Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-08-03
THE LEGISLATURE.

Gov. Phillip on Thursday signed
nineteen bills. They included 538S,
relating to powers and duties of board
of assessors in Milwaukee county;
prohibiting candidates for public
office from giving secret written
pledges; prohibiting fee splitting by
physicians; providing for installation
Of an electric voting machine in the
assembly and senate chambers; pro-
viding a system of mail voting for
electors absent from home on election
days; providing that school text
books shall be sold as cheaply in
Wisconsin as in any other state;
authorizing directors of building and
loan associations to fix salaries of en-
plOyeS of such organizations, and pro-
hibiting fraudulent advertising to
attract persons to take places vacated
by strikers.
After an all day fight the assembly
on Thursday night cut the apprOpria-
tion carried in the finance committee
bill for the support of the state char
liable and penal institutions of the
next two years by S308, $40 and then
passed the bill.
The total appropriation carried by
the bill as it passed the assembly is
81, 273, l29. This is the exact sum
spent by the state on these inStitu-
vote by which the cut was made was
was passed was 81 to %. After the
bill passed it was Immediately ordered
messaged to the senate where it will
INo Nl INn
Former Gov. James O. Davidson,
president of the state board of control
and M. J. Tappins, secretary of the
board, appeared before the assembly
in committee of the whole and said
the cut was entirely acceptable to
the board and that none of the chart
table and penal institutions concerned
or any of their intimateS would in
any respect suffer from the cut. They
said the board of control had fully
considered the cut and had assented
to it.
The bill for the equipment of the
senate and assembly chambers with
electrical voting apparatus, which
would permit the members of future
legislatures to vote without roll calls,
has passed both houses and gone to
the governor. This electrical voting
apparatus is the invention of Wis
cOnSin man. The expense of the i'm
provement would be $4,000. 1t is not,
however, to be accepted by the state
until it has proved success.
The senate had several new bills
presented Wednesday. Among the
measures was bill which materially
changes the county court jurisdiction
for Chippewa county. Probate bills
at this session have been numerous,
the most important having been
general bill, now on its way to the
governor, which permits probate
courts to be held in any city in any
county where it is deemed advisable.
AS soon as the assembly members
are announced for the special commit
tee which is to make a study of
drainage conditions in Wisconsin
during the legislative interim the
committee will be called together for
the purpose of arranging for its hear
ingS. The committee will visit the
various drainage districts of Wiscon-
sin and will hold hearings at various
places where drainage work is under
way.
The senate committee on state
affairs had a strenuous hearing
Wednesday afternoon over the bill
for the licensing of cheesemakers in
Wisconsin. Quite bit of opposition
has appeared to this measure, which
us supported very strongly by Dairy
and Food Commissioner Weigle.
There is strong possibility that the
senate may indorse the assembly on
the bill and grant the measure final
passage.
There is still a chance that there
will be no legislation on the eugenicS
marriage question at this session of
the legislature. The refusal of the
senate to accept the conference COM
mittee report on a substitute for the
present eugenicS law has left this bill
between the houses again! 1t is
doubtful if any measure can be recon-
mended by any conference committee
which will obtain the support of both
houses. This will mean that the
present law will be allowed to remain
in its existing form.