River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-04-21
EXPECT D. K. ON
MARKETING BILL
Joint Committee of Legislature
to Report This Week.
SENATE CONFIRMS MCPHERSON
Appointment of Milwaukeean to State
Board of Education Is Approved
Bill by Messing Would Cut
Prescriptions to 81.

Madison.-The farmers marketing
bill is expected back in the assembly
early this week from the joint COM
mittee on finance and the bill will be
recommended favorably.
When this DILL came before the house
1t was the storm center of one OF the
most spirited debates ever held in the
legislature this year. The bill provides
for extending the powers of present
market commission so that the cost or
producing farmer crops and manufac-
turing products may be fully inves-
tigated.
Another effort will be made in the
house to strike from the bill that pro-
vision which permits the marketing
commission to investigate the cost of
producing manufactured products. This
provision of the biz IS aimed al cloth
/ ing establishments, shoe dealers and
| all other manufactured products made
and offered for sale IN Wisconsin. By
vote of 45 to 43 the assembly refused
to strike this provision from the bill
and the measure then went to the
| finance committee for further consider
alton. Taken as q whole the farmers
are lined up on one side of this bill
with a representative from villages
and cities on the other.
The appointment of Harley f. Nick
erson, Milwaukee, to the state board
of education was confirmed by the
senate without a dissenting vote.
Senator Olson introduced his bill to
place the vocational education board
and the state board of education I'M
der the superintendent of public in
struction.
Governor BIaine's veto of the Eau
Claire municipal court bill was finally
sustained in the senate with only Sen
ator Bentley voting in opposition. This
came after a move to send the bill
back to the governor without action
was defeated 16 to II.
Merely by way of reducing the price
of liquor for those who use it, Assem-
blyman Charles Messing. Milwaukee,
will introduce bill cutting down the
price of prescriptions to 81.
Mr.. Meisings bill is founded on the
theory that such articles as liquor and
wines when used for medicinal pur-
poses should be sold at uniform fee,
and he has decided that ST for pre-
scription is a fair price.
Spanish-American war veterans will
note be allowed to enter the Wisconsin
Veterans home established for the G.
| A. RS Without a dissenting vote the
senate killed the Bentley bill for this
purpose.
| BY II 20 II vote the senate passed
the ArnolG bill to allow the mayor of
Milwaukee 10 appoint men on the board
of fire and police commissioners with
| out confirmation of the common coun-
Gil. A motion for indefinite postpone
ment by Senator Czerwinski failed to
kill the bill. Senators Czerwinski and
Morris led the opposition to the bill
Establishment of an Industrial Home
for the Blind where opportunity will be
4 given lU llOSC WIN 0IC PhS oiNoAiy obA@
to find employment and earn a living
was recommended In report just sub
mitted to the legislature by Elizabeth
/ d. MacCarthy, state field agent for
adult blind. Some of the conditions
which Miss MacCarthy has found in
the state are shocking. Miss MacCarthy
estimates that there are now $500
blind persons domiciled in Wisconsin.
That by hard labor this session of
the Wisconsin legislature can be
brought to a close In about six weeks
is the view expressed by some of the
members, based on status of business
in both senate and assembly. OF $50
| bills introduced In the house only $50
remain to be considered. OF 15S bills
received by the assembly from the SEN
ate only A remain to be considered
OF 362 bills introduced into the senate
AS remain to be considered and of 1873
assembly bills received by the senate
| 65 remain to be considered. These fig
ures indicate conclusively that the as
sembly is ahead of the senate in the
work of the session. By the applica-
| ton of the speed method the work of
the session can be greatly facilitated.
The report shows that the assembly
has acted more expeditiously on senate
bills than the senate has acted upon
| assembly bills.
James Nevin Of Madison resigned to
| Governor Blaine as a member of the
conservation commission, the resigna-
ton to take effect May 1.
! Callahan Heads State Schools.
! The election Of john Callahan as
state superintendent of schools in
Wisconsin probably means the encour-
agement of legislative program for
greater GENERALIZATION of educational