Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-30
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

at the morning session, a bill was
passed doing away with the word eli
cense' in the bicycle law. The Keene
bill, requiring the polls to be kept open
the same hours at judicial as at gen.
eral election, was concurred in. Four
bills, which came from the committee
on assessment and collection of taxes,
providing for the taxation of express,
sleeping car, freight line and equip
ment companies, on their property
value, were advanced to engrossment
and third reading without debate.
Two new bills were introduced in the
senate Tuesday evening. One by Sem
ator Jones defining the crime of for
gerry in the thru degree, and one by
Senator bennett authorizing cities and
villages to acquire waterworks by con-
demnation proceedings.
One of the first occurrences in the
assembly was the reconsideration of
the vote of the evening before by
which Senator Welton's bill forbidding
the commitment of tramps to poor
houses was non-concurred in. Mr..
Minch declared that it was an injustice
upon the county's legitimate poor to
be housed with Migrants of the tramp
kind. Mr.. McGrath, who opposes the
measure, secured the postponement of
action for one week. The railroad
committee reported back for passage,
but with amendments, the senate anti
pass bill No. 16, and it was ordered to
third reading by a unanimous aye
anyway vote. The bill as amended is
as follows:
Section l. No person elected or
appointed to an office or position under
the laws of this state or the rules or
regulation of any department thereof
or public institution therein, or the
rules, regulations or ordinance of any
town, city or village therein shall di-
rectly or indirectly ask demand, ac-
cept, receive or consent to receive for
his own use or benefit, or for the use
or benefit of another, and free pass,
free transportation, franking privilege
or discrimination in passenger, tele-
graph, express, sleeping car or tele-
phone rates, from any person or corpo-
ration, or make use of the same him
self, or in conjunction with another.
Any person who violates any provision
of this section shall be deemed guilty
of misdemeanor, and shall be pun
ished by fine not exceeding $500, nor
less than 5000.
Section 2. Any person or officer 0,
agent of any corporation who shall Of
fer or promise to any person men
toned in section one of this act any
such free pass, free transportation,
ranking privilege, or discrimination,
shall also be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and liable to the punish
ment provided in section one of this
act.
Section 3. Any person or officer Or
agent of corporation giving or offer
ing such free pass, free transportation,
franking privilege or discrimination
hereby prohibited, shall be privileged
from testifying in relation thereto, but
he shall not be liable to civil or Grim
inal prosecution concerning the matter
regarding which he has testified.
Section 4. This act shall take eff
feet and be in force from and after its
passage and publication.
The bill now goes back to the SEN
ate for action on the house amend
ments.
Senate bill No. IA (Stout), reducing
county superintendent conventions
from to 2 annually, was concurred
in. Senator Weeds bill, 1872, requiring
assessors to fix separately and to en-
ter in separate columns of the assess
menC rolls the value of the land and
the value of the buildings thereon was
non-conculTed in, 50 to 20, as was also
Senator Whitehead's bill permitting
county judges to order probate notices
to be printed in other than English
papers. The Dahl bill authorizing the
attorney general ana the law librarian
to investigate, free from expense, the
Torrens land system and report q
years hence, was adopted. The Guth
bill, virtually outlawing cyclists on
country roads by compelling them to
give way to all wagons or carriages.
was passed, As to 3S.
Judge orion opposed Senator
Roehr's bill, No. 1919, on the calendar
for concurrence. 1t relates to the
board of normal school regents. He
explained the present law, providing
that the board shall consist of 8 APP
pointive members and of the governor
and state superintendent, the terms Of
the appointive members to be 3 years
each. The Roehr bill provides that
the governor shall be wholly excluded
from the board, that the number Of
appointive members shall be 10 instead
of and the terms be extended from
8 years to 5. Mr.. Overlook had Of
fered an amendment. and it was adopt
ed, permitting only regent to each |
district, instead of 2 as
now, and enabling the governor to re-
organize the board at once. Judge |
orion declared that the milk in the
cocoanut lay in the extension OF the
term to 5 years, thus removing the |