River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-05-16
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Summary of the Business Transacted
Daily in Both the senate
and Assembly.

Madison, Wis, May bills have been
passed in the senate: Fixing the salary
of the state oil Inspector at Sl500; to pre-
vert the sale of merchandise in fraud Of
creditors; providing for a woman member
of the state board Of control; providing
for the publication of the blue book; au-
thorizing judges elected the last election
to receive the Increase in salary recently
provided; eXempting park lands from tax
alton: relative TO the township system of
school government: regulating the opera
ton of foreign trust companies; providing
for the appraisal and sale of state lands;
providing for the taxation of mortgages;
providing for voting districts and cleo
ton officers on Indian reservations; APP
propEiating money to the Interstate Fair
association at La Crosse; providing Tor
the removal of assessors, board OF review
and supervisors; enabling counties to re-
| cover the cost of burying asylum inmates
who have relatives with property
Madison, Wis, May S.-The state af-
fairs committee introduced in the senate
a rev bill, repeating the law of 1898 COM
bining the state land office with that of the
secretary of states department The new
bill provides that the two departments be
continued separately. as heretofore, and
| that the expenses of the land office shall
| not exceed $500 a year. The chief clerk
| of the Office is to receive a salary OF SlSUo,
aud the assistant chief clerk $l600
The present expense of the office IS about
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mittee
Madison, Wis, May 9.-In the senate bills
have been passed: Reducing the number
of janitors in the capitol and abolishing
the positions of storekeeper, foreman OF
labor force and volunteer service clerk
approprlating $3.50 annually to the North
ern Wisconsin State Fair association; ap-
propriating $4,000 to the state board of
agriculture providing for compulsory vac
cination; providing for the transportation
Of pupils of district schools; authorizing
cities to hold biennial instead of annual
electons; creating the town OF Rusk IN
Chippewa county; defining the fiscal year
of the state; abolishng all the tuition fees
at the university except those in the col
leges of law and music; providing the state
bank examiner with an additional assist
ant a a salary of $780, defining the duties
of game wardens; authorizing the gov
ernor to put new ventilation plant in
the capitol at a cost not to exceed $4,000;
establishing a system of state forests and
creating the position of forest warden at
a salary of $1,000.
Madison, Wis. May 10.-In the senate
yesterday four bills of wide Importance
We're killed. They were the Rossman bill.
permitting pool selling on horse races; the
Overlook bill, levying tax of ten cents
a ton on all ice shipped out of the state;
| the Galway bill, prohibiting the running
| of double-header trains. and the Dahl bill,
providing Tor the adoption OF the iOrrenS5
system of land registration. The joint res
olut.on for a constitutional amendment in
creasing the number of justices of the SUI
preme court from five to seven was con-
Cured in.
Madison, Wis, May 1.-THE senate yes
terday reconsidered its vote on the bill
taxing ice shipped out of the state ten cents
a ton and advanced it to third reading.
Gov. La Toilette sent in a veto of the Hage-
meister primary election bill. Bills have
been passed authorizing cities of the sec
oud class to levy a special tax for school
purposes relating to the form of official
ballots: limiting the time fer bringing ac-
tions for defective assessments; changing
the terms of circuit court of Pierce county.
Assembly.
Madison Wis, May TN the assembly
| bills have been passed: Pertaining to state
| aid for highways; to appropriate money
! for monuments at Shiloh: to appropriate
| money for improvements at charitable and
penal institutions; to appropriate money
| for Wisconsin veterans home; repeating
| law exempting Milwaukee medical college
| from taxation; relating TO running of
| double-header trains; providing punish
| ment for assessors; relating to apportion-
| ment of school fund income; relating to
! standard of measuring logs limiting time
| to bring actions; to prescribe the duties
| of city superintendent of schools; relat-
| ing to salaries of chiefs of police and fire
| departments.
Madison Wis May S.AThe assembly
yesterday advanced to third reading the
| Thomas bill creating the office of county
| assessor in each county. 1t appears that
| the Hagemeister substitute for the primary
bill contains no provision for local OPP
| tion, as was supposed. and that no single
| county could adopt or reject its provisions
| even if the bill should become a law.
Madison. Wis, May S.-The joint commit
tee on apportionment agreed on a congress
sional apportionment and last evening the
assembly passed the bill The senate will
| concur in the assembly bill this morning.
| and before the week is out the governor
will no doubt affix his signature to it. The
so-called Mills plan was adopted
Madison. Wis. May 9.-The assembly
yesterday passed the Roehr constitutional
amendment resolution on the subject of a
single government for Milwaukee but il
was badly mangled, and will be practically
useless. still leaving the city at the mercy
of the county. Bills have been passed
To Increase membership of supreme court
to seven members; relating to commit
ment of girls to house of correction; re-
curing uniform textbooks for schools:
relating to pool selling; relating to fish
and game; relating to life insurance COM
panies; regulating loans on chattel Sc
Curity.
Madison, Wis, May 10.-The assembly
yesterday reconsluered ana Killed the bill
requiring stationary engineers to be IL
censeG.
| Madison, Wis, May 1.-THE senate reso-
luton to finish business Saturday noon
and adjourn on the 18th was concurred in
without debate by the assembly. Bills
| have been passed making an appropriation
| for teachers Institutes; relating to town
ship system of school government; relat-
Ing to taking of fish; providing addition to
duties of game warGens: relating to in
vestigations by governor; relating to
factory inspectors; relating to salaries of
| Judges; relating to lands exempt from tax
atom relating to sale of state lands; de-
fining the fiscal year of the state.
The Dukes Debts
London, May 1.-THE duke of Man