The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-04-06
NEW AGRICULTURE
BOARD IS URGED
SPEAKER BACKS PLAN FOR CON-
SoLiDATIoN OF SEVERAL
STATE BODIES.
SENATE FAV0RS REPEAL
Bichler Bill Advanced, % 10 6, on
Theory That Law Falls of Purpose
-Skogmo Bill Recommended
for Postponement.
Madison. April 2, 1915.

Madison. April 2, 1915.
At a hearing by the assembly COM
mittee on agriculture, Speaker Whit
tet appeared in support Of the spe-
cial joint investigation committee
bill! for creation of department of
agriculture by the abolition Of the
state board of agriculture, the state
board of immigration, the board of
veterinary examiners, the state live
stock sanitary board, the state in
spector of apiaries and the office of
state veterinarian and merging the
activities of the boards and offices
abolished in the new department.
Speaker Whittet set forth the adj
vantages which advocates of the
measure contend will accrue from
the consolidation proposed. The
bill provides for three members of
the department of agriculture, each
with a salary of $4,000 a year.
Peavey Opposes Plan.
Former Assemblyman H. H. Pea
vey of Ashland, member of the
impossible to qualify three men to
carry out the provisions of the pro-
posed bill. The passage of the bill
would do great harm to the state, he
said, by discouraging the great in
dustries it would affect. He said that,
loose methods, he thought the bill
was inconsistent with itself from that
standpoint.
Favor Second Choice Repeal.
Sentiment for the repeal of the
second choice provision in the pri-
mary election law was expressed by
the senate, in voting "a to 6 to send
the Bichler bill to engrossment.
The principle and purpose of the
law were admitted to be right, but
law had not succeeded in effecting
elimination of candidates. Senator
Otto Bosshard said the principal OPP
position arose from election officials.
The Skogmo proposal for the call
ing of a constitutional convention
ponement by the senate committee on
judiciary.
Suffrage Bill in Assembly.
Woman suffrage leaders are much
disappointed over the sending of the
woman suffrage bill back to the as
sembly state affairs committee and
fear this means another fight over
the question.
The reason given for sending the
measure back to the committee is to
substitute amendment has already
been offered which provides that if
women are given the right to vote
they shall lose their right of dover
and be placed upon the same proper
ty basis as men.
The suffrage bill, with all pending
amendments, was sent back to the
state affairs committee on motion of
Assemblyman E. A. Everett.
Tuition Increase Before Assembly.
The G. P. Hambrecht bill Ala, in
creasing the tuition fee of non-resi-
dent students from 500 to $3.50 per
year came before the assembly with
a substitute amendment which in
cluded incidental fees in the $50 in
crease and provided free tuition to
worthy nonresident students.
The resolution was opposed by
friends OF the original bill, more than
an hour being devoted to discussion.
The substitute offered by Hambrecht
was defeated by a large vote, but
when the question was put upon the
motion to indefinitely postpone the
bill it failed by AZ to 80. The bill
then was ordered to engrossment.
Senate Passes Six Bills.
The senate passed six bills, ad-
vanced to engrossment eight bills
killed two bills, laid over two bills
and referred to committee, one bill
The bills passed were; the Boss
hard measure, providing for a fine
OF 500 to $4,000, or Imprisonment
from one to ten years for insurance
officers making false statements OF
assets of their company; the Tomkins
bill, authorizing town boards to Dor
row money to pay town orders; the
judiciary committee bill requiring &
mortgagor to assign mortgage to the
mortgage upon payment of princi
pal, interest and cost of foreclosure
action; the Kellogg bill, increasing
the Jurisdiction of the Municipal
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