Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-03-07
WISCONSIN ~LGoisIArURE.

WISCONSIN LGoIsIArORE.
Madison, Feb. 25.-By q vote of IS
to 81 the assembly refused to adopt
the Lenroot joint resolution to permit
municipalities to raise their debt limit
ior public utilities from s to IL per
cent. A prolonged debate proceeded
this action. Med by Judge Orion
against the proposition and Ny Mr.
Lenroot in It's favor. Both houses
also rushed though under suspension
Of the rules Che tax commission bill to
relieve the Northwestern Mutual Life
Insurance company OF Milwaukee Of
many thousand dollars Of retaliatory
taxes. 1t provides for the taxing OF
companies at the rate of one per cent.
on gross receipts in Wisconsin in
stead of three per cent. on all bust
ness a the present law. 80
Madison, Feb. 26.-Senator Roehr's
bill legaliziRg the practice of osteo-
pathy passed the senate, II to q. The
joint resolution, also by Senator
Roehr. providing for a constitutional
amendment permitting the legislature
to pass a general banking law, passed
without opposition.
In the assembly a bill was passed
which provides that when prisoners
escape, when re-captured, the time
they are away from prison shall not
be counted as part of their term Of
sentence. The bt1l raising the penalty
for stated felonies from five to twenty
years In prison was also passed. The
Thomas bill, providing for two more
dairy and food inspectors at $1,000 a
year each was opposed by Mr.. Dodge
as a needless extravaganza. Final ac-
ton on 1t was deferred. The Stevens
bill f~orbidding unlicensed persons to
hawk drugs around was killed.
Madison, Feb. 27.-The committee
on claims reported the Kreutzer bill
increasing the salaries of the supreme
court justices for passage. Original.
ly, the bill called for an increase Of
the salaries Of the judges Of the SUI
preme court from 5 5000 to $1,000 a
year and OF the circuit judgen from
SO, GOO to $4,000. AS amended 1t gives
the supreme judges $1,000 a year and
the circuit judges $4,000 with $500 a
year for travelling expenses, us here.
tofore. A resolution asking fol- IA con
stitutional amendment permitting
state aid In the construction Of good
| roads, was reported back without
recommendation and vas referred to
the committee ON roads and bridges.
The following bills were ordered to a
third reading Prohibiting the insur-
ance OF state property and requiring
three years study before admission
to the bar. The Smith bill for the re-
turn to the capitol OF the b~attleflags
from the new historical building.
whittier they were recently removed
and for the creation of permanent G.
A r. headquarters in the state house
brought on a lively charge from the
old soldiers. The measure was on
the calendar for third reading, having
been favorably reported by the mill
tary committee. Mr.. Kesne opposed
urged that he was as loyal to the G.
| A. r. as any one, but their ~battlefiags
belonged to posterity, They we e
in a place of perfect safety but I
returned to the capitol they would q
in a fire-trap. Then the soldiers
formed in solid phalanx, metaphor,
ically speaking, and closed In on the
valiant Keene. David Evans, Jr., who
fought with the 49th Wisconsin volun-
teers and has been all over creation
since In gunboats and the like, led
the assault declaring that those old
flags were for the living, not for the
dead. Mr.. Henry exclaimed that the
old soldiers asked to have them re-
stored, and that was enough for him.
Mr.. Coapman spoke eloquently, saying
the young men as well as the old
F., soldiers wanted the flags returned.
In the rotunda OF the capitol they
were seen by many and were an in
spiration to all Then Mr.. Keene
o~apitulated. Inc bill involves an ap-
preparation of $500 to fit up rooms in
the capitol for the headquarters and
so had to go to the claims com.
mittee. but Il will pass the lower
house with a hurrah when It comes
back and then Stebbins and his heroic
cohorts will OF curse see that 1t has
easy. sailing in the senate. Perhaps
the most important episode in the
assembly was the submission by the
committee IN privileges and elections
of a favorable report on Mr.. Halls
bin for an amendment 10 the constitu.
ton permitting the use of voting
machines. A senate bill has passed
enabling llcentldtes to solemnlze mar.
riages.