Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-04-28

may qualify as nominees: otaerwls.
known as the twenty per cent. law.
Incidentally, they also made an
equally abortive attempt to defeat the
passage of the second choice primary
or Mary Ann bill, of which the per-
centage clause was part. The Mary
Ann bill, which is one of the most
important of the Republican platform
measures, repeats the 20 per cent.
feature and substitutes ten per cent,
which the opponents of the bill still
declared was too high, and after the
defeat of their repeal amendment
they sought to slip in five per cent.
amendment, but were stopped by OBJ
lection. the bill being up for passage.
This eleventh hour action was the
result of the first alliance at this SEES
sion between the Democrats and So
cial Democrats, both Of whom have
suffered as a party from the old TWEEN
ty per cent law The final vote on
the measure was 48 to 81 for passage.
A hot fight developed over the Hoyt
senate bill providing that city and
town health officers shall attend semi
annual conferences with the state
board of health in Madison for the
purpose of gaining knowledge as to
the most modern methods of dis1n-
fecting after an infectious disease.
The farmer members generally OPP
posed the measure, but it finally was
advanced, 46 to 3S.
Speaker Charles A. Ingram is will
ing to be autocratic when necessary,
as presiding officer of the lower house,
but refuses to play king, even to the
extent of sitting for a few hours each
day on a throne In the last consign-
ment of the new furniture for the new
west wing of the capitol was included
an deliberately carved fumed oak chair,
with a back eight feet high, and look
ing very much like the seats of state
of the potentates of Europe, lacking
only the trimmings Of precious metal
Before placing it in its proper place
behind the speakers desk, Sergeant
alarms Irvine called in the speaker,
who took one look at the monstrosity,
sat in it long enough to make mental
comparison with his easy "tip-back"'
swivel chair inherited from speakers
past and gone, and then said:
"Never!"
The chair will repose in secluded
corner of the speakers private office
until his successor or his successors
successor shall have determined to
utilize all the majesty that can be
worked out of the massive oak and
leather of the neglected throne.
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
a 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
lower house to try to solve the Ques-
tons as TO Wn1cn OF tneSe claSSlllcd-
tons the question fell naturally. 1t
didn't try to solve the question, but In
a deft, soft manner, it simply wiped
the Axel Johnson bill and amend
ments off the assembly slate and pro-
ceeded to the consideration of more
prosaic things.
In order to make clear the situa-
ton that confronted the assembly, 1t
is necessary to say that the original
question came up on the Johnson bill
to create a tive-mile dry" zone
around the university and a one-mile
dry" zone around every normal
school.
Pharmacists Tests Passed by 4o.
The Wisconsin state board of phar-
macy concluded its examination. Out
of the 81 applicants present 40 were
granted certificates.
Certificates were granted to the fol-
lowing as registered pharmacists:
Harry E. Hubel, Osca Bennebohm,
Leonard M. Broenin, George D. How
ard, Henry F. Zimpelmann, Otto F.
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