Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-04-12

| canital and he made IL speech in which he
cid thot the state would save the cost of
the plant IL four or six years. The amend
| ment was adopted. An amendment reQuir-
| ing the governor to approve plans before
any work can be started at the university
| was adopted. The bill was then ordered
| TO a third reading. When Mr. McGrath'S
| beet sugar bin came up in the Senate to
be ordered TO third reading Senator Den
| nett oOnosed it, He said he had heard beet
| sugar talk for some time, but he did not
| realize that he was up against the real
He thought three years of beet sugar rails
| ING would not amount to much. Michigan
| is pioneering the enterprise and he recon-
| mended that Wisconsin wait until her sis
| fer state had found the best methods of
| cultivating the beet and then adopt them.
| The bill was referred to the committee on
| judiciary RESPONSIVENESS against the pas
sage of the Assembly bill for the taxation
of insurance companies came in this morn
! ing in packages. Senator benefits swamp
land indemnity BILL and Senator McGilli-
| ways bill creating a board for the ex-
animation of public accounts were On the
| calendar for passage, but were laid over.
Senator Munson's bill providing for the
supervision of investment associations not
now under statutory control was passed
under suspension of the rules The follow
ing bills were PASSED. pas RniSing the salaries
deeds office from $50 to $50 and those of
| copyist from $40 to $63; providing salaries
| for state prison officers and employees $4,000
to the warden, $1,000 for the deputy warden
and $500 for the chaplain; providing for the
sale of thirteen acres of the Mendoza hos
pital farm which is cut off by the Chicago
& North Western tracks, sale of liquor on
this land to make void the conveyance; APP
propriating $1,000 for moving the historical
library museum and art gallery to the new
building; charging the powers and duties
of the commission of fisheries; requiring
applicants for unlimited teachers certiti
| Gates who held diplomas granted by any
university college or normal school without
| the state to furnish testimonials of good
moral character, and of two years success
full teaching in public school after date
of diploma upon presenting such diploma to
the state board of examiners; authorizing
cities of the first class to set aside 1 per
| cent. of their license revenue a pension
ining the counterfeiting of letters of recon-
mendatiOnS of railroad employees as forgery
| in the third degree. and fixing penalty of
one to five years imprisonment. The fol-
| lowing bills were ordered to third reading:
Relating to maintenance of public parks in
certain cities; defining duties of county
| clerks: incorporating the Northwestern uni
versity at WATERFOWL, Wis; to adj Just the
| claims of Robert S. Houston against the
state; authorizing Frank Epley to main
tain dam across Apple river; relating to
sidewalks: relating to sale of lands by guar
! dams: authorizing w. H. Hatton and 9th
ers to maintain Il dam across Little Wolf
river in Waupaca county; relating to grow
| ing of sugar beets in the state; to regulate
| the improvements of bOulevards beyond mu-
| nicipal limits in certain cities appropriate
| ing a certain sum of money to James Nc
| Gowan. The following bills were ordered
| engroSSed: Approprlating sums Of money
| to certain institutions; appropriating GER
| tain sums of money to charitable and penal
| institutions: relating to duties of board of
control: providing for payment by the state
| of costs of trials committed in state inStl-
| buttons. The following bills were killed:
Comforting powers upon asylum trustees;
relating to highways; providing for regis
tration of physicians and surgeons; relat-
town; providing for payment of costs of
| trials for crimes committed i'll state institu-
| tons; relating to railroad companies: re-
| lating to inspection of gas meters: relating
| to right-Of-way of railroads. The Senate
/ adjourned to p. N. on the 10th.
| Assembly.
The Assembly met on the night Of the 9Th
| with eighty-three bills on the calerslar but
only twenty-three were acted on debates
| on several having taken up much time
| that Mr.. Mosher secured an adjournment
| shortly before 10 o'clock. A message from
| Coy. Scofield brought in veto of Mr.. Kill
| Iilea's bill permitting the city of Milwaukee
| TO receive taxes in advance and issue in
| terest bearing certificates therefor. The
| veto was based on constitutional objections.
A joint resolution was introduced by Mr.. Nc
! Grath and adopted by the Assembly to az!
| low Mr.. Killilea to introduce a new bill to
accomplish the same purpose and avoid the
| governors objections The orion bill in
/ creasng the taxes of the Northwestern NIL
| tual Life Insurance company, was the first
| bill on the calendar and was passed after
an Intellectual protest by Messrs. Frost and
| Wheeler, by Il vote of II to II. The next
| stir was over the Senate bill providing that
| all ballots for candidates for United States
/ senator taken in party caucuses among the
/ members of the Legislature must be taken
! by viva yoce vote. Senator Bakers bill
| providing for report by the state superin-
| tendent on manual training and agriculture
| in the public schools opposed by 80
| members as against 53 for it, and there
| was time during the roll call on the meas
| ure that it seemed about to be defeated.
! The Whitehead bill. commonly known as
| the Harvey BILL changing the system of
| nj n of Nc nrl1
| making them elective in the spring as judg
es are elected, was laid over till Friday on
| the request of several members.
| The anti-pass legislation met with an
| that the Assembly would dispose of it in
| some way, but it was laid until this
afternoon. Both the anti-pass bill and the
antipass resolution were the calendar
for action They were first bills in the
regular order and would have been dis
| posed of if the usual programme had not
| been changed. There was Il desire to adj
| vance a long list of bills before the Assem-
| bly, got into heated debate, and upon mo.
| taken up first. Several bills on that order
| developed lengthy debates and it was 1
O'Clock before the order was finished. 1t
| was too late to tackle the pass question
ana the Assembly took a recess until
| O'Clock, at which time the resolution was
taken take up e The Assembly refused, by a
| vote or ~ TO o. to reconsider actOn on Mr..
| Wheelers bill relating to relief from judg-
ment and orders and suits against cities.
ne Assembly adopted q Senate resolution
| or respect to the memory of Judge Pinney
| by rising vote. Mr.. Baldock's bill chang
| ing the form Of official ballot was laid over
| till tomorrow. Judge Orton's bill increas-
| ing the license fees to be paid by railroads,
| which was on the calendar for passage was
| made special order for next Tuesday
| evening, and Col Rusk's bill relating to
! elections in the cities was laid over for one
week. Mr.. keene's bill to divide Milwau-
| kee into health districts was laid over IN
| III Monday. The following bills were killed:
Restricting the powers of railroad COM
| panles; providing taxation OF street rail-
| ways: providing for payment of license by
street railways; to provide for taxation Of
| street railways: to define express compan-
les, etc: relating to taxation on real prop
erty; establishing board of fire and police
commissioners; regulating license fees paid
by life insurance companies; relating to
SeSsment of franchises; eXempting certain
values Of mortgaged homeSteads from tax
atom relating to assessment of property;
relating to manufacture and sale of pure
beer; relating to life insurance companies;
relating to accident insurance; relating to
assessment on loans, etc, for taxation; re-
latlng to property exempt from taxation;
appropriating money to JAS. Lynn; relating
to homesteads: extending time for collection
OF taxes; revising the banking laws tax
Ing railroad companies; changing grades Of
streets. etc: dividing cities INFO