Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-02-22
WISCONSIN SOLONS,


and employees. AS K went through it
prohibits the granting of passes by rail-
roads to public officials, legislative, judi
ciai and municipal, and makes it unlaw
fui for them to accept such favors. 1t
leaves the penalty to be fixed by the Leg
isiature, however, and it was ON this point
that the question hinged. Senator Whe-
Ian of Buffalo County endeayored to have
an amendment Incorporated making for
fixture of Office a penalty, but this was
rejected :. the committee. Another
amendment was introduced by him as
soon as the first was voted down, fixing
penalty of a fine of from 500 to $500 for
accepting pass, but this, too, was over
whelmingly voted down. The anti-pass
bill was passed to third reading after an
amendment aimed to make the using of
passes already ISIS ded misdemeanor was
Killed. The amendment was intended to
make the passes Issued for this year to
members and officials Illegal In the AS
sembly "anti-pass" Hall introduced bin
for the adoption of thu voting machine and
Mr.. Holland of Iowa County one giving
the suffrage to women on liquor license
questions.
When the anti-pass JOINT resolution
came up in the Senate for third reading
Tuesday morning an effort was made TO
reconsider it and add an amendment max
ing forfeiture of Office the penalty for
State officer or employe using pass. Sen
ator bennett offered the amendment, and
said it was in line with the New York law
on the subject, but the Senators voted it
down. Both the anti-paSs bill and the
joint resolution for a constitutional
amendment prohibiting passes have gone
through the Senate. The vote on the mo-
ton to reconsider the joint resolution re-
suited: Yea 8, nay %. Among the new
bills introduced in the Senate was one re-
curing railroads doing a business of 3d.
900 or NOR a mile per annum to sell
transferable I,000-mile tickets for $50 ard
those doing less business for $50.
Except for passing few bills of minor
Importance no work was done in either
house of the Legislature ON Wednesday,
though between seventy-five and a hun
dred bills were introduced Among the
measures introduced was one to tax daily
newspapers published in the State. 1t is
drawn on the plan of the bills taxing sleep
Ing car and express companies, requiring
proprietors of daily papers TO report their
business and earnings to the State treas
urer and to obtain a license for Publishing
paper, the fee running from to i per
cent, the papers whose gross receipts ex-
coed $4,000 payips the higher amount.
The bill is not SER ously considered and is
looked upon as 4 retalatory measure
against the newspapers for advocating the
taxation of express and sleeping car COM
panies. Senator Wool orth introduced
an amendment to the COILS Tuition, increas-
ing the salary of members of the Legisla-
ture from $500 to $1,000 a session and
giving them cents mile for travelling
expenses every time an adjournment Of
forty-eight hours is taken.
Assemblyman Daggett ON Thursday
introduced bill in the Assembly calling
for the appointment of commission, con-
sisting of three members of the Assembly
and one from the Senate, to draw up a bill
to prohibit tight lacing. The bill was re-
ferred to the Committee on Public Health
and Sanitation, which took it up Thurs
day afternoon and that night reported it
back with the recommendation that it be
referred to the Committee on Agriculture,
to which it was accordingly sent.
Exactly 250 bills were introduced in the
Legislature on Friday The total to come
in was S43, which is 140 fewer than at
the close of new business two years ago.
The revision of the statutes a year ago is
undoubtedly responsible for the falling off
in numbers. The Senate passed the bill
prohibiting passes only one Senator, De
wayne Stebbins of Algoma, voting no.
Senator Harvey A. Eaton of Milwaukee
reintroduced the bill, defeated two years
ago, to extend the Sheridan drive from
the Illinois State line to Milwaukee A
joint resolution was introduced by Sen
ator bennett to get the State charitable
and penal institutions on a self-support-
ing basis by having manufactured at the
institutions the things now purchased out
side of them. Other important bills were:
To regulate the lobby, to create a navy
battalion, to pay bounty on pig iron
manufactured, to compci railroads to car
ry State officials free on presentation of
certificates of election, to tax sleeping
car companies, requiring returns of legis-
lative expenses, fixing the number of
hours for days work, requiring pay
ment of One-tenth license money toward
kindergartens, providing for pension
funds for the Milwaukee fire department
and police force, to license newspapers on
the basis of circulation, to abolish the
Office of county superintendent of schools
to create an appellate court with limited
criminal jurisdiction, to regulate the sale
of cigarettes. Daggett's anti-tight lacing
resolution was referred from the Commit
tee on Public Health and Sanitation to
that on Public Improvements.
The following bills have been intro
duced:
By Senator Harris-A bill to define ex-
press companies and to fix the rate of tax
alton for the same; a bill to amend the
law relating to the taking, use, transpor-
tation and sale of fish and game: bill
to protect the fish in Geneva lake; a bill
to amend the act relative to the organi1a-
ton of corporations for the maintenance