Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-04-24
BOTH HOUSES To
ADJOURN SOON
Large Number of Legislative
Proposals Passed.
MANY BILLS TO BE KILLED
Assembly Votes So to IS Against Kent
Resolution, Which Proposed State
Printing PIant--Johnson
Bill Favored

Madison.-Both houses made APP
preciable progress towards early adj
journment in passing with finality
urOn a large number Of legisla-
two proposals before adjourning over
the week end Reports Of commit
tees which displayed a long list Of
measures recommended for indefinite
postpOnement presage wholesale kill
ing when the legislature takes off its
coat and splits on its hands this week
Perhaps the balmy spring weather
and the call of home duties and the
spring work Of the farm in which one
third of the members are vitality in
terested, are an element in this de-
sire to clean up the legislative calen-
dars as early as possible
The assembly did not take well to
the proposal for state printing plant.
and voted So to % against the Kent
resolution for constitutional amend
ment to effect this change A move
ment to relieve the state Of oil in
spection by having the federal govern
ment assume the work was defeated
in the killing of a resolution petition
ing congress to indorse the plan AS
semblyman Car! Hansen moved that
the resolution be referred to John d.
Rockefeller
The assembly committee on insur-
ance and banking recommended pas
sage for the Axel Johnson bill to place
the fire marshal's department under
the Insurance department prefe-ring
this TO the bin offered by the special
investigating committee on the same
subject The ideas of the latter,
however have been incorporated in it.
AS amended II dispenses with a spe-
cial attorney and places such duties
on the attorney generals office. The
governor is given supervisory power
over the employees in the department.
The excise committee introduced
bill prohibiting persons to whom the
sale of liquor has been forbidden from
entering or frequentng saloons. This
committee reported for slaughter the
Heden bill prohibiting treating in sa-
looms, and the Frederick bin prohibit
ing screens in saloons.
The antivice committee received
more favorable consideration than il
has expected from the senate when
four of its bills on the calendar
were saved. one of them after it was
down for indefinite postponement. The
bills ordered engrossed are those pro-
hibiting pandering under heavy penal
ty, prohibiting attendance Of women
and girls at dance halls where liquor
is sold. raising the age OF consent
for women. prohibiting indecent ex-
hibition at fairs. and penalizing EN-
plOymeut agencies which send help
10 immoral places Among the bills
sent to slaughter we're those to apply
the Mann act to Wisconsin com
munities, furbidding the sale OF Ger
tain drugs, etc, and prohibiting the
transmission of certain diseases by
persons knowing themselves to be so
afflicted The bills prohibiting the
use Of false and fictitious names in
registering at hotels; establishing a
state police department TO enforce the
law. and authorizing the circuit court
to remove officers for malfeasance or
misfeasance were se-referred to com
mittees
Senate committees recommended for
nouconcurrence the Budlong resolu-
ton prohibiting lobbying ~ en-
poyees in the state service. and in
definite postponemeut for the Bray
bin permitting the examination by
the legislature OF any state officer
or employee
The bill described as adopting GER
tain terms Of the federal antitrust
act relative to price determinations
was reported for indefinite postpone
ment, together with the Cunningham
bill appropriating $4,000 for a site
for home for crippled children.
The senate engrossed the Bennett
bill restricting the services of the uni
yersity clinic to regularly enrolled
students but with an amendment al
lowing physicians and dentists 10 avail
themselves OF the facilities OF the
clinical laboratories and Of consulta-
ton with the medical staff. The vote
on engrossmeut was l6 to Q
The chiropracuc and optometry
bills we're put over until May s. A
recommendation for indefinite post
poaement was given the Richards bill
allowing the Milwaukee common coun-
Gil to exercise concurrent jurisdiction
with the railroad commission in regu-
lating the street railway conditions
in that city