Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-06-22
Kills Industrial bai,S Bill.

The assembly has killed the so-called
Industrial bank bill This measure
was aimed at the loan sharks. 1t prO-I
vided for the loan of money in small
sums to poor people.
The fight against the bill was led BY
Assemblyman Evjue of Dane county,
who charged that it was a promo AionalI
scheme and that the operators would
make as high as 33 per cent off the
money loaned to poor people. The bill,
was championed by Assemblyman.
John Donnelly of Milwaukee, who
claimed that it would benefit the poor.
people, who were unable. to borrow
money at the present time, except
through loan sharks.
In the assembly final concurrence
was given to the bill providing for the,
licensing of manufacturers of soda wa'l
ter and beverages. This bill was urged.
by the state dairy and food commls-l
sion on the ground that If the estaD-
lishments were not kept in a sanitary
condition the license Of the manutac-
turer could be revoked.
Wants Pictures Removed.
Senator Henry e. Roethe of Fenni-
more attempted to have the $l5,OOO
art pictures In the senate chamber
obliterated from the walls. He intro
duced resolution in the senate de-
claring that the decorations on the
walls are offensive and in high de-
gree inappropriate and in bad taste.
His resolution asked that the capitol
commission be directed to remove the
paintings and restore the walls to
their original unadOrned condition.
The resolution was defeated with only
Senator Roethe voting for it.
The paintings are considered some
of the finest in the capitol and typify
the union Of the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans through the completion OF the
Panama canal. Several unadorned hg-
ures appear in the pictures. and it was
to these that Senator Roethe object
ed. Roethe declared that the pictures
were shame to the state and asked
the members of the senate tOstand by
him in asking that they be torn from
the walls. Only Senator Roethe sup
ported the resolution when put to a
vote.
Refuse to Send Conference Committee.
The assembly the other day refused
to proceed for selection of members
of a conference committee on the SEN
ate amendment to the bill for the
printing and distribution of the presi-
dents war message. The amendment
inserted the declaratory preamble OF
the Wilcox joint resolution asserting
the American principles on which the
war is waged, and the assembly killed
the amendment.
In the senate Senator Wilcox said
the refusal of a conference was a
novel procedure, the senate having re-
quested conference; that under joint
rule 2 it was provided the other house
"shall" appoint committee for con-
ference, and the rule was binding on
each house. He moved that the bill
and the record be returned to the
house with a request that the joint
rule 2 be examined and that 1t be
complied with or reasons given for not
doing so. The motion carried. The
lower house has sent the bill back
with the understanding that 1t did not
desire conference.
The assembly passed the Everett bill
providing for reciprocal taxation OF
foreign insurance companies, after AS
semblyman Rosa withdrew an amend
ment which had held the bill up.
The Arnold home rule resolution
was sent to third reading.
The Schultz bill providing for the
regulation Of private detective agen-
ces in the form wanted by Chief JAMS
sen was killed by close vote, after
substitute amendment by Assembly
man Schroeder of Milwaukee had
been killed.
Workmen's Compensation.
After months of hearings, the Wis
consin legislature will consider the bill
carrying all proposed changes to the
Wisconsin workmen's compensation
law. Taken as a whole, the present
proposed changes carry an increase in
the total compensation that would be
paid under the present law by approx
lmately 1914 per cent. The amount
Of increases provided has been cal
culated by statisticians on the losses
paid during the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1915. During that year en-
ployers paid out under the Wisconsin
law $938,774. If all of the provisions
Of the present law are accepted this
would be increased to $1,O57,OO0, as