The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-09
BADGERS $4,000
A DAY IN TIPPING
j. F. BARNES, LA CROSSE, AP-
PEARS FOR BOSSHARD'S
ANTLTIPPING BILL.
WAR RESOLUTIONS KILLED
Senator Makes Clean Sweep to Estab-
lsh Neutrality of State-To
Revoke SaIoonkeeper's Ii
IN
cense for Second Offense.
Madison, March 5, 1915.

Madison, March 5, 1915.
The people of this country spend
$18,000,000 a year and the travelling
public in Wisconsin spends $4,000 a
day in tips, according to j. F. Barnes,
La Crosse, who appeared before a
committee of the senate today in favor
of the Bosshard bill making tipping a
misdemeanor punishable by fine of
So to $25.
"The tipping game" he said, "has
become holdup. The travelling men
are for the bill and will see to it that
if the measure is passed that the law
will not be violated"
Senator Hanson appeared for his
bill to create a state department of
architecture and engineering. The
state, he asserted, pays out about
100000 year for architects and en-
gineers, and in some cases, Mr. Han
son said, Gov. E. L. Philip considers
it necessary to call in an architect be-
fore signing some of the contracts
which reach him.
Fl. J. Torkelson, acting business
manager at the state university, ap-
peared in opposition to the bill
War Resolutions Killed.
Killing war resolutions was the pas
time of the senate and by making a
clean sweep of the job, the upper
house established that Wisconsin is
maintaining a policy of neutrality in
reference to the European war.
The resolutions killed were:
BY Senator observation-disclosures
ing congress to prevent the shipment
of arms and contraband of war to Eu-
ropean nations now in conflict.
BY Senator Bray-To extend to
President Woodrow Wilson the en-
couragement and the support of the
people of Wisconsin in these days of
trial
BY Assemblyman Carl Hanson
Asking congress to use it's best efforts
to bring about peace in Europe.
By Assemblyman Memorable
ing congress to prevent the shipment
of arms, ETC., to the European war
zone.
Recalls Ofstie Bill.
An emergency bill by the judiciary
committee to permit Sheboygan coun-
ty to appoint a successor to it's de-
ceased county treasurer, introduced in
the assembly upon motions of Mr..
Nuemeister, was put through all the
processes of enactment and messaged
to the senate.
A motion by Mr.. Courtney to recon
slider the vote by which the Ofstie bill,
1854, was Indefinitely postponed, was
defeated by a vote of So to g. The
bill provided that for second violation
of the Sunday closing law, saloon
keepers license should be revoked
The Edwards bill, 164a, on the cal
endar for indefinite postponement,
was re-referred to the committee on
education with an amendment offered
by the author.
Baker Amendment Postponed.
The assembly committee on excise
and fees voted unanimously to recon-
mend indefinite postponement to the
Baker law, which would make the
statute operative from 1913 instead of
1907
The amendment, fathered and sup
ported by the Milwaukee common
council, aided by city officials, was
urged before the house committee as
flair play" to save saloonmen of Mil
waukee $2,000,000 which they had in
vnstad in nIaopS Of bucinacc ON oEvioo
of the city attorney, John T. Kelly,
that they would escape under the Ba-
ker law provisions. A subsequent de-
cision of the supreme court reversed
this opinion and the places were
wiped out of business.
If the legislature acts on the recon-
mendation of the excise committee the
last fight to restore these places to
business will be lost and a variety of
court actions, started by different in.
terests, will be made useless.
Salary Boost Voted Down.
In spite of the decisive vote last fall
against the constitutional amendment
increasing salaries of members of the
legislature, the assembly barely re
fused engrossment to another resolu-
ton amending the constitution for a
salary raise. This resolution would
give members $3.50 per annum OF
$500 for the biennial period The
resolution was lost, 80 to 40
Assemblyman julius Hanson called