Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-07-09
CROSSE NORMAL
SCHOOL BILL KILLED
sENArE REFUSES TO REPEAL
$4,000 FUND FOR NEW
PHYSICAL BUILDING.
HOME RULE BILL HELD UP
The KeGloaq Bill Providing That Grip
nled Children Be Admitted to
Sparta School Was Con-
CURED In.
Madison, June 80, 1915.

Madison, June 30, 1913.
The Bradley bill repeating an appro-
priation OF $4,000 made by the last
legislature for a new physical educa-
ton building at the La Crosse Nor
NAL school was killed in the senate
not q vote being recorded for the
measure.
The senate indefinitely postponed q
bill limiting the amount of money
which state employees may pay for
meals and rooms. No meal bought
within the state could cost more than
Is cents, under the bill. THAT is
soup house rate" said Senator Frank
Hanson.
Action was deferred on the Bray
end Bichler bills providing for party
conventions, the Burke bill abolishing
county boards of education and the
Arnold Joint resolution giving home
rule to cities.
KELLOGG Bill Concurred In.
Senator Timothy Burke introduced
q Joint resolution providing that for
the remainder of the session all bills
shall be referred directly to the calen-
dar. The senate COncurred in the
amended Kellogg bills providing that
crippled children may be admitted to
the school for children at Sparta.
BY a rising vote, the senate adopted
resolutions OF sympathy because OF
the death Of former Senator Henry F.
Hagenmeister.
A bill BY committee on fish and
game, to appropriate $4,000 to Mike
Morrin, q Chippewa Indian, as COM
pensation for loss through seizure of
fish nets. was indefinitely postponed.
The assembly refused to concur in
418s, by the senate committee on state
affairs, providing for the labelling OF
food packages to show their contents.
The senate bill, 5438, providing that
any person who, by mistake, has neg
iected to use his personal property
tax receipt as an offset against in
come tax may have the mistake cor
rected within one year, was refused
third reading.
Governor Kills Stemper Bill
The Stemper bill is dead. Gov.
Philip, at a hearing he gave friends
and opponents of the measure. said
shat unless it was called back and
amended so that he could be sure
undesirable saloons were wiped out
and desirable ones took their places,
he would withhold his approval of
the bill
City Clerk Leuch, who has had
the burden Of the fight for the act
on his shoulders, said after the gov
ern0r had made his statement that
they would let the governor veto the
bill if he saw fit, but they would
make no effort to recall it. This
means that it will be killed
People Against Change.
At the conclusion of the hearing,
Gov. Philip said THE Baker law is
evidently the settled policy of the
state Of Wisconsin in the regulation
OF the liquor traffic. 1t has been in
existence eight years and no amend
ment Of Importance has been made
to 1t in that time. This demand Sor
g change comes altogether from Mil
waukee No one has come here from
any other part Of the state to speak
for the bill. | must assume, there
fore, that so far as the people out
side of Milwaukee go they do not
want any change made.
From this measure as it now
stands, | will withhold my approval.
Those who favor it have their rem
edy.
Wants Bill Amended.
The friends of this measure may
recall it to the assembly and | will
agree at this time to sign the bill if
amended so as to apply solely to
cities Of the first class, and the law
carries the restriction that when one
OF these places operated under color
of license are substituted for an un-
desirable place the chief of police
shall pass on the undesirability and
desirability OF the saloon that is to
be opened, so that the change that is
made Will be in the interest of clean
er and better saloons.
"The people of Wisconsin want
cleaner and better saloons and in that
feeling ! am in hearty accord. II the
friends Of the bill want to recall it
and amend it along the lines l have
s,indicated I will say that / will give
sit my hearty approval"
Measure Aids Upstate Cities.
The Nye bill, which would enable
Superior, Ashland and other cities to