Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-04-21

night No. 389 S, relating to enforcement
| of final Judgment against insurance COM
! panes, was laid over. The chair appointed
as Senate members Of the committee to Wis
it the National guard encampment, Messrs
Mills and Thayer. The Hurd bill to. regu..
late the sale of cigarettes was, on motion Of
! NJ. Solliday, referred to the judiciary COM
mittee.
The committee on agriculture reported
favorably to the Senate on the 10Th the
bill to prevent the spread Of the San Jose
scale, and it went to the committee on
claims. The joint committee on claims re-
ported No. 1i9 s. the Pill to to prevent pr com
! without recommendation. The bill author
izing a loan to the Tomah guards for an
ponement The state civil-service bill and
tic bill to provide for a board Of legislative
| visitors for the university were also re-
ported for indefinite postponement. The
| joint resolution No 50, made a partial re
port, and promised a full detailed report
N the 10th. The reports is as follows:
| Stills referred to committee, Ill; reported
ror indefinite postponement, Al; reported
for passage, 81. Amount of appropriations
asked by Senate bills, 81 ,948, 835. 80; amount
$4O6, 67779; total, 50. 800. $1,000; deductions
made by committee, $546, 1853 81 amount of
$1,i8o9, 1883. This is $50, 62s 40 less than
! the appropriations made in 1895. Senator
! Devos introduced new bill to take the
place of the one vetoed by the governor
exempting park lands from taxation. The
president appointed as Senate members of
the committee to fix a date for recess Sen
atorS Austin, Baxter, Mills and Whitehead.
Bill No. 276 S, appropriating, 5000 to the
apportionment committee of 1855, was
passed with eight dissenting votes--Sen-
ators Lamoreux, Mayer, McMullen Mum
Bills were passed follows: No. 288 S,
continuing the 1-5-mill tax for the state
university. 1t provides that One-fourth of
the money realized shall go to the depart
ment of mechanics and engineering, $4,000
to the summer school and $1,000 to the pur-
chase of books for the law library; No. $40
! S, detaching territory from Forest county
and creating the town of CavOur; No. 35J
! S, relating to struck juries; No. 385 S. to
corporations; No. 3S8 S, to protect policy
| holders in mutual fire insurance companies;
No 39l ), TO prevent combinati0ns OF fire
to a tollbridge in the city of Boscobel; No.
SO A, authorizing county aid in county i'm
proponents; No. 282 A relating to county
pensatiOn of delegates to state fairs; No.
$50 A. authorizing telegraph and telephone
semblyman Kraus' bill, No. 136 A, reduc-
| ing the exemptions of earnings of married
men from $50 to $40 per month, was re-
| ported by the Senate judiciary committee
| for non concurrence. Senator Roehr argued
| for the passage of the bill and moved that
| it be laid over until evening. It was SO
| ordered. Mr.. True's bill, No. 378 A, pro-
viding for the reorganization of the State
| Agricultural society by the creation of a
| state DOafu OF agriculture, was lald over
until the evening session, after an amend
ment offered by Senator Pierce that the
bill take effect January, 1898, instead Of
on passage, and another by Senator Aus
tin keeping the fair in Milwaukee county
permanently. Assembly bills were killed
as follows: No. 348 A, to reduce the rate
| Of interest on tax sale certificates No. $40
A, authorizing the acquisition of tollroadss
| by the city CT Milwaukee and the issue of
| bonds; No. 391 A, relating to abstracts of
title; No. 430 A, relating to trust com
panies; No 445 A, comforting the privilege
| Of gathering ice on owners of AUDITING
lands; No. 502 A. relating to, practice in
| circuit courts. The bill authorizing the
| Baptist state convention to change it's name
was killed because it was found to be I'M
bills, No. $50 S, providing for the enforce
mept of the collections of judgments
controversy between Senator's Roehr and
against insurance corporations, brought out
Austin. Senator Austin offered an amend
ment striking out the latter provision, but
it was lost and the bill passed to third
/ these bills, No. 800 S, to protect insurers
! in placing risks by prohibiting reinsurance
in unauthorized companies, was also sought
! to be amended by provision that it should
not apply to fire insurance companies. The
Amendment was lost-15 to 13-and the bill
was ordered to enSrossment and third read
| ing. The Assembly amendment to Senator
! Welton's bill putting the police and fire
] third classes on a civil-service system was
| cOncurred in. 1t provides that the pres
ent members Of the departments may hold
| No 257 S, relating to invalid assessments
| certificates, was Indefinitely postponed. The
labor bill, No. 1S9 S, which was killed but
| reconsideration of which was moved by
| Senator bennett, came up last. The Sen
ate voted to reconsider the vote and the
| bill was sent back to the committee on
state affairs.
When the Senate met on the night of the
| 18th Mr.. Burke moved a reconsideration of
the vote of concurrence in amendments to
| No. 107 S, relating to fire and police boards
| in cities of the second and third class, and
asked that it lie over. The Senate voted
! down the motion for delay and then allowed
| the motion for reconsideration to lie over
till morning by request of Mr. Lamoreux
There There MAS RrotraG TED debate oyer No
rianism in the public schools, in which
Messrs Roehr and Baxter argued for the
bill and Mr.; Lamoreux, and Mr., Arson
| the Senate killed the bill, 10 to u, the vote
being: For the bill, Baxter, Conger, Den
nett, Deyos,, Green, McGilliyray Mills,
worth, u; against, Austin, Burke, Davis,
Fisher, Lamoreux, Mayer, McMullen,
Whitman, Withee, Youmans, 49, Mr.. True's
bill 20 provide for a state board of agri-
culture was ordered to third reading after
! the adoption Of amendments making it
| take effect January /, 1898, and contemplate
| ing the leaving Of the management of the
! fair for this year unchanged. The Senate
/ passed under suspension of the rules: No.
! 665 A, relating to the drawing of jurors;
! NO. OOH "A. FelaIlnS TO the town OF Boomer,
/ in Chippewa, county; No 249 S, to facilitate
| the giving of bonds with amendment
! Guiding Milwaukee county from it's opera
! tions).
The Senate on the 10th killed the Hall
anti-pass resolution and passed the resolu-
| ton for q constitutional convention. If the
| Assembly passes the resolution the people
! can say whether or not they want to revise
the constitution. Assemblyman Halls reso-
luton for q constitutional amendment pro-
! hibiting the issuance of passes and franks
! to public officials, was killed without the
( dignity of debate by vote of IS to Is.
The first result was II to IA, but before it
was announced Senator Munson was on his
feet to change his vote from no to- aye.
Senator Whitman was the only absentee at
the roll call Senator Mills was not in his
seat at the time but came in time to vote
no. Senator Burke explained that he voted
for Inconvenience because the question is
likely to come before the constitutional con
vention. The vote was as follows on the
question of inconvenience: Ayes, Austin,
Burke, Devos, Fisher, Green, LamoreuX,
Mayer, McMullen, Munson, Pierce, Phillips,
Riordan, Roehr Solliday, Stebbins, Thayer,
Withee, Youmans- noes Baxter, Conger,
Davis, bennett, Mailer McGillivray, Mills,
Putnam, Stout Welton, Whelan, White