Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-02-23

granting HquOf licenses, by Mr.. Bal
dock, changing the time of serving no.
tiee Of elections from between July
and Sept ] to from Sept. 20 to Oct. /.
Madison, February 14.-By a vote
OF % TO 8. the senate Tuesday refused
to reconsider the vote by which the
| joint resolution to submit the pro-
posed anti-pass amendment to the
people was adopted Monday night.
1 Senator benefits speech urging a re-
consideration was the longest and
most eloquent yet made at this SEES
/ sion and was listened to with the
! closest interest by the members and
visitors OF whom there were many.
/ The senator exhorted his fellow legis-
lators to adopt resolution that would
mean something If they proposed do
| ing anything at all. II a reco lsidera-
/ ton were taken he would propose an
| office forfeiture amendment with other
| penalties. What is the object, he
/ asked, to make a constitutional
amendment If an anti-pass law exists
on the statute books unless It be to
prevent future legislatures from un-
doing the work of this Any legisla-
1 ture can nulllfy the work of this by
| fixing but a nominal penalty for the
\ use Of passes. If some penalty is not
\ specified the resolution will come back
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a measure of some meaning. Fol-
| lowing Senator Dement'S speech the
| vote was taken by viva yoca, Senators
| Arson, Baxter, bennett, Hatton
Mailer, Martin, Stout, Munson, and
/ Whelan. voting for reconsideration
| Senator Stout offered a Joint resolu-
ton for a constitutional amendment
/ changing the time of election OF the
| superintendent OF public instruction
SO that he may take Office July l, with
the beginning of the school year 1t
1 would bring his election In April
| Bills were introduced by Senator
Mills; to provide for the payment of
/ poll tax and registering and voting;
also providing for two assistant dis
/ trict attorneys in counties with a
/ population exceeding $4,000 and
1 containing a city Of the second class,
! the first assistant to receive 81 800 per
! year, the second assistant $500
| BY Senator Devos, appropriating 5000
/ to j. II. Green, w n. Flett and Henry
| Overlook, for expenses at the fish com
| mission convention; providing that
/ persons who do not file a sworn state
ment of their personal property shall
/ forfeit their right of appeal to the
/ board of review Senator Whitehead
| eXempting mutual hail, wind or cy-
| clone insurance companies, from pub
! fishing reports; Senator Stout to pro-
! vide for paying the travelling expenses
! Of the assistant state superintendent
of instruction and of the library clerk.
and providing a mailing clerk for the
superintendent office: also. providing
! that cities may levy a tax and author
! ize the board OF education to eXpend
the proceeds in aid Of the maintenance
of any secular or non-sectarian public
library and reading room free,
In the assembly bills were introduced
by Mr.. Humphrey, providing that
! railway companies earning $3, 800 per
mile a year shall sell l,000-mie tickets
at $50, and for $25 if the per mile earn
ings fall below $500, the tickets to be
Interchangeable in the family; mr.
linn, forbidding junk dealers to buy
! anything but rags and waste paper
from any person under is years OF
| age without the written consent of
| parent or guardian; also relating 20
errors in copying assessment rolls;
Mr.. Mosher. throwing safeguards
around the issuing of warehouse
certificates when issued by owners OF
both the elevators and Jne grain there
/ in Mr. Ives, providing that set lines
may be used for taking suckers,
sheepshead, dogfsh, gariish, redhorse,
Uullheads and catfish, Mr.. Bryant,
making the submission of special yer-
diets to juries optional, not manda-
tory, also extending the examination
of adverse parties 10 the employe or
employees Of corporations; also
empowering county courts to order
couyeyauces of the real property OF
incompeteuts in certain cases, Mr..
Anderson, providing that judicial cleo
lions shall be held in the same places
as general elections in towns wherein
villages are located; by Mr. Nj. w
Ryan, by request, remodeling the
plumbers law SO that 1t will conform
10 the rulings OF the supreme court,
by Mr. Becker, repeating the jury
commission law and for return 70
the old method; by AR Overlook, re
pealng the law OF 1898 relating O
number and compensation of capitol
employees by Mr. Burlington, appro-
priatng $4,000 TO the w. G. T. L.
home at Eau Claire, by Mr.. f. p.
Johnston, requiring all persons engag-
ing in the practice Of medicine prior
10 July /, 1897. to register, by Mr.
Harvey. repeating the law wl y re-
aurcs street car lines and electric
I light companies to be taxed by license
rather than in the usual method, by
MIR. Frost, taxing the property OF cleo
.ric light companies in the district
where located; by Mr. Hoehle, permit
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