The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-03-16
ASSEMBLY FAVORS
LINCOLN HOLIDAY
VOTES 81 TO IS FOR PASSAGE
OF AssEMBLYMAN HAM
BRECHTS BILL.
TEACHERS BILL FAILS
Kent Measure for Eight-hour Day on
State Printing Work Also Fails
to Gain Enough
Support.


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Refusal to repeal the laws of 1913
requiring higher qualifications for
teachers in the common schools;
passage of the Hambrecht bill max
ing Lincoln's birthday legal holt
day, and indefinite postponement Of
the Kent bill providing that eight
hours shall constitute a days work
on all public printing, were import
ant developments in the assembly.
The MCGOWAN bill to repeal the
law of 1913 providing that after
July /, 1915, no person shall be
granted certificate to teach in the
public schools of Wisconsin who has
not previously taught one year, or
have had, in addition to the educa-
tiona1 qualification now required, at
least one year of professional train
ing as teacher, was on the calendar
for action upon a motion by Mr.. Han
sen to reconsider the vote by which
it was indefinitely postponed on
March 1.
Mr.. MCGOWAN made a long speech
in support Of his bill In the course
of his speech he declared that nor
NAL school graduates are not quail
fed to teach
Speaker Whittet put the question,
and there was not voice raised to
save the bill from the fate previ-
ously ordained.
Eiqht-hour Plan Fails.
The Pieper resolution for an in
vestigation of the question of unem-
ployment was indefinitely postponed.
The Kent bill providing for an
eight-hour day on all public printing
was on the calendar with a commit
tee recommendation for passage, but
upon motion of Mr.. Kay was indefi-
nitely postponed by a vote of SO to
3D.
Mr. Prescott moved reconsidera-
tion and the motion went over under
the rules.
Much oratory flowed when the
Hambrecht bill making Lincoln's
birthday a holiday came up on the
calendar for passage.
Mr. Hambrecht made a vigorous
plea for his bill Only two names
stand pre-eminent, he said-Wash-
ington and Lincoln. "Shall we hon
or the one and not the other" he
asked lone the founder of our
country, the other it's savior?'
The vote on a roll call was 54 to
Is for the bill, and it was passed.
Ask Land Purchase Probe.
AT the opening of the session Mr..
Grell offered a resolution providing
for an investigation of land pur-
chases by the university by a special
committee of three assemblymen and
two senator's. The resolution gives
to the committee large plenary pow
ers and provides for experts to as
sist. Mr.. Grell asked immediate con-
sideration, but Mr.. Hansen, who had
introduced a similar resolution, made
objection and the resolution went
over under the rules.
Stemper Bill Advanced
After a spirited debate the lower
house of the legislature ordered to en-
grossment and third reading the
Stemper bill, No. 1894, which pro-
vides that the Baker saloon bill shall
be deemed to have gone into effect
in July, 1913, instead of July 1907.
The vote on engrossment was 81 to
Al, which indicates that the bill will
pass the assembly.
Plead for Dry Zone.
Veterans of the civil war pleaded
before the committee on excise and
fees of the assembly for the passage
of the, Frederick bill forbidding the
granting of saloon license within
three-fourths of a mile of the ma.
tional home for disabled volunteer
soldiers in the town of Wauwatosa.
$350,000 Fund Repealed
The bill to repeal the appropriation
made by the 1913 legislature for
$350,000 mems dormitory at the uni
versity was passed by the assembly
by vote of SO to "a
Assemblyman Hoffman, speaking in
favor of the bill, said that there was
no need of this building at the uni
versity and that there were sufficient
rooms to be had in Madison at a price
that could not be bettered by the
dormitory system. He said that the
girls dormitory system at the univers-
ity had not resulted in giving the
students cheaper facilities and that
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