Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-07-28
HOUSE CONCURS IN
EDUCATION BILL
Staudenmayer Substitute Is
Passed by Vote of 81 to 5.
GOVERNOR WILL SIGN BILL
Measure Provides for Creation of
Board of Apportionment of Five
Members With Power to Elk
anime Finances of Schools.

Madlson.-By nearly a unanimous
vote the house swung in line back of
the Staudenmayer substitute to the
central board of education bill and
concurred in the measure by a vote
Of 81 to 5. 1t is now believed that
Governor Philip will sign the bill. 1t
was his original intention to veto it
because it was SO dissimilar in its
features from the central board Of ed
ucation bill which he desired to pass.
In conference yesterday with newspa-
per men he admitted he had changed
his mind regarding certain features of
the bill
AS the bill goes to the governor, it
provides that there is created a board
of apportionment of five members,
composed of the governor, secreta4y
Of state, state superintendent, and one
member elected by the regents of the
university and another by the regents
of the normal schools This commits
sion will have power to examine the
finances of all schools of the state
and submit budget to the legisla-
tuTe.
A second consolidation bill has just
become a law Governor Philip has
signed the Skogmo substitute to the
agricultural consolidation bill creating
an agricultural department of one
commissioner with separate auxiliary
boards to manage the state fair and
to perform the duties heretofore exer-
cised by the live stock sanitary board.
The first consolidation bill signed was
the conservation measure which be-
comes effective early in August.
The skim-milk cheese bill is dead
for this session of the legislature so
far as the assembly is concerned. In
its stormy voyage this measure has
been killed, reconsidered. favorably
recommended by the finance commit
tee and rekilled When the measure
was reached on the calendar, Assem-
blyman O'Brien of Kewaunee county
moved its indefinite postponement and
the motion prevailed by vote of 80
to 29. Assemblyman Grell urged the
passage of the measure.
The assembly killed the bill appro-
priating $3.50 for the Wisconsin Arch
geological society. 1t defeated meas
ure to regulate the sale of canoes and
their construction. There was a sharp
debate over the Staudenmayer bill to
permit the employment and payment
Of secretaries of social center gather
lngs in all school districts of the state.
The measure was indefinitely post
poned. The assembly also killed the
Martin bill to permit the investment
OF trust funds in public utility bonds,
and the Fairchild bill for a referendum
on the subject of allowing the mayor
OF Milwaukee to be elected for term
or four years, with power to appoint
the city attorney, city treasurer and
comptroller. In moving indefinite post
ponement Of the bill Assemblyrnan
Foole OF Ozaukee county said he did
not believe in GEARS" for cities. Pas
sage was given to a bill permitting
the railroad commission to lower the
level of lakes. The Hambrecht bill
10 decrease the taxes from life insur-
ance companies was laid on the table.
After prolonged debate the assem-
Oily concurred in the bill to regulate
Jltneys, 81 to 20. This bill confers
power upon the railroad commission
10 require jitney operators to take out
a bond of $4,000 each and to file a
regular schedule to be followed.
All attempts to pass the Hanson
OIL repeating vital parts of the cor
rupt practices act are now foreclosed,
the senate having refused to recon
slder the vote by which it recently
Killed the bill. Lieutenant Governor
Olthnar broke the tie by which the
senate recorded it's stand on this i'm
poFIant measure. The vote finally
stood 16 to Is against reconsidera-
ton.
An important administration sue
cess was the engrossment by the SEN
ate OF the Hanson bill merging the
various architectural and engineering
'sIaus OF boards and commissions into
one as a means of preventing over
tapping OF services. 1t was advanced
ny vote OF 19 to s. The consolidated
stan by this bill is to be under the
control Of the railroad commission
AT present the railroad, tax and high
way commissions and the board of
control have each a separate engineer
ing stan Senator Hanson believes
tnere Is TOO much overlapping. Present
employees who are under civil service
are retained under the amended hill