River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-31
RUSH WORK FOR
CLOSING SESSION
Final Adjournment of Assembly
Is Expected During the
Present Week.
NEARLY SETS new RECORD
Longest Session of the Wisconsin Leg
isIature With the Exception Of the
1915 Meeting, Which Adjourned
on August 5.

MadiSon.-The present session of
the Wisconsin legislature, now closing,
will go down in history as one of the
longest ever held. The one exception
was that Of 1915 when the final adj
jOurnment occurred on the 9th day Of
August.
While the clerks of both houses are
rushing work it does not seem posi-
BILE that final adjournment of this
session can be had before some time
this week.
Governor Philip has just signed the
Pullen bill giving the state board of
health power to supervise beauty par
Tors in Wisconsin. The supervision
which will be extended will be similar
to that now exercised over the barber
shops Of the state and arranged more
particularly for the enforcement Of
rules Of sanitation.
Three important pieces Of legisla-
ton affecting highway work have been
enacted at this session: Chapter 313,
containing amendments to the state
trunk highway law and the state aid
law and providing for a 2,500-mile adj
dition to the state trunk highway sys-
tenn. This additional mileage shall be
selected In the same maner as the orr
ginal state trunk highway system. The
legislative trunk highway committee
has been appointed by the governor
and arrangements are being made to
begin holding hearings early in the
month of August. Chapter 518, which
town superintendent Of highways.
Chapter 535, exempting highway work
by the state from the provisions Of the
eight-hour law.
The session was marked by a veri-
table deluge OF memorials to congress,
the president and governmental
boards.
Whether to any effect or not, the
opinion Of the Wisconsin legislature on
subjects ranging from the League Of
Nations to the price of Ice cream and
tobacco was voiced in some 200 joint
resolutions adopted during the ses-
sion.
Following are some of the more inn
portant subjects upon which the 1919
Legislature went on record:
Favoring the League of Nations.
Memorializing congress to adopt the
Susan B. Anthony woman suffrage
amendment.
Asking federal investigation Of the
price Of dairy products and tobacco.
Seeking the release Of farmers from
war service
Asking for speedy withdrawal of
American troops from Russia.
Favoring the repeal of the daylight
saving law.
Petitioning for the independence Of
Ireland and Poland and for the liberty
of the Jews.
I Opposing government regulation Of
telephone systems.
FavOring the enlargement of the st.
Lawrence river so that ocean-going
vessels might steam into the Great
Lakes.
Asking an investigation Of the meth.
DDS of packers In this state.
Governor Philip announced that he
would sign the marketing commission
bill.
AS the result of two years work by
a special interim committee and of
several years of research and investi-
cation by members of previous ses-
sions Of the legislature, Wisconsin's
first marketing bill, a compromise
measure. was passed. After being
amended in the closing hours of the
session to meet an objection raised by
lGovernor Philip the bill now creates
Ia board Of markets. composed of the
commissioner of agriculture, the attor-
aey general and the secretary of state,
which, with the governors approval,
shall appoint marketing commission
er. and is empowered to investigate
and aid in the solution of the states
marketing problems.
Another agricultural bill creates a
rural planning division Of the depart
ment of agriculture, and in other agri-
cultural acts the legislature has pro-
hibited discrimination in buying and
selling milk, cream and butter fat, and
excluded farmers cooperative organ
izations from the provisions Of the
antitrust laws.
Attempts to put whey butter on q
par with dairy and creamery butter all
failed, and even bill to rename
"whey butter" making it "whey cream
butter" was killed.
81 Foreign Students at U. Of w.
With "a students from II foreign
countries enrolled In its student body
during the last quarter, the University
OF Wisconsin appears to be regaining
its pre-war popularity among students
from other lands. China led with 16
. students. Other countries represented
were as follows: Norway, 8: Canada.
8; Philippines, 6; Brazil, 8; France, s !:
Japan, 3; India, 2; Porto, Rico, q: