The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05
STATE news ITEMS
Telegraphic Glance of Events
Through Wisconsin.
LEGISLATURE is NEAR CLOSE
Pending Legislation Can Be Disposed
Of In From Two TO Three Weeks,
According to Chief Clerk of
Assembly.

According to ChIef Clerk OF
Assembly
Madison. June 4.-The legislature
can clean up Its business in from two
to three weeks, according to CHIEF
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 conclu-
sion on the fact that there are only
j95 assembly bills in the senate, ~
bills pending in the assembly, with IL
to be taken from the table, four in
engrossment, one at third reading and
one in conference. The senate work
| is well 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 bills
scheduled for assembly committee
hearings this week are fewer than
those to be considered by senate COM
mittees. Assembly committees have
only seven assembly bills and ID SEN
ate bills, three assembly joint resolu-
tions and one senate joint resolution.
Senate committees will consider IL
senate bills, IL assembly bills and one
assembly joint resolution.
The assembly finance committee has
the Pullen and Zumach land settle
ment bills, the former haavng been
| drafted especially for heroes Of the
world war. The Zumach bill is in
tended principally for occupation and
development of northwestern Wiscon-
sin lands. The Wilkinson land mort
gage association council measure also
/ is before the same committee, to-
gether with the land settlement bill OF
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 recogni-
| ton board which will take up volun-
tary subscriptions, and the other pro-
! yiding a fund Of 100000 for needy
soldiers because Of wounds or illness,
and the Metcalfe bill authorizing c0un-
ties to issue Bbnds 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, a 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 bin is practically the
same as that vetoed by Gov. E. L. Phil
| ipp at the time of the fight on confr-
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
| 100000 for relief of sick and wound
| ed, will come up for hearing this week.
Probes Process of Bleaching Flour.
Madison, June 4.-The state dairy
and food department has started in
vsestigatfon of mills bleaching flour by
electricity, said Commissioner George
j. Weigle. The law prohibits bleach
ing by chemical means and analyses
are being made to ascertain whether
electrical bleaching reacts chemically
on -four. If this be true, electric
bleaching can be prosecuted under the
present law. Analyses also are being
conducted in behalf of grist mill pa
irons to learn if mill owners are hold