Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-22
BOTH HOUSES To
ADJOURN SOON
Large Number of Legislative
Proposals Passed.
MANY BILLS TO BE KILLED
Assembly Votes 50 to IS Against Kent
Resolution, Which Proposed State
Printing Plant-Johnson
Bill Favored

Slll Favored.
Madison.-Both houses made ap-
preciable progress towards early ad-
journment in passing with fnality
upon a large number OF Iegisla-
two proposals before adjourning over
the week end. Reports of commit
tees which displayed long list of
measures recommended for indefinite
postponement presage wholesale kill
ing when the legislature takes off its
coat and spits 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 50 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 Carl 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, preferring
this to the bill offered by the special
investigating committee on the same
subject. The ideas of the latter,
however. have been incorporated in it.
AS amended it 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 a
bill prohibiting persons to whom the
sale of liquor has been forbidden from
entering or frequenting saloons. This
committee reported for slaughter the
Frederick county option bill, the
Heden bill prohibiting treating in sa-
looms, and the Frederick bill prohibit
ing screens in saloons.
The antivice committee received
more favorable consideration than it
has expected from the senate when
four of its bills on the calendar
We're 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-
plOyment agencies which send help
to immoral places. Among the bills
sent to slaughter were those to apply
the Mann act to Wisconsin COM
munities, forbidding 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 re-referred to COM
mittees.
Senate committees recommended for
inconvenience the Budlong resolu-
ton prohibiting lobbying by en-
ployees in the state service, and in
definite postponement for the Bray
bill 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 engTossed the Bennett
bill restricting the services of the uni
versity clinic to regularly enrolled
students but with an amendment al
lowing physicians and dentists to avail
themselves of the facilities of the
clinical laboratories and of consulta-
ton with the medical staff. The vote
on engrossment was 16 to 9.
The chiropractic and optometry
bills were put over until May 5. A
recommendation for indefinite post
ponement 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.