Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-01
MAY LEGALIzE
SUNDAY SPORTS
Measure FaVoring Sabbath Day
AmuSements Passed in House.
NOW GOES TO THE SENATE
Assemblyman GruenewaId Bill Which
Would Compel All Vehicles to
Carry Lights on Country
Highways at Night.


movies and billiard playing on Sunday
will be legalized in Wisconsin if the
senate concurs in the Helm bill
which has just been given final pas
sage IN the house. Early in the his
tory of the state law was passed for
bidding these sports on the first day
Of the week. In some communities,
according to Assemblyman Spoor of
Green Lake, the law has not been lived
up to. The measure was attacked by
Assemblyman Vinegar of BelOit, who
said that it was breaking down the
Sunday laws, and Assemblyman Nc
Gowan, who said the passage of the
bill would make the day degenerate
into one of sport and amusement rath-
er than in rest and churchgoing. The
vote on final passage was Is to 81.
The assembly killed the Gruenewald
bill to compel the carrying of lights on
bicycles and animal-drawn vehicles on
country highways at night; the Kent
bill for the election of all members Of
boards of education in all cities, and
the Cretney bill to require the univer-
sity to admit the graduates of all high
schools of the state. The Caldwell hill
for the taxation of dogs was on the
calendar for death, but after a debate
was sent to the committee on agricul-
ture for further hearing.
Final passage was given to Senator
Burke's bill to repeal the appropriation
of $4,000 made by the legislature two
years ago for the erection Of an ad
ministration building to be used by
the employees of the state at Milwau
kee. Sixteen votes were recorded in
opposition to repeal. The only voice
raised in opposition was that Of As
semblyman Vint, who said that the
state was paying out enough in office
rent in Milwaukee annually to soon
pay for the building.
On next Wednesday the assembly
will have on the calendar the recon
sideration of the votes by which the
Stemper bill to legalize outlawed sa-
looms was passed, and the vote by
which the Frederick bill to have a
dry" zone around the Milwaukee Sol
diers' home was killed.
The assembly took resentment at
the appearance of employees of the
state in opposition to bills, in the form
of a resolution offered by Assembly
man Budlong, which prohibits en-
ployees coming before committees of
the legislature unless invited. The
resolution provides that no employee
Of the state or of any state depart
ment or institution shall attempt to
influence the vote of any member on
proposed legislation, nor shall any
such employee be heard before any
committee of the legislature upon any
proposed legislation affecting the fl
nances or appropriation of the state
department or institution with which
such person is connected unless he
has been requested to appear by some
member of the committee" 1t is I'M
derstood that this resolution was
passed because of the introduction Of
the consolidation bills, which would
wipe out many departments and re-
lieve many employees from service.
Passage was given to the following
bills in the assembly:
By Notwithstanding the banking
reserve from Is to IL per cent so as to
place state banks on the same basis
as national banks under the federal
reserve plan.
By Schindler-Increasing the juris-
diction of the state banking depart
ment.
The committee on labor of the as
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Gruenewald bill providing that the in
dustrial commission shall have no
right to make regulations to permit
women to work after eight o'clock at
night more than one night a week in
mercantile and manufacturing estab-
lishments. The committee on NUM-
| cipalities has reported for indefinite
postponement the bill for further regu-
lation of street trades.
Assemblyman Carl Minkley ap-
peared before the committee on labor
in support of his bill for investigation
by the industrial commission into the
conditions surrounding domestic serv-
ice in Wisconsin. He declared that
many housewives take little or no in
terest in the social or moral welfare
of their maids.
Senator Whitman introduced a bill
making the tax rate and exemptions
on income from life insurance the
same as those imposed upon legacies.
The assembly committee on state
affairs has fayorably reported the
Potts bill prohibiting the shooting of
quail in Wisconsin until after 1921.