Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-06-17
WOMEN'S RIGHTS
BILL IN SENATE
Battle Expected Over Measure
Which Gives Females Same
Privileges as Males.
HIGHWAY BILL is PASSED
Provides Two Per Cent Tax on All
Vehicles for Construction of Roads
Bill Extending the Time on
Railroad Tickets Approved.

Madison.-The Wisconsin senate this
week promises to see a battle royal
in the interest of the measure to give
women equal rights with the men OF
the state.
The bill originally passed the SEN
ate in a form Objectionable to wom-
en-. The house amended the bill
and put it into form as the
women desired. The measure was
then advanceds46 to 3d. The house by
a vote of 50 to 10 incorporated an
amendment by Peterson giving women
"the freedom of contract" This pro-
vision was originally stricken out OF
the bill in the senate. Assemblyman
A. E. Matheson lead the fight against
the measure.
AS advanced the bill declares that:
"Women shall have the same rights
and privileges under the law as men
in the exercise of suffrage, freedom
of contract, choice of residence, jury
service, holding Office, holding and
conveying property, care and custody
of children and in all other respects.
1t is doubtful whether the senate
will concur in the Peterson amend
ment. Should the senate refuse to do
so the women's organization will ask
that the bill be killed. They are ask
ing for a complete equal rights meas
ure and will refuse to take an emascu-
lated BILL
The big Hirst highway bill for a z
per cent privilege tax on all motor
vehicles for construction and main
tenance of the highways was en-
crossed and then passed in the senate
20 to 8.
An amendment by Senator Jennings
was Incorporated in the bill which will
mean that the money from trucks and
trailers licensed by the city of Mil
waukee shall be returned to Milwau-
kee. 1t was estimated by Senator Jen-
nings that this would amount to $780,
600 annually.
The house passed the Peterson bill
providing the earnings of public util-
tiles in excess of per cent shall be
used to pay off the bonded indebted
ness of the plant. This bill is the
result of a hearing given by members
of the assembly to the state railroad
commission early in the session.
An effort by Assemblyman f. w.
Downs, Bayfield,, to kill bill giving
the railroad commission power to fix
the rates of competing telephone COM
panies and to raise the rates Of
company, where it is shown that the
competition is to drive the competitor
ruthlessly out of the field, failed and
the bill was engrossed. The fight for
the measure was lead by Assembly
man H. A. Anderson and Assembly
man A. g. Matheson.
Without a roll call the house killed
a bill for the licensing of embalmers
and by vote of 70 to II slaughtered
q measure which gave the state board
Of medical examiners complete power
in the revoking Of licenses. The bill
for free high school district in
Oneida county was killed. Senator
Beyer's measure giving cities the right
to operate milk depots was killed so
"A
been advanced in the house. A bill
to give the Milwaukee common coun-
ell power to pay members of the
board of police and fire commissioners
was killed SO to 30.
The senate engrossed and then
passed a committee bill extending the
time for which railroads tickets may
be used in this state to 30 days. The
time at present is only "a hours.
The Nye junior college bill was con-
Cured in by the assembly. An effort
to kill the bill failed and the measure
was then engrossed by a vote of 81
to 80. The bill now goes to the gov
ernor and it is expected that he will
sign it.
The house concurred in a bill which
prohibits the employment of female
bell hops under twenty-one years of
age.
1t will cost S10,115,577 for the char
table and penal institutions of the
state during the coming two years,
according to the bills reported by the
Joint finance committee. When the
revolving funds are not included, the
expense of these institutions for the
year beginning July 1, 1921, will be
S4,047,312 and for the second year
$4,036,665 During the first year the
capital or new building account will
be $3.50, 2S3.48 and for The second year
1927 500 The operating, including the
care of the chronic insane which is
estimated at $950,000 each year, will
be $3,274,794 for the first year and
50, 800, 800 for the second year.
Drys to Make Enforcement Drive.
Thanking God for the progress al
ready made by prohibition in Wiscon-
sin. trustees of the state Anti-Saloon
league announced that they had voted,
at their annual meeting, to carry the
fight for enforcement now centered in
legislative halls into every county. To
wage a successful fight, the trustees
declare that forces must be increased
in each locality. A great statewide
law enforcement convention, to be
held at some psychological time" is
suggested, to be followed by law-and-
order rallies in every community.
May Lower Death Rate.
With the enactment by the present
legislature of a law making pneu-
monia and encephalitis lethargica