Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-08-10


s119,000, and the difference of
ss1, 600 be used in paying the deficit
The assembly killed bill reQuir-
ing jitney buses to give bond of
$4,000 for the payment of damages
for injuries to passengers and Pc
destrians.
The assembly concurred in the
Burke resolution recalling the jitney
bill from the governor.
The assembly passed a bill appro-
priating $4,000 to the superintend-
ent of public property for the care
of the state capitol for the next two
years. 1t also passed a bill appro-
priating $4,000 for the support of
the Wisconsin mining school, and
concurred in the senate bill appro-
priating 100000 a year for state in
spection of petroleum products and
reducing the fee for inspection from
10 cents to Z cents barrel
The bill creating a new judicial
circuit out of Sank county by detach-
ing it from Dane county was killed.
Institution Appropriation Cut.
The assembly cut the appropria-
ton carried in the finance committee
bill for the support of the state char
liable and penal institutions for the
next two years by s39S,479 and then
passed the bill.
The total appropriation carried by
the bill as it passed the assembly is
$2,273,129. This is the exact sum
spent by the state on these institu-
tons during the last two years. The
vote by which the cut was made was
50 to 81, and that by which the bill
was passed was So to %. After the
bill passed it was Immediately Or
dered messaged to the senate where
it will probably be acted on early
next week.
Concur in Highway Bill.
The senate sent to third reading
and then under suspension of the
rules concurred in the Woodward
highway bill, which carries an appro-
priation of 100000 for state aid to
highways.
Senator Monk offered an amend
Iment raising the appropriation to
1000. The amendment was
rejected, 9 to 4. Senator Whitman
offered an amendment raising the
amOunt appropriated for administra-
ton from $4,000 to $4,000, TAX
ing it from the appropriation for
state aid. This was adopted The
bill, as amended, was sent to third
reading and then concurred in, 21 to
l, Senator Bennett being the only one
ito vote nay.
Mill Tax Repeal Killed.
The Ellingson bill, repeating the
mill tax for the university and nor
NAL schools, was killed in the senate
1s9 to 6. Senator Perry said that
since the passage of the central board
of education bill, which would prob.
ably be signed by the governor, the
handling of the money for these in
situations would be in different hands
Therefore his objection to the mill
tax was removed. Most of the ad.
mfnistration men felt the same way
A substitute amendment offered by
Senator Bennett to the Skogmo state
council bill provides for a continu.
ance of the board of public affairs
and appointment of the members OF
the board, except ex-officio members
= by the governor Immediately after
the passage of the bill. These mem
bers must be confirmed by the senate
The senate put a quietus on the
plan TO make a new county out OF
Outagamie and Shawano counties. II
was noneOncUrred in, IA to g. A mo-
ton to reconsider, made by Senator
Culbertson, was refused.
Governor Signs optometry Bill.
The governor signed bill creating
a state board to regulate the practice
of optometry. The board is to be
known as the Wisconsin board of ex-
aminers in optometry and to consist
of five members to be appointed by
the governor within sixty days after
the publication of this act. 1t pro-
vides that no one shall practice op-
tOmetry unless licensed by this board
and. prescribes conditions under
which licenses shall be issued. The
| act does not apply to physicians and
surgeons authorized to practice their
professions under the laws of the
state, nor to persons selling specta-
Giles without attempting TO test the
eyes.
The bill appropriating $4,000 to
John Awkward and Michael B. Oh
brich, attorneys, of Madison, for SER
vices and expenses in the prosecution
of the action brought by former State
Insurance Commissioner Herman L.
Ekern against former Gov. F. E. Ne
! Govern, growing out of the attempt
of the governor to GUST the commits
sioner from Office, was also signed.
The governor also signed an act
providing that the district court OF
| Milwaukee county shall have exclu-
sive jurisdiction to try and sentence
all offenders against the ordinances
of the city of Milwaukee and the
county of Milwaukee.
Still another bill signed by the
governor provides that each member
of the state athletic commission shall
receive a compensation of So a day
for each day actually spent in the
performance of his official duties, but
the total per diem of all members is
not to exceed 800 a year.
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