The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-04-08
MOCK SESSION IS
PLANNED BY PAGES
viii Be Held on Wednesday
Night, April IA.
HANSES WILL TAKE CHARGE
Leaders of the Wisconsin Legislature
Have Abandoned the Idea of
Calling a Constitutional
Convention.

Mo0l6Oll, ApIll Ill -tuC cpuA . AuO-
ments while the legislature is not in
active session this week, the pages
| Of both houses have been making
plans for the holding of mock SEES
sion Of the legislature next week.
| This will be held Wednesday night,
April Il, and will be in the nature of
a satire on the regular sessions OF
| the legislature. Assemblyman Carl
| Hansen Of Manitowoc has agreed to
take charge of the matter and assist
the pages in the arrangement of de-
! tails. Each page will assume the role
| Of some prominent member. Accord
| Ing to George Qualey, who has been
selected as speaker, nothing will be
left undone. Messages from the gov
ernor, consolidation bills, fights on
| rules, joint resolutions, a call Of the
| house aad every feature of legislation
| will be covered glimpse of the pro-
resemble in small way the meetings
| of the Gridiron club at Washington.
/, The idea or calling constitutional
convention to reframe the constitu-
| tiori has been abandoned by the lead
ers of the Wisconsin Legislature. The
| necessity for this movement was pre-
| dicated on the original decision Of the
! state supreme court holding one con-
| stitutional amendment invalid because
of It's irregular method of passage in
~, +..,, N IL 1n%@
| discovered that all but three of TWEEN
| ty inc constitutional amendments
| were passed by the same method,
| the court reversed it's former ruling.
In the meantime in both senate and
house resolutions were presented for
the calling of constitutional conyen-
ticl. In the senate the movement
was led by Senator B. Skogmo of
River Falls. Before the matter came
! to final hearing, the court had re-
versed its original opinion, making
! the calling of the constitutional con-
vention unnecessary. The original
opinion of the court placed in jeopardy
such legislation as state highway, in
come tax, enlargement of the supreme
court and antipass legislation. The
Skogmo resolution has just been killed
by the senate and the resolution for
the calling of constitutional conven-
ton now pending before the house
will be unfavorably reported to the
legislature when it reconvenes next
week.
There will be further hearings and
substitute offered to the Van Cor
| den bill to create a central board of
education. The education committee
has appointed special committee
consisting of R. B. Dickie. S. A.
SCHNEIDER and B. L. Van Gordon to
prepare a substitute bill.
| When I prepared my bill | did not
hope to make it perfect" said Assem-
| blyman Van Gordon in discussing the
bill THE question is one of the larg-
est any legislature has had to deal
with and it was with the idea that the
bill which should finally go to the
legislature would be prepared after
hearings at which all sides should be
| heard that / introduced my tentative
| draft. Now that we have heard from
educators, university and normal re-
gents. we are ready to prepare the
| final bill"
The original Van Gordon bill Great
| ed central board of education of
! thirteen members. The substitute bill
will provide for salaried board Of
either five or seven members. To
it will be given the management of
| the university, normal schools, the
Stout manual training school and the
state mining school at Platteville.
Governor Philip has announced
that he will block the appropriation
] of $255,000 for the state fair at Mil
| waukee. The last legislature passed
a law appropriating $255.0O0 for new
| buildings on the state fair grounds
contingent upon the county of Mil
waukee appropriating a certain tract
of land to the state contiguous to
the fair grounds. Shortly after this
law was passed, the governor points
| out, the Milwaukee county board de-
| clined the proposition and for that
reason the proposed appropriation
was not included in the state tax
levy Last week, following the pas
sage of the Bradley bill. which would
repeal the appropriation, the Milwau-
kee county board met and accepted
the offer of the state. Governor
| Philip in statement just issued
says that inasmuch as the money was
never included in the state tax levy
the state board of agriculture cannot
validly accept the offer of Milwaukee
| county and the governor will not 20.
X the building at the state fair
| grounds.