Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-31
ADJOURNMENT
NOW IN SIGHT
Members of the State Legisla-
ture Are Glad of Ii.
STILL THERE'S PLENTY TO Do
Income Tax, Guaranty Of Bank Depos-
its and Apportionment of State
into Assembly Districts
Must BE Acted Upon.

Must BE Acted Upon.
Madison, Wis, May 30.-(Special)
The end is in sight, and the mem
bers of the Wisconsin legislature who
have been laboring here since the
first of the year are glad of it. The
senate and the assembly have adopted
joint resolution which cut off the
introduction Of new bills May %, ard
ordering. all committees to report in
their last business June l. Income
tax, guaranty of bank deposits and
the apportionment Of the state into
assembly districts are expected to
keep the Legislature busy for at least
another two or three weeks.
The matter OF app0rtionment will
cause considerable iockeying among
the political parties
Owing to the shifting of population
the southern part Of the state proba-
bly, Will lose a few districts and these
win be gained by the northern part
of the state. The Social Democrats
will make fight TO gain ground in
Milwaukee county, where the Demo-
Gratis and Republicans are particular
ly alive to the situation. A commit
tee of six senators and eleven assem-
blymen has been appointed to work
out the apportionment of assembly
districts.
Governor McGovern has returned
from Vicksburg, where the Wisconsin
monument was dedicated, and he is
up to his ears in work inspecting bills
passed by the legislature. To date
the governor has signed about 200
bills Thus far he has not vetoed
single measure. He keeps in very
close touch with the work of the
legislature and puts in long hours at
the capitol.
Speaker Ingram is making the clos
ing days Of the session eventful and
interesting, despite the intense heat
wave that has struck the car'tal city,
by his fight against what is iown as
the Ballard bill providing for physical
connection between systems. The
speaker favors physical connection be-
tween telephone lines, but he is
against an amendment to the bill
which provides for non-duplication
in cities and villages. Charging that
this will open the way for a mono
poly of the telephone business in Wis
consin for the Bell people, Mr.. Ingram
in the assembly chamber led the fight
against tie measure Tie lower house
but the chances are that before the
final vote is taken Mr. Ingram Will
succeed in having stricken out of the
bill the non-duplication provision. He
wants a straight physical connection
measure. Assemblyman Keen of La
Crosse is the one who is furnishing
the most stubborn opposition to Mr.
Ingram's ideas on this subject. The
speaker has not succeeded in making
himself altogether clear on the pro-
position He insists that there is
something back of the bill in its
amepded form and that members do
not fully understand it. He promises
to disclose what this something" is.
Assemblyman Vint, a Social Demo-
crat from Milwaukee, is among those
who is fighting at the side of the
speaker. He said that the teleuhone
business in Wisconsin is in its in
fancy and that the big interests are
trying TO gain a monopoly so as to
have full control OF future develop
ment in this field The BILL accord
ing to Mr.. Ingram. is aimed to per-
NIT farmers to build their little coun-
try lines which shall be connected
with the more important Lines. BY
passing bill with the non-duplica-
ton feature. he says, the very pur-
pose of the bill will be defeated and
that farmers will not have as much
freedom as it is intended to give them
in constructing lines for their own
neighborhood use.
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Assemblyman Merlin Hull, always
the champion of the common schools,
Is up in arms over the treatment the
legislature has accorded the country
schools. He charges that the univer-
sity has "hogged everything" and that
the common schools. where the coun-
try boys get their start, have been
neglected. The latest disappointment
for Mr. Hull came when the assembly
conn. ttee on education reported for
Indefinite postponement his bill provid-
ing for training schools in connection
with high schools His biggest educa-
tional bill providing for a state board
of education to have full charge of the
entire educational system Of the state,
including the University of Wiscon-
sin. also was turned down by the COM
Uittee on education. This bill will
be reported without recommendation,
but Mr.. Hull fully realizes that the
cards are stacked against him and that
the measure is doomed. This bill
proposed to abolish the university
board Of regents, and il was siren
uouslv opposed ny President Charles