Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-02-09
OOINGS OF THE STATE LEGS
LATURE.

A bill introduced in the senate on
Friday appropriates 81, POO, 900 more to
the state capitol commission to COM
plete the capitol. OF this sum 100000
is 20 be available in 1915 and 100000
in 1916. Up to the present SIS, 400, 600
has been expended. With the appro-
priations carried by the senate bill
the total amount will be s6,6O0,O0O.
A bill which affects the Northwest
ern Mutual Life Insurance company
of Milwaukee was introduced by Sem
ator Whitman on Friday and provides
that increases above the S25, 900 salary
limit could be made provided such
action was taken by unanimous vote
of the board of directors or trustees
at regular meeting.
Another bill which will attract at
tention and probably be bitterly
fought by the tax commission is enc
introduced by Senator Baxter. This
excerpts rentals of homesteads from
the income tax.
Assessors of income will be FAMED
from lists of names subnitted by
county boards to the tax commission
in case bill fathered by Senator
Bichler gets through. In place of the
tax commission naming the board of
review in each district, without con-
|sultation with any one, the Bichler
bill provides they must be selected
from list of six names submitted by
the county board.
Senator Bichler added another bill
to his list on Friday which prohibits
assessors of incomes from soliciting
insurance. A violation would mean
a fine and forfeiture of office.
A bill introduced by Senator Baxter
on Friday increases the exemptions
under the income tax law up to those
in the federal law. The exemptions
for a man and wife, therefore, would
be 81, 900 ana single individual So, 900.
A bill introduced by Senator Whit
man on Friday repeats the law of
1913 and wipes out all the provisions
for new normal school. There is a
feeling among the members that the
state has enough normal schools now.
Assemblyman Minkley introduced
bill which repeats the law passed in
1913, whereby any attorney who was
a member of the legislature, could
secure continuance of any action in
which he was interested on that
ground.
A joint resolution in memory of
Carl Zeller, former member of the as
sembly who died, was adopted by the
assembly on Friday. The resolution
was presented by Assemblyman o. G.
Neumeister of Sheboygan.
The legislature adjourned only till
Saturday but many members went
home.
Another contest over the brewery
divorce question is in prospect. 1t is
said a bill will be presented this week,
forbidding breweries to own land and
buildings used for saloon purposes.
The bill is, however, not likely to be
so prominent an issue this session as
it was two years ago.
Cigarette smoking is placed under
tie ban in bill introduced in the
lower house on Friday by Assembly
man MCGOWAN.
His bill provides that no education
al institution of any kind which is
supported in whole or in part by the
state shall employ teacher, an in
structor or professor who is addicted
to the cigarette habit. The bill hits
at smoking by pupils through proyis-
ion stating that diplomas shall not
be granted to persons who use the
spill" Neither shall they receive
certificates if they use tobacco in this
form.
The penalty for violation of the pro
posed bill is the withdrawiof all stat
aid to schools fou nd guilty Of viola
ton.