Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03
Upper and Lower Branches of
Legislature Convene After
Recess.
CONSIDER MANY MEASURES
Wisconsin University to Play Promi-
nent Part in the Legislation This
Year-Propose Changes to
Compensation Act.

Madison.-When both houses of the
legislature convened after a recess,
scores of bills were slated in the diff
ferent committees for hearing. The
conservation committee of the SEN
ate and assembly will hold its
hearing on the waterpower bills.
The Ackley bill is the principal meas
ure to be considered. 1t would repeal
many of the features of the present
law. Governor Philip in his message
to the legislature recommended that
the measure be modified so that water
powers will develop in the state with
greater rapidity.
The university will play promi-
nent part in the legislation this year.
Senator Bennett has a bill to repeal
the appropriations of over 100000
that would become available March 1
for new buildings; Assemblyman Hoff-
mann has bill to repeal the appro-
priation of 100000 for commons
and union at the university. Assem-
blyman Hambrecht has a measure to
Increase the tuition fees for nonresi-
dent students; Senator Bennett has
bill to limit the medical work at the
university to a two years course;
Senator Hanson has a bill to make it
possible for a graduate of an accred-
tied high school to enter into any de-
partment at the university, without
additional academic work, and Assem-
blyman Helm has a measure to dis
franchise students from voting in
Madison.
Many changes have been proposed
to the workmen's compensation act.
Most of these have been to strengthen
the law Senator Burke has a meas
ure that will increase the compensa-
ton for certain injuries rs per cent
and a similar measure is fathered by
Assemblyman Hart of Oshkosh There
are at least a half dozen bills before
the legislature relating to strikes,
most of them lessons drawn from the
Colorado affair. AssembIymen Weber
and Hart have bills which will compel
any man advertising for laborers to
state in his advertisement whether
there is a strike at the plant. For vio-
lation of this rule the manufacturer
will be subjected to a heavy fine, re-
quired to pay all of the expenses of
the men coming to the place, and a
reasonable compensation for time lost.
A change in the amount of fees
that shall be paid by a railroad in
Creasing its capital stock, which will
lower the present rate, is proposed in
a bill by Senator Baxter of Superior.
A bill has been presented by Sena-
tor Robert Glenn to increase the salary
of the secretary of the teachers re-
tirement fund from $1,000 to $500
annually 1t is understood that this
is the only amendment that will be
asked for by the trustees. Senator
Fairchild has presented a bill which
gives the governor of the state greater
power over the Wisconsin National
Guard. 1t provides that the governor
shall have power to alter, divide,
transfer or consolidate any of these
organizations; that he shall have pow
er to create new organizations, and to
enlist, organize and to prescribe rules
for the regulation of relief corps so
as to conform In quota of troops or
In kind of service with the rules and
regulations of the federal department.