River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-02-23
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
a Daily Summary of the Proceedings
That Take Place I'm the senate
and Assembly.


That Take Place I'm the senate
and Assembly.
Madison. wis. Feb. lin the senate
bills have been introduced amending the
statutes relating TO roads and bridges; re-
lating to appointment or deputy county
clerks; preventing corrupt practices IN
elections; requiring 80 days residence TO
qualify voter; providing for branding and
sale of renovated butter, providing for Ii
censing teachers; providing a tax of il
cents on each ton of Ice taken from the
state providing for separate assessment
of lands and the buildings thereon: chang
ing the name of the state library commits
sion; relating to notices of expiration OF
time to redeem from tax sale amending
the constitution; permitting counties to
build homes for incorrigible children. 80.
In the assembly bills have been introduced
to amend the law governing the collection
of statistics of farm products relating to
the appointment of sheriffs and deputy
sheriffs. to limit passenger rates; relating
TO reinsurance by fire insurance companies
TO organize the town of Westcott in Sha-
wano county; to prohibit the giving of
prizes on the sale of goods, to authorize
counties to establish schools for the care
of dependent and incorrigible children; re-
lating 10 the laying out of highways in
towns having a population of 5000 or over;
10 make It optional with towns to have dep
ate $4,000 TO purchase bronze badger and
a silver service for the battleship Wiscon-
sim to require all counties to pay their
state taxes in February
Madison, Wis., Feb. 1S.-ExacIly 250 bills
were introduced in the legislature yester-
day it being the last day for the introduce
tion OF new business. In the senate the bill
prohibiting railway passes was passed.
A joint resolution was introduced by
Senator bennett to get the state charita-
10 inst Hons calf -gItya
porting basis by having manufactured at
the institutions the things now purchased
outside of them Among the bills intro
duced were the following: To regulate the
lobby; to create a navy battalion: to pay
bounty on pig iron manufactured; to com
pei railroads TO carry state officials free on
presentation of certificates of election; TO
tax sleeping car companies; requiring re-
turns OF legislative expenses; liking the
number of hours for days work; requir-
ing payment of one-tenth license money
toward kindergartens; TO license newspa-
pers on the basis of circulation; to abolish
the Office of county superintendent oil
schools; to create an appellate court with
limited criminal jurisdiction. to regulate
the sale of cigarettes; repeating the stat
utes relating to damages caused by defec-
tive highways: appropriating $4,000 to the
State Veterans home reorganizing the
national guard, permitting building ana
loan associations to make loans in Install
ments, preventing the sending OF Migrants
TO poorhouses. authorizing cities OF the
third class TO levy a special tax for school
purposes; providing for the reimbursement
of persons purchasing state lands of which
the title proves invalid Bills have been
passed to amend the law relating TO the
crime OF arson; providing that county
judges shall be elected in the same manner
as supreme court justices and circuit
judges in case of vacancies; to appropriate
| 81, GOO to the governors contingent fund
In the assembly bills have been introduced
to create the town of Martin out of Lin
| coin, in Monroe county; relating to schools
and providing that all school districts shall
own the buildings in which schools are con
Quoted relating to daily newspapers in
cities OF the third and fourth class; relat-
| ing to the exemption of wages; TO secure
| the proper Imprisonment of juvenile Of
tenders; TO fix the minimum liquor license
! In cities and villages: relating to the COM
mon schools and requiring schools 10 have
been In session seven months in order to
receive state aid; to amend the law relating
to the publication of notices in county
newspapers; to provide for the licensing
by towns and villages of peddlers; to re-
peal the law of 1897 prohibiting sending to
the state prison persons convicted in the
United States court whose sentence ex-
ceeds IS months, relating to the eXenp-
! ton OF personal property from execution
and 20 include bicycles in such exemption;
to provide for the taxation of judgments
and the sale of judgments to pay such tax.
Madison Wis, Feb. 20.-The time for the
! Introduction OF bills in the legislature has
come to an end. Among bills that have
been introduced in the senate were the fol-
| lowing. Appropriating money to people
who subscribed to the Omaha exposition,
relating to injuries to domestic animals
and punishment therefor relating TO the
fees of sheriffs. and the commitment OF
boys to the state reform school; to promote
the culture of sugar beets and the manu-
facture of beet sugar; establishing the liaL
bility of employers to employees; providing
license fee on circulation of newspapers in
state: relating to civil service in cities. au-
thorizing the governor to settle war claims
with federal government and making an
appropriation, requiring one-tenth OF
liquor license money iii cities OF the thiid
class 10 be used for support of kinder
gartens: limiting the number of hours en-
ployes shall he compelled to work in certain
lines of manufacturing; creating a naval
battalion in the Wisconsin national guard;
providing a bounty for pig iron manutac-
tured in Wisconsin; providing that the
state superintendent shall investigate the
probable cost of the state furnishing school
books at cost, and appropriating S,4oO
for the purpose; authorizing the appoint
ment of a commission to revise the general
charter law. Bills have been introduced
In the assembly to require the sale of l,o0O
mileage books for $50. to provide for the
placing of names on houses; to provide Tor
the wider circulation of free library books;
to appropriate $4,000 for the erection of
monument to eX-GOV. Dewey: to establish
a board of railroad commissioners; to pro-
vide for the creation of a school-teachers'
pension fund; to provide penalties for i'm
properly influencing legislation 10 au-
thorize counties to establish and maintain
houses of correction in certain cases; to
provide for the establishment of county
training schools for teachers in common
schools to provide for the expenses of the
state government for the fiscal year and
making an appropria ton therefor; TO pro-
vide for giving notice of the sale of meat
substances containing horsehesh to
change the time of meeting of county
boards and limiting the number of days
county boards may be in session; to extend
the time for the collection Of taxes and
adding a penalty for unpaid taxes: to fix
the term of elective officers of cities of the
third class at two years; for more correct
record of births and deaths; to raise the
age of consent to 16 years; to provide for
the revision of the laws governing banks
and savings societies to create the Eight
zenith judicial circuit and to change the
boundaries of the Eleventh and Seven
teenth circuits.
Madison Wis. Feb 21.-Both houses Of
the legislature held short sessions last
evening The senate passed two bills. one
of which gives employees and officials of
state institutions, such al asylums ana
hospitals police powers. OF the twenty
odd bills on the assembly calendar for third
reading nearly all were referred to com
mitteeS, and those advanced were of minor
Importance.
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