Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-05-10
VOTE SWAPPING
UP TO GOVERNOR
Bill Prohibits Log Rolling Among
Members of Legislature.
VIOLATION is MADE FELONY
Punishment ls a Fine Not Exceeding
$1,000 to imprisonment of Three
Years-No Chance for Ad-
journment June is.

Journment June 10.
Madison.-The Hull bill prohibiting
log rolling and vote swapping among
members of the state legislature,
which was concurred in by the senate,
is now up to the governor for his APP
prevail
Vote trading among members of the
legislature has become so common
during the last decade as to seriously
menace the enactment of meritorious
legislation.
! The bill not only prohibits vote
| swapping among members of the leg
islature, but also prohibits members
from agreeing to support or oppose
! any measure on condition that the
( governor approve or veto any other
act or appoint to or remove any per-
son from public office. Violation of
the act is made felony, punishable
| by fine not exceeding 81 900 to i'm
! prisonment for three years.
The Scholtz bill providing for the
F.! sterilization of criminal insane, feeble
minded and epileptic persons confined
in state and county prisons and asy-
lums, which has been recommended
for passage to the house, provides for
examination of criminals and insane
| inmates by alienists and surgeons UNI
der authority of the board of control.
1t is expected to cause a spirited fight
when it comes before the assembly
| for consideration
The so-called Wehrwein BILL en-
abling graduates of any free high
school of Wisconsin to enter the state
university without examination was
recommended for indefinite postpone
ment in the assembly. At present the
state university has an accredited list
of high schools, the graduates of
which are admitted to the university
without examination. Other high
schools claim they are not fairly
treated by the university inspectors.
The legislature is not yet through
with the liquor proposition, in spite OF
the fact that each house has gone on
record unequivocally against several
drastic measures directed against sa-
looms and the sale of liquor generally.
The principal amendment is the one
to inject into the states basic code
declaration that the legislature shall
not have power to interfere in the
enjoyment of personal liberty" by the
people. The effect of this amendment,
if adopted, would be to prevent there
after the passage by the legislature
of almost any kind of regulatory act
applied to the liquor traffic, especially
county option and Sunday closing.
The amendment will be vigorously
fought, there is no question, but there
is a reason to believe that unless the
leopard changes his spots" 1t will
come close to being incorporated in
the resolution which represents the
desires Of the administration in fulfill
ment of the platform declaration in
favor of the initiative and referendum.
Another one of the amendments
prohibits the legislature from inter
fering with the right of parents to
educate their children in either pub
lie or private schools. This is in
iected by the Democrats, it is said,
largely in order that they may COM
plicate the debate and possibly con-
fuse the issue
There seems to be little chance for
final adjournment of the legislature
before June 15, in view Of the fire.
quent delays occurring by reason of
reconsiderations and laying over of
fully two-thirds of the MEASURES on
the assembly calendars. The house
has not yet been able to convince It
self that such tactics will not clean
up the regular business in the time
desired and much time is spent daily
on bills of minor importance--except
to individual members.
In the assembly c. p Filing
son of Burk county, by hard fight
ing, secured reconsideration of the
vote by which his bill to license real
estate agents was killed and the
measure was re-referred. Mr. Ell
lingson's purpose is the curing of the
"land shark" evil as it obtains in
northern Wisconsin. He was support
ed vigorously by T. ]. Mahon of Shaw
ano, who said the '1and sharks" are
the greatest of all obstacles to the de-
velopment of northern Wisconsin.
A similar bill to license auctioneers
was refused reconsideration
Without debate the house adopted
the Hahn (Socialist) resolution for
legislative investigation of the liquor
traffic. When the Rays (administra-
tom bill, to equip and maintain the
binder Irvine plant at Waupun, came
up Mr.. Brockhaven (Social-DemocTat)
offered an amendment limiting the
Wisconsin Fisheries Increase in Value.