Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1918-01-18
CALLING THE SPECIAL SESSION

The Wisconsin State Legislature
will convene in special session ON Feb.
| 10. Governor Philip issued the proc
| lamation of convention Monday.
| Seventeen items for action by the
| legislature are included in the call.
They are:
Authorizing the state to borrow
| money for war purposes.
2-Enact drainage legislation.
TO amend the act permitting sol
diers absent from the state to vote.
To permit the governor. to APP
point the United States Senator to fill
| vacancy until the next general cleo
| ton.
SO permit automobiles to run
over highways in transit from factory
| to dealers, without license.
6-Permitting cities of the first class
| TO raise salaries of school teachers
| during the war.
To appropriate money for Nor
NAL schools to allow teachers wages to
| be raised during the period of the war.
S-To amend statutes relating to
civil service in cities of 100000 or
more.
9-Amend statutes relating to the
regulation of nurses.
10-Repeal part of the labor law
now obsolete in reference to minors
who cannot read English.
11-Make law in reference to boys
carrying papers conform in all cities
to that Of Milwaukee. (This will in
clude Ladysmith.)
12-Amend charter of Northwestern
College at WATERFOWL.
Embarrassing number of county
agricultural representatives and pro-
viding for their pay.
Ito permit prisoners in Milwau-
kee House of Correction to be employed
outside the walls.
1J--TO enact legislation prohibiting
melting or attempting to incite or aid
| in melting an insurrection or sedition
eating of diSlOyalty to the national gov
eminent or opposition to the state gov
eminent and prohibiting interfering
with or discouraging appropriations for
national or state defense and enacting
such other legislation as will protect
our citizens during the time of war and
providing penalties therefor.
Ito permit the manufacture and
sale of skinned milk cheese when it
| is so made as not to resemble cream
cheese.
Ito amend chapter 235 of the
laws 1917 relating to social diseases.
1S-To provide for completion and
| equipment of buildings at Union
Grove.
Nothing is said as to the liquor laws.
| Partly this is due to the meeting held
lat Neenah some time ago by til anti
| liquor people when they decided not to
| press the matter during the war
Chief in Importance. and the one big
fight which may be expected in the
Legislature, will be OH the question as
to permitting the governor to appoint
the successor to Paul Husting until the
next election. All the Democratic pa
pers in the state oppose the governor s
/ position on the senatorial question.
| Next in Importance comes the legis-
lation on the question of definition and
punishment for dislQyalty. When that
is up for action the men in the legis-
lature who have been hiding tiieip SEN
| timents. if there are any disloyal ones,
will be smoked out. 1t is good meas
ure. The governors action on this. fol-
lows the adoption of resolutions by
County Councils of Defense all over the
state. Rusk county included, demand
| ing the passage of an act to clearly de-
fine disloyalty, and provide punish
ment under state laws for acts Of
sedition.