Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-06-24
Beer AMENDMENT
BEFORE SENATE
Upper Branch of Legislature Will
Tackle Problem This
Week.
PERMITS MAKING HOME BREW
conant Bill to Repeal the Two-Cent
Rail Passenger Fare Approved
by Senate-Ncw Goes to
the Assembly.


Madison.-Two big problems are to
be settled by the upper house of the
Wisconsin legislature during the
week.
The first for consideration by
the senate will be the assembly
permit the manufacture Of home brew,
rot for sale, under the prohibition act.
When this bill was introduced into
the senate at the suggestion of Gov
ernOr Blaine, the bill neither legalized
nor permitted the manufacture OF
homemade breWS and wines for home
use. This amendment has been struck
out in the assembly by a vote of AZ to
80 and the bill has been sent back
to the senate in original form favored
by Governor Blaine.
The second big problem before the
senate this week is the ingalls, pri-
mary election bill. This measure will
legalize holding party conventions.
Those who are opposed to the bill
claim that the ingalls, measure will
destroy the primary law in the state.
This bill has already passed the as
sembly and was killed in the senate
last week by vote Of 10 to a. Sen
ator Titus moved a reconsideration
which brings the bill up for consider
alton.
The senate passed the Conant bill to
repeal the 2-cent passenger fare bill in
the state. Should this bill pass the
assembly it may mean that the rail-
road commission will have full author
ity to fix rates in the state. A case
is now being heard in Washington
that will determine the powers Of the
railroad commission in this respect.
The senate refused, 81 to IL, to ex-
tend the widows exemptions from $780,
900, as provided in the Arnold inheri-
lance tax bill, to $4,000, as provided
in the Jennings amendment.
Senator Conant then offered an
amendment to exempt all insurance up
to $4,000. This amendment was
adopted without discussion and the
assembly amendment was sent back
with concurrence. The Arnold bill
will now be ready for the governor
when the assembly concurs in the Con-
ant amendment.
The Bennett bill to protect tobacco
growers by means of uniform con-
tracts was engrossed. This bill also
provides that tobacco shall not be sold
while in the field. The purpose of the
bill is to protect the growers from the
alleged practice of the buyers in re.
pudiating early contracts.
BY vote of IL to IA, the senate en-
crossed the Czerwinski bill that limits
the public advertising in Milwaukee to
the daily newspapers.
There may be no more emergency ap-
propriations. By a vote of 81 to %
the assembly refused to kill the Bar
tingale bill to repeal the emergency law
and then engrossed the measure and
passed it. The emergency law was
placed on the statute books in 1915,
and under it over a. million dollars
have been advanced to departments
that have not kept within their appro-
priations. The Bartingale measure
wipes the entire law off the statute
books.
Assemblyman John L. Dahl led the
fight for the bill and was sustained by
Assemblymen Robert Caldwell and
Frank H. Fowler. The bill was OPP
posed by Assemblyman Wallace In
gals of Racine.
Assemblyman Polakowski said that
he believed there should be a limited
appropriation to the emergency board,
as suggested by Governor Blaine in his
message. The house refused to kill the
bill and the measure was then passed.
BY a vote Of "a to 33 the house
killed the bill appropriating $1,000 to
enforce a law requiring the pasteuriza-
ton of whey and skinned milk that is
to be returned to the farms. The house
passed a bill appropriating 5000 for
the repair of the first territorial CAPT.
toI at Belmont The house killed a bill
to repeal one of the municipal courts
in BAYFIELD, county. Governor Blaine's
veto of the G. E. Haugen bill for the
Interpolation of appointive officials
was sustained, so to 3. The Vollmer
bill providing for extending sewage
mains in Milwaukee to outlying dis
tricts was engrossed. This is a COM
promise measure that has been agreed
upon by all interested parties.
By a vote of SO to 10 the assembly
concurred in the Peterson bill which
permits school boards to levy taxes.
Commercial Secretaries Elect.
At the closing session of the conven-
ton of the Wisconsin Association of
Commercial Secretaries in Oshkosh the
following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Don E. Mowry, Madison; vice
president, M. T. Jacobs, Beloit; secre-
tary, d. A. Caldwell, Marshfield; as
sistant secretary, H. G. COrFett, APP
pleton; treasurer Lee /. YOrkson,
Waupaca; directors, D. E. Mowry, NJ.
7. Jacobs, D. A. Caldwell, L. I. York
son, Edward R. Smith, Oshkosh, Chal-
mer B. Traver, Milwaukee, b. c. Ev-
bingham, La Crosse.
Firemen Close Big Tournament.
Henry Vessel, Oconomowoc, was re-
elected president of the Wisconsin
Firemen's association at the thirty
fourth annual state tournament which
closed a three-day session at Whitewa-