The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-01-29
WISCONSIN SOLONS.

TEN bills were presented in the House on
the goth, the most important of which pro-
vided fer the repeating of the Bennett law.
In the Senate, Conner offered a bill provid-
ing that express companies shall render re-
ports of business to the State Treasurer,
and pay an annual license fee of per cent
on their gross earnings. If any express
company fails to make report or makes
false statement it shall forfeit $4,000 to the
State. Senator Conner also offered reso-
luton providing for the appointment of
special joint comm ittee, consisting of four
from the Senate and seven from the Assem-
bly,, to be known as the "World'S Fair Com
mittee, to which shall be referred all bills
pertaining to the Wisconsin exhibit at the
Worlds Fair. A bill was also presented in
the Senate amending certain provisions of
the Cooper election law which received its
first trial in November last The FetZer-
Scofeld contested election case came up
in the Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections. The presentation of evidence
will occupy nearly three days, and then ar
guments will be made
On the 21st an avalanche of bills de-
scended upon the House, among the most
important of which was one to invest tho
State funds to draw interest: another TO
squelch all forms of trusts and make bar
gains and contracts with them unlawful
and void; a third, to enjoin the Milwaukee
and Northwestern Roads to reduce their
fares by 1 cent per mile. and to sell 500
mile books that are transferable. This is a
pretty severe rap at these powerful COR
pOrati0ns, and its passage is not likely.
Indications are that the medical legisla-
ton of this session will be accomplished
only after. big row. and this time the
"regularsn will be on the defensive, while
the eclectics will have their inning. The
Committee on Education have decided to
advise the absolute repeal of the Bennett
law. There will be a majority and minority
report, and the fate of the law will be de-
cided upon strict party lines-one side to
wipe it out of existence and the other to
amend. No definite action of Importance
was taken by either house upon other
matters.
IN both houses. on the 22d, bill was in
troduced by Republicans to amend the Ben
nett law. The greater portions of the pro-
visions of the Bennett law are incorporated
in the bill, but there is no definition of what
shall be considered a "Schooln under the
new law, and parochial as we'll private
schools are included as supplying the edu-
cation needed. The only reference to the
English language is a provision that every
child shall learn to read and write it. The
school age is placed from to Is, and there
are specifications as to the branches to
be taught in any school Provisions in re-
gard to child labor are included in the BILL
and the execution of the law and prosecu-
lions of it's viOlatOrS still remain with the
school directors The bills in both houses
were sent to the Committee on Education.
Another bill proposes to place all penal and
reformatory institutions under the man
agement OF one board. The House is hav-
ing trouble in deciding the number OF
copies Of the Governors message to be
printed, and the languages in which it
shall be published.
FIVE bills were introduced in the Lagis-
lature on the 23d. The only ones Of i'm
portance, however, were Senator McBride's
authorizing the State Treasurer to credit
the Omaha Railroad Company with SO, AL
enormously collected, and bill appropri-
at1ng $5O,50O to the Veterans Home at
Waupaca. Both houses adjourned until
tho oath