Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-03-20
DOINGS OF THE LEGISLATURE

The bill to permit the operation
of moving picture theatres on Sun
day was killed in the assembly. This
will prove a sad blow to those houses
as they have been operating all along in
the state on Sunday afternoons and
evenings.
The bill giving an inspector the
right to close unsanitary schools was
killed in the assembly.
The bill increasing the school yead
from eight to nine months was also
killed, but the clause to grant $50
state aid to a first class rural school
which operated nine months each
year.
The assembly engrossed the Baxter
bill, permitting the. state to sell a
municipal plant on vote of the peo-
pie, and advanced the Wilkinson bill.
Assemblyman Hart secured a recon-
sideration of the vote by which the as
sembly killed his bill relating to the
revocation of liquor licenses for SELL
ing liquor to minors and then offered
an amendment which provided that a
common council need not revoke liq-
uor license for selling liquor to a
minor if it is the first offense. The
bill was engrossed, 81 to 26.
The assembly killed the bill which
would authorize group insurance.
The senate spent most of Wednes-
day morning in discussion on the
question of what the weekly sessions
of the senate should be. 1t finally
adopted the Barwig resolution, in sub
stitute form, providing that the senate
should meet as often as once each day
between Monday and Friday, inclusive,
and that committee meetings should
be held Friday.
1t seems that there is a sentiment
among a few in the state to applaud
and approve of the stand of Senator
LaFollette. Several petitions have
been forwarded to the legislature, one
from Shawano county.
The assembly ordered engrossed the
bill providing that the minimum rate
for teachers in country schools be in
creased to $45 a month. The resolu-
ton by Senator Hanson, which had
passed the senate and creates a spe-
cial committee of the legislature to go
through the statutes and strike out
portions of the same, which have been
declared unconstitutional by the court,
was indefinitely postponed.
Probably what has been the most
heated debate in the session of the
legislature resulted over the Evjue bill
which had for it's object the preven-
ton of any member of the legislature
accepting an appointment of a public
Office in Wisconsin during a legisla-
tive term. The bill was finally in
definitely postponed by a vote of 81
to 3S.
Notification has been received from
| Washington of several amendments to
| the interstate quarantine regulations
which effectively supplement rules
and laws now in force in Wisconsin.
AS adopted by the treasury depart
ment, a rule will be applied requiring
that water supplied for drinking or
culinary purposes on any conveyance
in interstate traffic, including vessels
shall conform to the ARCHAEOLOGICAL
standard fixed by the government
Another amendment adopted forbids
travel on any public conveyance in in
terstate traffic by any one knowing he
is in the communicable stage of any
of the dangerous diseases.
The assembly adopted a resolution
memorializing congress to make an
| inquiry into the coal situation and
asking, if the facts warrant such ac-
tion, that the government assume the
ownership and operation of all Goa
mines.
The bill giving the state of Wis
consin the right to acquire storage
houses, warehouses and grain eleva.
tors was voted down.
The bill providing for the building
of what will be known as the Pros
pective State Trunk Line Highway
system will be introduced in the leg
islature early this week. The com
mittees on highways Of the senate anC
the assembly have been working OF
the measure since early in January
land have finally completed the draf
of the bill. A unanimous COMMITTEES
report will stand back Of it, and j
will be introduced in both houses OF
the same day.
The bill provides for the develop
ment of a system of state trunk lin
highways Of approximately 5000 mile
to be built under state supervision 4
be financed by federel aid, an equa
amount from the state and an equa
amount from the counties in the ag
gregate, maintained under state super