Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-03-22
THE LEGISLATURE.
Senate.

hoSnerS memorial to Congress, known
technically memorial No. la, asking
Congress to aid American shipping, was
adopted. The bill requiring long distance
telephone companies to connect with local
exchanges, was killed without a protest
The other bill killed was Senator McGilli-
ways, authorizing the state superintend-
ent to grant unlimited teachers certificates
to teachers of twenty years experience
The bill authorizing the construction of Il
ferry across Lake st. CroiX was ordered to
Il third reading Senator Stout's bill pro-
Viding for Joint public and private libraries
in certain cases was ordered engrossed
The following bills were passed.: Appropri-
ating S416 to George H. Peabody; author
izing the commissioners of the public lands
to loan certain funds.
On the 18th the Senate received an invi-
tation from President Adams to visit the
university the 10Th. Senator Arson
presented resolutions drawn up by the Re
publican club OF Milwaukee county protest
ing against the passage of Senator Jones
bin placing the appointment Of city en-
giEeer and commissioners of board of pub
lie works in Milwaukee in the hands of city
service commission. The committee ON cor
poration reported the bill for indefinite
DISAPPOINTMENT. On motion of Senator DevoS
all rules were suspended and the Senate
voted unanimously to indefinitely postpone
the bill. The following bills were passed
Three bills to permit the Wisconsin Cen
trail railroad to reorganiZe; allowing any
corporation to purchase the stock and fran
chiSes of an jnsolvent corporations; pro
viding that the railroad purchased shall not
be parallel or in competition with any line
Owned by the purchaser; authorizing James
Munroe to maintain & ferry across Lake
st. CroX. Mr.. Fogo'S bill comforting add
tiona powers on trustees of county asy-
lums was ordered to a third reading. Sen
ator Mills introduced bill establishing
superior court for Douglas county and au-
thCriZing the judge of said court to act for
the circuit judge in case of the latter'S dis
ability. Mr.. Soltwedel's bill authorizing
for dependent children was laid over until
Friday morning, and Senator Harris bin
levying a tax of 10 cents on every ton of
ice shipped out of the state will be taken ,
Senator Harris, relating to organization Of
corporations for maintenance of institutions
for care of Predetermined and insane per-
sons, was ordered engrOSSed. The Senate
then took recess until evening.
AT the session of the Senate on the night
Of the 14th communication was read from
Secretary of State Hay transmitting a pro-
test OF the government of Switzerland
against legislation discriminating against
foreign insurance companies. Secretary
Hay calls attention to a treaty between this
and the Swiss government on the points in
VOlved. similar communication has been
received by the Minnesota Legislature A
resolution by Senator Koenr was adopted
to allow Senator Devos to introduce a bill
providing for the payment of a sum of
money to Julius Andrae Il Sons company;
The committee reported for passage the bill
TO appropriate 5000 to w. H Flett, J. H.
Green and Henry Overlook for expenses in
CURED as delegates from Wisconsin to the
conference OF state OfnclalS IN regard TO
fish and game legislation; also the bill to
appropriate 500 to G. H. Ashforth for in
juries received at Camp Douglas in 1891.
among the bills reported for passage was
one to correct the defect in regard to the
election of the Milwaukee county board,
and to legalZe the appointment Of deputies
and Undersheriffs by Sheriff Burner of Mil
WaUkee.
drive bill came i'll at the session of the Sen
ate Oh the 10Th. The joint resolutions framed
by the committee on claims asking the re-
firing governor to address q message to the
Legislature was adopted. Senator Martins
bill appropriat1ng $4,000 instead of $4,000 to
the maintenance of teachers Institutes was
on the calendar for passage. Senator
LamoreuX objected to the bill because it
calls for $4,000 of general funds and only
$4,000 of normal school funds, an additional
$1,000 Of the general fund being allowed ar
the discretion of the state superintendent
Most of those attending the Institutes, he
said, were normal pupils and graduates.
The bill was rereferred to the committee on
claims. The following bills were passed:
Limiting time for drawing pay OH county
board committees to ten days; imposing a
fine Of SO to SO for fraudulent of street
railway transfers; creating a special fund
Tor re-equipment of Wisconsin National
guard: authorizing loans to school districts
for erecting school buildings and refund
Ing Indebtedness, such loan not to exceed 3
per cent. of the average assessed valuation
of the district for three years preceding
the application for the loan: relating to vii
examiners office power to examine banks;
providing for supervision and control of in
Yestment associations not now under statu-
tory provisions; striking out from the stat
ute relating to punishment of Migrants the
clause providing that they be sent to the
poorhouse and there kept at hard labor:
providing for transfer of moneys in trust
funds to general fund to meet the expenses
Of state government; providing that any
person whose claim against a town has
been allowed in part may receive the order
drawn for the part so allowed without
prejudice to his right of action against the
town as to the part disalowed. Mr.. Fogo's
bill authorizing superintendent of the poor
and trustees of county insane asylums to
employ counsel to collect claims or recover
damages to the cOunty's property, was laid
over. The following bills were ordered to
q third reading: Authorizing Ashland coun-
ty to issue bonds for certain purposes; pro-
Viding for paying bounty for killing certain
animals: relating to punishment for may
hem; relating to change of venue: relating
to service of processes on corpora tons; to
limit purchase of goods by junk second
hand dealers; relating to peddlers; relating
TO terms of court in the Seventeenth judicial
circuit; relating to cities under special char
tiers; to legalize the acts Of county boards
Of supervisors of Taylor county. Several
bitls were ordered eEgrossed: To appro-
pirate money to certain persons; granting
relief to George H. Ashford for injuries re-
ceived while at Camp Douglas; relating to
police and fire department associations;
authorizing towns, villages and cities to
raise money for observance of Memorial
was Indefinitely postponed; also Il bill in
troduced by Senator Knudson providing
for a bounty of 1 cent for each English
sparrow killed. The Senate then adjourned.
In the Sena,e on the 10th there was little
business preliminary to concurrence in sew
eral Assembly bills. A joint resolution al
lowing Mr.. Mcdonald to introduce two Mis-
sissippi river bridge bills was concurred in
The following bills were concurred in: Au-
thorlZing Ashland county to issue bonds to
pay outstanding judgments and county or
derS; providing for a bounty Of So for the
killing Of wolves. wildcats and lynx; pro-
Sldlng that III actions against municipalities
the fact that the judge is taxpayer in the
municipality shall not entitle either parties
to a change Of venue; providing that if a
corporation does not file a list OF it's Off
GERS with the register of deeds within ten
days after the election of such officers
processes may be served upon any officer
by leaving a copy of the process with the
register Of deeds; fixing penalty of thirty
TO ninety days imprisonment for the puI.-
chase of goods by junk or second hand deal
erS from minors under 10 without the writ
ten consent Of parents or guardian; provid-
ing that the failure of Il peddler to show
his license shall be construed as proof that
he has not obtained one; fixing terms of
court in the Seventeenth Judicial circuit;
providing that in cities under special char
ter the street commissioner shall be elected
by the council and not by the people: to
legalize the acts of the county board Of