The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1915-05-13
TUITION INCREASE
BILE PASsEs'HH0usEE
Oh ~
HAMBREcHT MEASURE WOULD
TAX NONRESIDENT U. OF
w. STUDENTS $3.50.
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PLAN HAD MANY HEARINGS
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Measure Up Before Assembly Seven
teen Different Times-Senate Passes
Bill Extending Supervisors
Terms to Two Years.
PLAN HAD MANY HEARINGS
Madison, May II, 1915.

.r Madison, May IL, lSio'
BY vote OF ~ to % the assembly
ordered to engrossment the Ham
brecht bill, increasing the tuition OF
nonresident students from 500 10
$3.50 per year
The bill has had checkered ca
reer. II was introduced Jan. ~ ana
since that time has been before the
assembly upon seventeen different mo-
tions or recommendations on eleven
different dates.
The arguments for and against the
bill were the same as heretofore pre-
scented On one side a plea for the
redemption Of party pledges, hepup-
lican and Democratic; on the otner
side that the passage of the blil wouio
injure the university ..' ... IS.
Carl Piper wanted to go on recoru
as opposed to the university on gen
eral principles because of Its waste,
fu1 extravaganza" The Socialists
were unanimously opposed to the Dill.
Senate Passes Mulberger Bill,
The senate passed the Mulberger
bill extending the terms Of once or
county supervisors from one to TWO
wears. The Monk bill, providing I'M
Maid water rentals shall be a lien on
the property on which the water was
used. was also passed, and the com
mittee bill authorizing the owners or
toll bridges to bring suit for damages
for fast driving on such structures.
The senate, after long debate,
adopted the Arnold substitute to the
Stevens hotel liquor license bill and
then ordered it to engrossment and
third reading.
The Arnold bin provides common
councils may grant liquor licenses to
new hotels providing a licensed saloon
location authorized under the Baker
law is discontinued for each license
granted a hotel.
Rent Money to Lose Tax.
On motion OF Senator Arnold, the
Baxter bill, exempting from income
taxation the retail value of residence
property occupied by its owner, was
amended so as to exempt from taxa
ton money paid by person for the
rent of residence property. The bill
as amended was held over until next
Wednesday.
Senator Hanson presented substi
tute bill for the Bennett measure, EN-
powering the state insurance commits
rioner to determine the reasonableness
of fire insurance rates. The substitute
bill authorizes local boards Of under
writer's and associations of agents to
fix rates on property in their communi
ties. and empowers the state insur
ance commissioner to order disqon
tinued any discrimination in rates
Uniform Bill Is Favored.
The senate committee on state af
fairs recommended for concurrence
the fielding bill prohibiting private
persons from wearing uniforms
badges or insignia, similar to those
worn by police officers An amend
ment was recommended to the bill
providing that it shall not apply t.
special police appointed under section
2, chapter 179. Of the laws OF 1891.
The state affairs committee recon
| mended substitute for the Baxte
bill relating to the state BARRIERS
| board The substitute provides thu
state board Of health shall appoint thu
three members of the board of barbe
examiners, who are to receive IS a da,
| for time spent in the discharge o
their duty.
The license fee for candidates 70
| examination is increased from 81 t.
SIS and the annual fee for master bal
bers decreased from 81 to 81 per veal
The board Is to hold four regular o.
aminatious each year and as man
special ones as may be necessary,
Fair Fund Repeal Delayed.
The senate narrowly escaped
row over the Bradley bill repealin
an appropriation OF $255.000 to IN
state board of aPriculture The hi
Is recommended for indefinite pos
ponement. but there was dispositio
on the part Of the senate to argu
the matter, so in order to avoid d.
lay the bin was laid over until late
The Bray bill giving the industrij
commission authority to pass on II
rcasunahlencss Of hospital and do
tors bills in cases OF dispute was el
crossed The Stevens bin grantir
saloon licenses to hotels was reconsi
cred and re-referred to the coInmitt'
on state affairs. The Joint resol
tion chilling upon the city Of MadisC
TO supervise building on State sire