River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Daily Summary OF the Work Done I'm
the Senate and Assembly in
Session at Madison.

Madison. wis Feb. 3.-In the senate bills
have been introduced providing that chill
| dren between the ages of seven and IL
| and children between the ages of Il and 16
| who are not lawfully employed at home
| or elsewhere shall attend some public pa
| rochiaI or private school regularly. Pen
| alties for the violation of the law of from
| five dollars to $50 are prescribed, and tru-
| ant officers are authorized. Senator Beach
presented set of resolutions on the death
| of Lieut.. Gov. Jesse Stone. which was laid
| over until next Wednesday, when me-
| mortal addresses will be made.
| Madison, Wis, Jan. Am the SEN
| ate bills have been introduced to
| amend the statutes in relation to the
| subject of instruction in public institutions,
| so that inmates can be instructed by pas
! tors of their own denominations; to compel
| witnesses in criminal cases to go to other
! states. and exempting from civil process
| witnesses from other states who come
! here. The governor sent message with
| the following list of reappointments: Ed
ward E. Mills, Burlington, oil inspector;
z. T. Roberts, GAINESVILLE, state veterina-
| rian; J. J. Hogan, La Crosse and Calvert
| Spensley. Mineral Point, members Of fish
i commission; Gustave kuestermann, Green
| Bay member of board of control; j. ..
| Emery Albion dairy and food commission
er; Charles D. Harper, Madison, member
| of state board of health; Halford Erick-
son, Superior, state statistician.
Madison. Wis, Feb. 5.-Senator Beach, of
| Whitewater has introduced a bill in the
senate to enlarge the scope of the dairy and
food commission. Senator Morse intro
| duced a petition from Ripon asking for
| law requiring that all sleghs be made to
| conform to a standard gauge OF Wldth, the
| same as wagons
Madison. Wis, Feb. Elm the senate bills
have been introduced providing that when
a foreign corporation has no representative
| in the state on whom process can be served,
It may be done by leaving a copy with the
secretary of state and by subsequent adj
vertisement; raising the amount CT sewer
| tax that can be raised from one to three
per cent of the taxable property; giving
$3.50 for expenses to each member of the
| legislative coal investigating committee;
! changing the rate of the one mill tax just
one-half, and providing that no county
! shall receive from the fund any more
| money than it raises for school purposes.
| Eulogies to the memory of the late Lieut..
Gov. Jesse Stone were pronounced.
| Madison, Wis, Feb. I'm the senate bills
have been introduced providing fer the re-
| payment of the inheritance tax collected
under the unconstitutional law of 1899; CIV
| ing women the right of unlimited suffrage;
| providing for an annual appropriation of
| 81 500 to the Wisconsin Butter Makers as
| ISOLATION; to amend the game laws to de-
| clare all waters in the state to be inland
I waters except Lakes Michigan and Supe-
rior; adding to the list Of property exempt
from taxation all the lodge paraphernalla
of a secret society; providing for the levy
Of a tax of a half mill on the dollar for
school purposes.
In the Assembly.
Madison. Wis, Feb. Sin the assembly
bills have been introduced to compel rail-
road companies to furnish cars at all in
termediate points along their lines as de-
sired by shippers, if it is within the power
Of such companies so to do; to provide
for the admission of nonresident soldiers
and sailors who served in Wisconsin COM
mands in the civil war to the soldiers
home at Waupaca; to appropriate So, 800
for the purchase of steel cases as re-
pository for the war flags OF Wisconsin;
to provide for the sale of all state lands
now held in reserve, such as swamp, school
and park lands; to provide that minors be-
tween the ages of seven and 16 shall at
tend school in cities and villages eight
months and in townships five months each
year. The assembly concurred in the sem
ate joint resolution on the death of Sem
ator Stebbins, concurrence being by rising
vote.
Madison, Wis, Feb. An the assembly
bills have been introduced to forbid the
| sale of convict labor to contractors, firms
| corporations or persons; requiring appli-
| cants for licenses to practice medicine to
| pay a fee of three dollars; making aban-
donment of a wife and child crime, pun
| ishable by imprisonment in the state peni-
| tertiary for a term not exceeding two
years or in the county jail not exceeding
six months; providing for four additional
assistant state factory inspectors
Madison Wis, Feb 5-Bills have been
introduced in the assembly appropriating
! $4,000 annually to the commissioner of fish
cries for use in establishing fish hatcheries
and stations; making it unlawful to shoot
| does or fawns at any time of the year; re-
| pealing chapter 40 of the laws of 1901, re-
lating to the taxation of the ice cut from
meandered lakes and shipped out of the
| state; making it unlawful to allow minor
| to attend bar in saloon, or assist in any
way in the sale of intoxicating liquor
Madison, Wis, Feb. 6.-Bills have been
| introduced in the assembly to create a
juvenile court for Milwaukee,; to prohibit
| the sale of Intoxicating liquors within mile
| of either of the state asylums; to author
| ize police magistrates to perform mar
| riages; to increase the appropriation for
| a soldiers monument on the battlefield of
| Shiloh in commemoration of the Wiscon-
| sin troops that fought there, from $4,000
/ to $4,000. A bill has been passed providing
| for additional clerks in both houses of the
| legislature.
Madison, Wis, Feb. Among the bills
| introduced in the assembly were the follow
| ing: Prohibiting the manufacture or sale
/ of cigarettes in Wisconsin; making all mar
| rages hereafter contracted between white
| persons with negroes or mulattoes illegal
| and void; authorizing counties and towns
| to pay bounty for the killing of rattle
! snakes; authorizing cities or villages with
a school census of 500 or more to establish
and maintain truant ungraded day schools
| and parental boarding schools; authorizing
school boards to contract with teachers,
| principals or superintendent for two three
| or five years; to increase the salary of the
state veterinarian from $1,000 to $1,000; ap-
| propriating $1,000 annually for the univer-
! sity experimental station. The primary
| election bill was passed, the vote being 20
| to So.
Turkey Wants Transports.
Constantinople, Feb. 1.-THE Turk
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