Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-03-30

| registered; aSS. appropriating $4,000
for the Barron county fire sufferers;
SS7, appropriating $4,000 for monu-
Lancaster, and 50, increasing the pen
atty for mayhem, making the maxi
mum fifteen years instead of five.
| Three bills were indefinitely post
poned Nos. 81, amending the co-em-
ploye law; $50, providing for the APP
pointment of city charter commits
sion. lS2, relating 10 the operation of
slaughter and packing houses,
Among the bills ordered to third read
ing were the Dresser appropriat
ing $500 to an interstate park on the
ST, CroiX river; the Harris bill, tax
ing export ice sent out by non-resi-
dents 10 cents ton, and the bill APP
propriatng $4,000 to the Veterans
home.
The very unusual episode occurred
in the assembly of one of the members
opening the exercises with prayer.
Mr.. George Olson of Jackson county,
in the absence of a resilient clergyman,
invoked the divine blessing. The
Zinn bill forbidding the trading-stamp
plan of drawing trade by merchants
was reported by the judiciary commit
tee with substitute which proposes
to license trading stamp companies at
5000 annually for every county III
which they do business and to license
each firm using the stamps at $500
a year, all money to go into the state
treasury. An adverse report was re-
ceived ON bill SS5a. reducing the toll
for grinding, grain. Mr.. Rusk again
spoke, as he had spoken several times
before in opposition to the Frost bill
amending the law SO that the state
shall not hereafter he preferred cred
itor in cases of bank failures. The
bill was, however, passed by large
majority.
Assembly bills were passed: Nos.
12O (Wheeler), appropriating $4,000
year for two years for continuance
of the natural history survey; 165
(Holland), providing that where per-
son once cared for at county expense
Is found to have had means at that
time the county may bring suit for re-
covery for such care; 359 (Hoehlel,
imposing a $40 annual license upon
each intelligence Office and bond Of
$1,000, and $50 (Morgan), permitting
local libraries to send out in the sur
rounding country free circulating IL
braries.
Mr.. Hall presented several amend
ments to the senates anti-pass bill
No. IL. They were drawn in the at
torney generals Office anu are calcu
lated to make the law more effective
in minor particulars. The amend
ments were adopted without dissent
and the bill then passed, the only neg
alive vote being by Mr.. Ives. When
Senator McGillivray's joint resolution
for a constitutional amendment per-
hitting the state to aid in road-build
ing came up for thru reading, Mr..
Orion submitted substitute providing
in effect that the state may appropri
ate money for the purpose and raise
it by tax, but cannot go into debt.
The amendment was adopted and the
resolution ordered to a third rea1ing.
Mr.. Orion opposed the three Roehr
bills, 73s, 74s and 75s, relating specie
ically to the Milwaukee and Douglas
county superior courts, but generally
to all superior and circuit courts in the
state. These measures all provide In
effect that judges cannot draw salaries
If they have held up opinions for 80
Gays. Mr.. Orton deemed them in
sulting offensive and unconstitutional
asserting also that no state had such
/. law except California, and it was
gotten into the constitution there by
the pernicious influence OF Dennis
kearney. The bills he regarded as
unconstitutional because they con-
templated an interference with the
drawing of salaries which the consti-
tuition granted to judges. Mr.. Rusk
upheld the bills and their constitu-
tionality, declaring that no Judge was
really entitled to pay IL he denied JUS
tice to litigants for longer periods than
months, His own circuit Judge ia
vored the proposition. Mr.. Hoehle,
in justification of such legislation, said
that it had been shown before the COM
mittees that cases had been pigeon
holod by judges ], 2, 3, 4, and even
years. The bills were then all or
dered to a third reading, rs to Is.
The bill for sugar beet bounty of
one cent ton for three years (not 5,
as in original bilD, was reported ia
yorably. The Middleton bill, giving
threshers lien upon the grain
threshed, went to the judiciary com
mittee. The Dresser bill, providing
that where damage is done to high
ways and bridges by threshing- ma
chine engines that weigh more than
ten tons (the present law makes the
weight fve), the owners shall be re-
sponsible, was on the calendar for en-
grossment. Mr.. Thomas proposed An
amendment, making the weight seven
tons. 1t was adopted and the bill was
then engrossed.