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

tions for the industry would increase
Us 1t has in Michigan. He hoped the
bill would be killed. After debate
the Whitman amendment was
ADOPTED by a vote OF IA to 9. Senator
Hatton wanted to forestall boomers
an fictitious manufacturers by pro-
yidlng that bounty of one-half cent
a pound to factories that had been
established and in successful opera
tlcn. The amendment was adopted.
The bill was then non-concurred in by
vote of 10 TO IL, the negatives being
Senators Arson, Baxter, Bissell Den
nett Deyos, Eaton, Fearne, Green,
Harris, Jacobs kreutzer, Lamoreux,
McGillivray, Riordan, Roerh, Weed,
Whelan, Whitehead Whitman, Withee
and Woodwork.
Among the bills passed were: Nos.
TIA (Mosher), regulating issue OF
warehouse receipts; 239a (Hartung),
making separate road districts of To-
calities having population of 5000,
i49a (Buflington), allowing people TO
vote on vacation OF towns by county
boards, and 456a (Wells), providing
for the organization of corporations
for the improvement of streams and
construction of canals from Green
Lake to Fox river.
In the assembly Mr.. Halls bills,
3SSa and 3S9a, for board of railroad
commissioners anu regulating rail-
ways, were laid over till Tuesday
evening. The conferees on the land
Office made report, showing that an
agreement had been reached by which
the force in the land Office is to be
reduced at once from 7 members to
ana thus remain for years, after
which date the department is to be
abandoned and its duties transferred
to the secretary of states office. The
report was adopted, 60 to |. Senator
Green's bill, rs, forbidding spring
shooting OF aquatic fowl, was refused
43, but reconsideration was voted
later. The bennett bill, 159s, appro-
priatng $500 year for two years to
the State Cheesemakers' association,
was concurred in. Senator Eaton's
bill, 239, permitting the construction
of the so-called Sheridan drive through
Racine anu kenosha counues, was
earnestly antagonzed by Mr.. Ella and
finally killed.
Madison, April 2l.-In the senate
the True marriage license bill was re-
ported for passage by the committee
on judiciary. The bill for a board of
immigration was reported without
recommendation by the committee on
state affairs. The Wheeler bill relat-
ing to damages caused by defective
highways went back to the committee
on roads and bridges. Assemblyman
Anderson's bill, making each village a
separate roaa district was non-con-
Cured in. Quite discussion was
held on Nos. 81 and 3Ss, the Baxter
bills, the first appropriating $4,000
for current expenses for the charitable
ana penal institutions of the state and
the second making appropriations for
improvements in the institutions, one
item of which is $4,000 for the COM
pletion of the Green Bay reformatory
Senator Baxter explained that tue two
bills carried together $l,293 400, which
was $254 900 in excess of similar APP
preparations. The two bills were
passed under suspension of the rules.
Similarly Senator Kreutzer had his
bill appropriating one-tenth of the
iunnr- lipnnSn RI kind ptD
passed. Among the bills killed were:
Nos. loss (StouD, providing for the
appointment of two women on the
boaru of control; 226s (Reynolds),
creating the Office of supervisor of in
spectors OF weights and measures, and
BIS CGreen). providing for the APP
pointmcnt of assistant veterinary sur
geons.
The Humphrey bill, Ella, permitting
Albert Bergner to dam the Oconto
river at Pulcifer, was antagonized by
Mr.. Harvey who said that Bergner had
no mill and simply wanted the power
to dam in order to sell out his right
on a speculation. Mr. Humphrey de |
clared that Bergner ran mill at Pull
offer for many years or until its end
was knocked out by the logs of other
parties on the stream. He now wanted
to have his own dam and so get out |
from under the oppression of the log |
driving company which controls the
river. The bill was ordered to a third |
reading, 81 to Is. The Benson uni
form text book substitute to 371a was
laid over and ordered printed An at
tempt to revive the Sh dan drive bill /
was defeated by a tie vote-ii to A. |
\ resolution to permit Senator Whit |
man to introduce a bill reducing the |
jury list from 100 to 100 in counties
under 1900 population was passed. !
The assembly refused to fix time
for final adjournment, but it is now
plain that the session cannot end till |
about the first week in May.
Madison. April I'm the senate
Mr. Welton succeeded in having bill
No. 29IS, apprOpria ting $40 900 for a