Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-15
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genics bill requiring that marriage
licences be issued on affidavits that
contracting parties are free from ven
ereal disease was passed by the SEN
ate
The Hedding boxing bill was rc-re-
ferred to the committee on state af-
| fairs
The Hambrecht bill requiring that
all candidates who successfully pass
examinations be certified to the civil
service board was killed; also the
Fairchild bill exempting dwellings u.s.
ed for charitable and school purposes
from taxation. The $4,000 appropria-
ton for the negro centennial celebra-
ton in Chicago was acted on favor
ably.
Concur in School Bill.
The senate concurred in the Rein
hart bill, authorizing school directors
of Milwaukee to buy $4,000 worth of
land for school purposes each year
and enter into five year contracts for
the payment of such land The Gull
bertson joint resolution providing for a
legislative investigation of the wis
consin efficiency bureau" and the pub
LEGATION of Everybody's Business was
adopted by the senate, Is to 9.
The Minkley bill, regulating recall
Ginning and repapering of rooms,
was, by vote of IA to II, ordered to
third reading in the senate The Har-
rington bill, repeating the law provid-
ing for a new normal school in the
northeastern part of the state, was
laid over.
Nonparty County Elections Killed.
There will be no nonpartisan cleo
tions of county officers in Milwaukee
county. The bill which had that OBJ
ject in view was killed in the assem-
bly, beyond hope of recall. The bill as
finally presented applied to counties
with over 100000 population only.
This is the third time Milwaukee
county has attempted to get nonparti-
san county elections and failed.
There will be no law providing for
county committee on education ap-
pointed by the county board passed
at this session. The motion to recon-
slider the vote by which the Johnson
bill along that line was indefinitely
postponed, was voted down.
The bill by Senator Fairchild relat-
ing to dental examiners, was given a
new lease of life through the efforts
of Assemblyman Hambrecht who man
aged to have it referred to the COM
mittee on finance. The bill as
amended in the senate is improved
over what it was in it's original form,
but there is apparently no demand for
any such measure.
Absent Voting Is Killed.
The bill by Senator Bray giving the
industrial commission power to say
when a medical and hospital bill is
reasonable in case of workmen's in
juries was sent to a third reading by
the assembly, as was the bill relating
to maternity hospitals and lying-in
hospitals. The bill by Senator Whit
man, which would reduce the ages at
which boys and girls are sent to the
industrial schools, was sent to a third
reading. An amendment was added
to the bill coming from the state board
of control which will make it possible
to have younger boys sent to Wauke-
sha while older boys will be sent to
the Green Bay reformatOry.
The Helm bill for absent voting; the
MCGOWAN bill for a Wisconsin brand
of butter, and the bill appropriating
money to the Wisconsin BuItermakers'
association, were indefinitely postpon-
ed by the assembly.
Plan "CIean Up on Legislation.
The responsibility for action dur
ing the closing weeks of the legisla-
tive session rests with the senate
Through organization and a DISPOSE
ton to stick to a hard days work
until the work was disposed of, the
assembly has practically cleaned
up" on the big measures recon-
mended for enactment By the pres
ent administration.
Two Big Bills Due.
During the week the house will
pass on the bill recognizing the
state tax commission, and the meas
ure creating a state board of educa-
ton. The administration is strongly
entrenched in the house, and these
bills will be passed unless, as a mem
Der expressed it, the bottom drops
out of the legislative hack" When
this chapter is completed, practically
all important legislation not acted
upon, will rest upon the shoulders
of the senators.
Bills creating the state board of
public welfare, state board of agri-
culture, printing board, conservation
board and the measure consolidating
the fire marshaPs department with
the state insurance department, al
ready have been sent to the senate
When the tax commission bill and
the educational bill reach the upper
house, the assembly will have
cleaned its slate so far as measures
of major Importance are concerned,
and large number of the assembly
men will leave for their homes.
With Assemblyman E. A. Everett
acting as chairman of the steering
committee, the administration ap-
pears to have struck it's gait in the
assembly. Philip men in the house
are letting the opposition do most
of the talking with a view of reach
ing vote without delay.