Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-05-15

Summary of the Business TRANSACTED
Daily in Both the Senate
and Assembly.

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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; ap-
propriating money to the Interstate Fair
association at La Crosse; providing for
/ 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 new bill, repeating the law of 1898 COM
bining the state land office with that of the
! secretary of states department.. Ihe 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 $1,000,
| and the assistant chief clerk Sl,oO0
! The present expense OF the once Is ABOUT
| $12, 0OO The bill was referred to the COM
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 OIL
labor force and volunteer service clerk;
/ appropriatng $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
cinaton; providing for the transportation
Of pupils Of district schools; authorizing
cities to hold biennial instead OF annual
elections; creating the town of Rusk IL
Chippewa county; defining the fiscal year
of the state; abolishing 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 al salary of $1,S00; defining the duties
of game wardens; authorizing the gov
ernor to put a new ventilation plant IN
the capitol al a cost not to exceed $2o,OOo;
establishing a system of state forests and
creating the position of forest Warden al
a salary of $1,000
Madison, Wis, May 10.-In the senate
yesterday four bills of wide Importance
were killed. They were the Rossman bill,
permitting pool selling on horse races; the
Overlook bill, levying a tax of ten cents
ton on all ice shipped out of the state;
the Galway bill prohibiting the running
of double header trains and the Dahl BILL
providing for the adoption of the Iorrens
system of land registration. The joint res
olution for constitutional amendment in
creasing the number Of justices of the su-
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 1t to third reading.
Gov. La Toilette sent in veto of the Hage-
meister primary election bill. Bills have
been passed authorizing cities of the sec
ond class to levy a special tax for school
purposes; relating to the form of official
ballots; limiting the time for bringing ac-
tions for defective assessments; changing |
the terms of circuit court OF Pierce county. !
Madison, Wis, May 13.-The senate
adopted a resolution on Saturday censur- |
ing Gov. La Toilette for expressions con- |
tanned in his message vetoing the primary |
election law. Business has closed, but final |
adjournment will not take place until |
Wednesday next. One of the last acts of |
the senate was to concur in the assembly |
bill authorizing cities to use voting ma
chimes.
Madison, Wis, May I'm 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 I
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.-The assembly /
Yesterday advanced to third reading the
Thomas bill creating the office of county
assessor in each county. It appears that
the Hagemeister substitute for the primary
"a nrOViSjO0 local
ton, as was supposed, and that no single
county could adopt or reject it's 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 the subject of a
single government for Milwaukee, but it
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;
T0ldI1nS 10 pool SGllIlS 'IGldlluS u lISII
and game; relating to life insurance conn
panies; regulating loans on chattel Sc
curity.
Madison, Wis; May 1O.-The assembly
yesterday recOnsidered and killed the bill
requiring stationary engineers to be Ii
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 wardens; relating to in
vestigations by governor; relating to
factory inspectors; relating to salaries of T
judges; relating to lands. exempt from ia *
alton; relating to sale of state lands; de-
fining the fiscal year OF the state.
Madison, Wis, May 13.-The bill author
izng the governor: to investigate state de-
partments with view to reducing clerical I
forces failed in the assembly. While bust +
ness has closed final adjournment will not |
tane place until Wednesday next. t.s