Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-07-22

Senate Kills Bill introduced by
Bennett.
EDUCATIONAL BILL AMENDED
viii Have Board of Five Take CHARGE
of Financial Administration of
Schools-Fire Insurance
Bill Dead.

MadisOn.-Three measures of III
usual Importance were disposed OF
at one sitting by the senate, with
no great show OF oratory and little at
tending excitement. The bill by Sena.
tor Bennett to substitute a single com
missioner for the present three-man
tax commission was killed without the
formality Of a roll call. The central
board of education bill, amended to
embrace the Saudenmayer substitute
providing for a board of FIVE members
to take charge of the financial admin
istration of all the schools maintained
by the state, was concurred in by a
vote of Is to 5, and then sent back to
the assembly for concurrence in the
amendment No debate marked the
passage Of the bill.
The celebrated Stemper bill had an
other turn at the hands of the senate.
That body, instead of approving the
amendments proposed by the assem-
bly,, had new ideas of its own, and sent
it back with amendments applying it
to the whole state, giving the chief of
police in every city the power to pass
upon saloons to be Teinstated or re-
licensed, and raising the license limit
IN every town, village and city going
wet from one to every ESQ people to
one for every SEQ people. 1t is under
stood that Governor Philip, who re-
fused to sign the bill as originally
passed unless it were amended to ap-
ply it to Milwaukee only, has now
agreed to sign it as amended in the
senate.
The senate engrossed the Everett
bill appropriating $4,000 for a poultry
building at the state fair and $4,000
as one installment of funds for COM
pleting the permanent grandstand. The
other installments are made payable
in succeeding years.
The big fire insurance rating bill Of
the session is. dead. The measure by
Senator Bennett provided for the su-
pervision of fire insurance rates by
the insurance commissioner, with
power to reduce rates believed to be
exorbitant. 1t gave TO the insurance
commissioner the same power over in
surance rates that the railroad com
mission exercises over freight rates.
The bill was killed by vote of So to
Al. An attempt by Assemblyman
Freehof to reconsider the bill was de-
MED.
Four hours time was spent on the
bill to regulate the jitneys. Assem-
htVT7 An CahrnDInr
claimed that the bill was framed by
the street car companies to put the
jItneys out Of business. Assembly
man Hambrecht asserted that the jiG-
ney was common carrier and should
be regulated as other public utilities.
The bill was engrossed by a vote of
"a to SO, and reconsideration was re-
fused. Under its terms, jitneys are
cIassed as common carriers, must
take out a $4,000 indemnity bond to
be approved by the railroad commits
sion and must file schedules of traffic
with the railroad commission to which
they must adhere. The assembly has
engi ossed the Whitman bill to reduce
fire butter-fat content of Swiss cheese
from so to 43 per cent, and has ad-
Vanced a bill prohibiting the appoint
ment of relatives to positions in the
state service except from civil service
eligible lists. A bill to permit insur-
ance companies to write more than
one kind of insurance in one insur-
ance policy was nonconcurred in.
There was a long legal debate over
the Ploeger bill to detach territory
from the county of Shawano and at
tach the same to the county of Outa-
gamie, the purpose being to create
a county of Burke Assemblyman
Hambrecht opposed the bill. claiming
that it had been so framed to .circum-
vent the constitution. Assemblyman
Crosby favored the bill Assembly
man Ballard said that a vote of the
people OF the county taken on April
1, showed that the people were OPP
posed to the. bill by a vote of five to
one. He said that the bill had been
d1sapproyed by the county boards of
ShawanO and Outagamie counties. A
motion to kill the bill was defeated.
1t was passed by vote Of 80 to 80
and now goes to the senate for fur
Their consideration.
The assembly passed a bill reduc-
ing the total state aid appropriation
to the county schools of agriculture
$4,000. It also passed a bill to re-
duce the appropriation for mounting
the canncns at Camp Randall $500.
The assembly reconsidered the vote
by which it had killed the Crosby d.
rect marketing bill and then sent it
to engrossment.