Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-06-30
SOLONS ARE EAGER
FOR HOME VISITS
Assembly Ask Vacations Despite
the Speakers Efforts.
UPPER BRANCH THE SAME
Repeal Of the County School Board
Of Education Law Goes to En-
lrossment In the Assembly
Stevens Bill Passed.

Madison - Speaker Whittet is
having a hard time holding his team
together Ii Is one OF the vagaries
of the legislative mind that it likes
to see the other fellow provided with
work while it disports itself at home
enjoying the weekend.
1t Is noticeable that In both houses
members VIII shout themselves hoarse
In favor Of daily sessions and hurrying
the work and then promptly Friday
noon or sometime Thursday night
they win hike for the depot to take
the train for home
Several times the speaker In the
assembly has had difficulty in holding
together the necessary sixty votes to
pass appropriation bills. He was
helped somewhat in this through the
presence of several big measures on
the calendars that made it necessary
for the members to remain. What he
viii do when these are out of the way
is not easy to see. He will have to
let appropriation bills go until some
day when there may be large attend
ance or get some member to clap on
a call of the house.
The repeal of the county board
OF education law went to engrossment
In the assembly. This bill had origin
ally been in the house but was sent
to the finance committee for further
consideration and was recommended
for passage by unanimous vote. The
assembly sent to engrossment the
Helm bill for the payment of railroad
and telegraph taxes. 1t engrossed the
bill reducing the appropriation for the
commissioners of public lands from
5000 to $4,000 annually. 1t killed the
Budlong bill providing that elevators
on leased lands shall be taxed as real
estate and concurred In the Fairchild
bill changing life insurance law in
minor particulars so that several COM
panies which retired from the state
a number of years ago will be able
to return.
1t also passed the Stevens bill for
the granting of liquor licenses to ho-
tells and the Staudenmayer bill giving
towns authority to build town halls
containing moving picture shows.
Assemblyman Budlong of Marinette
moved reconsideration of the vote
by which the assembly advanced the
banking bill which allows banks to
pay their taxes on an income tax
basis of 10 per cent. The joint COM
mittee on finance has recommended
for passage the Nye bill for the state
assessment of elevators and railroad
terminals, the amount collected in
taxes, however, to be turned over to
the locality.
Important bills recommended by the
legislative antivice committee, which
were killed, provided for the licensing
for rooming houses; forbade the use
of fictitious names; provided for the
extension of the principle of the fed
eral white slave act to towns, cities
and counties within the state; pro-
vided for the establishment of state
police department to enforce moral
ity laws; provided for the employment
by cities of policewomen; empowered
circuit judges to remove officials in
certain cases, and established regula-
tions, for cafes, restaurants and sa-
looms.
The finance committee will require
two weeks more of hearings before
it will be able to make a complete
report of all financial bills to the leg
islature. The most important meas
ures still held in the corporations COM
mittee of the senate and the transpor-
tation committee Of the house are
the bills for the regulation of jitneys.
Members of the committees believe
that compromise bill will be agreed
upon.
There was a long debate over the
bill permitting banks to be taxed
either as other property or under the
income tax law at rate of ten per
cent at their option. The bill was en-
crossed by a vote of % to AZ, but a
motion to reconsider has been entered
by Mr.. Budlong. The Bennett bill pro-
hibiting the medical staff at the uni
versity clinic from furnishing medical
advice or treatment to citizens OF the
state other than students, except
through physicians upon consultation
with the staff. was killed in the house.
IS to As. The chief address against
the bill was made by Carl Hansen.
The assembly reconsidered the vote
by which it killed the Martin bill re-
pealing the law making gross negli-
gence a complete bar to damages in
railroad crossing accidents
New Patents.