The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-03-07
Guards Against contsgIon.


diseases. 1t passed the Hansen bill
compelling boards of police and IRE
| commissioners in cities of the second.
| third and fourth classes to put their
orders and findings in writing.
Assemblyman OttO's bill to repeal
| the present law prohibiting the re-
moval of suits against foreign corpora
| lions to the federal courts was killed,
| 1t was over the Camper bill prohibit
| ing the allowing Of minors under
| eighteen years of age in poOlrooms
and bowling alleys that the assembly
| struck a snag on Saturday and it was
| over this bill that the call of the house
| resulting in a legislative tieup con-
| tinued to block legislation on Monday.
There was a long discussion in the
| assembly over a bin by Assemblyman
A. N. Rogers TO give the state commits
sioners of public lands power to sell
timber owned by the state in isolated
sections where this timber is in dan
ger of wind. Carl Hansen and ID. 5.
Burnett denounced the measure as one
favored by the numbering interests and
the measure was indefinitely post
poned by large vote.
Would Send Them to War First.
Assemblyman Carl Pieper believes
that the quickest way TO put an end TO
war is to make the people who vote
war, advocate war or have anything
to do with bringing about war, shall
be the first 70 go to the front. he
has introduced a bill in the legislature
which will send all representatives IL
congress and United States senator's
from Wisconsin, all ministers and
priests, all editors of all newspapers,
all professors and instructors TO the
front at once.
Legislator Seeks Job as Waiter.
Claiming that his salary of $500 will
not be sufficient to carry him through
the session of the legislature, Assem-
blyman Glenn p Turner has made APP
plicatiOn for position Of waiter in
the new restaurant that has been
opened in the state capitol. Turner
wanted to work one or two hours
day and receive his meals in return.
dents at the university were ahead of
Turner's that he was informed by the
manager that he could not have work
at once. Meantime, Turner says he
will be required to seek work in some
other hotel, although he prefers the
capitol cafe, because it would be handy
to his legislative work.
Re-kiIIs Dry Zone Bill.
The Wisconsin assembly re-killed the
half-mile dry zone bill around the Sol
diers' home at Milwaukee. The bill
was killed last week, but motion was
made Immediately after the roll call
for a reconsideration and the bill was
taken up in regular order and after two
hours of wrangling was finally dis
posed of for the session by vote of
40 to A.
The substitute to the revisors bill
No. S, which increases the salary of
members Of the legislature who serve
on committees from $500 to ST 900 and
which has particularly deadlocked both
houses of the legislature, was taken up
before a special committee recently
appointed by the senate and assembly,
respectively. A meeting was held and
the committee voted that the assembly
should recede from it's position. AS
semblyman Turner of Milwaukee, au-
thor of the bill, dissented from the re-
port and announced that he would
make a fight for the bill before the leg
iSlature.
Kill Church Taxation Bill.
In spite of determined fight made
by ASSemblyman Hugo JeSke Of Mil
waukee to secure the passage of his
bill for the taxation of church prop
erty, the measure was killed by almost
unanimous vote. Assemblyman Jeske
claimed that churches are great
money-making institutions, raising
money at Sunday collections and max
ing profits from bazaars.
The senate committee on education
and public welfare decided to recon-
mend for passage Senator Benfeys
bin relating to preference for veterans
in civil service.
School of Public Service.
A bill has been offered in the legis-
lature to create a school of public
service at the university which shall
bear the name of Richard L. Ely
School of Public Service" This is
probably the first time that bill of
this character to name one of the
courses at the university after pro-
fessor has been introduced in the Wis
consin legislature. The measure is Of
fered by Senator Byron Barwig.
Without expressing any opinion as
TO the origin and new ideas before the
country, it is at least interesting to
look into the case of Richard 7. Ely,
one time instructor of Woodrow VIII
son in economies and now a professor
at the University of Wisconsin. Thirty
years ago child labor regulation. gov
| ernmental activities in fixing freight
| rates, and municipal ownership enter
prises were talked of by only few.
One of the men to oppose the old Or
der of things seems to have been Pro-
fessor Ely, then a teacher at Johns
Hopkins university.
To Vote by Mail.
Another bill which has just been
| drafted by Assemblyman Hart extends
| the absent voting statute. He would
have the provisions of the voting-by-
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