Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-06-20
SESSION MAY RUN
WELL INTO JULY
CLOSE OBSERVERS SAY LEGlSL ~
TURE WILL NOT ADJOURN
BEFORE JULY 7.
IMPORTANT BILLS ARE DUE
Water Power, Market Commission,
Minimum Wage and Mothers Pen
sion Measures. Have Been Delayed
Members Anxious to Get Home.

Members Anxious to Get Home
misunderstanding to- those clos
est to the legislative machinery, the
work of the Wisconsin, lawmakers
Will not be completed before July Z,
and probably not until July 15.
The appropriation bills have been
delayed by the finance committee bal
ancing up the different appropriations
SO that all departments and state in
situations will be treated alike. Two
years ago the finance committee sent
in the appropriation bills as they were
prepared and in consequence some de-
partments which came late had to
stand a reduction lin order to, get with
in the receipts for the biennial period.
1t is intended this shall not happen
this year.
Delay Oh Water Power Bill.
The water power bill is, also liable
to be delayed. Both sides have been,
it is stated, getting nearer together
y
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 We're intro
duced through the committee in that
house.
This introduction OF bills in the SEN
ate Anglers the assemblymen, who are
anxious to get through and go home.
Assemblyman Carl Hansen contem-
plated introducing resolution in that
house providing no senate bills would
be received by 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 assembly side
Prohibits Treating Legislators.
II a bill introduced in the senate by
Senator Tomkins: of Ashland becomes
law, it will be unlawful for any
person to- buy q member of the legiS-
lature a cigar or soft drink or 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
rs severe, being Imprisonment in jail
for from thirty days to one year or a
fine of from $10o 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, 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 not 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
first cousins to marry each other.
No Voting by Mail.
No law for a system OF voting by
mail will be passed at this session.
Senator Perry's bill upon the subject
was killed last week and the Sommer-
field bill. which passed the assembly
was killed by the senate today.
Against an adverse report of the
finance committee Assemhlyman
Spoor has succeeded in having his bill
reorganizing 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 appointiye by
the governor.
The assembly concurred in the SEN
ate joint resolution for constitution
al amendment providing that the state
shall appropriate money TO conserve
and improve the navigable waters OF
the state and to acquire. regulate or
develop the water supply.