River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-16
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
A Daily Summary of the Proceedings
That Take Place In the Senate
and Assembly.

anu Assembly
Madison, Wis, Feb s.-The anti-pass bill |
reported by the senate railroad committee I
IN accordance with the governors message ]
was again delayed in the senate yesterday. |
Last Thursday II was on the calendar for |
consideration, and was laid over until yes |
terday. When the bill came up Senator /
Green moved that it go to the judiciary
committee, ana the members agreed to this. /
LIN the assent ! no business of impor- |
lance was transacted.
Madison. Wis, Feb. 9.-Bills have been |
introduced in the senate amending the
statutes relating to cities under special |
charters relating to changes in boundaries
OF villages: providing a salary for clerk OF |
courts; providing a salary for register of |
deeds; relating to employers having female 1
employees; taxing insurance companies; /
amending the statutes relating to the pay |
of officers of the state prison, authorizing |
the sale of land belonging TO state insane
hospital; relating to railroads; relating 10
corporations; relating to the manufacture
of cigars. requiring factories to be kept IN /
a sanitary condition and prohibiting the
employment of persons under Is years or
age; providing for corrections of descrlp-
ttons of real estate; relating to the pay ana
appointment of sheriffs and deputy sher-
ins; authorizing cities to acquire lands TOT
parks, drives and boulevards. In the as
sembly bills have been introduced for the
holding of elections in towns; relating to
the assessment of personal property; 10 /
amend Section S94a of the statutes of 1898
relating to village road districts, and Civ
ing villages the same privileges as towns
in regard to aid for building bridges; to IA
cilitate the vacating of fraudulent trans
fers by insolvent debtors providing for an
interstate park; relating to correction OF
descriptions in conveyance of real estate;
TO repeal the civil service law in cities or
the first and second class; relating to inde-
terminate sentences to the Green Bay re-
formatory; to regulate the loaning or
money upon chattel security; TO provide for
the control of water supplies and sewerage;
for contingent fund of $1,000 for the con-
troll of cholera and other dangerous dis
eases.
Madison, Wis, Feb 10.-Once more the
anti-pass resolution has been laid over.
When it came up in the senate yesterdayit
went over until Monday, owing to Senator
Withee, of the railroad committee, being
absent by reason of sickness. Senator
Whelan offered an amendment providing
that an official found guilty of violating
the anti-pass law should forfeit his office.
In accordance with the recommendations
of the governors message the committee
on assessment and collection of taxes re-
ported a bill for the taxation of express
and sleeping car companies on the money
value of the entire property of such com
pany in the state.
Madison, Wis, Feb lin the senate
yesterday Senator Stout introduced a bill
adding two women to the state board Of
control of charitable and penal institu-
tions. Other bills have been introduced
amending the statutes to prevent fictitious
assessments of personal property; provid-
ing a bounty of one cent apiece for killing
English sparrows; amending the statutes
relating to the State Historical society and
increasing the appropriation for the So
ciety; repeating the statutes providing for
license, taxation of street railway, gas and
electric light companies; amending the
statutes relating to salaries of judges.
Bills have been introduced in the assembly
relating to the duties of town. village and
city marshals, and giving them the same
right as constables to serve papers, to ap-
propriate 800 year for two years to the
State Firemens association; to amend the
caucus law and to make it optional with
cities of the third and fourth class either
to accept or reject the law; to make it OPP
tionol on the part of townships and viii
| lage to amalgamate for IN purposes;
to appropriate $4,000 a year for six years
for the natural history and geological sur
vey; to increase the maximum penalty for
mayhem from five to fifteen years and the
fine from 81, 900 to $500; relating to excise
and the sale of intoxicating liquor; relat-
ing to the support of INDECENT soldiers, sail
ors and marines providing that recon-
mendations shall be made by supervisors
instead of aldermen; to repeal the law for
boards of police and fire commissioners in
cities of the second and third class; to pre-
vent the sale of intoxicating liquor within
one mile of the Milwaukee soldiers home;
to provide license fee for the sale of
cigarettes.
Madison, Wis, Feb. 13.-BiIls have been
introduced in the senate amending the
statutes relating to fish and game; Great
ing the town of Dresser, in Pierce county;
providing that county boards may assign
salaries to county officers in lieu of fees;
providing that the state board of control
shall be composed of five men and two
women. Bills have been introduced in the
assembly to authorize justices TO issue
search warrants when complaints are
made charging the unlawful sale of liquor;
to reestabilsh the state board of immigra-
tion and providing annual appropria-
tion of $1,000 for two years; to appropriate
$500 to the Wisconsin Horticultural society
to reimburse it for making fruit exhibit
at the Omaha exposition; providing that
the open season for deer shall be the last
ten days in November: providing that the
closed season for trout shall be from Au-
gust 10 to April /; making the closed sea-
son for partridge, pheasant, prairie chick
en-, grouse, snipe, plover etc, November 20
to September Is; to increase the resident
license fee of deer hunters from one dollar
to two dollars and to prohibit the shipment
of deer outside of counties unless accom-
panied by the owner; to limit the travelling
expenses of state employees to two dollars
a day; providing that the publishers of
weekly newspapers shall receive $50 for the
publication of the session laws; to author
ize county boards to make the office of reg
lister of deeds a salaried office.
Madison, Wis, Feb. 1.-THE senate last
night adopted the joint resolution taking
the first step toward a constitutional
amendment prohibiting the use of passes
by public officials and employees. An
amendment to the resolution providing
that any such officer using pass or frank
forfeited his office was defeated. The anti
pass bill was also passed after an amend
ment aimed to make the using of passes
already issued a misdemeanor was killed.
The amendment was intended to make the
passes issued for this year to members and
officials Illegal.