Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-03-23
ALLOWS FAIR BOARD
TO LEASE GROUNDS
BILL INTRODUCED IN SENATE
PERMITS RENTING OF PARK
WHEN NOT IN USE.
BANK MEASURE ENGROSSED
The Melvin Bill Providing That State
Banks Shall Keep on Hand II
Per Cent Instead of IS, ls
Ordered Engrossed.
Madison, March II, 1915.

Madison, March IL, 1915.
A bill introduced by the committee
on state affairs in the senate gives
the state fair board power to lease
the state fair park whenever the
grounds are not used for state fail
purposes.
A bill that came in the senate from
the committee on corporations gives
the insurance commissioner power to
calculate values of bonds held by a
life insurance companies. The values
found by him it is provided are to be
final and binding"
The assembly after some debate or
dered to engrossment and third read
ing the Melvin bill providing that state
banks shall keep on hand II per cent
of their total deposits instead of IL
per cent, except that state reserve
banks shall keep on hand 20 per cent
instead of % per cent of their total
deposits
Bill Goes to Governor.
Assemblyman Dobie withdrew his
objection against the Gruenewald bill
providing for the appropriation of
$1,000 from the funds of the Panama.
Pacific exposition for an educational
exhibit at the exposition. The bill now
goes to the governor for approval. A
bill authorizing the attorney general
to defend suits brought for alleged in
fringement of patents covering pro-
cesses, devices or materials used in
bridge and highway construction when
directed by the governor was ordered
engrossed and read a third time.
The Bradley bill, requiring county
judges to draw papers in probate mat.
ters free of charge, in which the es-
tates do not exceed $4,000 in value,
was ordered referred to the committee
on judiciary. The assembly killed the
Kurtenacker bill reducing the license
fee for master BARRIERS from 81 to 81
a year.
The Bray bill, limiting hours of la
Dor for women, was Indefinitely post
poned by the senate.
The Bosshard multiplying bill, pro-
hibiting the giving or receiving of tips,
was advanced to engrossment by the
senate
Discuss Normal Schools.
The need of more normal schools
was discussed in the senate. A bill
introduced by Senator Whitman pro-
vided for repeal of the law providing
for the location of the next normal
school in northeastern Wisconsin. Mr..
Whitman said: 1--WE need no more
normal schools at this time in this
state, and if we did need them it is
not the way to do to put in an enter
ing wedge so long before"
Senator Burke maintained that the
eastern part of the state in Wisconsin.
The senator said that outside of Mil
waukee and Oshkosh all the normal
schools were in the wrong places. The
bill was indefinitely postponed by a
vote of 81 to s.
The Burke bill repeating the law
providing for a state administration
building in Milwaukee was passed by
the senate by a vote of 2S to 1.
Mr. Kay's bill to prevent the setting
of fish nets in certain waters OF Pierce
county was passed and the Hanson
bill relating to the hunting of rabbits
with ferrets was amended and ordered
re-engrossed.
New Boards Are Planned.
More than score of departments,
bureaus and boards will be wiped out
interests of the state will be effected
if bills that are now in preparation
and probably will be introduced in
the legislature, become laws.
The proposed legislation will be
the first blow dealt by Gov. Philip
and the present administration at
what is termed the extravagant, I'M
businesslike and cumbersome meth
DDS of conducting the affairs Of Wis
consin. 1t will mean a simplification
of business, a reduction in the num-
Der of high salaried officials, and
in saving of office room in the state
capitol.
While the entire plan of reorgan-
ization has not been perfected, the
legislative investigating committee
that has had the work in hand has
gone far enough to make a strenu-
Gus start on the work of consolida-
ton along business and economic
lines