The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-05-16
NAMING Of HOST Is
STOPPED BY ERROR
RULING BY LIEUT.. GOV. MORRIS
PREVENTS CONFIRMATION
AS FIRE MARSHAL.
MISTAKE MADE A TIE IN VOTE
Vote of Senator Stevens on Motion
to Lay Matter over for One Week
Wrongly Recorded-Friends of Con-
firrnation Had Necessary Majority.

firration Had Necessary Majority.
Madison.-The confirmation of
Glenn T. Host of Milwaukee as fire
marshal was defeated in the senate
through a ruling of Lieut.. Gov. Nor
ris.
The friends of confirmation had
majority, all that was needed, but on
roll call on a motion of Senator Otto
Bosshard that the confirmation lay
over one week, Senator Stevens voted
no, but was recorded by the clerk as
voting aye. This gave the result Is
to 15 for the motion. Senator Stew
ems failed to notice that his vote had
been wrongly recorded until the vote
was announced.
Lieut.. Gov. Morris ruled the vote
could not be changed after it had
been announced. Senator Timothy
Burke appealed from the decision Of
the chair. Senatorial courtesy was
TOO strong and the ruling of the pres
ident was sustained by a vote of 20
to 10.
T The appointment was on the SEN
ate calendar for action and Senator
George B. Skogmo moved the ap-
pointment be laid on the table. This
motion shut off all debate. 1t car
ried by vote of IA to IL. Senator
Burke moved the bill be taken from
the table. This was done by vote
of Is to IA.
Having taken the bill from the
table Senator Bosshard moved the
matter to be laid over for one week.
On this motion the vote should
have been 16 to IA against the mo-
tions but for the failure on the part
of Senator Stevens to see that his
vote had been wrongly recorded in
time. AS it was, the vote was tie
and Lieut. Gov. Morris decided the
tie by voting aye.
Chance for Late Voters.
The Hinkel bill which provides
that voters in the booth or standing
in line at the time for closing the
polls shall be permitted to vote was
concurred in by the senate tonight.
The Paulu bill providing that
when an electric railway occupies any
state highway Improvements made
thereon shall be not less than twelve
feet on each side of such railway
track, was also concurred in.
The assembly went on record to-
day as opposing any duplication of
telephone companies in rural dis
tricts by engrossing the Kneen bill
requiring companies to secure GER
tificate of necessity from the railroad
commission before building. The
present law prohibits the duplication
in cities but the Kneen bill extends
the principle to towns
BY a vote of A to "a, the assembly
sent to engrossment Senator Burke's
bill appropriating $4,000 for a state
game fund.
The senate killed the Stevens bill
providing for the indeterminate SEN
tence or the paroling of convicts.
The Gorecki bill forbidding the
sale of liquor on school property was
laid at the foot of the calendar.
After a stormy career the Walsh
bill directed against so-called fur
niture sharks" was ordered engross-
ed. As amended it provides that in
stallment houses shall repay half the
amount paid on household goods
taken back, provided so per cent of
the price has been paid
More Trouble for Lobbyists.
The bars against lobbyists are put
up a notch higher in a resolution in
troduced in the lower house this
morning by Assemblyman Douglas
Anderson. 1t proposed the adoption
of the senates rule to the effect that
No ex-member or any other person
who shall be directly or indirectly in
terested in defeating or promoting
any pending legislation whether reg
istered as lobbyist or not, shall
have the privilege of the floor of the
assembly, at any time" Several for
mer members who have been con-
spicuous around the chamber recent
ly are hit by the rule.
Road Must Pay $4,000.
That the Northern Pacific is
obliged to file its resolutions of its
increase of capital stock and pay a
fee of $4,000 into the Wisconsin
state treasury is the opinion of Atty
Gen. Owen. The state may also de-
mand interest on that amount