Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-06-17
WOMEN'S RIGHTS
MEASURE IS UP
Fight Expected Over Bill in Sen
ate This Week.
TO HAVE SAME RIGHTS AS MEN
Highway Measure for Two Per Cent
Privilege Tax on All Motor We
hicIes for Construction and
Maintenance Passed.

the senate this week over their bill to
give them equal opportunity with
men.
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 advanced 46 to "a. The house by
a vote of 81 to 10 incorporated an
amendment by Peterson giving women
''the freedom of contract" This pro-
vision was originally stricken out of
the bin 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"
II is doubtful whether the senate
win concur in the Peterson amend
ment. Should the senate refuse to do
80 the women's organization will ask
that the bill be killed. They are ask
lng for complete equal rights meas
Ilrc and VIII refuse to take an emascu-
lated bill.
The big Hirst highway bill for a 2
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 s.
An amendment by Senator Jennings
was Incorporated in the bill which viii
mean that the money from trucks and
traiIers 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,
900 annually.
The house passed the Peterson bill
providing the earnings of public util-
flies in excess of 8 per cent shall be
used to pay off the bonded indebted
ness of the plant This bill is the
result of hearing given by members
of the assembly to the state railroad
commission early in the session.
An effort by Assemblyman f. w.
Downs, Bayfield,, 20 kill a bin giving
che railroad commission power to fix
the rates of competing telephone com
panies and to raise the rates of a
company, where it is shown that the
competition is to drive the competitor
uthlessly out of the field, failed and
the bill was engrossed. The fight for
the measure was lead by Assembly
man II. A. Anderson and Assembly
man A. f. Matheson.
without roll call the house killed
bill for the licensing Of embalmers
and by a vote of 70 TO Il slaughtered
a measure which gave the state board
of medical examiners complete power
in the revOking of licenses. The bill
Cor free high school district In
Oneida county was killed Senator
Beyer's measure giving cities the right
10 operate milk depots was killed 80
to 80. A similar measure has already
been advanced In the house. A bin
TO give the Milwaukee common coun-
Gil power to pay members of the
board of police and fire commission
egs was killed 55 to So
The senate engrossed and then
passed committee bin extending the
time for which railroad tickets may
be used In this state to 30 days. The
time at present is only "a hours.
The Nye junior college bin was con-
Cured in by the assembly. An effort
10 kill the bin failed and the measure
was then engroSsed by vote of 81
10 30. The bill now goes to the gov
ernor and Ii is expected that he win
sign It.
The house concurred In a bin which
prohibits the employment of female
bell hops under twenty-one years of
age.
1t will cost Sl0,115,577 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 !, 1921, will be
S4,047312 and for the second year
$4.036G65, During the first year the
capital or new building account win
be $3.50, 2S3.4S and for the second year
$527, 500. The operating, Including the
core CT the chronic insane which is
estimated at S950OO0 each year. will
be $2,2T4,79i for the first year and
1892, 900 for the second year.
Hope to Reduce Death Rate.
With the enactment by the present
legislature of a law making pneu.
monia and encephalitis letharglca
(sleeplng slckness) reportable. Wiscon-
sin will endeavor to reduce the death
rates from these diseases i'm the steady
but sure way tuberculosis mortality
has been diminished Physicians are
now required to report all such cases
10 the local health officer. Twenty-siN
deaths from encephalitis were report