Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-06-10
stemper Bill Is Vetoed by Phillip.

'r~' Gtii Is SeIcSo Dy SnttPP'
Governor Philip sent a veto mes,
sage to the assembly on the Stemper
bill which would permit street
cars TO operate on boulevards
when the plan is approved by q ma
1orlty vote Of the council. The gov
ernor said boulevards were improved
at great expense, and he did not be
heve that the council should be given
power 10 abrogate the wishes of the
taxpayers Of that district who had
spent so much money in beautifying
Their streets. The assembly noncon-
CURED in Senator Frank Hansons BILL
which would permit the operation Of
street cars at a rate not exceeding %
miles an hour, but would give the rail-
road commission power to limit the
speed below this point on application.
Because Of the absence of Assembly
man Mortenson no action was taken
upon his bill TO abolish the office of
supervisor of inspectors of illuminat-
ing oils. The measure was sent to
engrossment, but a reconsideration
motion was later entered by Assembly
man Hambrecht. Without a word of
debate the assembly has again killed
the Hoffman bill, which would repeal
the appropriation of 100000 for the
building Of q dormitory at Stevens
Point Normal school. The vote was
81 to 80. There was long debate
over the bill to repeal G law passed
two years ago which directs the rail-
road commission to examine upon
complaint the freight and express Hills
Of any shipper who believes he has
been overcharged. Speaker Whittet
said the bill was too broad in scope,
and that if the Allis-Chalmers COM
pany of Milwaukee would submit its
swamped. Assemblyman Budlong said
that any person could tell if the cor
rect rate had been applied by exam
lining the bill. The repeal of the law
was opposed by Assemblymen Don
nelly and Schroeder of Milwaukee.
They thought the commission per-
formed a valuable service when it ex-
amined these bills for an aggrieved
shipper. Donnelly characterized the
bill as a step in the wrong direction.
The assembly killed the Laing bill
to require the railroad commission to
put all of its evidence in writing. Tt
also indefinitely postponed bill en-
towering the railroad commission to
authorize interurban railways to is
sue Communication tickets.
Assemblyman Budlong served no
tice on the house that he intended to
ask for inconvenience in the Monk
bill, which raises the age of consent
for women from fourteen. to eighteen
years. 1t concurred in the Everett bill,
to permit cities of the second and
third class to hire city engineers who
are not residents of the city, and
passed the Edwards bill which changes
the date of holding the annual school
meeting from the first Monday in
June to the first Monday in July.
After a short debate the assembly
definitely postponed the Donnelly bill
providing for nonpartisan nonina-
tons and elections of county officers
in all the counties of the state. 1t
killed the Tews bill for the inspection
Of homes to which delinquent children
are committed, and nonconcurred in
the Cunningham bill, providing for an
appropriation of $4,000 for the estab-
lishment of a site for crippled and de-
formed children.
Owing to the state Elks convention
at Oshkosh, which many senators at
tended, the senate was sparsely at
tended, only Is members being pres
ent. For this reason many of the
more important measures were laid
over. A number of fish and game
bills and measures prepared by the ju-
dietary committee revising laws were
passed. Concurrence was voted in
assembly bills requiring the filing time
to be sent on telegraph messages;
prohibiting posted persons from en-
tering saloons; giving cities power to
make appropriations to aid in their
commercial and industrial develop
ment; and increasing the compensa-
ton of members of the Milwaukee
county board from $500 to $1,000 an
nually. A bill was passed creating a
board of administration for all OF Mil
waukee county's charitable institu-
tons and School of Agriculture. The
Bray resolution limiting the number
of substitute amendments that may
be offered to six was Indefinitely post
poned, the sense Of othe senate being
that it would arbitrarily abridge free.
dom of action.