Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-08-06

Cured in holding stock in quarantine
at Chicago. The assembly also pass
| ed a bill appropriating $4,000 annu-
| ally to the Wisconsin Potato Grow
ers' association; a bill authorizing
construction Of public highways: a
bill appropriating $163.74 to satisfy
claims growing out of slaughter of
tubercular cattle, and bill creating
a committee to settle the swamp
land claims of the state against the
federal government.
institution Appropriation Cut.
The assembly cut the appropr1a-
ton carried in the finance committee
bill for the support of the state char
liable and penal institutions for the
next two years by $398,479 and then
passed the bill.
The total appropriation carried by
the bill as it passed the assembly is
SE,273,129. This is the exact sum
spent by the state on these institu-
tons during the last two years The
vote by which the cut was made was
81 to 81, and that by which the bill
was passed was 50 to 90 After the
bill passed it was Immediately or
il will probably be acted on early
next week
Concur in Highway Bit.
The senate sent to third reading
and then under suspension of the
rules concurred in the Woodward
highway bill, which carries an appro-
priation of 100000 for state aid to
highways.
Senator Monk offered an amend
ment raising the appropriation to
81, 100000. The amendment was
rejected, 8 to 4. Senator Whitman
offered an amendment raising the
amount appropriated for administra-
tan from $4,000 to $4,000, TAX
ing 1t from the appropriation for
state aid. This was adopted. The
Dill, as amended, was sent to third
reading and then concurred in, 21 to
/, Senator Bennett being the only one
to vote nay.
The senate passed the bill 64OA,
relating to discontinuance of alleys,
and concurred in the bill, 791A, relat-
ing to the power of towns and vii
lagos to borrow money.
The senate laid over bill 730A I'M
til next Wednesday. This bill gives
the banks the option in regard TO
taxation. Senators Bennett and
Ackley objected to laying the BIZ,
over. The vote was Is to 8.
The senate put quietus on the
plan to make a new county out of
Outagamie and Shawano counties. It
was noncOncurred in, IA to 8 4 mo-
ton to reconsider, made by Senator
Culbertson, was refused.
Mill Tax Repeat Killed.
The Ellingson bill, repeating the
mill tax for the university and nor
NAL schools, was killed in the senate
10 to 6. Senator Perry said that
since the passage of the central board
Of education bill, which would prob
ably be signed by the governor, the
handling of the money for these in
situations would be in different hands.
Therefore his objection to the mill
tax was removed. Most of the ad-
mlnistration men felt the same way.
A substitute amendment offered by
Senator Bennett to the SkOgmo state
council bill provides for a continu-
ance Of the board Of public affairs
and appointment of the members of
the board, except eX-ofFicio members,
by the governor Immediately after
the passage of the bill, These mem
bers must be confirmed by the senate.
Governor Signs Cptometry Bill.
The governor signed bill creating
a state board to regulate the practice
of optometry. The board is to be
known as the Wisconsin board Of ex-
aminers in optOmetry and to consist
of five members 10 be appointed by
the governor within sixty days after
the publication of this act. 1t pro-
vides that no one shall practice OPP
tometry unless licensed by this board
and prescribes conditions under
which licenses shall be issued. The
act does not apply to physicians and
surgeons authorized to practice their
professions under the laws of the
state, nor to persons selling spenta-
cles without attempting to test he
eyes.
The bill appropriating $4,000 to
John Awkward and Michael B. D.
brich, attorneys, of Madison, for SER
vices and expenses in the prosecution
Of the action brought by former State
Insurance Commissioner Herman L.
Ekern against former Gov. F. e. Nc
Govern, growing out of the atten1 pt
of the governor to Gust the COPIES
sioner from office, was also signed.
The governor also signSd an sct
providing that the district court Of
Milwaukee county shall nave exc IL
sive jurisdiction to try and sentence
all offenders against the ordinances
of the city of milwaukee and the
county of Milwaukee,
Still another bill signed by the
governor provides that each member
of the state athletic commission sh4n