Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-03-14
MAYOR SE|DEL
ADDRESSES HOUSE
MILWAUKEE, MAYOR AND VICTOR
l. BERGER ON INVITATION
GIVE SHORT TALKS.
MANY NEW BILLS INTRODUCED
One Measure Making the Penalty for
Burglary With Explosives Twenty
Five to Forty Years i'm
prisonment.

Il
prisonment.
Madison.-The spectacle of two So
eial Democratic officials, neither a
member of the legislature, addressing
the assembly at regular session, was
witnessed when Congressman-Elect
Victor l.. Berger and Mayor Emil
Seidel of Milwaukee were invited to
take seats with the speaker and to
speak briefly. Both took advantage of
the invitation, and the fact that neither
occupied more than two or three min
utes in their talks softened the ad-
verse comment on the unusual pro-
ceedtng which was heard around the
chamber
Congressman Berger simply re-
marked that he would be in congress
the first representative OF "a new
idea," and he felt sure that Wisconsin
should be proud to be the first state
to break the ice" and Milwaukee the
first city. Mayor Seidel explained
that he was here to support the Mil
waukee home rule bills, and he told
his reasons In few words.
Assemblyman Clark's bill permit
ting district referendum at the re-
quest of members of the legislature
on measures pending before the legis.
lature at spring elections was re-
ported for passage by the judiciary
committee. This bill will enable the
/ iG0lOnS tn avnrnCcinn m
their constituents of their opinions on
various matters of legislation that
may be pending at the time an cleo
| ,tion Is held.
The committees on judiciary and
state affairs reported four bills each
and Senator Hastings bill relating to
elections to fill vacancies in the Of
flee of county judge, was passed un-
der suspension of the rules and mes
saged to the assembly. Senator Cay
lord attempted to raise the ghost of
the Stern bills by Directing to the
suspension of the rules and pointed
out the fact that the Husting bill did
not contain provision providing that
the failure to give notice would not
invalidate the election, such a pro-
vision IN the Stern bill being bitter
ly opposed by him. His objection re.
suited in the necessity of calling the
roll, but he was supported in his con,
tention only by his Social Democratic
colleague.
Bills reported by the judiciary com.
mittee were:
81 S. Relating to the appointment
of several deputy clerks for the mu-
nicipal court of Waukesha county
passage.
224 S. Relating to the municipal
court of Polk county, amendment and
| passage.
173 s, To confer civil jurisdiction on
the county court of Waushara county
! saendment and passage.
36S S. Providing additional jurisdic
ton on the county court Of Portage
| county, passage.
Bills reported by the committee on
| state affairs were:
Sc S. Relating to the naval militia
and MAILING an appropriation, passage
| senator Lyons QlSSentS.
log S. Relating to cemetery associa
| lions, passage.
| 233 S. Relating to drainage, was re
ported with the request that it be re
referred to the committee on water
| power, forestry and drainage.
The commissioners of p ollie lands
the secretary of state, state treas
urer and attorney general-have sane
toned the loan of $247,627 from the
state trust funds to 80 school dis
tricts, villages, towns, cities and coun
| ties. The loans are at 81 per cent
interest and are payable in from one
| to twenty years. About 100000 was
similarly loaned in February. The
state trust fund keeps about $4,000.
| 900 in circulation annually through
! loans
W. H. Bennett chief, clerk in the
| land office, will shortly receive $91 GO
which the government has owed him
since the Civil war for transportation
! from New Orleans to Mineral Point
| when he was mustered out. The claim
was unearthed few days ago in the
| files of the war department
A large number of members OF
| the legislature showed their indif-
ference toward the daily session plan
| for expediting business by going to
| their homes, and as result a quorum
was not present in the assembly and
/ just bare majority in the senate
| Both houses had long calendars of com.
paratively unimportant measures be
fore them, nearly all being bills ready
! for engrossment Or reported for
death.
/ The assembly advanced to third