had been finished Senator
Klezcka asked the unanimous consent
to take up the Stern bill. Senator
Blaine objected.
Senator Bodenstab moved a call of
the house and he was supported by
Senators Klezcka and Weigle, and
Hoyt, which was not sufficient to carry
the motion
The senate amended and concurred
in the assembly resolution proiiiing
for the method by which bills affect
ing municipal government 1nd fish
and game may be introduced The
senate also adopted the resolution af-
fecting its own rules, the principal
change of which calls for sessions of
the upper house az $50 o'clock each
morning.
The labor committee of the assembly
reported out for passage three bills of
interest to Milwaukee and labor organ
izations of the state in general AS
sembly bill No. 224 introduced by AS
semblyman Frank Weber of Milwau-
kee, requires employers of labor in
factories to have all doors used as ex-
its open outward. The bill further stip-
ulates that such doors shall be kept
unlocked at all times to allow employees
free access during hours of labor Ac
cording to Assemblyman Weber, GER
tain manufacturers in Milwaukee are
accustomed to keep the doors of the
factories locked during the daytime,
and the argument used before the com
mittee was that in case of fire it would
be practically impossible for the en-
ployes to get out of buildings in safety.
Governor McGoven announced the
appointment of Prof r. S. Adams
of Washington university St
Louis, and of T. E. Lyons of Superior
to the state tax commission, succeed
ing, respectively, George Curtis, Jr.,
and N S. ellison. Commissioner Cur
It's term expires the first Monday in
next May and Judge ellison recently
resigned his resignation to take effect
on May 1. The law provides, however
that appointments to this commission
must be made before the last day in
February, presumably in order that
they may be confirmed by the senate if
it happens to be legislative year
The governor explained his failure
to reappoint Commissioner Curtis by
desire to have on the commission
at least one economist.
This appointment must not be con
strued in any way as reflection up
on Mr. Curtis he said. Il do not be-
lieve that all three of the commission
ers should be lawyers, but that at
least one should be an economist"
Professor Adams formerly was con
nected with the department of 20
litical science at the University of
Wisconsin, and while here assisted
the tax commission in much of its re-
search work. 1t is understood that he
will accept the position.
Assemblyman Weber introduced a
bill defining pandering and fixing the
sentence for procuring at not less than
two years or life imprisonment To in
duce a person to procure another is
made punishable by sentence of from
two to twenty years.
Members of police departments and
officials who accept tribute from
houses of i'll fame are liable to a sen
tence of from two to twenty years
Under this bin a wife is a competent
witness for or against the husband