Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-01-29
WILL AID THE
STATE FARMERS
Richardson Presents Bill in AS
SembIy on Their Behalf.
MANY OTHER MEASURES GO IN
Lower so6y Adiourns for Day Out Of
Respect for Assemblsman sehwis-
tay-Senator Huber Would Sim
piify Probatine Of Wills.

permitted to do so at higher wage
rate than is at present provided. If
the bill which was introduced in the
assembly by Allen d. Richardson
of Iowa county becomes a law. I'm
der an old law people were permitted
to receive credit at the rate of $3.50
day in working out their road taxes.
The recent high cost of living having
sent the wage scale upward. farmers
find it no longer possible TO hire men
at the old wage to work out the tax.
AS a result, many farmers pay their
taxes in money Oftentimes, how
ever, no work is done upon the roads
as a result OF this exigency.
Many Bills introduced.
Oother bills OF importance intro
duced provide: Prohibiting the mar
rage of whites and blacks; applying
the ad valorem system of taxation to
telephone companies: prohibiting the
sale OF liquor on Sundays and election
days; requiring free textbooks in pub
lie schools in cities; prohibiting black
listing of discharged employees; per-
hitting the recall of city officials. cleo
tive or appointive. after they have
served six months; reducing from two
years TO six months the time allowed
for taking appeals to the supreme
court; permitting peaceful picketing
and defining "picketing." and exempt
ing trades unions or individuals from
prosecution for damage to employers
because of boycotts, lockouts or use
of the label; and allowing the state to
own storage houses, distributing de-
pots, warehouses and grain elevators.
The death of Assemblyman A. E.
Schwittay of Marinette was observed
by adjournment of the assembly for a
day, the adoption of suitable memoir
ial resolutions and the appointment Of
Assemblyman Frederick Schnitzler
Sawyer, T. A. Stewart, Schultz and
Smith as a committee to attend the
funeral at Pound. Marinette county,
Simplify Probatine of Wills.
Senator Huber proposes a bill to
simplify the probating of wills. After
1t had been introduced into the senate
Senator Huber explained that it takes
nearly one year to probate simple
will under present statutes, even
when there are no creditors. His bill
cuts down the time for filing of claims
to four months, but allows claims to
be presented after that date.
Spring shooting will be subject OF
much discussion at this legislature
While a bill will be presented fol-
spring shooting, IT is said that it will
have little show of passing. The rea'
son for pressing the measure is TO call
attention to the conditions in south
ern states, where pot hunters" and
game hogs" kill as high as 200 ducks
in day When the situation has been
adequately presented the Legislature
will be asked to memorabilia all OF
the southern states to pass laws pro
hibiting the killing Of ducks in such
a wholesale fashion.
Another unique game bill will pro
vide for the making of Muskego
marsh. in Waukesha county. as a state
game preserve. This bill is a com
panion bill of a more far-reaching
measure, that is intended to prevent
hunters gaining a monopoly of al
the marshes of the state. The bill to
be presented Is intended to eliminate
the further control of marshes fol-
hunting purposes.
Would Aid innocent prisoners"
Men sent to prison and ultimately
found to be innocent should be com
pensated for loss of time by the state
according to a bill to be presented In
the assembly by Assemblylnan Fred
l.. Holmes OF Madison. He claims
that the state compensates private
individuals when 1t takes their prop
erty for public use by eminent do
main. but that In no state in the
Union Is man compensated who has
been sent to prison illegally. 1t is
claimed for the law that the state
causes men to attend jury trials and
pays them for their service; or. gndel
tho workmen's compensation act, II
compels manufacturers to compensate
persons injured In industry, but the
state does not compensate those ii has
uniustly deprived of liberty The
only law approaching this subject in
America was passed in Massachusetts
in 1911.
Defeated at the last election in Wis.
consin, friends of woman's suffrage
will endeavor to revive the issue al
this session. so that II may again be
submitted to a vote OF the people as a
constitutional amendment in 1915