Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1897-02-25

/ and No., As a., permitting road over
seers to take stone, gravel, clay OF
loan to repair highways from unim-
proved lands adjacent thereto, were
indefinitely postponed.
Madison, Feb. 16.-In the senate
four bills by Senator Mills, relat-
ing to imprisonment OF Judgment debt
ors, were indefinitely postponed. Sen
ator Mills made brief argument for
his bills. He said they proposed to e.
peal the law which makes it possible
to lock man up because of his debts.
When the specia order of the day
joint resolution No. Il S, came up, a de-
| bate followed. The resolution propos-
| es an amendment to the constitution
giving the Legislature power to create
board Of pardons. Senator Austin
was the first speaker. He believed any
change in the constitution unnecessary
and unwarranted, There was 10
clamor for it, no reason for it. If the
last two governors had been too leni-
emit that fault could be remedied by
electing such governors as he believed
the present one to be, men not to be
carried away by sympathy, but who
would establish rules governing their
actions and VINO would maintain them
With commission, he said, RESPONSE
bllity could be shifted, rardons would
be applied for more numerously and
granted mora frequently because re-
sonsibility could be divided. 1t seemed
to him it simply created anouher court,
court of pardons, 1t would be a
great expense. He predicted it would
cost from $4,000 to $1,000 year with
in five years. Senator Whitehead
said 1t was an interesting fact.
that in New England, whence
many of the best things in our laws
come, have vested this power in more
than one man, and New Jersey and
Pennsylvania had very similar provi-
slons. He believed the governor should
be relieved from the great pressure
brought to bear upon him in pardon
matters. Senator Lamoreux said
there was a feeling that the par
doning power should not be left to the
governor, and he believed the people
should be given the opportunity to laye
a pardoning board if they want it.
The resolution was adopted by
the following vote: Ayes: Sen
ators Baxter, Conger, Devos, Fisher,
Munson, Putnam, Roehr Stebbina,
Thayer, Welton, Whitehead. Whitman
Wlthee, Woodwork Youmans; noes:
Senators Austin, bennett, Green, Mayer
PIERCE, Phillips, Riordan, Solliday,
Timme, Whelan.
In the lower house as
sembly bill No. 40 came back
from the committee on state affairs in
The form of substitute. The original
hill required tlag the county judge
should give advice free in the admin
istration Of estates OF less than IS, 600
where there is no contest, thus doing
away with the necessity of employing
legal counsel The committee put in
$1,000 for the $1,000. The preseat law
covers estates of $1,000. SEN
ator McGillivray's joint resolution
FOR a special committee to revise The
banking code was, on motion of Mr..
Ray, referred to the committee on H.
rance, banks and insurance. Pro-
bicycle baggage petitions came from
Messrs. Reynolds. Wolfnger, Schellen-
berg, Langc, Agen, Mss, Bechtel, Con-
nors, ReinnCld and Wolier; petitions
for an anti-cigarettc law from Messrs.
Rutherford and Merriman; for a fer
ny across the Mississippi river near
Bay City from Mr.. Pratt; for the pas
sage OF the medical bill from Messrs.
Stanley, Dresser and Webster, protests
against the proposed insurance code
from Messrs. Hoyt and Mss; for the
retention of the Marquette statue from
Messrs. Hoyt end Lal,ge and petition
Tor the passage of the bill to break the
pharmacy combine from Mr.. Stanley.
Madison, Feb. lin the senate
bill No. 299, introduced by Senator
Munson and providing that the insur-
ance commissioner may publish in
surance statements in weekly instead
OF daily papers beside the official
state paper, was passed. BY this deal
such weekly papers as the commits
sioner may favor will get quite a
little lift each year There are about
$4,000 worth Of statements to be divided
among all the papers each year. The
bill has yet to pass the assembly
In the lower house Mr. Barnum Of
fered the following:
Resolved, that the assembly, the
senate concurring, send the strong
sympathy Of the people of the state of
Wisconsin to the people of Cuba in
their heroic struggle for freedom from
Spanish misrule, oppression and tyran-
ny; that we protest, in the name of a
common humanity, against the un-
speakable cruelties, the shocking atroc-
tiles, now being committed by Spanish
armies in that unhappy island-cruel-
ties and atrocities unknown to civilized
warfare and practiced only among say
ages; and that we earnestly urge upon
the government of the United States to