Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-03-16

| Time VI tnC senate anu ny mdklHS
clean sweep of the job, the upper
house established that Wisconsin is
maintaining policy of neutrality in
reference to the European war.
The resolutions killed were:
By Senator Bosshard-Mem
ing congress to prevent the shipment
of arms and contraband of war to Eu.
ropean nations now in conflict
| By Senator Bray-To extend to
President Woodrow Wilson che en-.
couragement and the support of the
people of Wisconsin in these days OF
trial.
By Assemblyman Carl Hanson
| Asking congress to use its best efforts
to bring about peace in Europe.
An emergency bill by the judiciary
committee to permit Sheboygan coun-
ty to appoint a successor to its de
ceased county treasurer, introduced in
the assembly upon motions of Mr..
Nuemei as put through all the
processes or enactment and messaged
to the senate.
A motion by Mr. Courtney TO recon
slider the vote by which the Ofstie bill,
1S6a, was indefinitely postponed, was
defeated by vote of So to %. The
bill provided that for second violation
of the Sunday closing law, saloon
keepers license should be revoked.
State Ownership Discussed.
A conflict of opinion ragged in the
assembly when the Vint resolution
providing for constitutional amend
ment permitting the state to own and
operate warehouses, grain elevators,
ETC., and the supporters of the pro-
posal won on the final roll call by a
vote of "A to 27.
Mr.. Ellingson of Rusk commended
that to pass this resolution would
let down the bars to all sorts of eco
nomic vagaries. The next proposal
would be for the state to go into
the lumber business, the hardware
business, or what not.
Carl Hansen, by the aid of Mr.
Herzog, brought the Hoffman dyna-
mite bill back to life on motion to
reconsider the vote by which it was
indefinitely postponed. The vote on
the motion to reconsider was 70 to 1;
and then Mr.. Hansen offered a sub
stitute amendment which, he said,
met all objections to the original bill.
| The whole question then was re-
referred to the committee on state
affairs.
Senator Monks joint resolution
declaring that university men should
| be permitted to aid the legislature
or its members when called upon
without subjecting themselves to
criticism, was concurred in with but
single dissenting voice.
The assembly showed a bit of tenn
per when the Frederick bill to APP
propriate $4,000 to the Wisconsin
Humane society to aid IN the work
of organization of county societies.
Mr.. Frederick was absent and Mr.
Moran as matter of privilege, asked
that consideration of the bill be post
poned. There was objection and the
bill and accompanying amendment
were indefinitely postponed
Mr.. Gruenewald's bill appropriat-
ing $500 to the Panama-Pacific ex-
position commission for an educa-
tional exhibit in the Wisconsin
building was killed
The Everett bill, SIS, relating to
registration of farm names, was con-
Cured in.
The senate INDUCED in a debate
on society, morals, the home and
children, occasioned by consideration
of the Hanson bill, which provides
that in cases of adultery that no
husband shall be prosecuted except
upon complaint of his wife or a wife
except upon complaint of her hus-
band"
Hanson Asks Probe.
Assemblyman Carl Hanson intro
| duced a joint resolution calling for
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