Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-05-02

Of the bill.
The energy and industry Of Mr.. McGrath
have won against great odds and Green
Bay will get the $50. 600 appropriation for
its reforlnatory. The penal and charitable.
bill containing the appropriation was or
dered tc Il third reading in the Assembly
viii he no further opposition. The bill was
or the calendar for third reading and it was
the subject of Il long debate. The Assembly
ordered to third reading without debate
! the bill increasing the appropriation for the
state historical library building. The old
: law provided for an appropriation Of 500
! 600 Il year for five years. and the new bill
! makes the amount 500, coo a year, total in
! crease Of 100000. That will complete the
| building except for the northwest wing
| The general fish and game bill on the
! calendar in the Assembly for third reading
! but number Of amendments were offered
| and the whole matter was laiG over. Only
two bills were on the calendar for passage,
and both were passed. One was Mr. Hum
| phr2yS bill authorizing Albert Berner to
| construct dam on the OcOnto river The
| other was the railroad committee bill pro
| Vlding travelling expenses for the railroad
| commissioners. The following Senate bills
were ordered to third reading: Providing
travelling expenses for certain clerks in the
state superintendent Office; to authorize
the governor to settle war claims against
the federal government: relating to kinder
gartens; relating TO salaries or employees:
relating to the terms OF contracts: relating
to support of inmates of Veterans home
relating to Wisconsin Military reservation
There was long debate and several ro.
calls on MI. FandercOOk'S bill providing
for the payment of expenses Of state off
GERS travelling on official business. Il was
intended to make good any losses resulting
from the abolition of the pass. The bill
was finally refused third reading on tie
! vOte-41 to Al. There was another debate
over the bill apprOpriating $4,000 for
state exhibit at the Pan-American congress
1T Buffalo in 1901. Mr.. Mosher opposed the
bill and MessrS. Wheeler and Orion favored
IT. The bill was ordered to third reading.
Mo
ters bill relating to the commencement Of
actions reported in favor Of receding from
the Assemblys amendment, and the report
was adopted. Speaker Ray appointed Mr.
True in place of Col. Rusk on the con
ference committee on the pass bill, on ac-
count of the absence of Col. Rusk. 2lr.
Benson offered amendment to his bill
providing for Il uniform SYSTEM Of textbooks
in the common schools, which was OH the
calendar for slaughter, but the amendment
and bill were killed. The following bills
were killed: Relating TO railroads. relat-
ing to fire insurance companies; to prohibit
fishing in Briggsville millpond: relating to
the pollution of certain streams; to protect
fish in Rock lake; relating TO salary for
register of deeds: relating TO hoard Of po-
lice and fire commissioners; providing salary
for clerks of courts; providing salary for
register of deeds: relating to salary Of
sheriffs. ETC.. providing salary for clerks
ment of sheriff, etc; providing salary for
register of deeds: proviG-ng salary for reg
lister OF deeds; providing. salary fer clerk
Of court, etc: relating to salary and APP
pointment Of sheriff to prohibit the traffic
in game: relative to certificates granted to
game wardens: relating To supreme court:
regulate shooting CT game on Lake KOsh-
konong; relating TO Insurance policies: pre-
venting erection of dams on Brute river
The Assembly then took i recess until 100
D. H.
The general fish and game bills ran
against an nngXpected d sn nag in , the Assem-.
inf hn en- h1 in n Try ia lpI
them passed under suspension Of the rules.
but after they had a test of The legislative
temper thy were content with haTlns
license biz was first taken up. Among 9th
or things. this provided for thirty deputy
state wardens. and required AL hunters of
game protected by the state to pay license
of 81. An amendment ny Mr.. Overlook to
permit persons to hunt for all game except
deer upon land owned and occupied by them
as home, was adopted. An amendment by
Mr. Dahl to reduce the number Of deputy
state wardens from thirty to twenty was
voted down. Then by Il vote OF 81 to 81 the
Assembly refused to advance the bill TO Il
third reading. Later this vote was recon-
sidered on motion Of Mr.. Hall. ana the bill
was laid over till morning. The 81 license
for all hunters IS the principal objection 10
the bill
In the Assembly on the 9th the confer
ence report on the anti-pass bill and sub
stitute did not go through so easily as IN
the Senate. 1t looked at first as though
there was to be no debate. but Mr.. Catlin
wanted to explain his position. That
aroused the orators and there We're several
and McGrath opposing the adoption of the
report and Messrs. Keene. Mosher, 0rton
and Holland favoring it. Mr.. Wheeler eX,
planned the objection to the bin, but said
that he should support the conference com,
mittee report. A roll call was demanded
upon the adoption of the report, and it was
adopted by the following vote: Ayes
Adams, Anderson, BaldOck. Barber, Barlow,
Benson. Burlington, Bnttles, Daggett DAM,
Dodge, Eline, Evans. Farr, Frost; Gagnon'
Galway. Grootemaat. CRUDE. Hall, Har-
tung, Holcomb, Holland. Humphrey. JenSoli,
Johnston, Keene kempley; Lange n 10th
Mosher, Olson. orion, Policy. Porter. Ras-
mussen. Rechlicz, Richardson, Ripley,
Roettiger. RoweIl, Ryan, J., Ryan, a NJ; w.
soltw edel, sturdevant, Thiessenhusen. Wag
ner, Wells, Wheeler, Williams, Willy,
Wylie. linn, Mr.. speaker-63; Noes-Beck
Gilmore. Hurlbut. Hunt, Ives, kessler
Logan, McGrath, Overlook, Parker, Wander
cook. Werheim. NillotJ-1S. Absent on not
Flaherty, Gavin. Gnth, Harvey Hoehle'
Minch, Rusk, steiger. Thomas, True-l9.
out a roll call. Mr.. Overlook at once moved
that all the members be required to send
passes to # the elerb ar S when
ruled the motion out of order The
bill as passed makes the fine for using
pass $500 TO SlUUO ana tue puHlsuiutAI
from one to five years in the state prison
The Assembly reconSdered the vote by
which the bill providing travelling expenses
for state officials was killed, and then spent
long time discussing it with various
amendments. It was finally ordered to a
third reading. after the amendment. includ-
ing the state treasury agent mad Deen ellln-
mated. The report of the conference com
mittee on the anti-pass bill was received,
but was laid over pending action by the
Senate. The following Senate bills were
concurred in Relating to the condemna-
ton of land: relating to state historical
library building; relating to terms of con-
tracts: relating to support of inmates Of
the Veterans home; relating to Wisconsin
military reservation. Senator WoOdWorth's
bill relating to the insane was ordered to
third reading and after q long debate
Senator Roehr's bill relating to life insur
ance companies was laid over until even
ing. The Assembly then jumped to the last
order. All the bills on the calendar to
be ordered engrOsSed were laid over, except
Mr.. Capron's bill, changing the law relat-
ing to the publication of election notices.
and Mrs Wheeer's memorial to Congress,
asking the passage of laws to prevent the
Dissertation of the flag The rules were
suspended for the purpose of acting upon
Senate bill, providing tax of 313 cents
per ton on steamboats,. Both houses had
previously passed a bill repeating the ton
mage law and placing steamboats, on the
| same footing as other property and the bill