Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-02-18


Mr.. Legried, compelling railway COM
panies to give free transportation to
shippers of live stock; by Mr.. Peterson,
repeating the law giving compensation
to county agricultural society delegates
&c the state fair; by Mr.. W. A. Jones,
elections and to secure pure practices
in politics. The special order for II
o'clock was Mr.. Davidson's bill
compelling registers OF deeds in
May Of each year to return
to the various assessors a record
of the mortgages for each town, vii
lage and city, the purpose of course
being to get ut this class of property for
taxing purposes. Mr.. Polacheck
asked that It be rereferred to the tax
committee. Mr.. Treat said that com
mittee had been unanimous for pas
sage and he thought would be again,
but he had no objection to having Mr..
Polacheck's wishes followed; so the bill
was rereferred.
Madison, Feb. 10.-The introduction
OF bills ceased in the legislature this
evening. The number introduced
during the entire session to date
ard TO the corresponding period two
years ago is:
1897 1895
Senate ...... 357 Senate ma. 400
Assembly $50. 626 Assembly 49,. 500
Total .......9 S3 Total 4 Jos
The lesser number of 122 this year
over that of two years ago is, how
ever, more than offset by the dead
heads that were permitted then but
not allowed at this session.
During the day 400 bills were in
troduced IN the two houses, among the
most important in the senate being:
By Mr. Munson TO provide for the
appointment of purchasing agent Tor
the charitable and penal institutions;
by Mr.. Welton, to authorize a branch
veterans home; also to extend the
corporate limits of the city of Madison,
taking in Wingra Park and University
Heights; by Mr.. Green, to provide for
the retirement of judges al 70 years of
age and forbidding their candidacy for
election if they will be of that age ere
the term expires; also to establish a
state examining board of architecture
and regulating buildings; by Mr.. McGil-
liyray, to prevent trusts. monopolies
and Illegal combinations; also, by re-
quest, to prevent the combination of
fire insurance companies; by Mr..
Thayer to prevent the introduction
and spread Of the San Jose scale and
other insects injurious 20 trees; by Mr.
bennett, to create board of educa-
ton o. l. members for the more eff
ficient supervision and management Of
the university, normal and pubnc
schools; by Mr. C)nger TO amend the
law providing for the payment Of fees
by owners Of sleeping and drawing
room cars; by Mr.. Devos exempting
from taxation only religious societies
owning property of less than $25 900;
by M. Lamoreaux, to provide for the
appointment Of commissioners to re-
port to the legislature a bill to re-
district the state into judicial circuits;
by Mr.. Burke, to repeal tie law pro-
viding for the appointment of a deep
channel commissioner.
The food OF bills in the lower house
was simply awful. All sorts of sub
jects were covered Among the bills
We're: BY Mr. Krauss, to compel street
railways to operate cars by stored cleo
triCity or by conductors under ground:
by Mr. Wolff, to prevent fraud in sale
Of seeds; by Mr. Webster, appropriating
$1,000 for the purchase of sugar beet
seed by the experiment station for dis
trtbution to farmers by Legislators
each solon TO get 100 a pound pack
ages; the beets to be shipped back to
the experiment station for determine
ton whence comes the best, also to
prevent the granting Of liquor licenses
for the sale of liquor within one half
mile OF the university, normal schools
or high schools of the state: by Mr..
True appropriating $4,000 to the
trust fund on account of the debt due
on the state fair grounds. thus releas-
ing the State Agricultural society from
that obligation; also for the publica-
ton of the town laws, by Mr. Wheeler
appropriating $4,000 for a geological
and geodetic survey; by Mr.. Flett, re-
curing the distribution as soon as
printed of all legislative bills to county
clerks; also, requiring that franchises
in cities and villages shall be given to
the highest bidder; also. permitting
the state board OF control TO contract
for the treatment OF inebriates from
iEtoXicants or drugs; by Mr. Taylor,
forbidding insurance agents to act as
assessors. by Mr. Reynolds, comforting
on land owners the exclusive right
10 gather ice I'm waters on which their
property abuts; by Mr.. Tucker, prohib-
Ting state az 10 public schools where
In sectarianism is taught or habili-
mcnts OF any church are worn; by Mr..
Thomas. to change the boundaries Of
Chippewa AMI Sawyer counties and
create the county OF Rusk: by Mr..
Ninch. relating to the sale OF producfg