The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-07-16
BILLS TO
Be CONSIDERED
LITTLE POSSIBILITY OF AID
JouRNMENT OF LEGIsLA-
TURE BEFORE AUGUST rs.
STEMPER LIQUOR MEASURE UP
Assembly IL in Advance Of the Sem
ate in Work Accomplished
Governor Phillip Signs
Uniform Marriage Law.

Uniform Marriage Law.
MadisOn.-With many of the large
administration bills still to be con-
| sidered, there is little possibility OF
/ adjournment of the legislature before
/ August Is. In amount of work accom-
! plished, the assembly is in advance of
/ the senate.
| The assembly is confronted again
with the Stemper liquor license bill
This measure went through both
houses Of the legislature after a
stormy voyage, but when it reached
Governor Philip he said he would
not sign it unless it were limited in
application to the city of Milwaukee.
| The bill is before the assembly and
| sentiment over the measure is evenly
| divided. Many members who previ-
ously supported the bill have now de-
serted it. Besides this the assembly
| must take up the Skogmo substitute
1 to the agricultural consolidation bill
A bill to regulate jitneys which passed
the senate will meet with much oppo-
sition in the assembly as the floor
leaders declare it has been drawn so
stringent as to practically dis
franchise jitney operations.
Four measures of great Importance
are to be considered by the senate
It will take up the public welfare con-
solidation bill and following the dis
| IF HI; Io,
the printing board plan. In number
| Of departments to be consolidated,
the public welfare is perhaps the most
important consolidation measure be-
fore the legislature with the exception
of the central board of education plan.
The public welfare bill joins under
commission of five members the
work now performed by the state
board of control, state board of health,
state dairy and food department and
state treasury agent. The opponents
of the measure are freely predicting
it's defeat by substantial majority.
The senate will devote a large part
of it's time to the consideration of
bills affecting the present county
| board of education law Two years
ago the legislature passed bill Great
| ing the county board of education to
| be elected by the people with powers
to supervise school district boundary
matters. Assemblyman Mortensen has
| put through the house bill to repeal
this law. A similar bill by Senator
Burke is pending in the senate. Sew
eral substitutes have been offered,
however, providing that the county
board of assessors shall elect the
county board of education and that
the name of the board shall be county
board of school districts. The out
| come of this legislation will not be
known until the roll has been called,
so evenly is the support of the meas
ures divided.
The Staudenmayer substitute to the
county board of education bill is still
pending in the joint committee on
finance. 1t is said that a substitute
bill will be prepared and that a final
attempt will be made to defeat the
Staudenmayer bill in the senate the
latter part of this week. Two other
important educational bills pending in
the finance committee which will be
sent to the committee, are measures
by Assemblyman Ellingson to repeal
the mill tax laws for the support of
the normal schools and the university.
Governor Philip has signed the uni
form marriage law. This bill provides
that it shall he unlawful for any per-
son residing in Wisconsin who may
have been barred from marriage in
this state by the divorce decree of
any court to marry in another state
The law provides that such a mar
riage is null and void and that chill
dren born under such a union shall
have no property rights in the state of
Wisconsin. The law goes farther. It
provides that county clerks in Wiscon-
sin may not issue license for the
marriage of any couple coming from
another state if it is shown that these
people have been barred from mar
riage within specific time by divorce
DEGREES handed down in the states in
which they reside. The bill is a step
/ to secure uniformity of the marriage
and divorce laws Of this state. The
secretary of state is now preparing
the license blanks and the new law
goes into effect at once So far the
legislature has made no change in the
eugenics marriage law passed at the
last session of the legislature. The
Morgan bill to eliminate the scientific
tests has passed the assembly and is
pending before the senate.
Adopt State Fair Plan.
The state fair will get the appropria-
ton of $255.O00. made by the legisla-
ture of 1913, but it will be extended