Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-03-23

THE LEGISLATURE.

All the state fair bills have gone
over on the committee calendar until
next Tuesday.
Plans for hurrying the business of
the session are TO be definitely dis
cussed by the joint committee on
rules of the legislature. 1t is under
stood that one of the propositions
under consideration is plan to limit
the debate on all measures.
A senate committee will recommend
for indefinite postponement two bills
by Senator Weissleder, one prohibit
ing collections for more than one
month by telephone companies; the
other providing that a telephone sub
scriber would have to made good any
bogus nickels dropped into "pay'
telephone.
From present indications the anti
tip bill is likely to pass the legislature.
Walters in Madison hotels are much
interested in the measure. Many
questions are asked by them in re-
gard to the bill. Both walters and
mattresses oppose the measure. Wait
ers generally, have written members
in opposition to the anti-tip bill.
From present indications, very few
changes are 20 be made in the taxa
tion laws of the state at this session
of the legislature, except, perhaps, to
change the form and personnel of the
tax commission. A number of amend
ments proposing changes in the in
come tax law have already been in
definitely postponed in both houses.
The bill which proposes a three
quartermile zone around the Nation
al Soldiers home in Wauwatosa,
which was on the calendar for indefi-
mite postponement, was laid over at
the request of AssembIyman Har-
rington of Walworth county. The
poStponement of action on the bill
was at the request of representatives
of the Spanish American war veter-
ans who are planning to make hard
fight to have the excise committee
report on the measure overturned
and the bill passed. Many letters
are being sent members from all parts
of the state in favor of the bill.
The members of the legislature are
receiving a great many letters from
residents of the agricultural sections
of the state in support of the county
boards of education law. Unuues-
tionably someone is arOusing senti-
ment against the repeal of the law,
and the object of the letters beyond
a doubt is to demonstrate to the
members of the legislature that there
is support for the law in the country
districts of the state. 1t is said pc
titions will also be presented in favor
OF the law being retained on the stat
ute books. 1t is probable educators
i'm the interior of the state who are
opposed to the repeal of the bill are
interesting people and getting them
to send letters to their members in
support of the law.
The waterpower issue still remains
prominent before the legislature and
is one to which no one is Offering a
successful solution. One thing seems
certain-that the So-called Ackley
bill which is the measure supported
by Northern Wisconsin waterpower
men will never get by the legislature.
Whether the present Husting law
will be allowed to stand is another
question The waterpower men rec
ogniZe the fact that there must be
notifications offered to the Ackley
bill to give it any great amount OF
legislative standing, while the friends
of the present HuSting statute are
becoming more confident that this
law can be kept on the statute books
i'm it's entirety, and there is less talk
of a compromise on the part of the
opponents to any change in the pres
ent law than there was some days
ago.