Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-13
is NEARING AN END.
Assembly Licking Anti.Pass and
Other Issues into Shape.
SOME OF JUDGE PINNEY's STORIES.

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Kentucky Traditions - Pabst Theater
Company Present II Play in German
Clark County Settlers Warning with
Pine stumps--Gossip from Legislative
| Corridors.
| Madison, Wis, April 1.-THE legis-
!ature is approaching its demise. Reso-
buttons are in fixing April IA and April
81 as the dates for going home, but
| whatever date Is agreed upon, this
balmy weather is seductively calling
remorseless spirit with which the as
sembly sometimes kills" a dozen or
even score Of bills by single vote
| bills on which committees have report
ed unfavorably.
| Mr.. Dasgett, the anti-corset man Of
| Waushara, has begun to talk and
| champions farmers measures almost
| daily. And we have had a number Of
| agricultural interest. One throws off a
| farmers highway tax If he posts his
name on his house or at the entrance
from the road. This bill Is moving
toward passage and will greatly con-
venience peddlers The $4,000 thresher-
men Of Wisconsin want a lien on the
| grain they thresh and 1t looks as II they
would get 1t. A bill providing that d
farmer owning land along a railroad
line which he wishes to use for pasture
may add wires on boards to the rail-
road fence so as to keep in hogs and
sheep has been killed. Superintendent
Harveys bill to improve rural schools
has been modified "A great deal, es-
pecialy in continuing elective county
superintendents 1t comes up in the
assembly today.
| $500 for Fifteen Milwaukee Actors.
| A feature in Madison tonight is a
play, "City and Country" In the Opera
House by the Pabst Theater company
of Milwaukee. The play will be given
in the German language, under the
auspices Of the German society of the
university, who pay $500 for the use Of
| the fifteen players for this one night.
or course. gneat many people will go
| who cannot understand German, and
they will probably he bored to death
| after the first act, but the play has u
social backing and there Is d guarantee
| fund of 81 900, headed by President Ad-
ans with $50. to insure against loss
| Speaking of entertainments, there was
concert in the senate chamber the
| other night--a feature of every session,
| which Chief Clerk Hauser manages
| very efficiently. The senatorial quar-
| tette did itself proud, Lamoreux being
| especially good, and Spooner's youngest
| son, accompanied by the University
| Glec club. sang finely. or course George
| N. Wiswel sang "Old Shady"
The anti-pass matter Is assured of
final adoption in shape beyond crltl-
cism There Is a good deal of dust be-
ing thrown up over the taxation of life
insurance companies and knowing ones
say some Of the other corporations
would not be above escaping In the
confusion.
| Tho Late Justice Pinney.
| The late Justice Pinney was 66 years
| old when he died. He was a large
man physically and for some years his
friends have feared that he was not
| long for this world His summers were
spent at Block island on the Atlantic
| coast, off Newport. 1t Is a favorite
rallylng point for judges. The last time
| he was there 1t was a company of fif-
teen men holding judicial positions that
| sat down to tables. Judge Pinney was
| sometimes at the hotel before the sea-
son really began and loved the sea so
well that he would tarry, almost the
last guest.
| A legal friend of Judge Pinney, re-
calling early Dane county days, says:
| when we were students he came to
me and said he had little lawsuit In
| the country-at Verona-that there
would be but one witness, and II would
not take more elan an hour or so to
try 1t. and asked me to ride out with
him. | did SO, 1t was a case of assault
and battery, He appeared as attorney
for the defendant. When | got there
the complainant discovered that l was
a law student also, and asked me to
represent him. At that time defend
ant was not permitted to be a witness
for himself, Pinney called jury and
| brought witnesses to impeaeh the COM
planning witness l had subpoenas is
sued and brought In other witnesses to
sustain him The result was that we
| stayed there, In hot summer weather.
trying that case for three days, and Mr.
| u
| back in excessively bad humor very
much Disguised. This came the near
est to anything that ever occurred be-
tween us to breaking up our friendship
His client appealed the case to the cir
cult court, and before the term came
on my client had ran away. The result
| was that the county OF Dane had to
pay the costs, which amounted to quite
II large sum, and Mr.. Piuney used to
frequently remind me of the amount
the county had to pay and seemed to
think | was somewhat to blame IN re-
gard to It,"
An Early Jurist from kentucky.
An incident that Judge Pinney used
to rclate--for he knew the Judges from
the very beginning OF Wisconsin Oknew
every one personality, was of the late
Hon, John Catlin OF this state. Mr.
| Catlin with Moses NJ. Strong of Min
eral Point came to the territory of Wis
consin In 1886. Finding that the open-
ing for II young lawyer in the then
sparsely settled country was not prom
Using. he concluded to apply for the po-