Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-06-06
NEW MARKETING
BILL ON JUNE 5
Substitute Measure to Be Offered
in Upper Branch by Sena-
tor Wilcox.
BONDS TO PAY FOR ROADS
Assembly concurs in Joint Resolution
Providing for 1 Per Cent of Value
of State Property for High
way Purposes.

way POSSSs
Madison.-June 5 has been designat-
ed as the date to give attention to
marketing legislation, and the matter
has been placed on the calendar as a
special order. Senator Wilcox has Of
fered a substitute bill which will Their
be considered.
"This substitute is a revision OF the
Coe assembly BILL" Senator Wilcox
said, sand it is framed to meet he
objections urged against the Coe SUD-
stitute in the assembly. It divorces
the board from any administrative
duties, leaving these to the marketing
commissioner. The board becomes
virtually a board of directors, employ
ing a manager to perform certain du-
ties. This substitute strikes out provi-
sions granting the board large author-
ity to license business: enterprises and
also the provision regulating the
charges of grist mills. It makes pro-
vision to preserve trade secrets, re-
ceipts and processes and provides for
witness fees and other expenses of in
vestigation."
The Wisconsin legislature is in ia
vor of bonding the state to build high
ways. The Wilcox joint resolution to
amend the constitution so as to permit
the state to bond itself to 1 per cent
of the value of the state property for
highway purposes was concurred in by
the assembly. This resolution was
defeated recently, but a reconsidera-
ton was entered by A~ssemblyman
Zarnke. It was concurred in by a vote
of 81 to 10, one more than is required
to pass a constitutional amendment.
1t takes 81 votes to pass a constitu-
tionaI amendment resolution in the
house.
The house concurred in the senate
bill exempting employers and agricul-
tural associations from the provisions
of the antitrust laws. The measure
now goes to the governor.
The house killed by a vote of 81 to
80 the finance committee bill which
would exempt breweries and war in
dustries, or other property destroyed
or reduced in value by legislation,
from certain payments under the
stated income tax laws. Assemblyman
Bartingale attempted to kill the bill
appropriating money for improve
ments at the different charitable and
penal institutions. The bill was con-
CURED in 90 to II. The main feature
of this bill is to purchase LIT acres Of
land at $204 per acre, to be added to
the prison farm.
High vaulting senators and assem-
blymen are giving Legislative Post
master Dinsmore a lot of sleepless
hours. The senators and assembly
men of whom he complained have de-
vised some scheme by which they
scale a nine-foot partition which
guards the mail boxes during the
hours the capitol post office is closed.
They then get their mail and skin out
the same way they came. Not that
any damage has been, caused by So
Ions getting their mail thus informally,
but the rules are that no one shall
enter the office during the closed
hours.
Assemblyman Petersen thinks a
barbed wire ENHANCEMENT would be
the thing. Assemblyman M. e. John
son favors a live wire which would
hold the culprit until he could be cap
tured alive. Mr.. Dinsmore still calcu-
1ates on a picket fence.
The general public does not care
whether the legislators get in or not.
They look at the lline-foot partition
and want to know who has the Alpine
characteristics.
Ignoring the claim, which was not
denied, that 90 per cent of the people
Of Grant county did not wish a NUM-
.ipal court created, the assembly vot-
ID such action, engrossing Mr.. Grin
dell's bill to that effect after a fight
of short duration led by Mr.. Ruka. the
representative from the northern part
of that county. His amendment to put
approval of the action up TO the coun-
ty board was rejected 43 to 15.
Mr.. Ruka claimed that the people
were solidly against the court and
stated that it was desired only by law
yers. He was backed by Mr.. Nolan,
chairman of the judiciary committee,
who was the only member of that
group to dissent from the committees
recommendation that the bill be
passed.
By Senator Bennett, providing for a
tuberculosis camp on the state forest
reserve.
By Senator Bennett, to establish the
position of field agent for the adult
blind of the state.
SIT. r." Memorial Plan Killed.
The present Wisconsin legislature
will not erect a memorial to Theodore
Roosevelt. A bill to accomplish that
purpose has been defeated in the lc~-
er house by a vote of 35 to "a. This
marks the final disposition of a con-
troversy which has continued between
the senate and assembly throughout
the session. 1t originated when the
assembly insisted on eliminating Mil
waukee as a possible site for the
memorial. The bill sought to effect a
compromise by leaving the location to