Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-03-27

provide bonds; 291 (Lange), providing
license fees for insurance brokers,
308 Carlow, for the inspection of
steam boilers and engines; 329 DRESS
err, increasing the minimum license
fee for the sale of liquors; 4S1 Dry
anti, prohibiting legislative lobbying;
joint resolution Qogan), amending
the constitution so that persons
charged with contempt of court may
have jury trial.
Madison, March 20.-The feature of
the senate session was the transmits
sion of majority report by the judi
ciary committee againt the Roehr bill,
No. 27s, to restrict the lobby. The bill
provides that the senate clerk shall
keep two registers, one for attorneys
who appear before committees and
one for lobbyists legislative agents.
The majority report recommending
the bill for passage was signed by
Senators Roehr, Whitehead, Kreutzer,
Mills, Martin and Whitman. The
minority report which is signed by
Chairman Lamoreux and Senators
Whelan and RioTdan holds that an
honest lobby should be encouraged,
that the Roehr bill legalizes the lobby
and gives it a standing and that the
evils sought to be remedied can be
amply reached by existing laws.
Assembly bills were concurred in
Nos 16Oa (McDonald), permitting the
nj of IF no
atty insurance companies; and 345a
(Mosher), providing for payment Oh
expenses of Wisconsin state tax COM
mission, the appropriation not to ex-
coed 1897.
In the assembly the Hall resolution
No. la, for a constitutional amend
ment looking to the adoption of the
voting machine, had smooth sailing IN
the assembly, only one vote being
against adoption. Assembly bills we're
passed as follows: Nos. ga Dress
err, appropriating $4,000 for an inter
state park on the St. Croix river; 387
(McDonald), appropriating $4,000 for a
monument at Lancaster for Gov.
Dewey, the governor, Senator Baxter
and Mr.. Mcdonald being made the
commission to carry out the provisions
of the bill, and 488 (Keene), raising
the age of consent to Is years
Senator Welton's bill, No. 296s, to
prevent the sending of Migrants to
poor houses, was non-concurred in
without debate. The anti-pass bill
was on the calendar for non-concur-
renee, but just before adjournment Mr..
Rowell moved that it be re-referred to
the railroad committee with instruc-
tons to report this morning. The mo-
ton prevailed without dissent and the
committee it is understood will report
favorably on the measure.
Madison, March 21.-In the senate,
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,
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 SEN
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 We1ton's bill forbidding
the commitment of tramps to poor
houses was non-concurred in. MI.
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 unanimous aye
anyway vote. The bill as amended is
as follows:
Section 1 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