Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-05-12
PLANS BEING MADE
To ADJOURN JUNE |
Cider Members See No 0ppor-
tunity Before July.
FARMERS WOULD Rush WORK
1t Is Expected That Governor Phillip
Will Soon Sign the BichIer Bill
Repeating the "Mary Ann"
Second Choice Law.

Madison.-Plans are made to adj
journ the legislature if possible on
June 1. The farmer members are
urging that all of the committees re-
port bills so that the work of the
session may be concluded. Some of
the older members see no opportunity
to adjourn before early in July. AS
semblyman Newcomb Spoor, who is
serving his third term in the house,
says that the joint finance committee
cannot complete its labors until it is
certain what is to be done with the
bills consolidating departments.
When the legislature vas convened
early in January, Governor Philip an
nounced that there would be special
messages on a number of important
legislative topics. 1t is said that the
governor intends to make good and
as soon as the consolidation bills are
well on their way he will submit his
views on changes needed in both the
forestry and the election laws.
Attorney c. E. Buell. of Madison, for
several years chairman of the civil
service commission, and former As
semblyman Ernest N. Warner, father
of the state civil service law, have
issued statements urging the legisla-
tuTe to defeat the Hambrecht bill
which provides an amendment to the
state civil service law directing that
the commission shall certify the
names of all persons on the eligible
list instead of the first three high
est, as directed under the present law.
These men say that opening the list
of all eligibles to appointment will
demOralize the administration of the
merit principle, and would be the
abandonment of the principle Wiscon-
sin has taken and maintained with re-
gard to selection without respect to
politics or religion.
AssembIyman Hambrecht contends
that persons fresh out of school are
able to obtain higher marks under
civil service examination than those
who have been in the actual service.
He believes opening the list will give
Il
tical experience.
Hearings were held on the bills
to abolish the legislative reference
library and the department of the
revisor of the statutes. 1t is now said
that a new bill will be presented this
week annexing he reyisor's office to
that of the legislative reference IL
brary. The drafting department will
after the session is over devote it's
time to a revision OF the statutes, un-
der the terms of the proposed bill.
Governor Philip is expected to sign
the Bichler bill repeating the Mary
Ann second choice law. Opposition
to the repeal of the law developed in
the senate, but it sailed through the
assembly without word of opposi-
tion. In primaries this law permitted
Il voter to express his first and Sec
ond choice for candidates, the idea
being that by this method majority
nomination would be secured. Sena-
tor Bichler pointed out that only a
small percentage expressed a second
choice and the vote was never ma
terial in changing the result. The law
has been on the statute books for six
years
The great majority of the bills for
Curbing immoral conditions in the
state, recommended by the antivice
committee of the last legislature, have
been killed. These bills were intro
dupod in tho couata SopofOr NToplz
a member of the committee, sponsor
ing them. Among the few which sur
vived were bills directed against pam
dering and providing that cities may
appoint pOlicewomen to work for the
protection of female offenders. The
one which the committee greatly de-
sired to pass, but which was killed
because members regarded it as pro-
motive of blackmail and extortion,
was a bill applying the principle of
the Mann act to Wisconsin communi-
ties. This directed a penalty against
the transportation of women from
one city, county or other division to
another within the state for immoral
purposes.
Licensing of automobiles according
to their weight is Senator Bray's idea
embodied in a bill. 1t provides for
an annual fee of So for motorcycles
and S. for electric machines carry
ing persons. For all motor vehicles
he proposes a fee of IS for the first
thousand pounds and S. for each addi-
tiOnal thousand pounds or fraction
thereof. The revenue would go, as
at present, for highway construction
and repair.
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