Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-03-18

Hedding.
Another election bin which passed |
the assembly provides that election |
days shall be observed as half holidays |
throughout the state in order to give
employed persons time te go to the
polls.
In the senate, Senator Teasdale's
antitreating bill passed the senate
with scarcely murmur of dissent
and now goes to the assembly for
action. The bill makes it unlawful
for any person to give any other per-
son, either directly or indirectly, any
drink of any intoxicating liquor of
any kind in a saloon. II also makes
it unlawful for any person to accept
any such free drinks. The penalty
prescribed is fine of $50 and 800 for
any saloon keeper and s. to so for
any other person. The law requires,
further, that every saloon keeper shall
keep posted in his place placard an
nouncing: "Public treating of intox-
icating liquors is forbidden by law
The bill does not forbid treating to
cigars or mountaineering drinks.
The legislature may pass law pro-
viding that the industrial commission
shall have the right to fix minimum
wage for women in certain kinds of
labor.
No more will conyeyors of real
estate be permitted to write "Con-
sideration 81" in deed of real estate
| if that was the actual consideration,
if bill introduced in the upper house
becomes a law. 1t not only provides
that the true consideration shall be
named in the deed, but it is required
that when the consideration named
covers more than the real estate the
| facts shall be stated. No deed may
be recorded if the bill passes unless
accompanied by an affidavit that the
facts recited in the conveyance re-
speeding the consideration are true.
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fiuence of some special interests, and
dare not do anything until that spec
ial interest has given the signal that
we may do it," So said Senator
Teasdale in his discussion Friday Of
his dry zone bill in an effort TO save
his measure from postponement. The
bill provides that when any town or
city or village has voted not to issue
licenses to saloons, it shall be unlaw-
full for any adjoining town to grant
a license within one mile of such dry
town. Senator Teasdale told of a
situation in his district where the
village of Melrose that has never
granted saloon license, has a saloon
known as Monkeys Roost, just ten
feet across the line in Monroe county.
An elaborate scheme for voting by
mail and for registry of voters at any
time during the year, except the
twenty days next proceeding any
election, was offered in the upper
house Friday by Senator Perry.
Senator Burke's bill providing that
only buck deer shall be killed in the
open season and that doe and fawn
shall not be killed at any time, was
ordered to engrossment.
The committee on public welfare of
the assembly has recommended for
passage Mr.. Frederick's bill, proyid-
ing for the condemnation and for
fixture of property which has been
used for immoral purposes for two
years, whether the owner knows the
conditions or not; also Mr.. Gulickson's
| bill, providing that before a license
to marry is issued the parties must
certify they have never been divorced,
and are not epiletics; also Mr.. Gan
mons bill, authorizing cities Of the
second class to regulate dances and
dance halls; also Mr.. Goreckis bill,
providing that when minor child is
committed to an institution it shall
| be for definite period, and proyid-
ing penalty for any Institution that
shall retain such child beyond the
time designated.
The committee on insurance and
banking will recommend for passage
(Mr. Laursen dissenting the SchnitZ-
Ter bill permitting corporations to in
sure the lives of their officers with or
without the officers consent. 1t will
recommend for passage also the
Guidice bill placing in the hands of
the bank commissioner absolute power
to determine whether a new bank
should be opened in given locality,
The committee on printing heard
arguments pro and con upon Mr..
Pfennig's bill making it misdemean-
or to publish or distribute in any
form any untrue or misleading state
ment concerning goods or articles for
sales.
Mr.. Hansen's bill prohibiting the
storing of more than four pounds of
explosives in any city or village, and
prohibiting any quantity over 100
pounds any where except in properly
constructed magazines, was ordered
engrossed, IS was Mr. Schillings' bill
fixing graduated method Of licensing
motor vehicles.