Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-06-12
COMMITTEE WORK
NEARLY FINISHED
No Hearings Scheduled for Week
by the Lawmakers.
TO PASS ON MARKET BILLS
Three Measures to Be Disposed Of
This Week-Assembly Votes to Do
Away With Statute for Eight
Hour Day.
BY FRED L. HOLMES.

Madison, June 1O.-That the work Of
the legislative committees is practically
finished is indicated by the absence Of
any scheduled hearings on bills for as
sembly committees this week.
Few new bills have been offered in
the lower house and the bills coming
to the assembly from the senate are
now referred directly to the calendar
without committee hearing unless
one is called for, in which case there
is no bulletined hearing. Consequent
ly, there are no scheduled hearings
for assembly committees this week,
and with the afternoons free for the
regular business Of the house it is
likely that record for the session will
be set in the assembly in the number
CT bills that will be disposed of.
There are only % measures sched-
uled for hearing in the senate this
week, and most of them are bills which
have come over from the assembly for
concurrence.
The marketing bill will be disposed
of in the upper house today. By agree
ment between members the bill will be
taken up at that time and will be final
ly disposed Of Pending before the
senate are really three bills on the
marketing subject.
First, is bill by Senator Skogmo
which provides for marketing direc-
tor under the supervision and within
the state department of agriculture.
This bill was once passed by the SEN
ate, but was killed in the house.
Second, the senate has before it the
Coe bill, which was passed by the as
sembly and which provides for sep
arate marketing department. Under
the terms of this bill the market direc
tor would be supervised by board Of
seven members, representing farmers,
laborers and business interests.
Third, bill has been offered by Sen
ator Roy P. Wilcox which modifies the
Coe assembly bill in minor particulars
and makes the seven members repre-
senting farmers, labOrers and business
men, advisory to the market commits
Sioner rather than supervisory.
The Equity farmers of the legisla-
ture are backing the Coe assembly bill.
Many. of the representatives of bust
ness favor the Skogmo bill. There is
such difference Of opinion in the leg
islature over the marketing question
that there are many who think that
the outcome will be that all marketing
bills will be defeated.
The salary Of the state dairy and
food commissioner was raised by the
assembly when it cOncurred in the SEN
ate bill raising the amount from $4,000
to $4,000 a year. There was no debate
on the bill, but opposition came on the
vote to concur, which resulted "a to
II. The members opposed to the in
crease were, in addition to the Social
lists, Messrs. Ballard, Bartingale, C. e.
Hanson Larsen, Miller and Vaughan.
Speaker Young appointed Axel John
son and Mr.: Cakes assembly members
of the legislative committee to visit
Interstate park and report on it's at
fractions.
The assembly voted to do away with
the statute providing for an eight-hour
wOrkday in state road and bridge con-
struction and maintenance passing the
Chapman bill to that effect after re-
considering the vote by which it had
been killed several days ago.
Marcus 3. Johnson and Mr.. Knappe
opnOco6 fho hill oIo i'm
of the farmer members that eight-hour
work On the roads would rob them of
help. Mr.. Johnson stated that the law
had been on the statute books ten
years and had not hurt any farmer
Mr.. Knappe's attempt to make a long
address was cut off by the assembly
passing P. M. Anderson's moving OF
the previous question, 43 to 81.
BY vote Of Is to so the assembly
sustained Governor Philips veto Of
the Masiakowski bill which was in
tended to prohibit public officials en-
tering into contracts with cities for
the sale of materials.
The assembly concurred in the SEN
ate amendment to the Perry bill pro-
viding for 20 per cent increase in the
salaries of certain state employees,
using January 1, 1917, as the basis
The labor committee Of the assem-
bly, decided TO recommend for concur
renee the senate bill granting to the
industrial commission the power to fix
minimum wages for men, women and
children-a wholesale, sweeping meas
ure. There was little discussion.
1t provides that the term '1iving
wage" when applied to female or
miECT, shall mean compensation "suf-
ficient to enable the emploee receiving
fcient to enable the employee receiving
conditions consistent with his or he1
welfare; provided that, whenever a fe-
male does work ordinarily performed
by an adult male, living wage as to
her shall be the same as that pre-
scribed for an adult male"
The terms when applied to an adult
male shall mean compensation "suf1i-
cient TO enable him to- maintain him.