Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-05-07
man. Westfahl, White, Whitson, VIII
lott, Rakow-56.

man, Westfahl, White, Whitson, VIII
lott, Rakow-56.
Madison, April 30.-In the senate
Senator Mcdonald introduced mem
orial of the legislature requesting
congress to enact a federal grain in
spection law and that the enforcement
and operation be conducted underclVl
service regulations in a bureau OIL
the department of agriculture. IL
was adopted. Mr.. McGillivray's good
roads resolution laid over; many rela-
lively unimpcrtant bills were passeo
and a favorable report was received
on the bill to license architects ana
also on the house bill for 1O-cent
county on crows and hawks.
At the opening of the assembly
Chief Clerk Marsh read a com
munication from State Treasurer
Kempf concerning state moneys lost
by the failure of the keystone
National and Douglas county banks,
Superior, amounting to about $24,0OO,
asking that he be authorized TO
charge it off the books; also state
ment of state finances. The as
sembly reconsidered the vote by
which it refused to concur in the
senate bill increasing the appropria-
ton of inspection of apiaries from
$500 to $500, and concurred in the
bill, 70 to IS. The substitute bill pro-
hibiting the defendant in divorce
suit from marrying within a year
after decree is granted, but permit
ting the party procuring the divorce
to marry at once, was reported for
indefinite postponement by the
judiciary committee.
Madison, May There is an ap-
parent disposition on the part of SEN
ators and assemblymen to hasten as
ment of the legislature. Many men,
bers feel that final adjournment
should be reached May 16. At the
session of the senate today the chain
man of the committees reported the
number of bills remaining in their
several committees and the aggregate
was found to be an even 100
The executive veto of the Mosher
bill to authorize the secretary of the
state board of control to visit the
penal and charitable Institutions O.
the state and of counties, his ex-
penses to be paid by the state, was
sustained by vote of % to 6. The
senate refused to recede from it,
amendment of the Whitson bill. es
tablishing a $4,000 fund for the pre-
vention of bubonic plague, by a vote
of 81 to g. The senate amendment
eliminated smallpox from the opera
ton of the bill. The Lang antitrust
bill, which the druggists have fought
strenuously, was laid over until
Wednesday. The banking bill was
amended and ordered to third read
ing. Appropriation bills carrying an
aggregate of $S6,644S2 were passed
or concurred in, as follows: Ap-
propriating $4,000 to the Milwaukee
Industrial school for girls; $500 to
the Wisconsin Buttermakers associa,
ton; 5000 to the state poultry as
ISOLATION; $500 for steel cases for
the preservation of the battlehags,
$500 as a contingent fund for the
custodian of the Grand Army me-
mortal hall; $40 for A. L. Abraham
for making a medal; $1,000 for the
relief of Walter Schmidt of Madison
for injuries sustained while an in
mate of the industrial school; $4,000
for the state board of agriculture for
Improvements at the state fair
grounds; $1,074 to parties mourning
expenses in connection with the un.
constitutional Portage levy law, and
$4,000 for the purchase of stationery
for the state.
|. In the assembly the bill from the
committee on taxation, relating to
property exempt from taxation,
caused discussion. An amendment
by Mr.. Ray, including in the exemp-
ton of one watch of a value not to
exceed $50, was adopted. Mr.. Dahl,
Who is a jeweler, explained that he
paid a heavier tax on his stock of
watches than the rest of Douglas
county on the same article. There
fore, he would like to see stocks of
merchandise exempt. A call from
Mr.. Breitwisch, asking all who had
paid tax on their watches to rise.
was answered by some 90 The bill
was finally ordered to third reading.
There occurred quite debate upon
the senate bill relating to county aid
in building bridges. The Doolittle
amendment, increasing the amount
of aid from one-eighth to one-tenth,
was defeated, and the bill concurre1
in, % to 80. The bill which came
from the judiciary committee, provid-
| ing N,r the election of county superin-
tendents at the spring elections, was
passed The joint resolution applying
to congress to call a constitutional
convention to submit an amendment
to the federal constitution for the
election of senators by popular vote,
was indefinitely postponed The fol-
lowing other bills were passed:
Dudgeon's. to provide for securing
full weights and measures and Rays.