Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1899-04-27
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

Madison, April l9.--At the morning
session of the senate when the W heel
er amendment reducing the penalty
came up, Senator Whitehead offered
an amendment practically placing the
penalty back where it was left by the
conference committee. The word
bribery is stricken out. Concurrence
was refused in the assembly amend
ments. Bills passed were: Nos. 9Ss
(Mills), regulating the employment of
minors; 1858 (Weed), relating to con-
domination of lands; 327s (Green), re.
lating to salaries of employees; i23a
i (Vandercook) appropriating $4,000 to
training schools for teachers in Mara
thon and La Crosse counties. Among
the bills killen was The house measure
providing that owners or occupants of
houses place their names thereon. A
discussion Of some length was had on
lhe Baxter bill appropriating money to
the charitable and penal institutions.
Inc debate arose over the question
whether $4,000 or $l50,0O0 should be
voted to the Green Bay reformatory.
1t appears there are now 80 inmates
there, and room for 1875. The bill
finally went over After a long debate
on the McGrath bill giving a bounty
of / cent a pound for beet sugar pro-
duced in Wisconsin during the next
three years the senate advanced it to
third reading by a vote of Is to IA.
In the evening bills were killed as fol-
lows. Nos. 7Ss (Roehr), authorizing
common councils to fix street car
fares, and 263s, to abolish the office of
county superintendent of schools.
In the assembly the senate amend
ments to the assembly amendments
to Senator Lamoreux's bill 202. relat-
ing to aid the telephone lines went
over The senate amendment in eff
feet permits localities to purchase,
own and operate telephone lines in
stead Of merely aiding" The tax
committee reported a substitute for
l9a. taxing inheritances. 1t imposes
a tax of per cent. Of the clear mar
ketable value Of bequeathed personal
property worth $4,000 or over, ex-
copt when it passes to or for the use
of any father, mother, husband, wife.
child, brother, sister wife or widow of
a son or the husband Of daughter,
or any adopted child or children of
! the deceased, when the rate is per
cent. The orion bill, lila, raising
! the railway license, brought Mr.
McGrath to his feet with the decara-
ton that the eXactions were unjust
! The bill provides taxes as follows:
| per cent. on the gross earnings of all
roads whose earnings per mile exceed
$1,000 a year, Az on earnings of from
$4,000 to $4,000, from $4,000 to
$4,000, 3R from $4,000 to $4,000, 3
from $4,000 to $4,000, 2 from $1,000
to $4,000, " from 81 900 to 1880,
where the earnings are under 81 900
and on all roads mot operated" $40
per mile The bill will tax the
roads $3lS,000 more than at present
Mr.. McGrath quoted figures to prove
that Wisconsin taxed it's roads more
heavily than any surrounding state
30 per cent. more than Iowa, 260 per
cent. more than Michigan, 80 per cent
more than Wisconsin and 2R times
as much as South Dakota on the basis
of the mileage. The pending bill,
said Mr.. McGrath, adds $4,000 to
the annual tax Of the st. Paul road;
ii raises the tax of the Northwestern
$l12,l23 or to $560,000 in ALL and hits
the Omaha to the extent Of $34,713
These are the companies chiefly af-
fccted. After some debate the bill
was passed, 81 to 10, the negatives be-
ing Messrs. Catlin, Dengel Feige,
Germer, Hartung, Hunt, Ives, John
son, Kempley. Kessler, Logan, Nc
Grath, Parker, Slade, Vandercook.
Werheim, Wheeler, Willy and linn.
An attempt to revise the bill appropri-
iating $4,000 to the w. G. 7. U. home
at Eau Claire failed, 46 to 43. No.
5%2a (Overbeck), relating to the dis
trbution of the blue book and in
creasing the number to each mem
Der of the legislature Is was passed
When the ant-pass bill came back
from the senate with non-concurrence
in the assembly amendments, action
on it was deferred till Friday. The |
Humphrey 2-cent passenger fare
bill was on the calendar for indefinite |
postponemcnt but it also went over
until Friday. The Nandercook bill, |
appropriating $4,000 for new ex-
cruttve residence was killed.
Madison, April 20.-Tn the upper
house senator bennett offered an
amendment to the historical library |
Dill, which was adopted. 1t appro-
PIRATES 100000 instead of 100000 |
and provides that not more than $780, |
goo hall be paid out until the con
..,,S are let for the completion OF |
the entlrc building except the uucom- |
p'etcd northwest wing. With this I
amendment the bill was passed under |
suspension of the rules rhe Mailer I
bill, prohibiting the sale of the milk |
from cows fed on distllery Stops |
brought on a discussion. Senator !
Eaton OnnpSpl II, II would Stril;a n 9 |