Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-03-17

was party division in the debate,
Messrs. Ringle, dem, and Mills and
Deleglise, reps, advocating the passage
Of the bill, and Messrs. Smith, dem,
and Burdick, Tucker, Mahoney, Coch-
rane and Putnam, reps, taking the
opposite view The vote, too. was
somewhat non-partisan, though all
democrats except Messrs. Danielson,
Edmonds, Evans. Gaynor, Hunt, Jami-
son, Jennings, Quiggs, Smith and
Wheelihan, voted for the measure,
while the republicans voting the other
way were Messrs. Deleglise. Jeske,
Lamberson, McDonough, N1ilbraith.
Mills, Nelson, Perkins. Pierce and Suel-
flow In other words ten democrats
voted against passage, and ten republi-
cans voted for passage. The bill was
passed 81 to ~.
Assembly bills We're passed as follows:
To apportion the school money col
lccted by towns and received from the
state on the third Monday in March
or soon thereafter.
Authorizing the state to loan $4,000
to the Evergreen City Guard Armory
company, Of Sheboygan.
Permitting persons holding a single
license to sell liquor to be drank either
on or off the saloon premises. Under
the present law a license must be taken
out to cover each kind Of sale. The
vote on the bill was 50 to 40.
Assembly bills We're killed as follows:
Reducing the legal rate of interest to
per cent.
Empowering J. A Croweu to dam
Pine river, Florence county.
Making hotel keepers liable for deaths
due to escaping gas.
Making an employer liable for dam
ages sustained by an employe without
contributory negligence on the part Of
the latter, and also making negligent
employees liable to their employers for
accidents due to such employees.
Permitting as high as $4,000 to be
awarded us damages for accidental
deaths.
Making labor day legal holiday.
Applying all money collected from the
cX-state ueasurers to the common
school fund.
Giving inn-keepers lien upon the
personal earnings Of any boarder for
the amount which may be due on
board.
Madison, March 9-The bill permit
ting gaslight companies to deal in gas
stoves and ranges aroused some discus
sion in the senate. Mr.. Kruszka OBJ
jected to it on the ground that it would
create a monopoly Mr.. Phalen said the
only opponents of the bill were few
parties who were now selling these
stoves, and this constituted one Of the
strongest reasons for the law. MI.
Bechtner moved to refer the bill to
the committee on commerce and manu-
features, and this was carried by
vote of Is to II.
Assembly bills were non-conculred
in: To provide for making the refusal
of a public school teacher to make re-
quired reports to the county superin-
tendent grounds for annulment of his
certificate.
Senate bills were killed: Providing
that all parties selling liquor under
VI Spclldl SI<'LlP Isl->
shall be held subject to local license
tax; to limit the number of terms of
county treas,lrers; to extend the lien
laws of the state to the threshers of
grain.
The bill appropriating S537.4O to Geo.
H. Kroncke for salary and mileage was
passed by the assembly. Other as
sembly bills passed were: To prohibit
the marriage of first cousins; to permit
the removal Of bodies Of dead from
Sylvan cemetery, Fond du Lac county;
relating to penalties for selling without
license; to authorize James Spaulding
to erect a dam.
The following bills were indefinitely
postponed: To appropriate money to
the Wisconsin Firemens association;
fixing the salaries of county judges;
to appropriate money to VIM. Schillng-
law; to exempt property Of medical
societies from taxation: to authorize
the supreme court to determine cleo
tons by manadamus