Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-06-02
LEGISLATORS MUST
attend SESSIONS
Speaker Declares Too Many Leg
iSIatorS Ask tG Be Absent.
WHITTET URGES QUICK CLOSE
Several of the Older Members of the
Legislature See Adjournment Be-
fore July 15-lmportant APP
pointments Probable.

Madison.-eWe must have full at
tendance of the legislature from now
on" declared Speaker Whittet. TOO
many men are asking for leaves OF aD-
sence. We all want to go home, but
we have been sent by the people here
to do a certain work and we must
complete it. With proper cooperation
the session of the legislature can be
brought to speedy close.
Until the past week it was the opin-
ion of many of the members that the
actual work of the session might be
concluded about June 20 and final adj
tournment be accomplished about July
1. During the past week, however,
Governor Philip has sent a speclai
message to the legislature on financial
matters, and will have two addlt1onai
special messages. Many of the older
members do not believe that the leg
islature can now adjourn before July
is.
The assembly committee on state
affairs has recommended railroad
trespass bill for passage. This bill
has been before several of the last
legislatures.
During the next two or three weeks
several important appointments VIII
probably be made. The appointments
of John A. Sholtz, state game warden;
Herman L. Ekern, insurance commits
sioner, and Charles H. Crownhart,
chairman of the Industrial commits
sion, will all expire during the next
few weeks. Appointments will be
made and sent to the senate for con-
firmation before adjournment.
Clubs which were denied liquor Ii
censes under the Baker law may re-
gain them under the Fairchild bill
A number of bills were killed, in
Guiding: Bichler, readjusting the
fees for registering motor vehicles;
Bray, providing that legislators and
legislative employees shall be paid
in installments instead of lump sum
at the beginning of the session; Rich
ards, appropriating $27,500 for repairs
and improvements at the state indus
trial school for girls at Milwaukee;
Budlong, on passenger fares between
two points on the same line of rail-
road; Reinhardt, authorizing the Mil
waukee school board to purchase
lands and improvements thereon for
school purposes, and Minkley, forbid
ding the giving of false or fictitious
names in court proceedings. The SEN
ate concurred in the Feldhausen bill
permitting wholesalers of liquor to
take out a wholesalers license only
and not a retailers.
The senate engrossed the following:
Bray, permitting the examination by
the legislature of any state officer or
employee, upon petition of certain
number in either house; Everett, au-
thorizing common school councils to
establish park and recreational boards
in cities of the second, third and fourth
classes; state affairs committee; pro-
Viding that the net weight shall gov
ern in the sale of commodities sold
on the weight basis; corporations COM
mittee, providing a form of oath to be
taken by election officials; Baxter, for
a closed season for trout in inland
waters within Douglas, Bayfield,, Ash
land and Iron counties, and the judi
ciary committee, providing for the re-
moval of habeas corpus proceedings
from court commissioners.
The assembly judiciary committee
will report the Vint bill fixing $40
per week as the minimum wage for
women in industry over eighteen
years of age. The report will be held
up until early next week to permit
all the members of the committees to
be recorded on the report. The COM
mittee reported for passage the Ar
mold home rule resolution, which re-
Gently passed the senate. Other bills
favorably reported were the Morton
sen bill combining the oil inspector
with the dairy and food department;
the Grell bill permitting towns and
cities to do public work without the
intervention of formal contract; the
Mortensen bill abolishing the Office of
state claim agent. the Arnold bill re-
Iating to garagekeepers' liens, and
score of others.
United States Senator T. B. Sterling
of South Dakota addressed the SEN
ate upon invitation He spoke on prob |
lens of the day. He was strongly of
the opinion that the federal congress
should be limited in its scope to sub
jects of purely national bearing, leav-
ing the states to legislate on all 9TH
er matters affecting public rights.
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