River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-07-17
MAY
END JULY Y
Effort to Be Made to Adjourn Leg
iSIature at End of the
Present Week.
BONUS Bills BEFORE SENATE
One Provides Referendum on Question
OF Aiding SoIdiers-Passed by
Assembly and Now Faces
Fight in Upper House.


Madison IAN effort is being made
to clean up the work Of the legislature
this week. Much depends on the
action of the senate on the bonus bills
as to whether all Of the members of
the assembly will be required to return
again to vote on bills. Final adjourn
ment of the legislature is now in
sight. The hope Of the older members
is that the session may be closed sine
die by Saturday.
Governor Philip has broken his
veto record. Two years ago he We
toed 18 measures. So far this session
he has vetoed 20 bills and he says
there are several in sight which will
get the executive AK To date 700 bills
have been introduced in the assembly
and nearly 600 In the senate. The
governor has given his approval to 428
laws to date and about $50 measures
are still in prospect.
The soldier bonus problem is still
the big measure of Importance pend
Ing. The assembly has passed a bill
providing for referendum to the peo-
pie on the subject at special election
to be called by the governor on August
IL. There is some opposition to ref
erendum In the senate. Two weeks
ago, when the bonus bills were first
considered, only two senators favored
the plan, but since the house has
taken a stand on the referendum
measure and favor it there seems to
be disposition in the senate to con-
cur in the assembly action. There is
some talk that the liquor referendum
bill providing for 2.5 per cent beer,
which would not be voted ON until the
spring election in 1920, might be
changed and that the two referendum
measures might be voted on at the
same time. 1t is not certain as yet as
to whether the beer referendum bill
Will be changed. The matter is now
being talked over, but no concensus of
OF opinion seems to have been reached
on the matter. Those favoring the
plan argue that by having the two ref
erendum measures up at one time a
large vote would be polled and the
people will actually pass on two of the
largest measures which have been be-
fore this session. The Mulberger bill,
legalizing 2.5 per cent beer in this
state unless congress shall decree 9TH
erwise, does not take effect until jan
uary is, 1920. If a referendum were
had on the bill this fall the vets would
have decision on the measure early
and would know exactly what the peo-
pie thought about the matter. If the
present referendum bill stands on the
Mulberger bill it will go into effect and
later be voted upon by the people.
The legislative halls today look as
If struck by a storm. The desks Of the
members, which last week were piled
high with legislative bills, have been
cleaned up, and around the corridors
are large boxes in which the members
are shipping their Legislative plum
der" home. A place of unusual activ-
ity has become quiet. Both of the chief
clerks have begun to release EMPLOYEES
and within day or two there will be
only ghost Of the former active force.
With the enactment Of a new mar
rage law in the state legislature John
G. Muenzer and SybiIla 'Ebener, his
cousin, were granted a marriage Ii
cense and the ceremony took place at
Beaver Dam last week.
Under previous state laws it has
been illegal for cousins to wed.
Muenzer, when he found the law bar
red his desire to marry the woman
of his choice, took the matter up with
Senator Roy P. Wilcox, who framed a
law for Muenzer's special benefit.
The new law permits cousins to
marry provided the man be forty-fiye
and the woman fifty years old. Muen-
ger gave his age as forty-nine and his
brides as ffty-one. The legislature
atced favorably upon the bill after the
state health department had sane
toned the measure.
The state treasury has nearly So
100000 more in the general fund than
a year ago at this time. The official
report Of the treasury department, lust
filed with Governor Philip, shows
that on June 80, 1913, the fund had S.
532,612.74, as compared with general
fund balance on June 80, 1919, of So
3S1, 505.97. This shows balance In
the general fund of S1,S58. 1893 %.
On June 80, 1918, the balance in all
funds of the state was $5,977,O96 "a.
as compared with balance June 30
this year of S7,55S,f47.27. The balance
In all funds Of the state is 1851 $50.
To christen "city Of BeIoit."
Miss Harriet Elizabeth Evans of Re-
lott, daughter of Rev. E. J. Evans.
pastor Of st. Paul's Episcopal church
and chaplain Of the Eighth Wisconsin
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