Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-07-26
LEGISLATURE ENDS
ITS LONG SESSION
Governor Signs New Apportion.
ment Bill.
ONLY 2 SENATORS PRESENT
Speaker Announces the Appointment
of Members of Three Special
Commit es-Other APP
pointments.

Madison The governor signed the
hew apportionment measure and he
attached the following statement to
it:
The apportionment here made is
an Improvement upon the last one,
but | believe better bill would have
been passed had the work of redis-
tricting the state, enjoined upon this
legislature by the constitution, been
more time spent upon 1t by all the
members.
However, 1t is now midsummer.
The members of both houses have
already generously sacrificed time and
labor in the service of the state and
both the senate and the assembly
have fixed upon the time for final ad-
journment. The bill cannot therefore
be recalled for correction or improve
ment. Under the circumstances | find
nothing in it to justify withholding
my approval, although | feel that it
still leaves much to be desired"
The governor signed all the bills
journed sine die. Only two senators
and six assemblymen were present
when the presiding officers of the
two houses declared the legislature
adjourned.
Governor McGovern said this legis-
Iature passed more important and con-
structive legislation than any other
in the history OF Wisconsin. He was
! pleased over the fact that all the
pledges made in the Republican state
platform on which he ran had been
redeemed.
Speaker Ingram announced the ap-
pointment of assembly members of
three special committees as follows:
Settlement of Lake Pepin and ST.
Louis river boundary dispute. F.
Mcconnell, La Crosse; A H. Long,
Crawford; c. A. Ingram (ex-officio).
Fire insurance investigation-H. j..
Mortensen, juneau; j. L. Johnson,
Door; w H. Bell, Racine; w. J. Gil
boy, Milwaukee.
Text book tigation-Thomas j.
'Mahon, Shawano; Thomas A. Roy
craft, Chippewa; Charles B. Perry,
Milwaukee.
The senate members of the boun-
dairy dispute committee will be owen
and Linley.
Senator Bosshard. La Crosse, re-
signed from the special committee
appointed TO investigate fire insurance
rates, and Senator True, Baraboo, was
appointed in his place
The other members of the senate
committee are Randolph and Scott.
Senators Martin and Donald are the
senate members of the text book in
vestigating committee.
Governor McGovern announced the
following appointments: Camp Ran
dali memorial commission, Col. ]. A.
Watrous, Milwaukee; Col. c. E. War
ner, Windsor; w. ]. Mckay, Madison;
coroner Of Washburn county, Amos H.
Hanson, Washburn; county Judge of
Iron county, Daniel Reid, Hurley;
Judge of the Third municipal court of
Bayfield, county, ]. S. Atkinson of
Bayfield,
Governor McGovern vetoed No.
50A, the Bichler bill reducing the
percentage of votes at primary
election necessary to entitle one to a
party nomination from 10 to 5. The
law prior to the meeting of the present
legislature required 20 per cent. of the
party vote to entitle a candidate to a
party nomination. The second choice
y1,-iV, ciO nA 40 ri
in the session, reduced the require
ment to ten per cent. Later the Bich-
Ter bill, No 50A, was passed, and this
is the measure which failed to receive
executive approval.
Governor TcGovern points out that
the bill see ing to annul chapter 200,
the second choice measure, practical
ly emasculates it, and would nullify
the policy embodied in it.
THE object of the statute first en-
acted was to regulate party primaries
so as to accord to the members of
each political organization an oppor-
tunity to determine the party's choice
of candidates for Office without inter
ference from other political organiza-
tons or leaders," says the governor.
"This," he says, lis correct in princi-
ple Each party should be free to Sc
cure an expression of opinion from its
members as to who should be the
party nominees, without interference
from those who affiliate with rival po-
liticaI organizations. Various expedi-
ents have been suggested to prevent
such interference. Some have urged
the enactment of law that will re-
uuire each voter, before receiving his