Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-01
CLOSE OF SESSION
STATE LEGISLATURE WINDS UP
ITS WORK
MANY IMPORTANT BILLS PASSED
Water Power Bill a LaW.-"Direct
Marketing" Bill Fails

Madison, July 29 Especial Now
that the progressive water power
bill has passed the legislature in
spite of the opposition Of the lobby
and the threat that water powers
would not be developed under it,
water power owners have already
given indication that development
will follow.
Conservation Amendments to Consti-
Two conservation amendments to
the constitution were passed pro-
viding that riparian rights now held
or hereafter obtained by the state
shall forever remain in the state;
reserving all mineral and water
power rights in lands now or hereaf-
ter held by the state; providing that
the right to cut timber or mine min
erals from any lands now or here
after held by the state shall be
granted to private individuals only
by a two-thirds vote of the members
of the legislature, and that the state
may appropriate money to develop
water powers. These will have to
pass another legislature and a ref
erendum
Direct Marketing
Tho dafoat of tho ooonoro+;yo o,d
antitrust enforcement bill by vote
of 36 to 81 in the assembly during
the rush of the last days business
is attributed by progressives in the
legislature and in Madison to the at
tempt Of Governor McGovern to make
this his own personal issue to rehab-
ilitate himself with farmer votes. The
progressives regret that the Govern
or put forward so sweeping and ill
considered a bill and so insisted up
on its passage that the result was
defeat, in spite of the efforts of the
prOgressives, of any legislation what |
ever, the Hull bill being vetoed, and |
the senate market bill defeated in
the assembly. The bill strengthening
the antitrust law is a step towards |
direct marketing, however, and the
progressives will not permit the CO.
operative measure to fall out of sight |
and at the next session of the legis-
lature they will endeavor to work
out another BILL
Blue Sky Law Passed
The blue sky law, worked out by
the senate committee on corporations
and passed by both houses during the
last week, is a comprehensive but
not radical measure, and is is ex-
pected to work out satisfactorily
Eugenic Marriages
An important step was taken in the
interest of public health during the
closing day of the session by the pas
animation for venereal diseas of all
males before marriage.
An industrial home for women, to
established by the board of control,
secured and building operations com
menced at once.
The governor has signed the Rosa
mothers pension and child aid bill,
this plank of the Republican platform
is carried out in the form supported
by the progressive republicans. The
main administration of the law is left
in the hands of the courts without
the extensive machinery proposed III
the bill supported by the McGovern
lieutenants.
Labor Laws an Issue
The one day rest in seven bill was
defeated in the senate after four
days fight by the progressives. The
progressives will make labor legis-
lation an issue in the next campaign.
Fire Insurance Legislation Killed
The McGovern-Ekern fight resulted
in the final defeat of the legislation
recommended by the recess investiga-
ting committee This legislation was
calculated to reduce Determinations
and unduly high fire insurance rates,
and was remodelled after the rail-
road and public utility statutes.
Board of Public Affairs
The board of public affairs is con-
tinued for three years with the addi-
tion of the president pro TEN of the
senate and the speaker of the assem-
bly, to it's membership.
County Board of Education
The county board of education bill
finally passed both houses. While this
bill was necessarily the result of a