Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-03-05

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their mayors; Petersons. making the
abandonment of wife or child a crime.
and Ekern's, to make the require
ments for a guardians bond, regard
ing sureties uniform with the require
Llents of administrators and execu-
tors bonds. A bill was passed to
prohibit the use Of the public high.
way for camping purposes. Another
discussion occurred over the Strong
bill relating to the bill making in
sanity no defense in life insurance
suits. but on Mr. Cary's motion it was
sent back to the insurance committee.
Gov. LaFollette reported a record of
is pardons and paroles issued by him
during the last two years.
Madison, Feb 26.-The state com
mission submitted to the senate a
supplemental report to that submit
ted at the opening of the legislature.
It's most important feature is the rec
ommendation that a law Of general
application be enacted which shall
prescribe a uniform system of NUM-
cipal accounting for all cities of the
state outside of Milwaukee. The
committee on education introduced a
bill relating to the instruction of deaf
mutea in cities and villages and pro-
viding for the organization of schools
for these children. The committee on
railroads fayoTably reported the bill
of Senator Randolph to require rail
roads to bulletin whether trains are
on time or late in all stations having
telegraph offices. When the bill re-
lating to appropriations by county
boards for the erection of soldiers
and sailors monuments came up for
third reading, Senator Hatten observ-
etl that the referendum clause of the
statutes in this regard was omitted
~ the bill and asked for an explana-
ton. Senator Burns chairman, said
that the committee had determined
that when county boards were patri-
Otto enough to appropriate money for
these purposes it was unnecessary
and undesirable that the county
should be put to the expense of hold
ing a ratification election. Again the
Wisconsin assembly negatives the
proposition to vote q bonus to beet
sugar factories, even though it be
merely in the nature of eXempting
their property from taxation Two
years ago the question was decided
adversely and today the vote on it
was 90 to 81. Only two democrats
voted for the bill-Arneman of Nee
nah and Martin of Green Bay. The
measure was introduced by Mr..
Ainsworth Of Waukesha county.
Those voting for it We're: Messrs.
Alnsworth Armenian, Barker, Bart
lett, Bradford Carpenter, CosgrOve,
Douglas, Dudgeon, Finnegan, Gilman,
Hartung, Hodgins, Irvine, Johnson,
F., Johnston, Karel, Lang, Lane, Mar
tin, Morris, Osborn, Reynolds, Slider,
Smalley, Smoker, Smith, A. E., Stew
ems, Strong, farrell, Thiessenhusen,
Thompson, Valentine, Wallrich, White
and Willott. The assembly adopted
various amendments to the automO-
bile bill, but Mr. Cady expressed the
conviction that the BILL, instead OF
regulating motors, really exempted
them from all local regulations after
they had been given certificates by
the secretary of state at s. each. On
Nh Roots motion the measure was
referred to the judiciary committee.
The following house bills were
passed: Gilmans, requiring railroad
corporations and corporations operat-
ing street railroads to report acct
dents; and Douglas, requiring that
western horses coming into the state
must bear a certificate of freedom
from infectious ills. The following
bills were killed: Kehrein's, to en-
courage the acquisition of homes by
persons of moderate means, by eX>
empting them from taxation; Rupp's,
requiring county boards to furnish Of
fees for district attorneys, and Rupp's
for the punishment of paupers for
running away from poorhouses.