The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-06-20
SESSION MAY RUN
WELL INTO JULY
CLOSE OBSERVERS SAY LEGISLA-
TURE WILL NOT ADJOURN
BEFORE JULY 7.
IMPORTANT BILLS ARE DUE
Water Power, Market Commission,
Minimum Wage and Mothers Pen
zion Measures Have Been Delayed
Members Anxious to Get Home.

notwithstanding 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 Is.
The appropriation bills have been
delayed by the finance committee bal
ancing up the different appropriations
go that all departments and state in
stitutions 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 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 Bill.
The water power bill is also liable
to be delayed. Both sides have been,
it IS stated, getting nearer together
and there is now hopes that bill may
be worked out and passed.
commission bills, the minimum wage
and mothers pension bills are still
to be considered. The assembly has
passed q minimum wage bill and a
mothers pension bill, but they are yet
to be handled by the senate, with in
dlcations that they will be SO changed
IS to insure another fight in the as
Bembly.
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 Anglers the assemblymen, who are
anxious to get through and go home.
Assemblyman Carl Hansen contem-
plated introducing a resolution in that
house providing no senate bills would
be received by that house after June
I6. He finally decided to refrain from
introducing the resolution, but it indi-
Gates the state of mind which prevails
Oh the assembly side.
Prohibits Treating Legislators.
II bin 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 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
ely 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 $100 to $1,000 or both fine
and imprisonment
The senate passed bill regulating
the sale and use of corn shredders not
properly equipped with safeguards to
prevent its operators from being in
jured, a bin requiring the attorney
general TO help district attorneys in
the prosecution of arson cases and a
bill providing that strees and electric
AaAANcS SeS' . CAAt11A hON k~bdAOOI
part of their roads on public highways
without the approval OF the state rail
road commission and concurred in the
Chinook bin 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 AssembIyman
Spoor has succeeded in having his bill
reorganizing the state board of agri-
culture engrossed. By the plan pro-
posed the boera is to be elective by
representatives Oh various agricultural
interests inteao Of being appointive b,
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 OF
develop the water supply.