River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-04-23
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
Daily Summary Of the Work Done In
the Senate and Assembly in
Session at Madison.

Madison, Wis, April 15.-After a recess
of IL days the senate has ~reconvened and
among the first things was the introduction
of resolutions providing for final adjourn
ment on May ?. A bill was passed allow
ing all public officers to give surety COM
pany bonds, and providing hat supervisors
may pay for them. Assembly bills were
concurred in as follows: Providing that in
distribution of assets of a corporation pre-
ferred stock shall have no advantage over
common unless expressly provided; codi-
Tying laws respecting care of dependent
children in Milwaukee; declaring spite
fences over six feet high a public nuisance;
authorizing cities of the third class to is
sue bonds for school purposes. The assem-
bly, bill providing that the property of a wife
shall be Jointly liable with that of her hus-
band for debts contracted for provisions
and other necessaries was ordered to a
third reading.
Madison. Wis, April 16.-In the senate
bills have been passed as follows: To pre-
vent the docking of horses in Wisconsin, but
not to prevent the importation of locked
animals; validating franchises heretofore
granted; authorizing the secretary of the
state board of control to inspect county
institutions; assembly bills were concurred
in; allowing state treasurer to give a
surety company bond at state expense;
regulating revocation of license to attor-
neyS; increasing pay of drainage commits
sioners from $3.50 to three dollars per day;
allowing cities to borrow money for public
improvements; providing for evidence of
sale of property under chattel mortgage;
extending law for education of the deaf
by towns and villages; providing for per-
manent record and numbering of school
districts.
Madison, Wis, April 17.-The senate com
mittee on privileges and elections has re-
ported for passage Senator O'Neils bill
nT0NlnInp' for nrpotn S,1 fro pa II n1En fn-
vorably reported on Senator Roehr's bill
providing that mayors of cities shall APP
point election inspectors from lists of names
furnished by the different political COM
mlttees. 1t reported for concurrence AS
semblyman BARRIERS bill providing that no
liquor or beer shall be taken into an cleo
ton booth until the votes are counted and
returns certified.
Madison, Wis, April 1S.-Bills have been
introduced in the senate providing that the
state treasurer shall act as treasurer for
the university, and that all accounts shall
be audited and paid the same as those of
other departments of the state govern
ment; appropriating 81, go to the widow Of
Judge Charles V. Bardeen for a quarters
salary and funeral expenses of the deceased
JuriSt; making abStractors liable for dam
ages arising from their mistakes; specify
ing the kind of securities that trustees shall
invest in. Bills nave been passed validating
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fore officially entering the state; regulating
fees In county courts. Assembly bills max
ing the fee OF a~eounty judge two dollars
for granting a permit for an immediate
marriage; authorizing the formation of a
mutual insurance mpan for county asy-
lums and poorhouses; requiring newspa-
pers in first and second class cities to have
a bona fide circulation of ten per cent. of
the registered voters before they can bid
for official advertising. A resolution was
adopted requesting congress to call a con-
stitutional convention to provide for the
election of United States senators by direct
vote.
In the Assembly,.
Madison, Wis, April 15.-Upon r%econven-
ing after a recess of Il days the assembly
passed a joint resolution for final adjourn
ment May .. The judiciary committee in
troduced a bill abolishing the position Of
law examiner in the attorney generals Of
flee. A substitute bill. introduced by the
same committee, provides for a general in
crease in the salaries of the attorney gen
eral and his assistants. 1t raises the salary
of the attorney general from $1,000 to s., 600,
that of the assistant attorney general from
$1,000 to $500, and that of the second assist
ant attorney general from $l,SD to $1,000.
1t also provides for combining the positions
of messenger and clerk and fixing the SAL
airy at 81, 600. The first stenographer is to
receive a salary of 5000 a year and the sec
ond stenographert SO per month for the
time the position is filled, which is not to
be continuously unless absolutely ncces-
sary. The bill is to go into effect at the
end of the attorney generals present term.
A bill appropriating $685.. 000 for the mainte-
nance of the state charitable, penal and re-
formatory Institutions was ordered to en-
grossment, and a bill making the term of
office of the state commissioner of labor
and Industrial statistics six instead of two
va re n and D0nfhar n akino o. I innntn'C hiTth h.
day a legal holiday, were laid over. The
senate bill! empowering mutual fire in
Surance companies to operate outside their
home counties was adopted.
Madison, Wis, April 1.-THE assembly
judiciary committee has introduced a bill
prohibiting a person against whom a dI-
vorce has been granted to marry within a
year from the time the decree granting such
divorce has been entered. 1t also prohibits
the marriage of nonresidents who come
from other states, having such a restrictive
law, for the purpose of evading such law,
and forbids prescribed persons from going
to other states for the purpose Of evading
the law. Marriages entered into in contra
vention of this law are declared invalid. A
bill has been passed providing for an an
nual tax of $4,000 o. for the maintenance
Of the state normal schools. The bill max
ing Lincoln's birthday a legal holiday was
killed by a vote of 65 to u.
Madison, WIS, April 1f.-lne assembly
committee on state affairs has decided that
500, GOO is sufficient for an adequate exhibit
ton of W%isconsin's resources and industries
at the st. Louis worlds fair.
Madison, Wis, April 1S.-In the assembly
bills have been introduced providing that no
child under ii years of age shall be en-
ployed in any gainful occupation except
during the school vacation. Children be-
tween the ages of IA and 16 cannot be en-
ployed unless they have a written permit
from the state commissions of labor. fac
tory inspector or judge of the municipal,
county or Juvenile court; providing for the
creation of a reviser of the statutes. The
a~ppointee is to receive a salary of 5000 a
wear; empowering the state tax commission
to e~qualize assessments on leaf tobacco
when complaint is made by any interested
party; providing for an appropriation of
SIS, OGO for a state exhibit at the St. Louis
worlds fair.
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