Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-06-26
SESSION MAY RUN
WELL INTO JULY
CLOSE OBSERVERS SAY LEGISLA.
TURE WILL NOT ADJOURN
BEFORE JULY 7.
IMPORTANT BILLS ARE DUE
Water Fewer, Market Commission,
Minimum Wage and Mothers Pen
SIGN Measures Have Been Delayed
-aie!nbers Anxious to Get Home.

Notwithstanding to chose clos
est TO the legislative machinery, the
work OF the Wisconsin lawmakers
will not be completed before July Z
and probably rot Until July 10
The appropriation bills have been
+ delayed by the finance committee bal
] aneing up the different appropriations
/ so that al departments and state il
/ stitUtions will be treated alike TWO
t years ago the finance committee sent
/ in the appropriation bills as they were
/ prepared and in consequence some de
/ partnents which came late chad to
/ stand e reduction in order to get with
/ in the receipts for the biennial period.
1t is intended this shall not happen
! this year.
Delay on Water Power Sill.
The water power bill is also liable
to be delayed. Both sides have been,
1t is stated, getting nearer together
and there is now hopes that a bill may
be worked out and passed
| In addition to these the market
/ commission bills, the minimum wage
and mothers pension bills are still
| to be considered. The assembly has
passed a minimum wage bill and a
| mothers pension bill, but they are yet
to be handled by the senate, with in
dications that they will be so changed
as to insure another fight in the as
sembly
AS an indication OF the progress be
ing made the senate has in one week
passed and killed eighteen bills, and
exactly the same number were intro
duced through the committee in that
house.
This Introduction of bills in the sen
ate angers the assemblymen, who are
anxious to get through and so home.
Assemblyman Carl Hansen contem-
plated introducing a resolution in that
house providing no senate bills would
be received oy that house after June
16. He finally decided to refrain from
introducing the resolution, but it indi-
Gates the state OF mind which prevails
on the asse mbly side
Prohibits Treating Legislators.
If bill introduced in the senate by
Senator Tomkins of Ashland becomes
a law, it Will be unlawful for any
person to buy member of the legis-
lature a cigar or soft drink OF loan
him money or to provide money for
so treating him or lending him money.
The mere act of treating him or lend
ing him money or providing the mon
ey for such purpose is to be prima
facie evidence of an intent to influence
the legislator in his vote or action
on pending legislation. The penalty
is severe, being Imprisonment in Jail
for from thirty days to one year or a
fine of from 500 to $1,000 or both fine
and Imprisonment
The senate passed a bill regulating
the sale and use Of corn shredders not
properly equipped with safeguards to
prevent its operators from being in
jured, a bill requiring the attorney
general to help district attorneys in
the prosecution Of arson cases and a
bill providing that street and electric
railway cars shall rot abandon any
part Of their roads on public highways
without the approval of the state rail-
road commission and concurred in the
Chinook bill making it unlawful for
fist cousins to marry each other.
No Voting by Mail.
40 law for a system of voting by
n;iiI will be passed at this session.
Senator Perry's bill upon the subject
Was .ilIed last week and the Sommer-
field bill, which passed the assembly
vas killed by the senate today.
Against an adverse report of the
fnAnce committee Assemblyman
Spoor has succeeded in having his bill
recognizing the state board Of agri-
culture engrossed. By the plan pro-
posed the board is to be elective by
representatives of various agricultural
interests intead Of being appointive by
the governor.
The assembly concurred in the SEN
ate joint resolution for a constitution
al amendment providing that the state
shall appropriate money to conserve
and improve the nayigable waters Of
the state and to acquire, regulate or
develop the water supply