The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-06-17
SENATE PASSES ACT
TO PAY STATE DEBT
CONCURS IN Helm BILL ApPRO.
PRIATING 100000 ANNUALLY
FOR THE CAUSE.
OPPOSED TO REST MEASURE
BudIong Bill Providing for One Days
Rest in Seven for Telegraph
Operators and Station
Agents Is Postponed.
Madison, June IS, 1915.

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bill appropriating 100000 annually
TO pay the state debt of S2,S0O,OOO
Later a motion to reconsider the vote
was made by Senator Baxter and it
went over until later,
The Stemper bill requiring subcon-
tractors to give property owners no.
tice of twenty days after the last ma
terial or labor has been supplied If
they intend to file a lien for their
pay, was cOncurred in.
The Dixon bill repeating the law
requiring an open space of forty feet
in width around new county court
houses was killed. The WaIdron res
olution for a constitutional amend
ment making sheriffs eligible to re-
election for consecutive terms was
killed because a similar resolution,
presented by Senator Ackley, had al
ready passed both houses.
Opposed TO Rest Bill.
The senate committee on corpora
lions recommended for indefinite
postponement the Budlong bill pro-
viding for one day S rest in seven
for telegraph operators and station
agents employed by railroads
The vote on the home rule resolu-
ton, indefinitely postponed by the as
sembly, was reconsdered. Assem-
blyman Hambrecht offered a substi-
tute amendment and the bill with
substitute amendment will come up
later.
The Culbertson hazing bill was
killed for the session by the assem-
bly, when that house refused to re-
consider it's vote. The Zinn bill, re-
latng to employment agents, is also
dead for the session.
The senate killed the Ileden anti
treating bill and the bill repeating
the law providing for a new normal
school in the northeastern part OF
the state. The Grell bill, permitting
saloons to be open after the polls
close on election day, was concurred
in by a vote Of II to II and goes
to the governor for approval on
motion Of Senator Bray, the COnsoli-
dation bill creating a state depart
ment Of agriculture will be heard by
the senate in committee as a whole
next Thursday afternoon. The SEN
ate committee on judiciary intro
duced a new bill repeating the law
requiring factory owners to permit
state factory inspectors to enter and
examine their plauts.
Favor q Year Terms.
The senate ordered enRrossed the
Jennings bill increasing the length Of
terms OF Office of city officials and al
dermen of Milwaukee from two to four
years.
Big cuts are TO be made In the appro-
priatiOns for state institutions, accord
ing TO statements by members of the
finance committee on the floor OF the
assembly. 1t was stated that $500, 600
had been cut from the estimates as
presented by the board of control for
state institutions and had been accept.
ed by the board. That Sl,O0O,000 had
been cut from the estimates Of the nor.
ma schools and they would have to
come pretty near to that, it was said
What the cuts will be on the university
appropriations were not stated. This
statement came out in a discussion for
the repeal q state aid for the Wiscon-
sin Cheese Makers association and
Wisconsin Dairymen's association
Deny Aid to Dairymen.
The assembly indefinitely postponed
the bin cutting out aid for the cheese
makers and then turned around and
engrossed the bill repeating aid to the
dairymen.
The Krembs bin for a Cancellation
court In Milwaukee in connection with
the Civil court or Justice court of that
county was ordered to engrossmcut by
the assembly.
A joint resolution by Asscmblyman
Smith, which would amend the consti
tuition so as to give the members OF
the Legislature ST. 900 for term was
adopted by the assembly,
The DObie fraternal society bill 52GA,
which has caused such stir among
the fraternal organizations Of tho
state was indefinitely postponed by a
viva yoce vote
A bill providing for band concert
AT the San Francisco exposition was
indefinitely postponed by the assem-