Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-02-07
One SALOON FOR
EACH 500 PERSONS
ASSEM5LYMAN GANNoNS BILL
FOR REPEAL OF THE
BAKER LAW.
SHORTER HOURS FOR CLERKS
Labor Regulation for Druggists Help
ers Proposed in Biii-To Cut Out
Consideration of ST. in All Rea,
Estate Conveyances.

Madison.-A bill to repeal the
Baker law was introduced by Assem-
blyman Philip Cannon of Superior.
1t provides that saloon license shall
be Issued to an individual for every
500 inhabitants instead OF 200 as at
present. BY making the licenses to
an individual it makes them trans
ferable, but only one transfer is al
lowed to each license. The bill is eff
fective the first Tuesday in July.
The Frederick bill provides a fine
of from SIS to $25 for permitting
horses to remain in the cold on the
streets or highways.
Mr.. Hinkel of Milwaukee intro
duced bin permitting cities of the
nrst and second classes to establish
a municipal bank and Mr.. Richards
offered one by request which requires
only one years residence in the state
instead of two as requisite to Sc
curing divorce
Shorter Hours tor Drug Clerks.
bill by Mr.. Walsh offers relief
to overworked drug clerks. BY its
terms drug stores may not keep open
from 8 to 10 a. m Sundays and from
to 8 p. M Employees are limited
to So hours labor weekly with "a
hours off every fourteen days. This
is like the New York and Oregon
laws on the subject. Mr.. Walsh also
offered bill requiring railroad, tele-
graph or public utility companies to
pay their employees weekly or at
shorter intervals, if it is so agreed.
Several exceptions, notably as to
travelling men, are provided for
Inheritance Commission Claims.
A claim for s3,647.O7 as commits
sions due for services in the collec-
ton of inheritance taxes bobbed up
in the senate together with con-
tract executed on behalf of the state
by Gov. ]. o. Davidson and Attorney
General Frank L. Gilbert in an agree
ment to pay TO the claimant, Alfred
Yankman of New York, for such SER
vices. The contract was executed
May %, 1910, and the claim is for
services in connection with thirty
nine estates, the duties of service
running from April, 1911, to Deem
Der, 1912, the last being in the mat
ter of the estate of Russell Sage The
claim was referred to the finance
committee for investigation.
Confederation of ST. Out.
No more will conveyers of real es-
tate be permitted to write Consider
alton 81" in a deed of real estate il
that was not the actual considera-
ton, if bill introduced in the upper
house becomes law. 1t not only
provides that the true consideration
shall be named in the deed, but 1t is
required that when the consideration
named covers more than the real es-
tate the facts shall be stated. No
deed may be recorded if the bill pass
es unless accompanied by an affidavit
that the facts recited in the convey
ance respecting the consideration are
true.
The state board of agriculture,
which met Monday night, audited the
bills of the last state fair held in
Milwaukee in September and found
that it would have about $500 with
which to begin preparations for the
next state fair The board will ask
the legislature to appropriate abou,
100000 to provide for permanent
improvements during the ensuing