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

81 y T., MIN Email fOlN Il, w
creased from $4,000 to $1,000, the sec
rotary 10 receive 81 800 per year and
an assistant $1,000; by Mr.. Frost, APP
propriaung $500 to the State Horticul-
Jural society 10 defray the expenses 81
! It's exhibit at the Omaha exposition.
I by Mr. Dengel, amending the law SO
| that street railway and electric light
| companies shall pay an annual license
/ OF per cent. on gross receipts under
! $4,000 and 5 per cent. over that
| amount double the present rate); by
I Mr. Middleton, limiting the hotel ex-
/ penses Of officers and employees OF the
/ state while travelling on public duty
70 81 per day; by Mr.. Barlow, exempt
/ .ng cities OF 1000 or under from the
! operation Of the present caucus law
/ soy Mr.. Gilmore, reducing the interest
on tax sale certificates from IS to 10
[ per cent. by Mr.. Ella, by request, Civ
ing newspapers $50 instead OF 300 Tor
/ publishing the laws; by M Wheeler,
.
I missed, when made in good faith, on
4 account Of defect in the bail bond; by
/ Mr. Holland, permitting county boards
/ to make the Office of register Of deeds
/ a salaried office. Four bills TO amend
| the FISH and game laws were intro
/ auCed by Mr. Thomas. One is TO
/ shorten the open season for the hunt
/ ing of pheasants, partridges grouse.
/ etc, % days, making the open season
/ from Sept. Is to Nov. 20. A second
! fixes the trout season from April 1 TO
|. Aug. -. A third makes the deer. sea
| son TO last only 10 days in November.
A fourth Is to prohibit the shipping OF
| deer outside of countries unless accom-
| panied by the owner. 1t also raises
/ the resident license fee from 81 to So.
| Mr. Dahl's bill for a special commits
/ sion to Investigate the Torrens land
| system went to the claims committee
on motion OF Mr.. Vandercook
Madison, Feb. 13-The anti-pass
matter came up in the senate in the
/ form of a report from the judiciary
committee recommending that the for
| fixture OF Office clause be not adopted
| Senator bennett requested some mem
! bers on the judiciary committee to eX-
! plain why that clause should not be
adopted. Senator Lamoreux made a
| defense, declaring that it would not be
according to precedent or good form
to place penalty in the constitution
which should he declaration Of prin-
clples, he said, not a penal code, He
argued that it would also give rise to
partisan sQuabbles on the part Of some
soreheads who would bring action for
alleged forfeiture of Office because Of
anger over defeat Senator bennett in
answering these arguments limited
\ that they were mere subterfuges and
! We're all based on the possibility Of
| the evasion Of what the resolution was
desired 10 accomplish the abolition Of
| the pass. The protest went unheeded,
/ however, and the resolution unamend-
/ cd was adopted. The vote on the for
/ feiJure amendment was yiye yoce, but
! ON the resolution itself was by roll
]
! Whelan went on record against it. II
was after this vote that Senator Den
net, gave notice OF his motion for a
! reconsideration. Senator bennett did
not believe that without a penalty
! clause the amendment would be worth
the paper on which it was written.
Senator Whelan tried to inject pen
/ atty amendment into it after the de-
| teaJ of the forfeiture clause, by offer
ing an amendment providing for fine
of from 500 to $500 for the violation
/ OF the provisions OF the resolution.
/ This amendment was also lost by a
/ viva yOcc vote. The bill for the inn
mediate abolition of the pass went to
a third reading With only Senator
1 Stebbins voting against 1t. IL consider
the action Of The senators in riding on
passes voting as they did hypocritieal,
said Senator Stebbins when asked for
/ his reasons for voting against the meas
ure Il ride on passes and believe in
them, and therefore voted as my be-
Iefs are"
Two bills were introduced the first
I by senator Roehr, having the proposed
, uniform negotiable instrument, and
,he second au amendment to the town
1 snip high school law. Senator Wheian
introduced jotut resolution amend
/ ing the constitution so that the com
( pensat.oa OF the state superintendent
can be made lager than $1,000.
Ina che assembly Mr. Ripley present
ga the resolutions adopted at the re-
cent cheosemakers meeting, protesting
against the railroad rates on dairy
products in Wisconsin, which they as
sert are twice as high as those in the
east,
Mr. Thomas presented a joint reso-
luton for an amendment to the con
ss,tutlun requiring the supreme court
90 pass upon important questions OF
constitutional law when ordered by the
governor or two-thirds Of the legisa-
ture. BINS were introduced. by Mr.