Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-03-20
MEASURE PASSED
TO AID FARMERS
Legislature Appropriates $751;
600 for Slain Cattle.
NOW GOES TO THE GOVERNOR
Approximate Loss Was $4,000 But
.he Government VIII Pay $4,000
Assembly Kills the Bud
long Measure.


Madison.-A enal chapter in the re-
cent outbreak Of the foot-and-mouth
disease was written by the legislature
when 1t passed the oil appropriating
$4,000 to compensate farmers whose
cattle we're destroyed. The approx
mate loss was $4,000, but one-half
of this amount is paid by the federal
government. The bill viii be placed
before the governor for approval
soon. In the senate the measure
passed without a vote in opposition,
but In the house there were several
scattering votes by members who COM
planned that they had not had an OPP
portunity to consider the measure.
or the states where the outbreak oc-
CURED the smallest losses were in Wis
consin and the heaviest in Illinois.
The assembly killed the Budlong
bill to permit the payment Of saloon
licenses on the installment plan. AS
semblyman Carl Hansen speaking for
the bill said such measure would be
more just to the saloonkeeper and
would insure better regulation, in that
a saloon could be discontinued at any
time. Assemblyman Minkley opposed
It. saying that where man had from
5000 to $500 invested in q liquor IL
ceuse he would see to 1t that his place
was properly conducted. Without a
word of debate the assembly refused
20 reconsider the vote by which the
Stempler bill 10 legallze saloons In the
state was engrossed.
There was no opposition to the Carl
Hansen resolution for legislative
investigation OF the land purchases at
the University OF Wisconsin. The as
sembly engrossed the Hoffman bin re-
Quiring retailers Of dynamite to store
the explosive in a safe place. The
Klensteiber hunting bill to prohibit
the killing OF doe was argued for an
hour in the house, but was finally
sent back to committee for correction
of slight errors. The Ofstie bin to
require all saloons in the state to close
at midnight was defeated by vote of
62 to &c.
Assemblyman julius Hanson's bill
TO have 20 per cent of the income
tax go to the state, instead Of 10 per
cent, was indefinitely postponed
The opponents OF boxing made a
sorry showing before the legislative
committee called 10 hear arguments
on the Hansen hill. which makes at
tendance at a boxing bout felony,
as well as providing prison sentences
for part cipants All the speakers for
the bill were Madison clergymen and
religious workers, and when one de-
clared boxing was as brutal as bull
Tight, he admitted upon questions by
committee that he had never seen any
contest All those appearing for the
bill admitted they had never seen a
boxing bout and big delegation OF
Milwaukee business men appeared in
favor OF the boxing game, declaring
It was not brutal. and was being CON
Quoted on high plane.
A strong appeal was made to the
20 pass the Gruenewald bill prohibit
Ing night work by women after eight
o'clock in the evening and before six
O'clock the following morning. Like
wise there was strong opposition to
the measure. At the request of the
committee, Charles II. Crownhart,
chairman Of the industrial commits
sion, submitted a statement showing
that the states OF Connecticut. indiana.
Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska,
New York. Pennsylvania, Michigan
and South Carolina have stringent
laws on this subject. many OF which
are more exacting than the provisions
OF the Grueuewald bin He also
showed that fourteen foreign coun.
tries have similar laws.
The university authorities objected
to the Cretney bill to prohibit the in
spection OF schools by the university.
BY Senator Bennett and Or. II. NJ
Brown. Milwaukee. the "eugenics"
law was described as silly and alb.
surd." in appearing for the Bennett
bill to repeal the law before the com,
mittee on education and public vel
fare. Doctor Brown declared it made
liars and periurers out OF doctors who
make the health tests for marriage
applicants. Mrs. G. A. Hipke. presi
dent of the Milwaukee Maternity hos
pital, said the law had accomplished
wonders. both ~ preventing marriage
90 the unfit and in educating the pub
Tic on the destructiveness Of venerea
diseases, The proposal TO require both
parties to a marriage contract to sigr
an Affirmation OF freedom from suct
disease she said amounts to nothing
Monthly Fire Report.