Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-05-23

Consi derable Talk of Adjournment
Until Next January

Madison, Wis, May 21 Especially
Sentiment for a recess of the legis
lature until next January, for the
working out and passage of impor
tant progressive measures, is increas
ing. The grist of minor measures is
about through, but such big meas
ures as the waterpower bill, the
market commission BILL mothers
pensions, etc, are still far from
finished shape in committee and
have received little careful or de
tailed consideration by members gen
orally.
The special conservation commit
tee expects to be able to work out
two or three important phases of
the waterpower problem in time for
a reasonably early adjournment, but
the third and most important and
far-freaching phase of the question
cannot be properly worked out for
several weeks at least, and should
ceiVe much longer consideration, in
the opinion OF leading members of
the committee.
Two plans for mothers pensions
have been presented These bills aln
along entirely different lines. One,
the Rosa and Hedding plan, uses the
present machinery of the courts for
the administration of the law The
other, the Schnitzler bill, creates a
state organization, with many salar-
led appointees This bill, it is said
has the support of the sO-called asso-
ciated charities, whose opposition to
mothers pensions by the state is
claimed to have been because it
threatened to deprive them of their
percentages for the distribution,
which often amounts to the major
portion of the funds. The Schnitzler
bill would eliminate this objection
of the associated charities by Civ
ing the interested parties salaried
positions and thus enable them to
retain their percentages. The Mccoy
ern administration backs the SchnitZ-
Ter bill. 1t would add to the machin-
cry of the administration, and this
is claimed by friends of the other
plans, to be the deciding element
with the administration on this bill.
The Republican platform of Wis
consin i'll 1912 declared for a moth
ers' pension law, and such law is
one of the movements of the pro-
gressives all over the country. The
majority of the legislature is un-
doubtedly favorable to mothers pen
siOns, and they desire that the law
shall be enacted only through inves-
tigation and consideration of the
plans presented, in the Wisconsin
way. so that a constructive meas
ure may be enacted from the start,
and the plan not be endangered by
an lily considered or specially influ-
enced statue. For this reason many
of the warmest advocates of mothers
pensions are advocating a special re-
cess committee to report next Janu-
ary.
The market commission bill is
probably the biggest problem among
these it is proposed to lay over for
seven months. The party is by two
platforms, 1910 and 1912. committed
to anti discrimination and cO-opera-
tive measures, and there is no ques-
ton but that large majority of this
legislature favor these ideas. But the
subject is vital to the industrial sys-
TEN, and here also, the best friends
of the plan propose a special com
mittee to work it out and report next
year Many of the close ieutenants
of McGOvern are hoping that the
bill can be forced to a vote at this
time and that it will meet defeat at
the hands of the opponents Of the
administration, so that the governor
may have it as an issue in the next
campaign.
In spite of the many unforward
circumstances it is now thought that
this legislature will be able to keep
practically all and probably every one
of the platform pledges of the repub-
lican party. If the recess is defeated
by a combination of the reactionary,
Democratic and Bull Moose votes,
with perhaps the socialist and a few
others voting with the combination
for reasons of the personal expense
of a session next year, it may be
that some pledges will have to await
fulfillment until 1915.
Agents Wanted