The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-06-06
WISCONSIN NEWS
STATED IN BRIEF
TeIeg-aphic Chronicle of State
Happenings.
LEGISLATURE is NEAR CLOSE
Pending Legislation Can Be Disposed
of in From Two to Three Weeks,
According to Chief Clerk OF
Assembly.

Madison, June 1.-The legislature
can clean up it's business in from TWO
to three weeks, according TO ChleL
Clerk G. E. Shaffer Of the assembly.
This is the first official forecast on
a greatly disputed topic since the SEES
sion began. Shaffer bases his concur
sion on the fact that there are only
so assembly bills in the senate, ~
bills pending in the assembly, win 1o
TO he taken from the table, four in
engrOssment, one at third readlnS anu
one in conference. The senate WORK
is we'll up and it is expected that mar
keting and prohibition enforcement
can be cleaned up in two or three
weeks.
For the first time this session bins
scheduled for assembly committee.
hearings this week are fewer IMAM
those to be considered by senate COM
mittees. Assembly committees nave
only seven assembly bills and IL SEN
ate bills, three assembly joint resOlu-
tons and one senate joint resolution.
Senate committees will consider liz
senate bills, IL assembly bills ana one
assembly joint resolution.
The assembly finance committee mas
the Pullen and Zumach land settle
ment bills, the former HAVING Deeh
drafted especially for heroes OF the
world war. The Zumach bill is in
tended principally for occupation ana
development of northwestern Wlscon-
sin lands. The Wilkinson land mort
gage association council measure also
is before the same committee, to-
gether with the land settlement bill or
Orrin Fletcher for cooperation with
the federal government in providing
farm homes for returned war heroes
The three soldier aid bills, two by
the committee on finance, one provid-
ing for creation of a service recOgnl-
ton board which will take up voluA-
tary subscriptions, and the other pro-
viding a fund of $50O,OOO for needy
soldiers because of wounds or illness,
and the Metcalfe bill authorizing cOun-
ties to issue bonds for soldier bonuses,
are up before the finance committee
this week.
Labor is expected to put in its hard
est ticks for favorable legislation DUR
ing the week in hearings on the Skog-
mo eight-hour bill, re-write of the
M. E. johnson eight-hOur bill, and the
Wilcox minimum wage bill.
The eight-hOur bill, introduced by
Senator George SkogmO after the as.
sembly killed the Johnson measure,
will be argued before the senate COM
mittee on education and public well
fare. Labor lobbyists will employ
their best efforts to get the bill report
ed favorably, as this is the last oppor-
tunity in the session to obtain labor
legislation.
The Wilcox minimum wage bill, al
ready passed by the senate, will came
up for hearing before the assembly
committee on labor. 1t is considered
as important as the eight-hOur bill,
since it guarantees a living family
wage to every industrial worker. No
split is expected between labor and
farmer interests on this bill.
A new recall bill introduced by the
assembly committee on state affairs
will come before the assembly for
hearing. The bill is practically the
same as that vetoed by Gov. e. L. Phil
ipp at the time of the fight on cOnfir-
nation of Carl D. Jackson as railroad
commissioner.
Bills on county aeronautical parks,
acquisition of street railways by mu-
inequalities, and soldiers bonuses, in
Guiding the measure apprOpriating
S5OO.OOO for relief of sick and wound
ed, will come up for hearing this week.