Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-03-14
FAMILY ROW IN
LIQUOR TRAFFIC
Brewers and SaIoonkeepers OF
State Are at Outs.
4DRYS" ENJOY CONTROVERSY

Senate Advances to Ensrossment the
Teasdaie Anti-Treatlng silf--Con-
siderable Internal Trouble Over the
University OF Neutrality-suspicious.
over Removal OF State Fair.
Madison, Wis, March 11.-(Special.)
There is bitter family row among
the brewers and saloonkeepers of the
state which is being thoroughly aired
before the legislature. The friends
Of dry" zone bills and prohibition,
quick to see any advantage for the
legislation they are promoting, are
enjoying the controversy. Members
OF the legislature are showing close
interest in the split for the reason
that in past years the brewing inter
ests and the saloonkeepers have usu-
ally presented a united front.
The trouble dates back to the intro
duction of bill to divorce the brew
cry and the saloon by not permitting
the brewers to have anything to do
with the retailing of beer, etc. The
saloonkeepers are making the general
charge that the brewers own most of
the buildings in which saloons are
conducted and for that reason the sa
loonkeepers are nothing more than
''bartenders" and bottle washers"
Realizing that the passage of the bill
TO divorce the brewery and the saloon
would cost the large brewing inter
ests large sum of money, the brew
ers are endeavoring to scare the sa-
loonkeepers and teach them a lesson.
TeasdaIe Anti-Treatins Bill.
While this has not come to the sur
face In a glaring way, it is considered
the real story back Of an unexpected
vote in the senate the other day on
the Teasdale anti-treating bill. The
measure, like d majority of measure s
Of this character, was on the calendar
for indefinite postponement. But in
stead OF killing the bill the senate, by
Q vote of II to II, declined to indefl-
uttely postpone the measure and then
advanced 1t to engrossment, all of
which came as a most profound sur
prise to the saloonkeepers.
1t is said, upon excellent authority,
that the brewing interests Of the state
encouraged this action by the senate,
feeling that the bill would be killed
In the assembly, where similar
measure had already been laid to rest.
It Is said upon the same authority
that the brewers favored this action
by the senate merely to brighten the
ealoonkeepers and break them up in
the fight on the main issue-the so
called saloon divorce bill.
Saloonkeepers of the state are send
ing delegations here on several bills.
1t has developed into a free-for-all
and bitter family row in the liquor
traffic
Troubles Of the University.
The University of Wisconsin, al
ways a subject over which the legisla
ture quarrels and then Invariably falls
into line for the general development
program of the university, is causing
considerable internal trouble. Sena'
tor Culbertson has added to the trou-
bles of the university by the intro
duction of a resolution calling upon
the senate to name committee Of
three to confer with the regents rela-
tive to proper steps to improve the
moral life Of students at Wisconsin,
in a few brief remarks to the senate,
he charged that the city officials OF
Madison are either lax in the enforce
ment of the law regulating the NOR
ais of students, or the city Of Madison
has not provided proper ordinances
on this subject.
In an interview Senator Culbertson
said that there is a suspicion back
in the state" that "everything at the
university isn't just right" He be-
iieves that it is in the general inter
ests of the great institution to clear
up this suspicion. His resolution
met with opposition from Senator
Burke of Green Bay, who resented the
Inference that the legislature pointed
the finger of suspicion at the very
flower of the boys and girls in Wis
cinsin" The resolution was referred
to a committee, but its author is de-
termined to get early action on it.
Removal of the State Fair.
Milwaukee feels itself lettering in
the fight over the removal of the
state fair. One hundred citizens from
Fond du Lac and Oshkosh and the
Fox river valley, with colors flying
and bubbling over with boosting
spirit, swooped down upon the legis-
lature last week to speak for bill
TO remove the fair to Oshkosh or to
some point in the Fox River yalloy.
Madison. playing waiting game, is
also after the big fair.
Boosters from the Fox River valley
contended that the state fair could
never be an agriculturas success as
long as it is conducted in Milwaukee
for the reason that Milwaukee has
too many counter attractions: because
milwaukee, is not greatly interested