Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-04-17
LONGER TERM FOR
Staying ATTACKS
ATTEMPTED KILLING OF ROOSE,
WELT FINDS ECHO IN PRO-
POSED LAW.
APPROVED BY JUDGE BACkuS
Milwaukee Jurist Declares Shooting
With Intent to Stay Merits More
Than Fifteen-Year Prison Term
Opposes lndeterminate Sentences.

Madison.-As a result of the at
tempted assassination of Col. Roose-
welt in Milwaukee last fall, the Wis
consin legislature will increase the
maximum penalty for assault with in
tent to kin from fifteen to thirty wears
A bill introduced for that purpose bv
Assemblyman c. e. a.stabrook OF Mil
waukee has already passed the lower
house and the senate committee has
decided to recommend it for concur
renee. Judge a. c. Bac}us of municipal
court of Milwaukee and Chief of Pc
lice John T. Jansen of Milwaukee
were present at the hearing and urged
the committee to recommend the bill
fo~ concurrence
Judge Backus also spoke in favor
Of the Estabrook bill providing for the
punishment OF wilful false swearing.
The penalty contained in the Esta-
brook bill for false swearing is a Jail
sentence of from one day to one year
or a state prison sentence of from
one to three years or a fine of from
81 to $1,000, or both fine and impris-
recommend the bill for concurrence.
Opposes Stevens Bill.
Judge Backus spoke against the
Stevens bill providing for indetermin-
ate sentences for convicts sent to
prison. The bill empowers the state
board Of control to release a convict
whenever in its opinion such action
would tend to make him good citi-
zen.
The senate committee on educatiCK
and public welfare has recommended
for passage the Perry bill providing
for voting by mail
Bill Interests Hun-ers.
There is a great deal of interest
among hunters around the state in re
gard to the bill which will permit the
shooting of only buck deer, should it
become a law. This bill has already
reached the senate calendar once with
a recommendation for passage, but
was finally sent back to the commit
tee on state affairs. Whether it will
be finally adopted is doubtful.
AboIshes Election Pamphlet.
Assemblyman Roessler secured the
passage of his bill for the abolition
of the election pamphlet, giving the
statements and histories of candidates
He said the whole pamphlet was a
farce, and its publication was a great
expense to the state.
Under suspension of the rules, the
assembly adopted a resolution offered
by Assemblyman Dolan calling for a
report to the legislature by the tax
commission, by April IS, on this
amount of income taxes collected in
the various counties of the state and
also as to the cost of administering
the law during 1911 and 1912.
Common Law Marriage Legal
In the case of Elizabeth Becker
against Charles Becker, the supreme
court upheld the Milwaukee county
circuit court in the view that an oral
agreement to marry, not enforced by
legal ceremony, is binding if the par
ties to the contract have lived to-
gether and held themselves out to the
public as husband and wife. The SUI
preme courts decision was sought TO
ascertain whether an alleged oral
contract to marry was sufficiently
binding to constitute a common law
marriage. The trial court granted
Mrs. Becker a divorce and awarded
her suit money and alimony, against
which judgment Becker took this ap-
peal