River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-05-29
PEOPLE IN STATE
MAY VOTE BY MAIL
Bill Granting That Privilege
Passed by Assembly.
DISTANCE LIMIT IS FIXED
Any Person Living More Than Four
Miles From Polling Booth May
Send His Ballot by
Post.

Madieon.-A chance to vote by
mail may be accorded to the people
of Wisconsin. The assembly has
passed the Sommerfeld bill which pro-
yides that persons absent from the
state, or living greater distance tnan
four miles from voting booth, will
be permitted to vote by mail. The orr
ginal bill would permit anyone to cast
a vote in this manner, but members
of the legislature thought that this
might open the door to general can
vass of votes being made by politi-
clans, and SO the four-mile distance
limit was incorporated as q safe
guard. People desiring to vote by
mail may make application within ten
days from election time for a ballot.
The voter must swear that this ballot
is his own before mailing.
May Name Slaughter inspectors.
The assembly passed the Golf bill
permitting town and village boards
and common countcils to appoint
slaughter house inspectors. 1t also
passed a bill rewriting the dental ex-
aminers' law and making it more
stringent
BY vote of 46 TO IS, the assembly
passed the Nye bill giving the COVER
nor power to appoint three delegates
to The centennial to be held in Norway
next year. The bill points out that
large per cent. of the population in
Wisconsin are of Norwegian parent
age. The measure carries an appro-
priation of $4,000 Several Norwe-
gians, among them Assemblymen
Engebretson, Allison, Rhea and Jen-
sen, voted against the bill. The Bich-
Ter bill fixing heavy penalties for OBJ
tanning money by means of confidence
games was concurred in. The assem-
bly, killed the senate bill permitting
the state to operate a teachers en-
ployment agency and charge each ap-
plcant a fee of two dollars.
Repeats Mary Ann Law.
The change of the vote of Assem-
blyman Carpenter of Sank county was
the means of passing the Roesler bill
repeating the present so-called Mary
Ann law This bill was recommended
for indefinite postponemant by the as
sembly committee on elections. The
Mary Ann" law provides that In all
primaries q voter may mark his ballot
for the first and second choice. This
would secure a majority nomination of
any candidate. The vote was AZ to AZ,
but Assemblyman Carpenter changed
his vote, passing the bill.
Installment houses of the state will
be subject to more stringent regula-
lions if the senate concurs in the
Walsh bill, which has now passed the
house. This bill makes 1t impossible
for an installment house to take the
goods from a patron after he has paid
down so per cent. OF the cost price of
the articles. The bin was passed by
vote OF 81 to 80.
The plumbers inspection bill, which
has been bone of contention for
three successive sessions of the legis'
lature, passed the house by vote OF
6S to "a The state board of health is
authorized to issue permits to state
plumbing inspectors, and common
councils are empowered to appoint
local plumbing inspectors. The
Kneen bill to prohibit duplication of
telephone companies in towns was
amended and passed.
Fix Teachers Minimum Wage.
The senate reconsidered it's action
In non-concurring in the Minkley bill
fixing a minimum wage for rural
eschool teachers at $40 per month,
and passed 1t.
BY an almost unanimous vote the
senate passed the Bowe bill appropriate
ing $4,000 for representation of the
states agricultural and manufacturing
interests at the Panama-Pacific expo
sition. A motion by Senator Bosshard
providing that of commission OF
three to be appointed by the governor
to attend the exposition none shall be
members of the present legislature,
WAS adOnted