Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-06-23
HOUSE SENDS BILL
TO ENDORSEMENT
ACkIey Waterpower Measure Is
Amended.
FINAL VOTE WAS 43 TO so
Bill In Assembly Provides That When
Autoist Injuries Person and Re
fuses Aid He Shall Be
Guilty of Felony


amendment For two days the amend
ment has been debated and finally
by a vote of 43 to so the assembly
refused to reconsider the vote by
which it was adopted This ament
ment provides that in case the state
or a municipality shall desire to pur-
chase a waterpower, no greater sum
shall be paid for the fiowage rights
than the railroad commission has de-
termined was reasonable at the time
the franchise to build the dam was
granted.
Assemblyman Nelson OF Dane coun-
ty offered an amendment which would
nullify the effect Of the Nordman
amendment. This reopened the de-
bate. Assemblyman Hambrecht
claimed that the Nordman amendment
would nullify the whole law and that
the Nelson amendment. which pro
vi6ed that the state or municipality
should pay the value OF the howage
rights at the time the purchase was
made by the state or municipality,
should be adopted Crosby also ia
vored the Nelson amendment. which
was rejected by a vote Of 50 to Al. An
attempt by Assemblyman Carl Hansen
of Manitowoc 10 nonconcur In the bill
failed and the measure was engrossed.
Three new bills have been intro
duced In the assembly through the
committee on judiciary. One provides
that any person operating an automo-
bile, who shall iniure a pedestrian or
a person riding in another vehicle. but
who shall proceed without offering aid
shall be guilty Of a felony. All fell
onies are punished by state prison SEN
tence. Another bill gives park boards
the right to prohibit the operation OF
automobiles within parks, and a third
provides that requests to persons, os-
tensibly to be used for charitable pur-
poses, shall be exempt from the in
beritance tax.
BY a decisive vote the assembly
engrossed the Cretney bill providing
that al graduates of four year high
schools in the state shall be admitted
to the university freshmen class with
out examination. At the present time
only the graduates of accredited high
schools are admitted without examina-
ton
The assembly also engrossed the
Donnelly bin providing that widow,
whose divorced husband Is paying her
alimony. shall be entitled to compen-
sation under the law in case of the
death OF the former husband through
accident. This bill is to circumvent
a recent decision of the supreme court.
Senator Martins bill t. repeal the
gross negligence act as applied to
railroads was killed by a vote OF 50
60 IS. The bill was ehampioned BY
Assemblyman Budlong OF Mai1netta.
1t was opposed by Assemblymen Vint
and Minkley.
Woman suffrage was leading
theme before the senate at the morn
ing session. By a vote Of 16 20 ID
the Glenn bill, providing for state
wide referendum on the question in
1916. was adopted Thereupon the
senate killed the Scott bill granting
women the right TO vote, without a
referendum, and the Tomkins bill Civ
ing them the right to vote In county
and local elections. Senator Glenn
made the only speech on the subject.
The vote by which his bill was en-
crossed follows:
For engrossment--Seaators Ackley,
Arnold, Baxter, Bennett, Bosshard,
Culbertson. Cunningham, Glenn, Han
son. Huber, Jennings. Kellogg, Monk,
Potts. Staudenmayer. Tomkins-l6.
Against Senators Aibers, Barwig,
Bichler, Burke. Everett, Fairchild,
Martin, Mulberger Perry, Richards,
Weissleder, Whitman-t3.
Paired-Scott for. Stevens against;
Skogmo for, Rollman against.
The Poole bill prohibiting cities
from enacting ordinances governing
regulations for the tuberculin testing
of cattle from which the city's milk
supply is drawn. was on the calendar
for reconsideration of the vote by
which Il had been killed. Reconsid-
Grafton was voted and then a substi-
tute was received from Senator Bich-
Ter. Bill and substitute went over un-
til Thursday The substitute provides
that the city may inspect herds which
supply its milk. and If cattle are sus-
pected Of having tuberculosis the city
may order them tested.