Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1921-03-03
WAREHOUSE BILL
KILLED BY HOUSE
Assembly Votes Down C.nstitu-
tionaI Amendment.
8-H0UR LABOR BILL LOSES
Lower Body Votes, so to 80, Against
Measure-Concurs in Resolution
Asking Congress to Oppose
Large War Appropriations.

Large War Appropriations.
MadisOn.-The Wisconsin legisla-
lature is opposed to most of the con
stitutional amendments which have
been presented for consideration.
After long discussion il commit
tee rooms the assembly has killed
the constitutional amendment which
would permit the state to build ware
houses and storage houses. This pro-
posal was backed by the farmers and
the Socialists. 1t lost in the lower
house by tie vote of 40 to 40. There
have been many other constitutional
amendments of minor Importance
which have been before the legiSla
ture, but most of them have been
killed.
The assembly, by a vote of 60 to 30,
has again refused to pass the eight
hour labor bill This means that there
will be no eight-hour day legislation at
this session. BY vote of 70 to 8 the
assembly concurred in the Dennhardt
resolution asking congress to oppose
large war appropriations.
An additional appropriation of $50,
600 for the Wisconsin Veterans home
was passed by the senate and will go
TO the assembly for approval.
Another appropriation for the war
history commission allowing $4,000
for the coming two years was also
passed.
Senator Herman Bilgrien was re-
fused permission to withdraw his bach
elOr's tax BILL which has been the
cause of statewide comment.
The senate was Informed by the
Treasury department at Washington
official business and at state expense
are exempt from paying the tax on
transportation fares.
The chief clerk read an invitation
TO members of the legislature request
ing their presence at a reception TO be
given in their honor next Wednesday
evening by Gov. and Mrs. John J.
Blaine.
Now that the Wisconsin legislature
has killed the Higgins resolution ask
ing the state of Michigan to cede the
northern peninsula, request has
arisen in Michigan asking that certain
boundary line territory in Wisconsin
be ceded to Michigan. The city of
Hurley is in the strip of territory that
Michigan claims. The Wisconsin ,leg-
islature has been notified that Michi-
gan will appoint a special committee
and will ask Wisconsin to take up the
boundary question.
These questions are a revival of a
controversy that began 81 years ago
when Michigan was admitted to the
Union. The tract that Michigan wants,
assessed at nearly $10,000,000, has been
part of Wisconsin since the boundary
line was established in 1887, but Mich
igan repeatedly claimed the district on
the ground that an error was made by
the surveyors.
Michigan came into possession of the
upper peninsula following the sO-called
Toledo war" in 1885, or two years be-
fore Michigan became a state. Ohio
had been admitted to statehood in
1902, with an indefinite northern boun-
dairy. The act of 1905, organizing
Michigan territory, had fixed the Mich
igan boundary to include the land on
which the city of Toledo and adjacent
territory is situated. When Governor
Lucas of Ohio issued a proclamation
assuming control of the district the
governor of Michigan called out the
militia, which proceeded to Toledo to
prevent Ohio from taking control. a
few shots were fired, but there was
no bloodshed.
Congress settled the dispute by
granting the land to Ohio and giving
Michigan the northern peninsula.
The Matheson prohibition enforce
ment bill, supplanting the Mulberger
law, was advanced TO third reading
and engrossment in the assembly, 81
to Al, after two-hOur debate in
which series of amendments of
fered by the vets were rejected with
regularity.
G. S. Canright, director of the Sc
eurities' division of the state railroad
commission, announced a decision to
the effect that the Cooperative Soci-
ETY. of America has no authority to
sell its memberships, debentures, or
any other securities in this state. The
society has operated extensively in
southeastern Wisconsin and number
of Its statesmen were arrested in Ra-
cine on charge of violating the blue
sky law.