The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-06-15
SENATE PASSES ACT
TO PAY STATE DEBT
CONCURS IN Helm BILL APPRO-
PRIATlNG 100000 ANNUALLY
FOR THE CAUSE.
OPPOSED TO REST MEASURE
Budlong Bill Providing for One Days
Rest in Seven for Telegraph
Operators and Station
Agents Is Postponed.
Madison, June II, 1915.

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The senate concurred in the Helm
bill appropriating 100000 annually
to pay the state debt of $4,000, 900.
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 Waldron res
olution for 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
tions recommended for indefinite
postponement the Budlong bill pro-
viding for one days 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 reconsidered 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 its vote. The linn bill, re-
lating to employment agents, is also
dead for the session.
The senate killed the Heden 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 IL and goes
to the governor for approval. On
motion of Senator Bray, the consoli-
dation bill creating state depart
ment of agriculture will be heard by
the senate in committee as whole
next Thursday afternoon. The SEN
ate committee on judiciary intro
duced new bill repeating the law
requiring factory owners to permit
state factory inspectors to enter and
examine their plants.
Ant-Hazing Bill Killed.
The Culbertson anti-hazing bill
was killed in the assembly despite
the fight by Assemblyman Carl Pie
per and Edward Nordman, who as
serted university students indulge in
violent forms of hazing.
The Pieper bill for voting by mail
was sent to engrossment by the as
sembly. The bill provides that any
one who has to be away from his
home on election day can obtain a
ballot from the town, village or city
clerk and mark this ballot in the
presence of any one who is entitled
to acknowledge papers, and then
mail it to the clerk, who will turn it
over to the election officials. The
vote will then be counted. Where
voting machines are used the ballots
will be added to the tally on machine
The assembly concurred in the
senate amendment to the. bill of AS
semblyman F. S. Hansen relating to
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Green bay The Stemper bills relat-
ing to recovery of taxes unlawfully
levied and relating to reimbursement
of city, town and village treasUrers
on account of judgments; the Nor
Jensen resolution relating to payment
of expenses of state fire marshal, SUI
pervising inspector of illuminating
oils and state treasury agent, and
that relating to the office of fire mar
shall, abolishing that office, were
among the bills indefinitely post
poned by the assembly.
Four insurance bills were killed of
In a bunch by the assembly. Two
were by Mr.. Laursen, one by Mr.. Bal
lard, and one by Mr.. Schroeder.
Woman's Wage Bill Killed.
The assembly indefinitely postponed
the Vint bill, which provided for 6
minimum wage for women, by vote
of 81 to IS. This action was takeT
after a prolonged and at times acri
monious debate. The original bill
provided for fat minimum wage OF
$40 a week for women over IS years