The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1917-04-04
Unprecedented Meeting of Both
Branches of the Assembly.
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION UP
house Finally Passes the Evjue Liquor
referendum Bill by Vote of S.
to 37-Now Goes to Senate
for Action.

al cNcuL WITHOUT pTeCeuenL
since Wisconsin became a state.
FIRST the assembly adopted q resolu-
ton calling for q joint committee of
the whole. When 1t reached the senate
lt was discovered that there was no
such procedure in the rule book, and
the senate changed 1t to a Joint con-
Yentlon. 1t finally resulted that while
Lieutenant Governor Dithmar and
Speaker Whittet presided In dignified
state, with the clerks at their posts, the
senators and assemblymen were alb
sent, there being no rule to require
their presence. Members of the COM
mlttees occupied front seats and Wis
itors sat In the members seats.
The bills discussed embrace about all
the theories Of industrial education.
Superintendent Cary opposed one IA
vored by Dean Birge, representing
President Van Hise, which divorces the
industrial education work from the
work Of the schools, and gives the
state board OF industrial education the
control. 1t Is the contention of those
IN favor Of the bill that capital and
labor know best how to conduct indus
trial and vocational educational insti-
tutiOns, and the school men claim the
educators should be in charge.
Excitement in Senate.
The senate INDUCED its first excite
ment of the session when Senator
Schultz moved q call of the house and
kept the members behind locked doors
until he decided he had been unduly
excited by the arguments and with
drew his motion, the call being raised
1t all happened when Senator Bennett
moved indefinite postponement of the
Schultz bill which originally took away
the powers of the railroad commission
as they apply to municipal waterworks
departments. The bill was amended
and the senate was about to engross 1t
when Senator Bennett moved to kill 1t.
The Milwaukee senator, evidently be-
heving he had lost his fight, moved the
call. After the call was raised the
senate proceeded to vote his way
Referendum Bill Passed.
The assembly passed the Evjue
liquor referendum bill by vote of 56
to 81. The bill must remain in the
house "a hours to await any motions
which may be presented for reconsid-
Grafton.
For Vocational Education
'"rhe national congress has recent
w 10 1-pA hA
Hughes law for encouraging in the
various states the teaching of voca-
uonal subjects" said State Superin-
tendent Cary in an interview. "These
subjects include agriculture, home
economics and trade. The various
states of the Union must enter into an
obligation to match dollar for dollar
the money offered by the federal gov
eminent, in order to get the benefit of
this fund. There is to be q federal
board to administer the fund and there
must be some sort Of state board to CO.
operate with the federal board. The
maximum amount that the state Of
Wisconsin could get next year Is $751;
$50 and In order to get this amount Of
money the legislature would have to
appropriate an equal amount from the
state treasury. This amount increases
year by year until 1t amounts annually
for the state of Wisconsin to $176, 300,
or for a period Of ten years, it will
amount In the aggregate to over
S1,OOO,0OO."
Dispose of Many Bills.
The assembly killed the Duffy reso-
luton to amend the constitution so as
to extend the credit of the state to set
tiers in northern Wisconsin. 1t killed
the Kent resolution memOrializing con-
gress In favor of public ownership and
operation of railroads. 1t engrossed
the Everett BILL increasing the qualif-
cations for teachers; the Rosa bill In
creasing the time under which an ac-
ton may be brought for seduction and
the Bradley BILL providing for the pub
lie ownership of opera houses and
recreation centers. The assembly by
a vote of At to 81 engrossed the Rogers
bill TO pay members Of the legislature
10 cents mileage to an0 from the CAPT
tai not oftener than once in 80 days.
This will permit members to go home
once each month at state expense. En-
grossment was given the Poor bill Civ
ing all cities the power to appropriate
money to aid in the securing Of con-
yentiOns.
Money for National Guard.
In the assembly, Assemblyman Bur
nett moved that the bill appropriating
100000 per annum for the National
Guard of Wisconsin, be recalled from
the committee on state affairs and re-
turned to the clerks desk. The motion
was agreed TO by unanimous consent.
Mr.. Burnett then moved to suspend
the rules to advance the bill TO en-
grossment The bill was ordered to
engrossment and was referred to the
committee on finance. Senator Will
cox's bill providing for state aid for
the construction Of armOrfes for
Guardsmen will get new impetus.
To Deadhead State Officers.
Assemblyman W. A. Duffy of Bay
field county has just offered a bill in
the house to compel the railroads to
furnish free transportation to any cleo
completely repeal the anti-pass law,
but IL makes a rather startling modi-
fication. It provides that every railroad
company operating in this state 'in
Of rrix