The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-06-25
STATE SOLONS
LIKE VISITS HOME
MEMBERS OF BOTH BRANCHES
OF LEGISLATURE EAGER
FOR RESTS.
ASSEMBLY ADVANCES BILL
County School Board Repeal Bill Is
Sent to Engrossment-Plan to
Give Liquor Licenses to
Hotels Passed.

Madison.-Speaker Whittet is hav-
| ing a hard time holding his team to-
| gether. 1t is one of the vagaries Of
| the legislative mind that it likes to
see the other fellow provided with
work while it disports itself at home
enjoying the weekend.
| 1t is noticeable that in both houses
members will shout themselves hoarse
in favor of daily sessions and hurrying
the work and then promptly Friday
noon or sometime Thursday night
they will hike for the depot to take
| the train for home.
Several times the speaker in the
assembly has had difficulty in holding
together the necessary sixty votes to
pass appropriation bills. He was
helped somewhat in this through the
presence of several big measures on
the calendars that made it necessary
for the members to remain. What he
will do when these are out of the way
| is not easy to see. He will have to
let appropriation bills go until some
day when there may be large attend
ance or get some member to clap on
call of the house.
The repeal of the county board
of education law went to engrossment
in the assembly. This bill had origin
| ally been in the house but was sent
to the finance committee for further
consideration and was recommended
| for passage by unanimous vote. The
assembly sent to engrossment the
Helm bill for the payment of railroad
and telegraph taxes. 1t engrossed the
bill reducing the appropriation for the
commissioners of public lands from
$4,000 to $4,000 annually 1t killed the
Budlong bill providing that elevators
on leased lands shall be taxed as real
estate and concurred in the Fairchild
bill changing life insurance law in
minor particulars so that several COM
panies which retired from the state
a number of years ago will be able
| to return.
1t also passed the Stevens bill for
the granting of liquor licenses to, no.
tells and the Staudenmayer bill giving
towns authority to build town halls
containing moving picture shows.
Assemblyman Rudlong of Marinette
moved a reconsideration of the vote
by which the assembly advanced the
banking bill which allows banks to
pay their taxes on an income tax
basis of 10 per cent. The joint COM
mittee on finance has recommended
for passage the Nye bill for the state
assessment of elevators and railroad
| terminals, the amount collected in
taxes, however, to be turned over to
the locality.
Important bills recommended by the
legislative antivice committee which
were killed, provided for the licensing
for roOming houses; forbade the use
of fictitious names, provided for the
extension of the principle of the fed
eral white slave act to towns; pro-
vided for the establishment of state
| police department to enforce moral
ity laws; provided for the employment
by cities of policewomen; empowered
circuit judges to remove officials in
| certain cases, and established regula-
| tions, for cafes, restaurants and sa-
| looms.
The finance committee will require
two weeks more of hearings before
| it will be able to make complete
report of all financial bills to the leg
| islature. The most important meas
ures still held in the corporations
| committee of the senate and the trans
| portation committee of the house are
the bills for the regulation of jitneys.
| Members of the committees believe
that compromise bill will be agreed
upon.
The assembly concurred in the Fair
child bill amending the insurance laws
to make it possible for the return of
a score or more of life insurance
| companies which retired from the
state in 1907 as result of drastic leg
| islation. 1t concurred in the Stevens
| bill permitting councils to grant liquor
licenses to hotels, denied them under
the ruling interpreting the Baker law,
but providing that they must be Sc
cured by transfer SO as not to exceed
the Baker laws permit. 1t also con-
Cured in the Staudenmayer bill per-
| hitting contributions by towns for the
building of town halls that may be
equipped for theaters and moving pic
ture shows. The bill was passed in
the interest of the social center move
| ment
New Patents.
Herman j. Barsness, Black Earth,
cattle stanchion; Harvey E. Boomer,
Milwaukee, electric heating pad; Wal