Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-11
TIE LEGISLATURE.

legislature is that between the saloon
keepers and the brewers. The brew
ers of each city in Wisconsin usually
lease tae best corners in the city
where they are located and install and
conduct saloons in order that their
beer may be sold exclusively. The
saloon keepers want a bill passed TO
prohibit brewers from owning and
conducting saloons.
The retail liquor dealers claim that
this influence of the brewery and the
wholesale dealer on the retail BUSH
ness is one of the existing evils in
the liquor business, and they declare
that 1t practically places the saloon
keeper in position where he is al
most an employe of the brewery and
has little control of his place himself.
The brewers, on the other hand, de-
clare chat their control of the real
estate owned by saloons is benef-
cial check on the liquor business and
that without this control exercised
by the oreweries the saloon condi-
tions in Wisconsin would be infinitely
worse than they are today.
1t is the claim of the brewers that
iif a saloonkeeper does not show a
disposition to run a. place which is
owned by the brewery in respect
able manner, that the fact that the
leasehold is owned by the brewery
gives the brewer an opportunity to
get lid of an undesirable tenant
whereby if the saloonkeeper were the
only, customer of the brewery, the
brewer would have no control over
him. These are questions which will
be threshed out at a joint hearing of
the excise committee of the two
houses at which some very interest
ing things are likely to be said about
the conditions of the liquor traffic in
Wisconsin.
There are various bills presented to
curtail the powers of the railroad
commission and some want the COM
mission abolished entirely. These
bills are not looked upon with favor.
A bill has been introduced which
provides that the health commission
er in the various cities of the state
must be physicians and that their ap-
pointment shall be approved by the
state board Of health. This will put
the health commissioners under the
state board.
What do you think of this, you
huntsmen? Senator P. Litchtield
has introduced bill making it I'M
lawful for any one to carry any fire
arms, loaded or unloaded, during the
game hunting season except a shot
gun loaded with shot not larger than
No. l buckshot. The rifle will have
to be discarded. Come to think of it
nine-tenths of the hunters can't hit
the side of barn door with rifle,
while they might get chance with
shot gun.
The socialists are going to press
their constitutional amendment bill
for the state ownership of cold stor-
ages. They claim this would solve
the problem of the high cost of liv-
| ing. The socialists have many bills
before the legislature, in fact. SO
many that it will keep the seven
socialists members busy all winter
attending committee meetings.
, The treatment of tuberculosis pa
| tients in the state forestry reserve in
Northern Wisconsin is to be proposed
| in the legislature, 1t is proposed to
build only few shacks and arrange
ments made to give patients work on
the forestry reserve.
County clerks, who have been &C
customed to retain 10c out of the 81
fee eXacted for each hunting license,
are hit by measure which will come
into the Wisconsin legislature. 1t
will specify that the entire license
fee shall go into the county treasury.
The assumption of its sponsor is that
the county clerk draws a salary and
is entitled to no perquisites of the
character mentioned. In some coun-
ties, the fees retained by the clerk
are said to have amounted to hum
dreds of dollars.
4 proposed law is TO the effect that
wives may testify against their hus-
bands and vice versa.
Senator White offered measure to
, amend the law relating to commit
ments of minors to industrial schools
so that the magistrate may, in his
discretion, make the commitment for
term not less than one year nor
longer than until such child shall at
tain the age of q years. The law
now gives no direction but requires
commitment until of age.
A central educational board to have
supervision over the whole education
al machinery of the state is provided
in joint resolution introduced in the
assembly by Assemblyman Rosa
of Beloit. 1t does away with the
office of superintendent of public in
struction and gives proposed state
board jurisdiction over the university
and other schools. A constitutional
amendment is required before the
plan can be made operative.
In the assembly Assemblyman Ma
hon, chairman of the committee on
elections introduced a resolution
authorizing his committee to call for
all papers and witnesses in the Clark
VS.. ODay election contest. Assem-
blyman Roessler objected and when
the matter came to a close the reso-
tuition was lost, 81 to 49,.
Farmers will be allowed credit at a
rate of 81 day in working out their
road taxes, if bill presented to the
assembly by AsSemblyman A. d.
Richardson of Iowa county is passed.
Under a law that has been in force in
Wisconsin for more than a quarter Of
a century people who worked out their
road taxes were allowed $3.50 a day.
The Richardson bill increases this
amount TO 81 day and allows an adj
ditionaT credit of $3.50 for the use of
a team and wagon.
1t is not expected that the witnesses
who are to be heard in the Clarke
O'Day contest case will be reached
much before early next week, and it
will be several days yet before the final
report on the contest reaches the floor
of the assembly.
A bill liable to pass is the one which
has been introduced relative to the