The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-03-11
BLAINE VETOES
RENT AID BILL
Governor Kills Measure Appro-
priatlng $4,000.
UP TO RAILWAY COMMISSION
Executive Says That His DisapproVai
of Appropriation in No Way At
fects Merits of Rent Law, but
Insists on Economy.

Madison, March Ex-Governor Blaine
vetoed the bill appropriating $4,000
to carry on rent regulation in the city
of Milwaukee. The governor declares
that his disapproval of the appropri-
alton in no way affects the merits OF
the rent law, and it Is the duty of the
railroad commission to administer the
law properly, and in his opinion there
are sufficient funds for that purpose.
This is Blaine's first veto and it is
based on his economy theory.
"This law affected but one county in
the state" said Governor Blaine. "Fru-
gality, at least ought to have tempted
the commission to have procured, il
possible, the necessary offices in some
of the public buildings of the city or
county of Milwaukee, in which case,
if they had done so, they would have
saved in rentals, janitor service, re-
modelling Of offices and furniture and
office equipment, over $4,000.
81 also find that the commission in
the administration of It's functions, in
creased other operating expenses with
out regard to the amount apprOpri-
ated to it by the legislature.
"This disapprOval of the appropria-
Lion in no way affects the merits OF
the rent law. Until the rent law is
repealed the duty restricts the rail-
road commission to administer it prop
erly, and in my opinion, there are suf-
ficient funds for this purpose"
No changes are expected in the pri-
mary election laws at this session of
the legislature. An effort to amend
the primary law so that the state
would pay the expense of delegates TO
the party convention was killed in the
assembly this week by an overwhelm-
ing vote.
1t was claimed that many delegates
elected to state political conventions
did not attend because of the ex-
pense and a bill was introduced TO
have the state pay the expenses. The
committee made an unfavOrable re-
port of the bill and the house swal-
lowed the measure.
The house has also recommended
for indefinite pOStpOnement the Peter
son bill, which would amend the pri-
mary election law so that man once
defeated in the primary could not be
come an independent candidate for Of
flee i'll the fall election. 1t is claimed
that this bill was aimed at James
Thompson, La Crosse.
There seems to be little sentiment
for the Ingalls, bill to change the pri
mary election law so that delegates
shall be elected to state convention
biennially and that state conventions
be held in June rather than in Sep
tember This is an abandonment of
the primary election idea. The bill is
to be considered by the elections com
mittee of the house this week, but in
dications are against the measure.
Wisconsin has its first SpiritualiSt
legislator.
He is ASSembIyman John Peltier.
Brussels, Door county, farmer and
fisherman, whose spirit counsellor is
Patrick Reilly, a lawyer of Dublin, Ire
land, who lived 40 years ago. During
the seances the spirit is Familiarity
known as Pat"
Mr.. Peltier has already achieved the
following distinctions:
The first member of the legislature
in Wisconsin TO be called to public
life by spirits.
Introduced the first bill at the be-
hest of a voice from beyond the Dor
derline"-that of Doctor Green an
eminent American physician who is
deceased.
Cast the first vote as the result of
communication with spirits.
Assemblyman Peltier is not one to
camoufiage. He told me he had no
sympathy with spiritualists who hide
their belief; that he has been in COM
municatiOn With the other world for
SO years and that all his neighbors
know about it, but they elected him
because they realized he was honest.
The medium through whom Mr. Pei
tier conducts his conversation with
Pat is Alexander DewisSiger. an old
friend and neighbOr, who years ago
when a boy, discovered he possessed
the power of hearing spirit voices He
was lost in the woods while hunting
cows and was guided safely home by
the voices, Mr.. Peltier explained.
Shortly after this Mr.. Dewissiger's
powers came to be recognized in the
neighborhood and colony of spirit
ualists was organized under the name
of the Spiritualists' Philosophical So
ciety, which now consists of AZ fami-
lies in the vicinity of Brussels, Mr..
Peltier, who is a founder and trustee,
explained.
All of this was explained to the re-
porter by the assemblyman, who de-
clared that his spiritualistic expert
ences cover virtually every known
phenomenon, including actual CONVEX
sation with his two dead sons and
daughters naturalization of the faces