Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-05-21
BILL TO PREVENT THEM CROSS
ING STATE LINE Is
KILLED.
EKERN CONTROVERSY BOBS UP
Measure Giving Circuit Court Power
to Review Any Order Of Removal
Made by Governor Ia
Enerossed.

and Iowa and ringing wedding bells In
the Wisconsin border towns, and also
to make questionable runaway matches
of Wisconsin people into border states,
The bill was championed by Assem-
blyman Rosa
1T will prevent runaway matches,
by requiring that couples conform to
the laws of their own states instead OF
getting across the line to evade Them"
Rosa said.
Don c. Hall opposed the BILL partly
because of clause which penalties
the officiating magistrate up to fine
of $1,000 or a year in jail. Rosa ex-
planned it was to check marrying mag
istrates.
Pay for Condemned Cattle.
Senator Cunningham bill to extend
the time two years during which the
state will pay for cattle reacting to the
tubercular test was engrossed in the
assembly. The bill fixes a limit for
condemned cattle of $40 per head. The
law enacted two years ago provided
that after July 1, 1913, the state would
make no payments for condemned cat
tie. This bill extends the limit two
years.
Following close upon the assembly's
action in killing the Stevens bill for an
habitual criminals act, the senate took
the same course with the Stevens bill
providing for an indeterminate SEN
tence and the paroling of convicts.
Both measures were champiOned by
the state board of control. Upon mo
ton of Senator Skogmo, the senate
tabled the nomination of Glenn P.
Host to be state fire marshal.
Echo of Ekern Controversy.
The Ekern- McGovern controversy
has again bobbed up in the senate,
when that body sent to engrossment
the Bosshard bill giving to the circuit
court power to review any order of re-
moYaI made by the governor, or to the
supreme court in case such officer was
appointed with the senates consent.
The vote was Is to IL.
The assembly engrossed the Burke
bill appropriating $4,000 out Of the
hunters license fee money for the es-
adjustment of a state game farm on
the state forestry reserve.
Favors Licenses for Plumbers.
Assemblyman Gannon's bill giving
the state board of health power to ap-
point inspectors and license plumbers
in cities of the first, second, third
and fourth classes was engrossed.
The bill does not apply to cities of the
fourth class having apopulation OF less
than $500 This bill has been repeat
ed at previous sessions of the legisla-
ture. but went to engrossment today
with practically no opposition.
l.. l.. Johnson's bill extending the
first and second choice, now applied
only to primaries, to the general cleo
tions was laid on the table. On motion
of AssembIyman Roesler, Chinnock's
bill to appropriate $4,000 to reprint a
portion of the farmers institute bulle-
tins was killed.
For Direct Election.
Assemblyman Everett's bill provid-
ing for the direct election of United
States senators was engrossed. The
assembly killed the Dietrich bill for
the regulation of stocks and bonds.
This bill was practically a copy of the
Kansas blue sky law. 1t also killed the
Frederick bill providing that a voter
must live in the precinct at least 80
days before he can vote.
Assemblyman Walsh of Milwaukee
put up a determined fight for his bill
to curb the activities of the Install
ment houses. His substitute amend
ment providing that the goods pur-
chased cannot be taken away if the
purchaser has already paid down so
per cent. was adopted, and the bill
went to engrossment.
Assemblyman Holmes succeeded In
having the Hansen amendment to the
Martin Sunday closing law defeated.
This would leave it to the common
councils, town and village boards to
provide ordinances for Sunday regula-
ton.
The senate passed the Rhea bill pro-
viding that county superintendent
shall hold examinations at least twice
year in two different places in the
county. The T. A Stewart bill giving
the railroad commission power to or
der the erection of woven wire fences
along the right of way was passed.
New State Corporations.
Articles of incorporation were filed
In the office of the secretary of state
en- Tuesday as follows:
The Repertory Players of Milwau-
kee; no capital: incorporators, Thomas
g. Torphy, Elizabeth McTver, William
Russell Teddy, May e. Lonstorf, Isa-
bel II Reese. Frederick K. Breithaupt,
Charles d. Boyd, Irene McGarry, Gil
bert J. Spence, William A Fisher and
William A. Reese. The Miikose COM
pany, Racine; capital. $1,000; incor-
porators, Stephen Benish, W. T.
Thompson and NJ B. Walker