The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1911-05-18
LIQUOR MEASURE:
KILLED IN HOUSE
TO INCREASE LICENSE FEES IN
CITIES AND TOWN DE-
FEATED.
SUPERIOR WINS TAX FIGHT
Nye Bill Is Advanced to Engrcssment
Railroad Conductors May Make
an Extra Charge If Passengers
Fail to Buy Tickets.

put to the test. The Ellingson meas
ure seeking to increase quite mate
rally the saloon license fees in cities
and villages, was killed SO to 80, after
a lengthy debate
Assemblyman Long made a futile
effort to save his bill for nonpartisan
election of county officers. The dill
was on the calendar for indefinite
postponement. Mr.. Long made an
impassioned speech for the principle
of the bill and chided the progress
sives for their failure to recognize it's
worth.
The bill was killed by a vote of 81
TO SO and Mr.. Long Immediately
moved reconsideration.
The assembly reconsidered the vote
by which it last week killed the Har
per bill increasing salaries of supreme
court justices to $4,000 and advanced
it with an amendment making the sal
aries $1,000. The bill regulating
street sales of newspapers by boys
under sixteen years of age was ad-
vanced along with the Draper bill pro-
viding for the furnishing and decorat-
ing of the new capitol The Plowman
resolution for an investigation into
the advisability of relocating the state
fair having passed the assembly, the
Mahon bill providing for it's removal
to Oshkosh was indefinitely postponed
with little opposition.
hn
up a snappy fight for the Vint bill to
establish the doctrine of comparative
negligence in street railway injury &C
tions, won by vote of So to %.
The official representatives of the
railway conductors organization sue
ceeded in getting through their bill
which permits railways to charge an
extra ten cents when passengers fail
to buy tickets. At committee meet
ings the conductors had complained
that they were put to great incon-
venience in collecting cash fares and
that they were continually under sus-
picion of keeping the money thus col
lected.
In the senate the members granted
reconsideration of the Scott bill ma
king the insurance commissioner an
appointive instead of an elective Off
GER The bill was advanced by the
close vote of II to 10 and there now
is hope that 1t will get favorable &C
ton in the assembly The theory of
the bill is that the insurance commits
sioner should have scientific and not
political qualifications.
The city of Superior won an i'm
portant round in it's struggle for
local taxation of railroad property
when the assembly advanced the Nye
bill to engrossment. This bill seeks
to put an end to the practice adopted
under the ad valorem system of hav-
ing all railway property taxed direct
" by the state While the city of
Superior probably has greater inter
est in local taxation of this class of
property, several other cities, notably
Manitowoc, Racine, Milwaukee and
Green Bay also have a local interest
in the object of the bill 1t is esti-
mated that something less than $685.
900 in tax moneys will be diverted by
the bill if it becomes law. Mr.. Nye
made a speech for the bill in which
he referred to the two former failures
of a similar bill At the last session
it was passed, but Governor Davidson
vetoed it on constitutional grounds.
Direct election of United States
senators, to be accomplished by the
Oregon PLAN as incorporated in a
bill by Senator Husting (Dem.), which
already had passed the senate, was
debated nearly two hours in the as
sembly, and the measure narrowly es-
capped passage.
The bill, together with two pending
amendments. finally was rereferred to
the committee on elections, but not
until it had been demonstrated that,
although a majority had been in ia
vor of reconsideration of the vote by
which the measure was engrossed by
a bare quorum, the lineup of the
ton of killing the bill. principle" and
all. was decidedly different. On this
proposition-a motion to non-concur
in the bill-the vote was as follows
For non-concurrence against the
biln-Binner, Brockhausen, Gettle,
Gilboy, Golf, Gulickson, Hahn, Hintz,
Johnson. L. L, Jones, Phil H.. Kahn
Kiefer. Mcconnell, Metcalfe, Perry,
Reader. Reed. Schreiner, Stevens, Ur-
ouhart. Vint, Weber and Youmans-
IS.
Against inconvenience (for the
State Bill Posters Meet.