Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-04-19

state tax commission came up Senator Nc
| Gillivray offered an amendment making the
| term of office of the commissioners two
years instead Of ten. Senator Whitehead
| said if this amendment should prevail the
| measure would be utterly futile. The bill
| was made special order for 40 p; H.,
| the 18th the committee on public health and
| sanitation reported for. concurrence Mr..
Halls bill to require poison to be kept in
| triangular bottles.
The $4,000 electric light amendment to
the university appropriation bill came up
| IN the Senate again on the 14th. Senator
| amendment. but since expressing himself
| he had obtained figures from Prof. Jackson
showing that it would cost between $47OO
and $4,000 a year to keep an electric light
| plant in order: and $4,000 year to operate
it. The state is snow nov paying to the Madison
and Saf ysSo fr gh dh
at the university a total Of $6117.90. 1his,
he said. was much less than the cost of
yinced that $4,000 appropriation would
| be entirely too small. Senator Arson sug-
b that the of bose
| ted by professors Senator bennett advo-
Gated the separate lighting of the capitol
and the university. demonstrating that the
! same plan could be used both for heating
| and lighting the statehouse. Senator Jones
| asked that the bill and amendment be re
| referred to the committee claims and
| his motion prevailed. A verbal amendment
was adopted to Senator Mills bill requiring
wages to be paid at some designated bank
or office in the county where the work is
| performed, or at the general office of the
| corporation or individual within the state.
fine of so to 500 is fixed as the penalty
| for violation of the law The amendment
simply remedied an ambiguity in the
| luton striking out from the constitution
| the clause limiting the salary of the state
superintendent to $500 was indefinitely
postponed. The resolution already adopted
1 pi Harvey N:5SIm
making an investigation Of methods of
teaching manual training and the elements
of agriculture accOmplishes the desired pur-
pose. Senator bennett gave short ex-
PLANTATION of his resolution in authorizing
the self-sustaining system already. estab-
| lished in New York in the penal institutions
of the state. The resolution provides for
the manufacture in these institutions of
articles which the state is now obliged to
purchase for it's Institutions 1t was unani-
| mously adopted Senator Whelans bill in
creasing the number of high schools receiv-
ments from ten to twenty years was
passed Three new bills We're introduced:
One by Senator Roebr making Il correction
in the normal regent bill. one by Senator
knudson providing necessary assistance for
the Supreme court reporter and one by
Senator Riordan to authorize dam across
the Mantowoc river. The following bills
were ordered to third reading Relating
to debts or claims due the state: relating
and marines; providing for com
plete registration OF births: providing for
ii
| and for its enforcement: providing for the
preservation of public health; relating to
the assessment and collection of taxes: re-
latin@ to who may vote at district school
meetings: relating to the adulteration and
sale OF faXseed or linseed oil. Senator
Eaton's final substitute for the Sheridan
drive bill was ordered engroSsed. Senator
Green's bill increasing the salary of the
CLERK in the bank examiners office to $500
by Senator Whitman fixing the wages of
the scrubwoman at 81. % a day. The bar
Mills. was killed by a vote of 20 to IL Sen
ator Weeds bill allowing electric roads to
cross steam railway crossing ut grade was
were killed: Relating to Migrants: relating
to public and common schools of this state:
relating to private and local laws: to APP
propriate certain sum of money to Julius
Andrae & Sons Co; appropriating sum
of money to Niche & Co. The Senate then
adjourned till $50 p. w. on the 18th.
Assembly.
The Assembly on the 10th had only sixty
one members present and il was thought
best to lay all appropriation bills over for
day. II requires sixty votes to pass an
appropriation bill and the margin was too
close That action disposed of the bill for
the reorganization of the National guard
and the bill appropriating S151,000 to the
university. Before the latter bill was laid
over Mr.. Hall said that he had been misin
formed as to the cost OF lighting the capitol
by gas when he offered an amendment APP
propriating $4,000 for an electric light
plant The Roehr bill for district court
in Milwaukee was passed and it will be
law when the governor has signed it. The
Mills bill for the creation of Il board to
hear complaints against railroads was or
dered to third reading, but afterwards
reconsidered and sent to the committee on
railroads. Mr.. McLeodS bill making the
board Of immigration permanent was the
subject of brief debate. but it final
ly ordered to Il third reading. Mr.. Keene's
bill dividing Milwaukee into health districts
laid over until Wednesday. My. Fairs
bill increasing the appropriation to the
Northern State fair was killed and Mr..
Frost's bill changing the manner of taxing
mOrtgaged real estate was laid over until
Wednesday, after some debate. The AS
sembly adjourned till the 11th.
After a long and lively night the Assembly
on the 18th advanced the three Senate bills
for the reorganization of the Wisconsin
Central and other roads to a third reading.
Two of the bills were by Senator I4amoreux
and one by Senator Withee. The vote on
the first bill was 67 to 10. Senator Wei
tons bill for the reorganization of the Wis
consin National guard went through the
Assembly without amendment and without
dissenting. vote. 1t now needs only the
provides for three twelve-company regi-
ments and battalion of four companies,
battery and squadron The Assembly
passed the Senate bill making an appropria-
ton to the state university, after amending
for an electric light plant to light the uni
yeersity buildings and the capitol; As the
S s1oo stands dao it eares Of
$4,000 for an electric light plant, $500
for an addition to the Jersey herd and inn
pnroy ven on the dairy buildings and
$4,000 for n new water tower. The COM
mittee on federal relations reported for
passage a substitute for Mr. Overlook s
bill relating to the taxation of steamboats,.
The substitute repeats the law of 1895 as
amended by the law of 1897 and If it passes
steamboats, will again be taxed other
property is taxed. Mr.. Lange's bill reliev-
ing cities of the third and fourth classes
from the operation of the caucus law was
passed Other bills passed follows:
Relating to Improvement of streams, etc;
appropriating money to Micnael Gleason;
to prevent spread Of San Jose scale; Great
ing superior court for Douglas county.
Senator Woodworths bill relating to com
penSatiOn of officers in Waupun prison was
killed, and his bill for the sale of n Gene
terry lot at Sparta was ordered to third
reading. The Assembly took a recess until
8 p. m.
Railroad taxation was the subject of the
longest speech of the session in the As
sembly on the night of the 18th. The house
had a special order for $50 o'clock Judge
Orton's bill providing for the classification
and taxation of railroads. The bill increas-
es the taxes of the smaller railroads, but
leaves the larger roads, which pay 4 per
cent their gross earnings unchanged.
Mr.. Hall, in support of an amendment
which he offered and which increases the
rate for the larger roads to per cent,