The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-05-16
PEOPLE To VOTE
On PROHIBITION
Senate Passes Eviue Bill Without
Adopting Any of the Pro-
posed Amendments.
NOW GOES TO THE GOVERNOR
Issue VIII Be Decided at Spring Elec-
ton Next Year-Three Military
Measures Win in the
House.


will have up before them for decision
at the spring election in 1913 the i'm
portant question Of prohibition, the
Tyjue bill having passed the senate
without any amendment. The half
dozen attempts to change the bill
were voted down and the measure
came through in its original form. The
bill has already been through the as
sembly and was only put through the
senate after hard fight. 1t now goes
to the governor, and it is believed that
1t will have his approval.
Amendments TO compensate the
brewery workers in case the state went
dry. TO prohibit the sale Of drugs con
tanning alcohol were voted down. The
vote on passage was q to IL. The
crucial test, on the bill came on the
Burke amendment to Ak the date OF
holding the election in April, 1920. This
was defeated by a vote Of II to 10.
by a 4G TO Is vote. on motion Of AS
sembIymun w L. Smith of Milwaukee,
the house tabled the Wi cox bill apps"
priating $4,000 annually in the build
Ing Of arm0Ties. AsseInblyman II. A.
Everett said that the state might be
called upon to build barracks and for
that reason he was against the armory
bill appropriation.
Seed for Prison Farm.
The Carl Hansen resolution to adj
journ the legislature sine die June
was tabled. Under a suspension of the
rules a bill appropriating $4,000 to buy
seed and machinery to operate the new
prison farm at Waupun was passed.
There was no opposition to the pass
age of the Everett bill, creating a board
TO be composed of the insurance com
missioner, a member of the state indus
trial commission and a third to be APP
pointed by the governor with power
TO regulate workmens compensation
rates and classificatiOnS in this state.
This bill is part of the administra-
tion program and now goes to the
senate for further consideration. The
Donnelly bin for the regulation of cold
storage plants was passed with only
one vote in opposition. A bill appro-
priating S64 900 for deficits in the Wis
consin state prison and the Wisconsin
state hospital for the insane was
passed BY vote Of 40 to q, the
house passed the Oil bin providing for
the payment of wages of state en-
DloyeeS semimonthly.
To Establish tuberculosis Sanitarium.
BY unanimous vote the joint commit
Tee on finance has recommended for
passage the Baxter bill providing for
the establishment of a tuberculosis
santarun in northern Wisconsin. The
board of control is empowered 70 make
the selection of the site for the instiu-
ton Appearing before the finance
committee was Otto +, Bradley of the
Wisconsin anti-TGberculosis society
He favored the passage of the bill, de-
claring that such an institution was
necessary in northern Wisconsin and
pointing out the advantages of such an
institution in that section of the state.
The joint finance committee of the
legislature has also recommended for
passage a bill giving the state council
of defense power to take charge of the
food situation in case of emergency.
The bill provides that whenever the
mine that scarcity of food, fuel,
seeds or other personal property, nee
.esSary for the common defense. or for
the general public welfare, exists or
threatens while the nation is at war,
that the state council of defense shall
have power TO take charge of the situa-.
ton The bill further provides that
whenever the price are excessive, ex-
fertionate or prohibitive that the
council is empowered to take posses
sion Of such amounts of any or all
property as it may deem necessary and
shall pay just compensation for the
same. The bill gives the council of de-
Tense the right to take charge of the
storage warehouses and all storage ia
lcilities and TO compensate the owners
by reasonable price.
Plan Extensive Bean Crops.
Hundreds of acres of land in Wis
lconsin's sandstone belt will be plant
ed to beans this season. Besides be-
ing a preparedness measure this, it is
believed, will be especially profitable
for the crop promises to bring high
prices
1t is not improbable that banks and
commercial organizations in the beam
growing districts will get behind a
movement TO secure seed for those
who cannot obtain ii locally.
Tax Only Property.
The assembly engrOSsed a bill pro-
viding that hereafter assessments of
the property of light and power com
4nanies extending into two or more dis
trictS shall be on the basis of property
and not on the basis of business and
property The latter bill is designed
to circumvent in measure recent
decision of the Wisconsin supreme
court. BY vote of p to 10, the as
sembly killed the Grell bill providing
for tie manufacture and branding of
skinned milk cheese in Wisconsin.
A similar bill was defeated in the as
sembly TWO years ago.
To Repeal one-Buck Law.
The assembly committee on fish and
game. and the senate committee on
state affairs have agreed to recomend
the repeal of the one-buck law. The
two committees, which are in charge
OF the recodification of the game laws,
favor an open season during the last