River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-03-19
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Daily Summary of the Work Done In
the senate and Assembly in
Session at Madison.

Madison. Wis. March 9.-The senate has
concurred in the passage of the follow
ing assembly bills: Repeating the law tax
ing ice cut for export; providing for in
spection of branded or range horses be-
fore they can be brought to the state: al
lowing corporations to mortgage their
franchises; relating to process issued by
justices of the peace
Madison, Wis, March 10.-In the SEN
ate bills have been passed relating to sery-
ice of summons on tenants holding over;
increasing the jurisdiction Of justices to
$500 in civil cases in Milwaukee; providing
for the state doing its own insurance on
public buildings. by the establishment of
a state insurance fund; regulating homes
for infant children, lying-in hospitals and
similar institutions; repeating the law tax
ing ice cut for export; governing the i'm
portation of branded or range horses.
Madison, Wis, March IA bill has
been introduced in the senate to create
a juvenile court for Milwaukee county,
and providing that the municipal Judge
shall preside over the new court. The
bill also provides for relieving the circuit
courts of trying cases of Legitimate par
entage, and imposes that duty on the
municipal court. The salary of the judge
is to be raised to 5000 a year for these
added duties, the increase from the pres
ent salary being 81. 400
MdQISOn, w is, MdICu - ne senate mas
ordered to a third reading the bill appropri-
ating $4,000 for equipping the home for
the feeble minded; adding the state oil
inspector to the list of those who are en-
titled to stationery from the state; pro-
viding that children under 16 years of age
shall not be allowed to work over ten
hours a day in factories; providing for
the employment of three commissioners
to report on the feasibility of establish
ing a state mark af Devils lake
Madison, Wis. March 13.-The senate
has passed bills authorizing supervisors
to build bridges across boundary streams
in conjunction with supervisors in other
states; to compel the raising of bridges
across the YahaEa at Madison; prevent
ing the sale of unclean milk; raising the
salary of the state superintendent to So
900 year; for a tax on gifts and inherit
ances; authorizing street railways incor-
porated in different states to consolidate; ;
appropriating $4,000 to furnish the home
for the feeble minded; adding the state
oil inspector to the list of officials who can
draw stationery from the state.
Madison, Wis. March lin the senate
the following bills have been passed: AL
lowing Milwaukee supervisors to regulate
salary of stenographers appointed by the
district attorney; providing that no minor
under 16 years of age shall be allowed to
work over 60 hours q week; providing for
three commissioners to report on the
feasibility of a state park at Devils Lake !;
providing for exemption of park lands
from taxation when held merely on a land
contract.
In the Assembly,.
Madison, Wis. March 9.-BiIIs have been
passed in the assembly making an ap-
projriation of $4,000 for furnishing and
equipping the new buildings for the feeble
minded at Chippewa Falls; requiring in
Il
in their cars where the@terminal points
of the road are IS miles or more apart
providing that the use of Camp Randall
shall be given free to the Wisconsin High
School Athletic association for it's an
nual meets; authorizing counties and
towns to pay a bounty for rattlesnakes;
giving the school boards of cities and vii
lagos instead of the common council or
board of trustees of those corporations au-
thority to establish day schools for the
deaf and dumb.
Madison, Wis, March 10.-The assem-
bly, by unanimous vote has passed the
railroad ad valorem taxation bill. Bills
have also been passed allowing married
women to sell, assign or otherwise dispose
of their interest in life insurance policies;
making some minor amendments in the
charter of Ripon college.
Madison, Wis. March 1.-THE assembly
has concurred in the Wylie bill, provid-
ing a penalty for allowing obnoxious and
infectious animals to run at large. BY
a vote of 81 to Il the assembly refused to
order the Valentine harbor bill to en-
grossment ard third reading.
Madison, Wis. March 12-Bills have been
passed in the assembly increasing the pun
ishment for breaches of the peace in towns,
villages and cities not having ordinances
on the subject; compelling local health
officers and boards of health to cooperate
with the state veterinarian and state live
stock sanitary board in suppressing and
eradicating contagious diseases; relating
to certified copies of public documents
used as evidence in courts; permitting the
state insurance commissioner to have an
nual statements of insurance companies
doing business in this state published in
other than the official state paper; pre-
scribing the duties of city attorneys in cit
les of the second, third and fourth classes
organized under the general charter law;
providing that parties in civil actions in
courts of record may be granted leave
to examine the real and personal property
of opposing parties in the litigation; al
lowing the president and trustees of a viii
lage to levy and issue bonds for the con-
struction of main sewers and other sewer
age work chargeable to the general sewer
fund; providing that each village shall pay
$3.50 a week for all persons sent to the
Milwaukee house of correction for the Vio-
lation of any of it's ordinances
Madison, Wis. March 13.-The assembly
has passed a bill providing that franchises
granted by cities must be submitted to a
vote of the people on petition of ten per
cent Of the voters. The committee on ag-
riculture has favorably reported the bill
appropriating $4,000 for improvements on
the state fair grounds.
Madison. Wis, March 14.-Bills have been
passed in the assembly providing ordi-
nances granting franchises to street rail-
road, electric lighting, gas, water or tele-
phone companies shall be submitted to the
people for approval, if demand therefor
is made within 90 days after the passage
of such ordinances by ten per cent of the
qualified voters of the corporation grant
ing the franchises; providing that the state
treasurer may give a surety company bond
and that the state shall pay the cost there
of; relating to dependent, neglected and
delinquent children; providing for a COM
mission to decide on the advisability of es-
tablishing a state park at Devils Lake.
Cornell Deaths Twenty-Five.
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