Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-06-29
HOUSE KILLS TAX
COMMISSION BILL
ASSEMBLY VOTES DOWN ADMIN
ISTRATlON ACT, 49 TO az,
AFTER HOT DEBATE.
WILL BE REC0NSlDERED
Hard Fight to Be Made in Mean Time
to Line Up Enough Votes
for Final Pas
sage.
Madison, June %, 1915.


Following the surprise it sprung
in connection with the water power
bill, the assembly again upset the
plans of the administration by indef-
initely postponing the bill repeating
the present tax commission law, and
creating a commission to consist OF
one salaried member, with the gov
ernor and state treasurer ex-offlciO
members. The vote was 40 to AZ.
Gov. E. L. Phillip will present his
best fighting front when the motion
to reconsider the vote by which the
tax commission bill was killed will be
taken up. Administration leaders
fear that unless the house recedes
from it's position on this proposition
that practically the entire legislative
program of the administration will be
endangered.
That the vote on reconsideration
will be close there is little doubt, as
the administration leaders will work
tooth and nail in the interests of the
bill in the interim.
OOdTQ Dill FdSSCOs
The administration bill creating a
state board of education to manage
the state university, state normal
schools, Stout institute and state
mining school, passed the assembly
by a vote of SO to 80.
The bill provides for a board of
fifteen members, with the state su-
perintendent of public instruction as
a member eX OfficiO. The governor
is to appoint the members, and not
of the same political party. Three
members are to be women, one men,
Der is to be nominated to the COVER
nor by the faculty of the state uni
versity and one by the presidents Of
the state normal schools. One mem
Der is to be a practical agriculturist
and one a laborer.
The assembly refused to recon-
slider the vote by which it ordered to
third reading the Glenn bill author
izing the board of trustees of the
teachers retirement fund to raise the
salary of its secretary from $1,000
to $1,000. 1t refused to revive the
Bosshard bill providing for state
game farm in Villas county. 1t killed
the Schroeder resolution for con-
stitutional amendment increasing the
length of terms of county officers
from two to four years.
Many Senate Bills.
The senate passed the following
senate bills: by Senator Albers, re-
lating to fees of insurance cOmpa-
MES; by Senator Fairchild, relating
to assessment of taxes; by Senator
Martin, relating to additional salaries
to city employees. The senate con-
Cured in the following assembly
bills: by Helm, relating to the state
Indebtedness and making an appro-
priation; by Ballard, providing for
compensation for accidental injury
or death of employees, eliminating the
farmers from the operation of the
workmen's compensation act; by
Jensen prohibiting the operation of
automobiles by intoxicated persons.
Woman Suffrage Wins.
The senate refused to reconsider
the vote by which the Glenn woman
suffrage bill had been ordered en-
crossed. The vote was Is to 16.
The Budlong bill, which exempted
from taxation homesteads of veterans
of the civil war and the Mexican war,
was refused third reading. The He'd
ding textbook bill, which provides
for submission of copies of books
and giving of a bond as to prices,
was advanced to third reading.
Absent Voting Passes.
The assembly, after a long debate,
ordered to third reading the Boss
hard bill, appropriating $4,000 to At
torneys John A. Awkward and NJ. B.
Olbrich of Madison, for services and
expenses in the prosecution of actions
brought by Commissioner of Insur-
ance Ekern against former Gov. Nc
Govern to retain his office.
The assembly ordered to third
reading the Stevens bill authorizing
the granting of liquor licenses to new
hotels.
The assembly killed the Fairchild
bill, authorizing directors Of build
ing and loan associations to fix the
compensation of officers of such or
CARNATIONS.
The Pieper bill, providing for vot-
ing by mail. was passed by the as
sembly. The Bray bill, providing for
examination by legislature of any