The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-05-10
EXPECT CLIMAX
IN BOOZE BATTLE
Vets and Drys in Legisla-
ture to Fight Out Bat
ties This Week.
OTHER BIG MEASURES
Py HERBERT LITTLE
nited Press Staff Correspondent

tUnlted Press STAN Correspondent
Madison, Wis. = The climax of the
liquor and taxation fights of the Wis
consin legislature will be reached this
week.
The two most important recommen-
dations of Governor John J. Blaine in
his special message, that the search
and seizure of homes by officers for
liquor be made more difficult, and that
sc, 100000 in tax revenue now paid on
property be shifted to income tax pay
ers, have reached the crucial point.
The Sachtjen bill to require positive
proof of the manufacture and sale of
liquor in homes before a warrant can
be secured, will be voted on Wednes-
day by the senate for the first time.
This bill, passed by the lower house
of the legislature, is recommend for
indefinite postponement by vote of 3
to 2 by the state affairs committee. At
present under the Severson state pro-
hibition enforcement law, officers can
secure warrants to search homes ION
reasonable knowledge and belief"
Tax Bill in Last Fight.
The senate some time during the
| week will be the scene of the first vote
on the taxation revision measure for
which Governor Blaine is exerting all.
his pressure. The bill was recommend
! ed favorably once, but was re-referred
to committee when conservative sena-
tors charged that the to 3 vote was
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sence of five committee members at
the time.
Blaine has threatened to veto all
| appropriation measures which are now
paid under the mill-taxes, that is, the
$2,500000 a year spent by the state
university and the nine normal schools,
unless this bill or some similar meas
ure is passed. He has made it plain
that he will not stand for any delay
in the 1925 session in tax matters.
The obsequies of proposal by Sena-
tor John Schumann, Watertown, to
submit referendum to the people in
April, 1924, on whether they want the
eighteenth amendment or the Volstead
act, also will be held next week Schu-
by decisive vote; both wet and dry
senate leaders opposing it, but a mo-
ton was made to reconsider the vote.
A resolution by Assemblyman Frank
Prescott, conservative from Milwau-
kee, asking senator LaFollette to come
out decisively against the Volstead act,
also will be killed Tuesday or Wednes-
day by the assembly, the LaFollette-
Blaine majority not wishing to en-
barrass their leader.
A legislative committee to investi-
gate the feasibility of state cement
manufacturing plant, to draw up q bill
to be introduced at the 1926 Iegisla-
ture, will be appointed if bill by
Senator Max Heck, Racine, is passed.
This bill, passage Of which is urged by
the state highway commission and the
joint finance committee, and disap-
proved by the senate state affairs COM
mittee, will be voted on Tuesday.
The Eugenics law will be the CEN
ter of its 'steenth fight of the present
session next Wednesday, when the bill
by Assemblyman Newcomb Spoor, Ber-
lin, to abolish the present physical ex-
animation for veneral diseases required
of all prospective bridegrooms, comes
to vote in the senate. The assembly
passed the bill, the senate approved it
in one vote, and then killed it, after
which it voted to reconsider. Two
amendments which would substitute the
filing of an official oath of freedom
from veneral disease by both contract
ing parties in securing a marriage IL
cense, are pending.
The session will speed up as soon as
the booze and tax fights are settled,
and resolutions will be adopted pro-
hibiting the introduction of any new
will except the appropriation measures
of the joint finance committee. Some
of the legislators are hoping that the
session will be ended by June Is, which
will be record for brevity among
Badger legislatures, many of the regu-
lar session heretofore carrying over
through July and into August.