Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 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.

Madison.-Senator Gaylord of Mil
waukee introduced an amendment to
bill No. 18S, 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. 1913, 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 bill re-
| quiring 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 evil
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 of the legislature; to require a
certain amount of air space for each
employe 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
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The assembly got into wran-
gle over the Zophy bill boosting
the salary of the chairman of the Mil
waukee county board from $500 to
$1,000 year Assemblyman Perry OPP
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 reso1u-
ton acted upon Immediately, but there
referred to the revision committee,
where it is likely to remain for some
time.
The assembly killed 81 bills. The
following were passed:
Mortenson, making county treas
urers eligible tor election for more
than two nsecutive terms; Boss
hard, relating to the merger of fire in
surance corporations; Hoyt, providing
for biennial conferences of health Of
ficers of the state and health commits
sioners; Hustfng, relating to vacancies
in the offices of mayor and aldermen
in cities of the second, 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 IL
censes to agents to procure fire poll
cies in corporations not authorized to
do business in this state.
Madison must work out it's own sal
walton and the university's salvation.
That was the decision of the assembly
when it turned down by decisive votes
all the amendments seeking to create
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