Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-05-02
OPPOSES LIMITING SESSIONS
LaFoIette's Magazine Gives Strona
Assignments Against 1t

Madison, Wis, April 80, Especial
LA Follette's magazine has pub
lished an editorial against the reso-
luton limiting the legislative sessions
The editorial says in part:
But of all the devices resorted to
! by the enemies of progressive meas
ures there is none more fraught with
danger to public good than limiting
legislative sessions by law to fixed
number of days
Yet there is nothing the privileged
interests and their paid lobbyists
would like better In a progressive
commonwealth, it would mean open
the way to them, if not to secure
the passage of bills in their inter
ests, at least to block the passage
OF measures to which they are op-
posed. 1t is the supreme duty of pro-
sressives to keep every door closed
against them.
"A resolution is pending in the
Wisconsin Legislative to amend the
constitution SO as to fix a definite
limit of Legislative sessions. This
resolution should be defeated.
Members of the legislature in Wis
consin are no longer paid according
to the number of days they are in
session. There is no incentive of self
interests to prolong a session
member does not receive a dollar
more salary for a long session than
for a short one For this reason, if
for no other, the men who are sent
to Madison to make the laws, are
not to be expected to extend any
session one day longer than is nee
essary. And any other assumption is
an impeachment of the intelligence
of the members. They surely are to
be credited with sense enough to
know when their job is finished
In Wisconsin legislators are held
to a strict accounting for their plat
form pledges. They understand the |
meaning Of public service They, on |
the whole, willingly make sacrifices |
in order to stay by their duty until |
their promises have been embodied in |
thorough-going statutes. That is the |
Wisconsin way Put a limitation up
on the sessions, however, and there
is certain to be a congestion of bills
in the closing days. That means eth
that progressive measures are going
to be crowded aside in the rush and /!
confusion or that they will be passed |
without the careful scrutiny by which
alone clever 'jokers" may be detect
ed. In either event the progressive
cause suffers-and the interests have
gained a day.
"In those states where legislative
now have fixed time limit,
the experience has not been salts
factory. And in the closing hours
Of the last Congress important bills
lied because of the congestion. 1t |
was like trying to force a six-inch
stream through one-inch pipe. There
was desire to pass the Eight-hour
dill for women workers in the Dis
,rict of Columbia, for instance, but
here was not time.
"It is not serving the cause of pro-
sress to land platform pledges on the
lands of the clock
The Wisconsin legislature should
eject this proposal. Sound statutes,
lot speedy sessions, should be it's
Present indications are that this
session will be much longer than was
,arlier anticipated
New Schools ,
1t seems certain that there will f
'e three additional county training ?
chools for teachers provided for by
he legislature at his session and c
ne new normal school, the location T
# which was established at Eau j
'laire by preceding legislature. v
Teachers Pensions {
Two teachers pension bills have 7
cen considered One to make a sep +
rate class of rural teachers, giving I
hem pensions at twenty instead of i
years, has been killed III <
be assembly One to grant pensions i,
, normal school teachers, has been i,
illed in the assembly There has =
cen no advancement of bills to
hange materially the present teach
RS insurance and retirement fund
ONE changes will be made in laws
overning teachers and training
chool graduates certificates.
Cooperative Instruction
The AXel Johnson bill authorizing
le university to prepare course of
instruction to be given v
the two-weeks' short course for 81
,rmers, has passed the senate The D
purse provides for instruction along X
Iinae in all paatfprc nor 1t